Monthly Archives: October 2009

Some useful git commands

gitHub is an amazing piece of functionality. The user interface is so amazing that BitBucket simply ripped it off. Yes, without any regrets. I mean people are bound to notice that sort of stuff but still these things happen. Anyways, … Continue reading

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Quote of the day

“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.” – Lauren Bacall

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Parallel or Crossover Ethernet cable

Yeah, I got asked this question when I had to buy some ethernet cable. It sounds very prehistoric to run a cable in this day and age. Perhaps, that is not the point of this post. So, I was saying … Continue reading

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Clone bare git

Found an interesting option to clone a git repository. Honestly, speaking I have no idea how it could be usefult because it does not actually do a checkout of the HEAD. Anyways, if you run: git clone –bare git://github.com/andhapp/decoct.git then … Continue reading

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*casts

I wonder did Ryan bates start a revolution by doing (RailsCasts) his short videos on various ruby concepts because there is a BDDCasts and today I saw GitCasts on Git’s main site. It is in the same fashion a collection … Continue reading

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initialize method in ActiveRecord::Base

I spent quite a few hours trying to figure out why User.new (where user is a model) would not use the virtual attributes defined in the model class. Virtual attributes are the ones without a corresponding column in the table. … Continue reading

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