Getting started with Git


Git: Decentralising version control I've been a user of Subversion for a number of years, I was a little apprehensive about moving to a completely different versioning system but now I'm seriously glad I made the move. To recap, Subversion is a centralised version

Angry Monkeys


From my experience having programming standards and standard environments can be extremely beneficial to a development team. Not only can it improve the chances that you can find problems quickly but it also ensures problems are reproduceable. Having coding standards also

Review: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning


At Autotrader we have a book library for all developers to borrow from. First book I decided to read was Pragmatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt which is from the Pragmatic Programmers series. I have to say I was very impressed. Many believe and have believed

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Getting started with Git

Posted on October 17, 2011 by James Posted in Personal | Leave a comment

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Excerpt: Git: Decentralising version control I’ve been a user of Subversion for a number of years, I was a little apprehensive about moving to a completely different versioning system but now I’m seriously glad I made the move. To recap, Subversion is a centralised version control system. What this means is that you have a centralised code repository, developers use clients to checkout code which they can work on until they’re ready to commit their work back to the main repository. So what is Git and why move to it at all? Why reinvent the wheel? What is Git Git is a decentralised version control…

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Review: Pragmatic Thinking & Learning

Posted on May 7, 2011 by James Posted in Books, Personal | 2 Comments

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Excerpt: At Autotrader we have a book library for all developers to borrow from. First book I decided to read was Pragmatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt which is from the Pragmatic Programmers series. I have to say I was very impressed. Many believe and have believed that we have a natural limit to our intelligence and can be no more than that. The author tries to expel this belief. We all have a brain and it’s a well known fact that we only ever utilise a very small part of it. The common belief is that our brain is split into…

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