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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Linkdump for July 19th

by Rob Friesel

$ cheat git (tagged: tutorial reference git ) Pro Git – Reset Demystified Scott Chacon writing at the Pro Git blog; consider this post to be "part one" of the otherwise missing chapter on git reset. Good stuff. (tagged: tutorial git ) Processing.org (tagged: design visualization tools art software todo ) SwimmingHoles.info: Vermont Swimming Holes […]

10 years

by Rob Friesel

1. Posed Kisses (2001), 2. Daytona in December (2002), 3. self-portrait #79 (2003), 4. Beach ’04 (2004), 5. self-portrait #1234 (2005), 6. Self-Portrait #3016 (2006), 7. self-portrait #3098 (2007), 8. last moments as a childless couple (2008), 9. self-portrait #6830 (2009), 10. at the “prom” (2010), 11. self-portrait #8899 (2011; can you believe there are none of just A. & I this year so far?), […]

Linkdump for July 7th

by Rob Friesel

How to run an effective meeting by Kevin M Hoffman (writing in .net magazine) – a good piece but I would add two other pieces of advice: [1] never underestimate the value of a clock or stopwatch (e.g., “You have five minutes to explain starting… now.”); and [2] structure the meeting so you can dismiss […]

Linkdump for July 5th

by Rob Friesel

no country for old hackers Garann Means: But I can’t pretend it doesn’t kill me that the most exciting thing we can think of to do with JavaScript is to clean it up to appeal to people who don’t like JavaScript. (Although I disagree a little bit with her quip about "all those terrible little […]

dream.20110704: abort

by Rob Friesel

I’m called into a room. There is family here. (But dream friends, and dream family; not my waking life family.) There is news for me. She is to be a mother. (But she is not my wife; in fact she is another man’s wife. A friend’s wife. But everyone knows about this [him included] and […]