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Practical Git Tip #1: Handling differing repository and local names

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:35:14 +0000

Having repositories named uniquely and checked out into different locations under the same name helps with WordPress themes. Git is an excellent tool, but it was designed for a particular type of development practice, where every developer is working with the entire tree which is checked out into a dedicated local repository. In some cases, [...]

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Practical Git Tip #1: Handling differing repository and local names

Frame-controlled by a vendor

David M. Doolin, PhD — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:04:30 +0000

Here’s the deal: the web allows consumers to publicly vent, complain, point out, and generally make their dissatisfaction about a product or service known. And you know what? 99% of the time it doesn’t matter at all. All it does is make the complaining person look like… a complainer. This is bad when your complaint [...]

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Frame-controlled by a vendor

Domain name being held hostage by registrar

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:53:43 +0000

I won’t even say which domain it is, because I believe they have a sole provider status. If I piss them off, bye bye domain. It won’t be corporate messing it up. Stuff like this happens what corporate dumps all over the technical staff… who can have a little “Oops” moment and blow my account [...]

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Domain name being held hostage by registrar

The Other Side Of The Coin…

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:47:22 +0000

I have a little private group of friends that meets once in a while under the rubric Stirfry Startups. We even have a little Google group where we plot and scheme chat amongst ourselves. Lately, I’ve been detailing a few of my more spectacular blogging FAILS. You know, the usual: no traffic, no comments, no [...]

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The Other Side Of The Coin…

Be A “Money-Enabler” And Pay Yourself

David M. Doolin, PhD — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:00:57 +0000

Do you spend time learning how to pay yourself? If not, why not? I have, and it literally pays off. How many ways do you have to get yourself paid? Do you know? I have several. For example, I’ve earned passive income from affiliates on There Is NO Box. It feels good getting email telling [...]

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Be A “Money-Enabler” And Pay Yourself

The lighter side of economic catastrophe — disaster humor

David M. Doolin, PhD — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:12:44 +0000

It’s true, laughter really is the best medicine. Here are some links I found funny. Tragic, but still funny. You know what they say: “It’s always funny until somebody gets hurt. Then it’s f***ing hilarious!” The oxymoron index climbs, with my new favorite “voluntary regulation.” Reality show, “Weekend at Bernanke’s:” Ben and Hank dress up [...]

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The lighter side of economic catastrophe — disaster humor

Subversion: moving group of files into new location

David M. Doolin, PhD — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:32:59 +0000

Someone will undoubtedly show me a much easier way to do this, but it worked for me and svn not being able to operate on regular expressions is something that has annoyed me for a long time about svn: $ for d in *_2007.pdf ; do > svn mv $d 2007 > done Post from: [...]

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Subversion: moving group of files into new location

The perennial question

David M. Doolin, PhD — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:17:35 +0000

Why does software suck? I know why. It’s because the tools and the materials are changing far to quickly for anyone to develop full mastery. Example: consider the market for master COBOL programmers. Shrinking pretty fast I would say. FORTRAN, on the way out, C & C++… losing out to newer tech as well. Imagine [...]

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The perennial question