My normal workflow didn’t involve rebase; so, my natural curiosity sparked up and I dove into the documentation.

It turns out git-rebase is quite controversial. (And, you should avoid it if you’re sharing your commits.)

Linus Torvalds on rebasing:

* [http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_Management](http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_Management)
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/291302/](http://lwn.net/Articles/291302/)
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/291303/](http://lwn.net/Articles/291303)
* [http://lwn.net/Articles/291304/](http://lwn.net/Articles/291304/)

Random Redditors:

* [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ube0/synchronizing_development_rebase_vs_pullmerge_git/?sort=top](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ube0/synchronizing_development_rebase_vs_pullmerge_git/?sort=top)

Down: Rails

Up: Django and Zend Framework(?!)

Odd: Erlang (Erlang is hot… but I guess not that well known yet?)

For my situation, git blame is seriously awesome.

When someone starts typing their personal email into the code base in some random area and accidentally checks it in, you can figure out exactly who is lazy with focusing their windows.

(I wonder if there’s a way to automatically reject pushes that don’t pass spec tests…)

Todo: check out git bisect

One day, you find yourself happily hacking away at some code you checked out from one of your collaborative coding projects and BAM!, you hit a gnarly bit of one-line wizardry that completely blows your mind. While it may read like English and be as concise as an abridged Cliff Notes, the functionality you need to modify is crystallized somewhere between the continuations and inline DSL definitions.

Who wrote this?

The solution to this would be what I call Code Scent (as opposed to Code Smell). With Code Scent, you’d be able to see code history on a line-by-line or better granularity. Imagine, if you will, selecting a menu option and getting a highlighting scheme that told you who touched which piece of code most recently:

Well, ponder this: Currently, Chrome monitors its processes, including individual tabs and plugins.

It doesn’t take a huge stretch of the imagination to project this kind of analysis into the world of extensions. Advanced extension users could spot sources of slowdown in the browser, and Google could provide supplemental tools to help extension developers drill down into nether regions of their extensions to enhance speed and memory usage. As an added bonus, extensions could be tracked individually, allowing the developers to receive live aggregated feedback on their extensions’ performance in the wild.

Imagine — Google Analytics for your Chrome Extensions!

Other hopeful features for Extensions:

* Updates are installed without forcing a browser reboot.
* If individual extensions malfunction, they don’t bring the browser down.
* Extensions are as easy to write as web apps. (CSS/HTML/JS)

There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

From Python itself:

Python 2.6 (trunk:66714:66715M, Oct  1 2008, 18:36:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

29> [83,117,114,112,114,105,115,001].
[83,117,114,112,114,105,115,1]

30> [83,117,114,112,114,105,115,101].
"Surprise"

sudo port install erlang

I got this error:

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: tk tcl
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

To fix it, I needed to move aside the iPhone SDK include files during the installation.

sudo mv /usr/local/include /usr/local/include.bak; sudo port install erlang; sudo mv /usr/local/include.bak /usr/local/include

I’m new to the startup scene, but I’ve always been a tech guy. Here are my tools:

Website Registration: 1and1 has free private registration that you can toggle on or off. $7 is the base fee for a .com.

Website Hosting: Engine Yard (for rails), SliceHost (for custom stuff), Media Temple (for shared hosting), Google App Engine (easily scalable, but has had hiccups…)

DNS Hosting: I stick with whoever hosts my site. I’ve never had any problems.

Email, Calendar, Wiki, Internal Messaging: Google Apps

Actual Website: Ruby, Java, or Plain old HTML/CSS/jQuery

Phone: Skype, Grand Central (but GC keeps deleting my old messages… boo!), iPhone

Conference Calls: Skype – easy and free.

Surveys, Spreadsheets and Documents: Google Docs – The coolest part of this suite is the real-time collaboration. Plus, there’s a form-filler mode for the spreadsheet app that you can use to conduct surveys.

Newsletters: Google Groups (for continuous conversations) or Gmail email aliases with BCC (for periodicals).

Project Management: Lighthouse, Github, Google Code, Sourceforge, or just plain old face-time. I’m actually itching to build a way more intuitive project management system. But for now, I can live with these. (I used to use Basecamp, but it can be abused too easily…)

Website statistics: Google Analytics

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Google Sitemaps

Code Tools: Linux Shell, TextMate, Eclipse

Computers: Apple Macs.

Presentations: Apple Keynote

Graphics: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Omnigraffle