You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there's no need to memorize them).

- First installed the latest XCode via the Mac App Store
- Downloaded/Installed Mountain Lion
- Launched XCode to agree with the license and to install the XCode command line tools
- xcodebuild -license as root
- Install latest macports version
- port upgrade outdated

Ry’s Git Tutorial is a complete introduction to distributed version control with a focus on practical command line usage. We explain Git’s robust branching, merging, and collaboration capabilities from the ground up, so prior experience with centralized systems like SVN or CVS is not required.

In good old times when software size was measured in kilobytes and each byte was quite expensive dynamic allocation was very rare. Whatever could be static, was static. Whatever couldn’t be, was most likely pooled in a specific region and there was a preset number of “things” the program could handle. That means your lives counter or some other important value was most likely always at the exact same address every time. That’s not the case anymore unfortunately. Almost everything needs to handle an arbitrary number of “things” these days and that means dynamic allocation.

Server security doesn’t need to be complicated. My security philosophy is simple: adopt principles that will protect you from the most frequent attack vectors, while keeping administration efficient enough that you won’t develop “security cruft”. If you use your first 5 minutes on a server wisely, I believe you can do that.

I think we should instead talk about Git in terms of what it really
is: A purely functional data structure. Learning to expertly use Git
means learning how to manipulate that data structure.

Vagrant uses Oracle’s VirtualBox to build configurable, lightweight, and portable virtual machines dynamically. The first couple of pages serve to introduce you to Vagrant and what it has to offer while the rest of the guide is a technical walkthrough for building a fully functional web development environment. The getting started guide concludes by explaining how to package the newly created vagrant environment so other developers can get up and running in just a couple commands.

With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment.