The Digital Tumbleweed

Git: Tying a Remote Branch to an Existing Local Branch

ncampbell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:03:49 +0000

As I was cleaning up my code directory and forking projects to have personal dev branches up on Github, I ran into a problem. I needed to tie a remote branch that I had created to an already existing branch. So, I had branch already in my list of local branches. I did one of these: git [...]

JSConf 2009 - Where were you?

ncampbell — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:07:02 +0000

To say that JSConf 2009 was a whirlwind isn’t giving it’s creators enough credit. A few ways I’d describe it are action packed, intimate, and collaborative. From talking with Chris Williams, that was the goal. The Overview Obviously, as the people who were at my talk noticed, I’m not an artist. But, this gives you a bit [...]

WoW: Versioning Your Addons

ncampbell — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:13:11 +0000

If any of you are like me, you play World of Warcraft and love your mods. I try new mods all the time in the attempt to better my UI. I tend to look at it as a constant work-in-progress. So, I’m trying to find mods that best fulfill the needs I have in the [...]

Scratching An Itch

ncampbell — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:48:52 +0000

A couple friends an I were talking a few weeks ago about building applications. There are a handful of reasons for creating websites or web apps. The topic of discussion that day was about applications that do something you need and not just about the ideas, but about finishing those projects. To say that creating applications [...]

New Host, New Posts, and the Inbetween.

ncampbell — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:34:11 +0000

Any of you who recently came to the site may have seen a “Godaddy” landing page. I’ve recently moved my hosting to Slicehost and am managing the domain with Godaddy. It’s cheap and has an easy to use control panel. I was tired of managing my domains with a number of different services. Thus the [...]

Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet! I’m Hunting Bugs.

ncampbell — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:48:47 +0000

There comes a point in every project, when stuff blows up. This could be your code, someone elses code, or could be a mix of the two. The traditional method to finding problems is a mix of guesswork and print lines. Ultimately that is crap. Better debugging methods exist. Bugs are going to find [...]

The Code Makes My Eyes Bleed

ncampbell — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:18:23 +0000

Not often do you stumble into projects that are pristine. I certainly haven’t anyway. Almost every project I’ve been involved with has required some degree of unfarking to bring it to a close. But, surely there are things that we can do to make it so that those who have to come in and “finish” [...]

Versioning Your “Shit”

ncampbell — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:01:33 +0000

Almost as important as the content on your computer is the recovery of said content. What do you do when your files go *poof*? How well do you handle the meltdown of your hard drive? Me, not very well, but I tend to be able to get the major parts back. One of the reasons [...]

i.depreciate()

ncampbell — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:12:06 +0000

It’s interesting to think about yourself in the job market. How did you emerge? I came out of school and couldn’t find anything. It seemed that the jobs I was looking for weren’t available. The thoughts and ideas that I had, “be the best in your class” and “go above and beyond” drove me to [...]

A State of Search

ncampbell — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:26:06 +0000

Recently, there have been a number of search tools to come out. Each featuring it’s own set of enhancements. But, at some point we have to look at the technology and decide on what is practical, and whether it will truly push search forward. With the advent of PowerSet, Autonomy, TinEye, and others we see [...]