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Interesting Links, 2017-Feb-23

Maven Polyglot: replacing pom.xml with Clojure, Scala, or Groovy Script shows how you can, well, replace the XML configuration for a Maven project with a configuration in another language. This also provides some imperative-ish features to Maven projects, plus no XML except for a short description of the scripting language. How does a relational database work provides a (very) high level description of how a relational database does its work – and if you...

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Interesting Links – 26 Sep 2016

Oh, shit, git! is a site that shows a number of common things git users say, as well as how to fix the situations that cause them. Note that the title indicates that the readers are expected to be of age. Some examples: Oh shit, I did something terribly wrong, please tell me git has a magic time machine!?! Oh shit, I committed and immediately realized I need to make one small change! Oh shit...

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Interesting Links, 17 Mar 2016

This list was originally supposed to be published over a week ago, but life’s been busy. Sorry, folks! Happy St. Patrick’s Day! A succesful Git branching model considered harmful is a response to another article, A successful Git branching model. Both models can work; which one works better for you depends on a lot of factors that are likely to be unique to your development environment. (I’ve used both: I find the...

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