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Comment Easy Git (Score 1) 346

by amundson on Saturday January 10, 2009 @11:57AM (#26398637) Attached to: Git Adoption Soaring; Are There Good Migration Strategies?

I've been using git personally for about a year now and have finally reached the point where I am ready to get the rest of my group to adopt it for our work. The tool I am recommending to help with the early git learning curve is Easy Git, http://www.gnome.org/~newren/eg/. Easy Git (eg) is a very thin wrapper around git. It provides clear and suggestions for git usage. Unlike other porcelains, you can trivially switch between eg and git at any time. I think Easy Git can improve the initial git experience for many potential git users.

Distributed Compilation, a Programmer's Delight 60

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 14, 2008 @12:36PM from the less-time-for-wacraft dept.

cyberpead writes in with a Developerworks article on the open source tool options that can help speed up your build process by distributing the process across multiple machines in a local area network.

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 released. (kde.org)

Submitted by

dbhost

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @10:08AM

dbhost writes: "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in this article is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also according to the announcement konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."

Submission + - Winnie Wrote a Math Book

Submitted by SoyChemist on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:50AM

SoyChemist writes: Hollywood is not known for providing a wealth of positive female role models. Danica McKellar, the actress that played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing, has written a math book for teenage girls. Math Doesn't Suck is in the style of a teen magazine. It even includes a horoscope, cute doodles of shoes and jewelry, and testimonials from attractive young career women that use math at work. It focuses on fractions and pre-algebra and uses mnemonics like calling a reciprocal a "refliprocal", because you just take the fraction and flip it upside down. Wired interviewed McKellar about the new book and her crusade to eliminate the achievement gap between boys and girls in math courses. McKellar graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA. While studying there, she co-authored a proof and presented it at a conference. After she and Mayim Bialik — star of Blossom and a PhD in neuroscience — appeared in a 20/20 episode about intellectual actresses, several literary agents came knocking on her door.

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