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Git on Windows, it actually works now

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

I’ve been trying out various distributed source control tools, and used several of them for various very small projects. I’ve most mostly settled on git as the one I prefer, but I haven’t yet published any code with it. Also, I’ve been frustrated that git support for Windows has been very weak.
Msysgit appears to have […]

Help! My Hierarchy is Slow - Faster Hierarchies with Nested Sets

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

A great many applications, including many that I’ve worked on, have a hierarchy of things: of parts, of people, of organizations, etc. The way most of us represent such hierarchy is with the first thing that generally comes to mind: make each Widget have a parent Widget, with a table like so:
create table widget (widget_id […]