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Meta Magic: Git Achievements

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Monday, March 15, 2010. This weekend I created a little application called git achievements. Similar to the XBox360 Achievements you can unlock all sorts of Achievements while you use git. It brings a bit of fun (and bragging) to those who use or who are learning git. Added a .gitignore file to a repository. Published so you can checkout the full list of achievements. Photo by terren in Virginia. This looks like a lot of fun. Thank you for creating it! March 15...

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Meta Magic: KAudioCreator

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Thursday, February 21, 2002. I have created a new application called KAudioCreator. It is a front-end tool for ripping and encoding CD's. I am happy to say that KAudioCreator will be part of KDE starting with KDE 3.1. The source for KAudioCreator is now kept in KDE's repository here. March 15, 2009 at 9:32 AM. Are you going to port KAudioCreator to KDE4? Im just one of the hundreds waiting for it to be available there! June 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM. I recently put u...

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Meta Magic: Git and hooks

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Thursday, March 15, 2007. Update: See my more recent blog post Git hooks. For a more in depth look at Git hooks. The past few weeks I have started learning Git. And this past week started using it for one of my own little project I have been hacking on. It has been a fun experience and once I figured out the basics it went pretty smooth. Here are a few tips that would have been nice to know before I started:. Is the best intro I have seen. Check that the projec...

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Meta Magic: Code analysis reporting tools don't work

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Wednesday, April 03, 2013. Code analysis reporting tools don't work. Code analysis tools are good at highlighting code defects and technical debt, but it is when. The issues are presented to the developer that determines how effective the tool will be at making the code better. Tools that only generate reports nightly will be magnitudes less effective than tools that inform developers of errors before a change is put into the repository. Code analysis reporting...

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Meta Magic: March 2015

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Sunday, March 29, 2015. A connection machine in your pocket. In the 90's I read the paper " Evolution as a Theme in Artificial Life: The Genesys System. In which the researchers evolved an ant program which would allow an ant to traverse a winding broken trail they dubbed their The John Muir Trail. As the ant walked the trail it had to first figure out how to turn and then step over gaps in the trail that grew wider the longer the ant walked. Webpage where you ...

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Meta Magic: Programming tool: The whiteboard marker

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Monday, April 11, 2011. Programming tool: The whiteboard marker. All through my programming career I have had a whiteboard, but beyond simply making sure I had one I have never thought much more about it. Recently I picked up a set of whiteboard markers that surprisingly made me more productive. Last week when looking for some more markers I stumbled across this set of low odor ultra fine whiteboard markers with eraser. For a grand total of $8.99. With a fine t...

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Meta Magic: Git Hooks

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Friday, October 17, 2008. Git hooks are scripts that are run by Git before or after certain commands. Because the hooks are run locally and not on the server it allows for a lot of freedom to write more in depth scripts. The scripts are located in the .git/hooks directory and Git comes with some sample scripts that can be enable by removing the .sample suffix and making it executable. Echo "- Attempting to build- ". If [ -f Makefile ] ; then. F Makefile ] make.

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Meta Magic: How to stop leaking your internal sites to Gravatar, while still use them.

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Thursday, March 06, 2014. How to stop leaking your internal sites to Gravatar, while still use them. When you viewing the commits of a repository on GitHub such as this one https:/ github.com/icefox/git-hooks/commits/master. You will see a Gravatar image next to each commit. In Chrome if you open up the inspector and view the Network headers for the image's you will see along with other things that it is sending the header:. Edit: This post has spawned a number...

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Meta Magic: Using collaborative diffusion rather than path finding for the Google AI ant challenge.

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Wednesday, November 02, 2011. Using collaborative diffusion rather than path finding for the Google AI ant challenge. For the 2011 Google Ants AI Challenge. Rather than doing the typical solution of choosing direction for each ant based upon the shortest path to some goal I used a diffusion based approach which was simpler, faster to code and resulted in some nice emergent behavior with very little work. When running it against the test bots even the simplest v...

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Meta Magic: So you want to build a Git server?

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Benjamin Meyer's software development blog. Thursday, October 02, 2014. So you want to build a Git server? So I heard you are thinking about creating a Git server. Try to cash in on the massive rise of Git perhaps? Maybe it will be online only like Github or perhaps it will be for customers to install like Gitorious or perhaps it will be mobile only! Below is the essential wisdom I have gained that hopefully you can use to make your Git server better. Backend is the bits that accept connections for the g...