Update: All of the below is made totally redundant by simply using ‘gitk –all’. Thanks Russel! When I launch Gitk, it just displays the current branch. To display other branches, you must name them on the command line. To display Continue reading
Some developers find Git takes a little getting used to, claiming that it is conceptually convoluted compared to other distributed version control systems. I used to number myself amongst them. Happily, I’ve found that a couple of simple spatial analogies Continue reading
In which I once again indulge my obscure command-line fetish. I often spend hours of my day cycling through: Edit code and its unit tests Save my changes Push a button or change window focus to explicitly re-run the code’s Continue reading
Found myself telling this story yet again, so I figured I should just post it here and start linking to it, rather than remembering, retyping and re-embellishing it every time. Ever since we started at Resolver, developers have been free Continue reading
My single degree was in Electronics and Physics, so although that covered a considerable amount of digital electronics and CPU design, I’ve pretty much picked up everything I know about software in my own time or on the job. Consequentially, Continue reading
To help me grok and remember the OpenGL 3.3 draw API, I drew them in a diagram. I hope this will help me see at a glance what I can and can’t achieve with each function call. I haven’t annotated Continue reading
The following was originally published in the excellent Python Magazine. Thier contractual exclusivity period has now long expired, so here it comes again. Many thanks to my technical reviewer Michael Foord, and to the editors Brandon Craig Rhodes and Doug Continue reading