I was introduced to the command line when I borrowed a friend's Macbook Pro to use while my laptop was being repaired. I also happened to be taking a Databases course at the time, which required us to run our MySQL code on a Unix machine on campus. With these toys to play with, I quickly became comfortable with the command line, although I'm still far from an expert on its many capabilities. Echoing last week's ending thoughts, the best way to learn tools is by using them. While I might not know that many commands, I'm now far more comfortable playing with the command line and exploring than I was after reading about its various capabilities.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Version Control, Happy New Year!
Happy 2013! I Hope all your celebrations were joyful and safe. I played board games and had too much food at my house, and all was well. My resolution this year: Maintain this blog. 52 posts by December 31. Since I'm already behind schedule from my first "weekly blog post," let's get started!
My foray into Version Control
I worked on a fairly involved class project with a partner, and we used... Google Docs, e-mail, Dropbox, keeping multiple text files of things, "are you working on this now? I'm going to change it on the server," and "commenting out code I think might be useful later if this doesn't work out." Needless to say, this resulted in a few dozen "why aren't we using version control, again?" as we went along. Hence, my foray!
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