Archives for September 2009
Using git hooks to check syntax errors
Git is currently my favorite source code versioning tool and while I used Subversion, I knew about something called hooks that I never used. Essentially, hooks allow you to execute custom scripts when you perform certain actions on your repository… continue reading »
BOMs can really drive you nuts!
A BOM is an acronym for byte-order mark and is essentially used to tell the type of encoding of a data stream or file without having to explicitly specify it (for instance, through the content-type header in HTTP response). I’d… continue reading »
Using Git over non-standard SSH ports
I’ve configured some deployment servers to use SSH over non-standard SSH ports and that can really be a problem when you want to use that with git. No matter what you do, git would always attempt to connect through the… continue reading »
StartupsNigeria.com: A family feud?
The blog post title says it all. My memory fails me as to the exact date the popular blog – StartupsNigeria.com went offline. There could have been several reasons why it was offline but one day, two days, one week…… continue reading »
Migrating from SVN to GIT
One of the big benefits of using source code versioning (or source code management systems) is that it allows you to maintain a history of all the changes in code and allows for easy collaboration amongst several developers on the… continue reading »
