Scott Weaver

a visual explanation of sql joins

scott — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:32:37 +0000

Now here is an excellent way to think of how sql joins work: a visual explanation of sql joins.

trying out foursquare

scott — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:26:28 +0000

Update:

I uninstalled the app as I didn’t know why I was mindlessly checking into places. Interesting, but a time waster for sure.

Trying out path.com instead!

renaming directories with git

scott — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:19:13 +0000

Developing today, I ran into an issue of case sensitivity on our QA server that didn’t exist in dev. Easy, I thought; I’ll just change the case and commit it up.

As it turns out, renaming directories in git isn’t so easy. So to help other people avoid wasting their time like I did, I thought I’d post the workaround.

Normally, you’d think that to rename a directory called ‘FooBar’ to ‘Foobar’ you’d just issue commands like so:

git mv FooBar Foobar git add -A Foobar git commit -am "Your message"

But that is not the case. Instead, you would do this:

mv FooBar Sometemporaryname git add -A Sometemporaryname git commit -am "Your message here" mv Sometemporaryname Foobar git add -A Foobar git commit -am "Second message here"

Not very intuitive but it gets the job done. Hope it saves someone some time.

starting over

scott — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:46:25 +0000

So tonight I decided to delete the entire contents of the previous blog I had on this domain in favor of a much more minimalist attempt. Something about the automated posts and stagnant content — it needed to go.

So what will I focus on this time around?

Minimalism and simplicity
More programming / engineering content
This blog as opposed to others (time to delete and forget)

Feel free to read about me or contact me.

That is all.