Comments for The Tomes Of Experience

Comment on Recovering your Git repository after doing a “git reset –hard” by Xerxes

Xerxes — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:27:27 +0000

yeah that’s true! I never thought of that.

Thanks!

Comment on Recovering your Git repository after doing a “git reset –hard” by Jason LeBrun

Jason LeBrun — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:56:13 +0000

All you need to do after a git reset –hard that you did by accident is:

git reset –hard @{1}

That will restore your branch to the previous state.

Comment on Design of (Almost) Everyday Things: Impact Drill by Jeanne @ Ryobi Depot

Jeanne @ Ryobi Depot — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:19:56 +0000

Hi there, just stopped by doing some research for my Ryobi site. Lots of information out there. Wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but nice site. Have a good day.

Comment on Turning your Asus eeeBox B202 into a XBMC by Xerxes

Xerxes — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:51:07 +0000

My box doesnt have optical audio. The model above the B202 has optical

Comment on Turning your Asus eeeBox B202 into a XBMC by AP

AP — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:47:44 +0000

Does optical audio work for you? Thanks

Comment on Mounting NAS drive under Ubuntu by Darren

Darren — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:47:39 +0000

Here is how I did it for Belkin drive in Ubuntu:
Access “Places” “Connect to Server” “Windows Share”
Enter “192.168.2.1” into “Server” area and click “Connect”
The drive will be listed, click on it and enter the following in the fields shown.
Username: guest
Workgroup: Belkin
password: leave it empty

Remember authorization forever. And now it works excellent.

Comment on Design of (Almost) Everyday Things: Impact Drill by Xerxes

Xerxes — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:06:12 +0000

You’re right – there is no middle mode, i only jimmied the switch into that position for the photo.

What’s bugs me here is the confusion the glyph creates. Does it indicate the mode is active, or does it indicate that the other mode is active (ie: the mode for the glyph you CANT see).

out of interest – did you pick the correct one?

Comment on Design of (Almost) Everyday Things: Impact Drill by Daniel Tome

Daniel Tome — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:59:32 +0000

Hey, There shouldn’t be a middle mode.
It’s only got hammer or drill mode. So when you switch it to the left, then you can see the drill, so it’s in Drill mode. And when you switch it to the right, you see the hammer.. so it’s MC hammer time.
You shouldn’t be able to select the middle… (it’s like a checkbox, on or off)

Comment on Search Engine Showdown: Google vs Yahoo Search by Stop Procrastinating

Stop Procrastinating — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:54:17 +0000

I am actually one of the users of Google and Yahoo as my search engines for my instruction. The one thing that I have observed between the two search engines is that Google will give you more specific information and datum for the word(s) you are looking and it is much easier to identify the websites that gives reliable information on specific datum you want to locate or research.

Comment on JetBrains: Teach with pleasure! by Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:28:21 +0000

Great story, I wish the open minded approach to self-improvement and learning how to use productivity tools like R# was as prevalent in the professional world!

Comment on JetBrains: Teach with pleasure! by Miguel Madero

Miguel Madero — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:19:19 +0000

That’s a nice story and it’s great that the Jetbrains guys are supporting students

Comment on Switching an IIS website home directory from the command line by Edward Peters

Edward Peters — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:17:12 +0000

Thanks so much for this. I thought I discovered lots of good stuff here yesterday after spending all day going through this private area.

Comment on The Right Person For The Job by Richard Banks

Richard Banks — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:09:01 +0000

Preach it, brother!

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Xerxes

Xerxes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:24:46 +0000

@Troy Hunt It's a good question, and I don't have an answer or even a suspected answer. My instinct tells me that firstly we need to remove other impediments which are interrupting the student's capability to learn this content (ie: they should drop all other subjects and focus on one thing at a time). Unlike the career programmer, the student is performing 3 or 4 additional roles at the same time, and not applying enough attention to probably any of them.

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Troy Hunt

Troy Hunt — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:18:47 +0000

Just a tangential thought: how much harder is it on a student working on an assignment pretty autonomously versus someone in a career working in a team? I suspect they wouldn’t have the same benefits of peer review or joint collaboration on the codebase and would need to spend more time winging it. Not quite sure how you address this in a class situation and the issue obviously isn’t unique to TDD but it might be compounded if trying to get to grips with multiple new concepts at once.

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:40:36 +0000

Mate, once you’ve finished teaching your students problem decomposition, can you teach me how on earth to do it??!? Please!!

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Xerxes

Xerxes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:40:34 +0000

Yes and no. Yes it will start to get them to “write tests” but they’re doing it out of necessity rather than doing it for the intended purpose. A student’s motivations are very clear when you look at the code they write.

Secondly, you have to remember that everything i’m doing is unofficial, not part of the curriculum and nowhere on the curriculum radar…

…but thanks for the positive feedback

Comment on Lessons from the classroom by Liam McLennan

Liam McLennan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:14:57 +0000

If you wanted to improve the ROI of unit testing all you have to do is include the tests in the assessment criteria. Sounds like you are doing a great job. I don’t remember having teachers who cared so much.

Comment on Making Resolving Conflicts in Git Easier by Paul Batum

Paul Batum — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:15:15 +0000

Any time!

Comment on Switching an IIS website home directory from the command line by Scott M

Scott M — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:33:00 +0000

This is EXACTLY what i needed! thanks!