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A few cool Git Books and Learning Resources

I’m in the process of putting together a basic one-day git training course for both our consulting team and one of our friendly clients at the moment. Even though I’ve been tinkering with Git for ages, I originally learned Git properly by methodically working through Tim McCullough and Tim Berglund’s awesome video series which I would recommend them to anyone keen to get a good quickstart...

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Net Disconnect: Taking your Dev machine offline for productivity

After recently reading “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains“, I’ve been a bit provoked about how much time I waste online when getting things done. Chasing hyperlinks to all kinds of content, checking twitter, get distracted by mail. Major context switching! So I’m experimenting with a new workflow where I disable the network card on my PC , and just come online...

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Getting Windows 7 to recognise your OCZ Agility SSD

I’ve just installed a brand new OCZ Agility 3 Solid State Drive (SSD) into my ASUS UL80JT ASUS Laptop. The BIOS saw the drive immediately, so I figured I was in the clear. Sadly Windows 7 said it couldn’t find any devices to install on! Yikes! I discovered in this thread that other people have faced this problem too, and they had worked out some fixes. And (for me at least), there was a very...

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Bootcamp Assistant: How to overcome the “files cannot be moved” issue

You’re busy trying to use the Bootcamp Assistant to install a bootcamp partition on your shiny Macbook, when suddenly you’re greeted with the dreaded fragmentation dialog of death: So what does “The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved” actually mean? I mean, I’ve got 25Gb free and I only want a 10Gb windows partition! The answer lies in...

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Recoving your iPhoto collection from an Emptied Trash… (there is hope!)

So what *do* you do when your small child erases your iPhoto collection? I guess you undelete from the trash… But what happens if you didn’t know your photo collection was in the trash and you emptied it? You go to your most recent backup. But what happens when your most recent backup is 6 weeks old (you know, just before your newborn arrived?). You panic. I’ve had a Mac Mini for...