These are the set of commands to checkout a branch of a repository from Github, which is not immediately obvious the first time you try it. First clone the repo if you haven’t: git clone url-to-repo-you-want Clone has already checked out the branches, but it only initially creates the master branch. You have to tell [...]

It’s certainly true that you can’t guess the path your life will take. When I was a child I remember looking at my father, who was a career military man, and thinking that I’d go to college, graduate, find a good company to work for, and stay there the rest of my working life until [...]

I currently have a project that I’m evaluating using JRuby for. The first step in the evaluation is of course to set everything up. While I could have installed JRuby and let it run with the version of Java already available on Mac OS X Lion, I opted to be on the edge. That means [...]