Here's an interesting tidbit: Postgres evolved from UC Berkeley's Ingres database, hence the name - "Post Ingres", or Postgres

If you've recently picked up a Mac with the Lion operating system already installed, this article probably won't be of much use to you. Apparently, Postgres is the new default ...

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Whenever a conversation about tools comes up, I find myself, inevitably, putting on a sheepish grin and confessing that yes, in fact, I am a vi user.

And I'll be honest - in my early days as a developer, I just wanted to earn a little respect.

Go ahead, make ...

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Okay, forget what I just said about svn on OS X. This week, I'm moving one of my projects into a private repo on github. Why? Well, obviously because it's the new hotness. Because all the kids are doing it? Actually, the answer is "why not?". It can't ...

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This is mostly for my own personal reference - just one of those little things I use frequently and always forget how to set up:

If you're writing Python, then you know that indentation is, uhm, somewhat important. Mkay. I use four space indentation as a standard, but ...

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It's a few years old, but this article on downloading and installing svn for OS X is still the best and most useful:

Building Subversion (SVN) on Mac OS X [Hive Logic]

Installing is the hard part - once you've got installed, it's just a few easy steps to ...

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