Posted by Age Mooij late at night: September 20th, 2010
Last week we had one of our infamous tech rallies and we had a lot of fun trying to build our own Posterous clone in a day, i.e. turning emails into blog posts.
The project sources are hosted on Github. We were working on this one-day project with about 20 developers spread over 4 teams and one of the things I noticed is that most of us did not have more than the very basic Git experience. This meant that we ran into a lot of merge conflicts and solving those is not always easy. Below is a little rundown of the Git learning stages we went through in team MongoDB to deal with this.
Posted by Iwein Fuld at around evening time: February 28th, 2010
Git has made me more productive, and I will explain in a few words why that is. I could almost do it with twitter, but I like to take a little more time to make my point. The main benefit that git has given me can be found in performance of certain things I want to do when I am managing changes in my code base. The performance improvements of some critical parts of it are even so profound that they have changed the way I am working. In particular the fact that I can skip builds for most of my commits is a big time saver.
There have been many things said about git already and I suggest you use your favorite search index to bring yourself up to speed if you need to. Git is a simple distributed versioning system that is challenging many assumptions I had about development. Let’s go over these assumptions. I’ll show you my (svn based) assumption and why it doesn’t hold if you’re using git.
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Posted by Erik Rozendaal in the early morning: November 18th, 2009
Besides organizing a Scala workshop at the J-Fall meeting we also presented five technical posters to serve as discussion points for anyone interested (or just walking by). Unlike traditional meeting sessions we could interact directly, somewhat similar to open space sessions.
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Posted by Age Mooij in the wee hours: January 26th, 2009
After hearing a lot about distributed source code management (SCM) systems lately, I’ve been playing around with GIT and I like it a lot. As a longtime user of traditional SCMs like CVS and Subversion, working with GIT is something of a revelation and so nothing seems more natural than spreading the gospel a little 
To help other people learn about GIT, I’ve collected some of the most interesting GIT 101 stuff I’ve found around the net.