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Merging and resolving conflicts with git

January 10th, 2014 etdot

I frequently get asked how to resolve conflicts in git. It’s not obvious how to do it, but it is surprisingly easy to do.

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WordPress File Structure, FTP & MySQL

November 21st, 2013 etdot

This is a must see for any WordPress developer. A good description of what each of the WordPress files is responsible for doing, in what order they get executed, etc. Just a good basic explanation of how WordPress works. Brad Parbs: WordPress File Structure, FTP & MySQL | WordPress.tv. Brad Parbs talks about the WordPress […]

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Resolving Event ID 5501 on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V DNS Server

June 17th, 2013 etdot

How to resolve Event ID 5501 (The DNS server encountered a bad packet… Packet processing leads beyond packet length) on Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V DNS Server.

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Convert VSS to Git

March 10th, 2013 etdot

I just converted my old Visual Source Safe (VSS) projects to Git repositories on my Gitolite server in minutes! I was impressed with how quick and easy the process was.

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Speech-to-text: Crib Sheets

February 27th, 2013 etdot

Speech-to-text cellphone feature has trouble with crib sheets.

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