HUGE shoutout to Jeff Knowlton for telling me about git difftool –dir-diff: http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_vcs#gitwindows This is how to set the path for Beyond Compare: git config –global difftool.bc3.cmd “\”c:/Program Files/Beyond Compare 4/BCompare.exe\” \”$LOCAL\” \”$REMOTE\”” (use your path to your installation, of course) Then, add an alias: git config –global alias.diffdir = “difftool –dir-diff –tool=bc3 –no-prompt” (Please […]
August 28, 2014
Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Conclusion
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Conclusion: Migrating from git to TFS, while technically *possible* is just silly. Don’t. TFS supports Git repositories now. LEARN GIT! You won’t be sorry,
July 20, 2014
Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 3
3: Pushing to TFS > git tf checkin –deep –autosquash Hooray! Success… I think! There were quite a few things I learned getting to that point: 3a. Troubleshooting “git-tf: Could not lock” error: PreReq Step 5, on post 1 (creating your project in TFS), was missed. 3b. Troubleshooting “git-tf: ‘refs/heads/master’ is not a […]
July 20, 2014
Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 2
Connecting a Git Repo to a New TFS Repo I was testing with VisualStudioOnline, soooo…. 2a. I had to enable basic auth for my Visual Studio Online Account: To work with Visual Studio online from the Git Command prompt, you must Enable basic authentication for your Visual Studio Online account. This forces you to enter […]
July 20, 2014
Git to TFS Migration Experiment: Part 1
After doing a combo talk* with one of my earliest tech community heroes, Tim Rayburn, at the North Dallas .NET User Group a couple of weeks ago (what an honor =), I got an email from an attendee who had a business need to unify source control from various VCSs (like SCM) to TFS (yes, […]
April 25, 2014
My 10yo Daughter’s 3-hour Scratch Workshop
Near the beginning of March, the Plano Maker Space (“an all volunteer, non-profit organization formed to provide a place and the infrastructure for creative people to collaborate, share ideas, and pursue creative / technical interests“) reached out to me on Twitter, asking if I’d be interested in doing a Scratch class for their meetup. I asked […]
January 20, 2014
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many […]
August 25, 2013
Improving myself: 21-week Check-in
I’ve been crazy-happy, and feel the urge to write about / reflect on some things that have happened, because I don’t want to forget this special time of growth & appreciation. I’m including a lot of pictures & links to make it seem(?) less verbose. April-July I’m grouping this four months together because that was […]
July 27, 2013
What I Want To Teach My Daughters
Don’t let your gender, your race, or your differences define you. You are a person. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. Doing so can narrow your perception of possible.You do not need rescued. Chivalry is respect. Appreciate it.When a guy offers his chair to you or gets the door for you or offers to help […]
July 27, 2013
WIT: My Opinion
This is a post I’ve started writing 7 different times. I’m not kidding. I have SEVEN different titles in my Live Writer drafts, ranging from “The Boy in the Ballet,” (which I started after attending my daughters’ dance recital, where I couldn’t stop staring in fascination at the 1 or 2 boys onstage amidst 15 […]
September 20, 2014
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