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No this is not me! But it is my new shiny Pro Git book I hope to smash through in the next few days.
I want to start using Git at work for our new projects. No more .svn infectious diseases!

Not really! But as i was going through the book i was taking notes. I guess this is more of a concise cheat sheet! If anything it is for my future reference!
My Git Notes

I love buying books. Taking one look at my bookcase makes this quite obvious. I do have quite a large selection of computer related books. I find that by reading into the subject matter, especially for programming, before acting on ideas or tasks provides a person with the tools and knowledge to get stuff done. [...]

A common pitfall for inexperienced Cake developers is to be unaware of helper functions so they resort to building their own processes or custom helpers to perform tasks that have already been standardized in a helper function. (I have certainly been guilty of this, I once wrote an entire console script to automate building views [...]

Using the Time Helper is much like using the HTML helper. Remember when you created a link?
So after adding the Time helper to the PostsController :
var $helper = array(‘Html’, ‘Form’, ‘Time’);
You will need to edit the date in view.ctp:

Date Published:

to:

Date Published:

Yay!
More CakePHP tutes to follow as i go along!

If you’ve been following my blog you would of noticed i am quite the django fan.
Well i give up trying to learn a language with a frame work. So i’m trying my hand at the popular cake php

Blurb, an online service, web2.0 whatever, where their customers can create their own books from their own content. My girlfriend had an awesome idea/surprise whereby she spent hours of time working away at making me my own book based on my current travels in Canada. This book was meant to be given to me as [...]

Yes, another Django book i purchased. But this time not over Amazon, but direct from the publisher! Cheaper! Way Cheaper!

 
Don’t forget to check out the book errata @ http://cssmastery.com/CSSMastery-Errata.pdf My book had only minimal errors, one or two, alot has been revised!

I found this book a while back when i was into programming in Cocoa. It is a free book that teaches you objective-c the cocoa frame work and gives examples all the way through. I am going to smash through the book today on a day off then write some tutorials for you to explain [...]