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Wednesday March 19, 2008

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InfoQ: GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting

"GitHub hosts git repositories and provides a web interface to it, but contrary to other such services like SourceForge or Google Code, a unique selling point of GitHub is the easy forking of other projects."

(tags: InfoQ news post project opensource Git GitHub service tool repository system storage VCS SCM forking fork ChrisWanstrath)
Lockhart's Lament

Everyone has already linked to this, but, man, this guy can rant!

(tags: mathematics math education Lockhart rant PaulLockhart teaching essay paper column)
Ruminations of a Programmer: Are you fully using your Static Typing ?

An example of Java Generics "adding type-safety" to domains where heavy use of reflection traditionally implied the possibility of runtime type errors. The example given is Guice dependency injection.

(tags: blog post DebasishGhosh java typing StaticTyping tip technique DI DependencyInjection idiom pattern reflection metaprogramming Guice Spring)

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