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Interacting with Git: Cryptic RPC Errors, HTTPS, and SSH

Solving the annoying "RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 411" error. This post also discusses using the HTTPS vs SSH protocols with Git.

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Sharpen Your Git Saw – Aliases, Selective Staging, & Interactive Rebasing

Learn how to use advanced features of Git — shorten commands, stage some changes but not others, and manipulate your history to clean it up.

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Git-SVN Gotcha with Empty Directories

A warning about a potential gotcha with using git-svn, and how to prevent it.

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Customizing IntelliJ for Emacs Compatibility

IntelliJ out of the box isn't very comfortable for an Emacs user. It gets much better with some keymap tweaks and LivePlugin customizations.

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Why I Prefer AppCode over Xcode

For the last 6 month, I've had the opportunity to use AppCode as my primary IDE, and it's head-and-shoulders above Xcode.

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Taking a Screenshot on Mac OS X

Can't remember how to take a screenshot on a Mac? These keyboard shortcuts and applications that will do the trick.

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Develop Smoothly with the Right MacBook CPU

Looking at upgrading your development machine? Learn how to choose the right CPU using benchmark data.

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5 Awesome Lesser-Known Chrome DevTools Features

Chrome DevTools supports inline HTML and CSS editing, JavaScript breakpoints, and more. These are some of my favorite lesser-know features of DevTools,

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A Month with the Atom Editor

GitHub's Atom editor is solid with few drawbacks. It's my new favorite editor, and I'm optimistic that this is more than a fling.

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My Favorite Emacs Add-Ons

Some of the best Emacs add-ons, and how I use them in my daily workflow.

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Expanding User-Defined Runtime Attributes in Xcode with Objective-C

Changing the borderColor & shadowColor of a UIView and the font properties of a UISegmentedControl in XCode w/user-defined runtime attributes & Objective-C.

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A Tiny Toolbox for Spelunking through JSON

A quick look at how curl, bash, jq, and json-diff can make JSON less painful to wrangle from the command-line.

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