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Life, a year later
It's been almost a year since I left my job running IT for a small company. As I've written before, leaving the job was probably not the smartest move as I didn't have another job lined up. However, it turns out that the move was one of the best moves in my career. Through a series of events, I ended up with my current job where I'm quite happy. Sometimes it surprises me how much work influences life, but considering how many of my waking hours I spend working, it really shouldn't be a surprise.
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Struggling with Distributed Version Control Systems, e.g. git
I've been using subversion for version control on just about all my projects for years, whether they were my own projects or for clients. It worked well and I got very used to it. Recently I've been put on projects that use distributed version control systems and have also been working on some open source projects that use it as well. Several of my projects use Mercurial, but most are using git.
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Storing User Data in Application Support
I recently switched to a new MacBook Pro and decided to piecemeal move my data over so that I wouldn't bring over old crusty preferences and files like that. This has worked quite well, but in two cases today, I found that some user data was stored in the Application Support folder. Since I hadn't copied this directory over, when I ran the apps, I had no data and had to dig through an old Time Machine backup to find the data. To make matters worse, I'm storing my personal data on an encrypted disc image and in order to get the apps to run, I had to create a symbolic link to my disc image's directory that contains the data.
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Suggestions for the TSA
I've ranted a number of times about the TSA, so I've decided to offer the TSA some suggestions on how to handle airport security. I ask for nothing in return, even though I'm sure my ideas would be worth millions if I was contracted to do an overhaul of it.