Only just started to finally get stuck into learning git. It certainly seems to be revolutionising the way we do version control. I’m pretty hooked on subversion and I have to admit, I thought that was as good as it gets! But the hype around git to much to ignore. Here’s some resources I’ve found [...]
I need to be able to use Ruby to talk to Oracle databases to help us easily build scripts for maintenance and support. So, I started doing some googling and found ruby-oci8. Excellent! I’m also mainly PC bound so I needed to get this working on my cygwin installation. My entire Ruby environment is running [...]
If you’re behind a proxy which restricts outbound ports (i.e. only port 80 and 443), then you’ll be pleased to know that you can still access Github. Rather than using the git:// protocol (defaulting to port 9418), you can use the HTTP protocol to do the same thing! Article on Github about it here. git [...]
About Me
My name is Trent McClenahan. I'm passionate about the web and establishing high performance teams. After 15 years in Sydney I am now based in Newcastle, Australia.
