Pinboard bookmarks for August 2015

This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects. The essay focuses on the graph structure that underpins Git and the way the properties of this graph dictate Git’s behavior. via Pocket

If you want to give the impression that you’ve been using Windows 10 for years, learning a few keyboard shortcuts is the best way to go about it—you can navigate around the interface, get apps in position, trigger events, change settings and more with a couple of taps on your keyboard. via Pocket

via BroScienceLife (uploads) on YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=UUduKuJToxWPizJ7I2E6n1kA

via Pocket

About a month ago, I participated in a conference at Hoover, inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. There were lots of interesting papers. via Pocket

via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net

via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/

If you are new to Sitecore and need a beginners guide, you have come to the right place. Learn Sitecore holds several articles when you need to get started with Sitecore: More tutorials will follow over time. via Pocket

When it comes to relational databases, I can’t help thinking that something is missing. They’re used everywhere. There are many different databases: from the small and useful SQLite to the powerful Teradata. But, there are only a few articles that explain how a database works. via Pocket

SELECT deqs.last_execution_time AS [Time], dest.TEXT AS [Query] FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats AS deqs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(deqs.sql_handle) AS dest ORDER BY deqs.last_execution_time DESC

via Thoughts about computer technologies http://lethalman.blogspot.com/search/label/nixpills

Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro,1[1] you don't work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver." via Pocket