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Git and Dropbox

I've just recently started to discover what Dropbox is really good at. I've had one for at least a year and almost never used it. The only thing I'd ever really used it for was client assets like PSDs and the like. I just discovered the Dropbox secret weapon - the symlink.

A symlink (short for symbolic link), if you don't know, is basically like a pointer to a folder/directory. It's a really nifty way to help you organize your filesystem. Say you use iTunes and for some reason you like to...

A quick trip to the panic room

I use Git. I'm relatively new to the party and it's all I've ever used. I tried to get SVN working for me back when I was first gettings started and it felt like hand-wiring a tube amplifier - slow, tedious, and you don't know if it's going to work until you're totally done. I've more recently taken on a client who uses a nifty issue tracker called Jira, but they have their source checked in to SVN. I thought I was going to to have to get familiar with it until I rediscovered a tool that...