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Just ran into an excellent Git tutorial by Nick Farina: Git Is Simpler Than You Think.

For me, understanding the structure of the object database was my Eureka moment for Git. After that, I could start to understand not just how Git worked, but why. The best way to get yourself out of a Git disaster scenario is to understand what Git is trying to do for you.

I think this is The Key in becoming fluent with Git. As a learning strategy it is much better than the typical way of trying to learn which Git command represents which Subversion command.

Everyone and their brother are writing their own content management systems. Especially in Python. I used to think that there is no other point to that other than personal learning experience. But I have started to wonder.

First I need to discredit a bit the major php stuff floating around. Joomla feels like coding for web in Java way but in PHP. That's a double no-no for me.

There are a lot of nonrelational database engines. Really a lot. I have for some time been wondering on how do they differ and which should I use in which scenarios.

Finally someone managed to explain the differences in a format I understand:

Kristóf Kovács: Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak vs HBase vs Membase vs Neo4j comparison

Note to self: print this and place it somewhere where I can keep looking it until I can remember the correct values in my sleep:

RIPE NCC: IPv6 Subnetting Card

This is a nice concept.

Luke Faraone: Simple two-factor authentication

Makes it a bit more difficult to do something nasty with just a stolen password. A bit limited in deployment though, at least as long as the mobile devices have as little portability as they do now.