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This bookmarklet grabs a PivotalTracker story title, transforms it into a valid git branch name and automatically prepends your initials...
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To find a version containing the regular expression foo in the history of any branch: git grep foo $(git rev...
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When we write a form with date fields, we often use graphical data picker like Rome to get a consistent...
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This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to...
So I had the issue that User input (coming from many different sources and users) often contains the...
This is a bookmarklet you can add to Chrome or Firefox which will allow you to create a story in...