skiphoppy

Texas

http://use.perl.org/~jdavidb/

I am a Perl programmer using Java by day. I am jdavidb on use.perl.org and slashdot.

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How do you stash an untracked file?

git git-stash asked May 7, 2009 at 15:54

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687 votes

How do I address unchecked cast warnings?

java generics warnings asked Feb 3, 2009 at 21:57

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611 votes

Does Java have support for multiline strings?

java string multiline asked May 18, 2009 at 16:28

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389 votes

How do I set environment variables from Java?

java environment-variables asked Nov 25, 2008 at 17:38

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266 votes

How can I change a file's encoding with vim?

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184 votes

Why is 'ping' unable to resolve a name when 'nslookup' works fine?

windows networking dns asked Oct 29, 2012 at 19:11

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Reverting part of a commit with git

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How do you squash commits into one patch with git format-patch?

git patch squash git-squash asked Mar 5, 2009 at 20:53

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173 votes

How can I use different certificates on specific connections?

java ssl keystore truststore jsse asked May 13, 2009 at 16:54

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168 votes

Can I make git recognize a UTF-16 file as text?

git unicode character-encoding diff utf-16 asked Apr 22, 2009 at 15:51

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