Database branches with Git Hooks

on Fri, Oct 28, 2016 by Jorge Alejandro Figueroa Pérez · development, PostgreSQL, shell, git, · development, · 6 min reading time

The Problem

You may skip to the solution part at the bottom if you feel brave

Branching means you diverge from the main line of development and continue to do work without messing with that main line. - git

Branches are one of the more powerful features of a VCS, you can work on new features and test changes without touching your master code. But many times those changes implies to do some changes on the database too, and well, your database certainly doesn’t live within your repository, so if you want to go back to master or to another branch you need to discard the changes you made to the database.

For this you have many options:

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women developers done wrong

on Thu, Mar 24, 2016 by Jorge Alejandro Figueroa Pérez · equality, gender, social movement, women, · development, social, · 3 min reading time

women developers done wrong…

Don’t take me wrong, seeking for more women in the technology world is a legit purpose and I support it.

After all 92% of the developers are men, and that’s a huge gap that makes things unfair sometimes.

But current movements are doing it wrong, sooo wrong.

All the activities that looks forward to bring more women to the developer side are like this:

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