I'm trying to determine what instances of sql server/sql express I have installed (either manually or programmatically) but all of the examples are telling me to run a SQL query to determine this w...

How to appropriately respond to someone saying "I hope you are well./?" There are certain situations in writing where this would obviously not be soliciting a response (requiring a full s...

git reset --soft HEAD~3 && git commit --edit -m"$(git log --format=%B --reverse HEAD..HEAD@{1})" Both of those methods squash the last three commits into a single new commit in the same way. The …

I have a project in a remote repository, synchronized with a local repository (development) and the server one (production). I've been making some committed changes already pushed to remote and …

I have the following commit history: HEAD HEAD~ HEAD~2 HEAD~3 git commit --amend modifies the current HEAD commit. But how do I modify HEAD~3?

I think you need to push a revert commit. So pull from github again, including the commit you want to revert, then use git revert and push the result. If you don't care about other people's clones of your …

Is there a simple way to hook into the standard 'Add or Remove Programs' functionality using PowerShell to uninstall an existing application? Or to check if the application is installed?

Detached head means you are no longer on a branch, you have checked out a single commit in the history (in this case the commit previous to HEAD, i.e. HEAD^). If you want to keep your changes …

How to update Node.js To update Node.js itself, I recommend you use nvm (Node Version Manager). Here is the quote from the official npm documentation: We strongly recommend using a Node …

pip is a replacement for easy_install. But should I install pip using easy_install on Windows? Is there a better way?