This was one epic battle for me when i tried to get rails going with Lighttpd. But with that said, i have been spending quite sometime on just getting my development environment up and running on an environment similar to how i would deploy the app. So this is how i managed to get Rails [...]
So i wanted to shorten some urls quickly and easily.
I went looking around for a script and came up with a hybrid of my findings.
Simply make a file wherever on your unix system, i called mine tinyurl.sh
Then dump this code in:
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#!/bin/sh
curl -s http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=$1 \
| sed -n ’s/.*\(http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9]*\).*/\1/p’ \
| uniq | pbcopy
Yep, Thats it. Next i [...]
Alot of the time I find myself working in terminal, doing what not in a directory, and want to open files in my IDE. I would pretty much have to open up finder and then find the file, that i was looking at terminal. Then a brain wave came about. So i made a quick [...]
So i’m learning about source code version control, with Git. This explains the art of when to create a branch. More so for my furture reference:
Experimental changes: Want to try rewriting algorithms just to see whether they’re faster, or want to try refactoring a section of code to a particular pattern? Create a new branch [...]
Grab it from: http://picasa.google.com/mac/
This program basically catalogues your entire stuff collection. Anything you own you can enter into this program to keep track of what’s lying around. You can also scan the barcodes in of what you have and it automatically adds the items for you! Its cool as!
