bash
If you often make changes to your ~/.bashrc, you might be sick of typing source ~/.bashrc after every change. It can also be annoying when you switch to a different tab in your terminal, but your new aliases or functions aren't available until you type source ~/.bashrc. While
linux
I'm saving a little space in my terminal by replacing my username and group (ndbroadbent) with a single symbol. I'm doing this in my prompt, as well as in the output of ls commands: (My laptop's hostname is also represented by a symbol.) For
ruby
A day in the life of a Rails developer will usually involve a few git pulls, bundle installs, and switching between different projects. I thought it would be great if my projects could be automatically kept up-to-date, so that I don't have to spend too much time updating
administration
GitHub is a great way to manage code for an open source project, but it doesn't provide any way to send a message to all of your watchers. This can be necessary whenever you make certain changes to your application. For example, I recently merged a pull request
scripts
Skype on Linux comes with it's own notification system. It's not that bad, but it's not consistent, either. If you want to configure Skype to use libnotify instead, run the following script in your terminal: (NOTE: You must have installed Skype, and logged in
linux
You might be familiar with the cron job scheduler, which is great for repeating tasks. But when you want to schedule a command to only run once in the future, the at command is what you are looking for. In my case, I was updating a plugin for our Thoughtworks
ruby
Update: I've updated the build status checking script, because updating all branches was taking too long (over 20 minutes.) Now it performs frequent updates for the current branch, and only periodic updates for all branches. Travis CI is a distributed continuous integration service for the open source community,
ruby
I'm currently doing a lot of work on an open source Ruby on Rails project called Fat Free CRM. The code is hosted on github, and we are using the amazing continuous integration service provided by Travis CI. Find out more about Travis CI here. We've
git
When you're creating logos or icons for a project that uses git, have you ever wondered where you should store those .psd or .xcf files? Do you commit all of your raw design files, or does it put you off that any changes to those files will bloat
iphone
There was a post on the front page of Hacker News recently, titled "Making Chrome better on iOS". Google's Chrome browser is now available on iOS, and the author of the article was talking about how app developers could be persuaded to add some code to
git
SCM Breeze is a set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that make it easier to use git. It integrates with your shell to give you numbered file shortcuts, a repository index with tab completion, and a community driven collection of useful SCM functions. Disclaimer: git is currently the
ubuntu
Sometimes you just want to copy something from your terminal and paste it somewhere else. You might have heard of a Linux program called xclip, which provides a command line interface to X selections. However, xclip's default selection isn't the clipboard, and typing xclip -selection c