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
bundler
TL;DR: bundle install != gem install Maybe you want to update haml to the latest version. You tried to run bundle install haml, but now some really weird stuff is happening. Bundler decided to install all of your gems from scratch into a ./haml folder. Even when you try bundle
bash
I have a script that runs a search and replace on a git status. I recently found out how to do git config color.status always, so that git status gives color codes to my functions. However, this broke the substitution, and it took me a while to figure it
bash
Sometimes it's nice to add color output to your bash scripts. Here's a small 'color index' reference script for your .bashrc, for when you want to add a bit of color to your scripts. Save the following script somewhere in your PATH (e.g.
scripts
NOTE: This is only for jailbroken iPhones. I love finding awesome wallpapers on reddit. My Ubuntu desktop cycles through my wallpaper collection with a program called Cortina, and I wanted my iPhone to do the same. So I wrote a very simple script and a launchd plist that runs the
electronics
I turned an old brass pressure gauge into a vacant/engaged indicator for our bathroom. The needle is a hacked ammeter, and the metal slide lock on the other side of the door switches it on. (Inspired by this analog bandwidth meter.)
rails
I use gedit to write code. I keep a filebrowser tab open at the left side of my screen, and sometimes I need to look at gem's source code. RVM is awesome, and it keeps my 1.8.7 gems, 1.9.2 gems and all my gemsets
rails
I've written a tiny web application called 'Avatar Harmony'. You can sign in with twitter or facebook, add your Gravatar login details, and the app will automatically sync your profile pics across each of your accounts. It can sync avatars in the following directions: * Facebook =>
ruby
I wanted the LCD screen on my apartment door to display a message on certain days, such as birthdays, Christmas, and Easter. I didn't realize how hard it was to calculate which day Easter Sunday is... def easter(year) c=year/100 n=year-19*(year/19) k=(c-17)
compaq-evo-t20
This is just a little idea I had on the bus. Outside my apartment, I have a bucket for umbrellas. A program checks the local weather on weather.com from time to time. If there's any chance of rain, it switches on the lights installed in the bucket.
rails
Capistrano is a great tool, and I couldn't imagine running a project without it. I always wanted a quick way to know exactly what was running on each of our servers, and needed to know what would would change when I ran 'cap deploy'. "cap
rails
When you run a rake task for a Rails 3 project, it has to load the entire environment since gems can include their own rake tasks. I started to get annoyed by this, because every capistrano deployment would load up rails on my environment just to notify hoptoad. If you
rails
We are working with a Rails 3 port of Fat Free CRM. We have so many plugins modifying classes that we have to set config.cache_classes to true. But all our view templates seemed to stay cached as well, and I had to restart the server each time I