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
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.