April 2011
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man.vim dude
It turns out that Vim ships with a pretty sweet man page plugin included, which you’d discover if you edited man pages very often, but most of us don’t so it’s probably a lot more useful to us as a viewer.
Some of you Vim wise guys are saying, “But Vim already has a handy man page viewer, just press K in normal mode for the word under the cursor.” Sure. If you type...
October 2010
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Handy Bits for Mongoid with Rails 3
Rails 3 and Mongoid are just peachy. Here are a couple of development conveniences for using them together.
Pop this snippet in your ~/.irbrc to show the raw JavaScript queries that Mongoid is running as you play with your app in the Rails console (and/or SQL, when you’re using ActiveRecord). Formatting isn’t great for Mongo queries, but it’s helpful nonetheless.
Setting...
GNU screen Wrapper for SSH Agent Forwarding
This problem is well-documented around the web, this is just my personal reminder. Others have crafted various solutions varying in complexity. I like this one for the simplicity and easy portability—I don’t remember who to credit for it, unfortunately.
Without getting too deeply into the gory details, if you connect to a remote shell and run GNU screen there, then detach the screen...
Sanely Rebuild Corrupt Font Caches on OS X
For Leopard, at least:
# Clear user font caches
$ atsutil databases -removeUser
# And system cache
$ sudo atsutil databases -remove
# Restart the ATS server
$ atsutil server -shutdown
ATSServer shutdown
$ atsutil server -ping
ATSServer is running
# Check for filesystem activity (this is just generally cool)
$ sudo fs_usage | grep ATS
You might possibly still need to restart applications,...
July 2009
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“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
– Walt Whitman
December 2008
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“I’m no good at those “guess how many jelly beans are in the...”
November 2008
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Gorefest
‘clean blood stain’ is probably one of those Web History moments where you want to make certain that you’re logged out of your Google account.
October 2008
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Um... Arrrr!!
Ches
I've switched Facebook to Pirate speak and it's pretty awesome
Sophie
You win! That's the most inane thing I've heard so far today
June 2008
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Get the Ruby mysql gem to build with MySQL installed from 64-bit binary installer:
sudo env ARCHFLAGS=”-Os -arch x86_64 -fno-common” \
gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Courtesy of synth @ Chris Cruft » Blog Archive » Ruby, Rails and MySQL with Leopard 10.5.2 and XCode 3.0
April 2008
1 post
Sophie
Do you know what I would have to do to make $65 an hour?
Ches
does it involve a pole and acrylic shoes?
March 2008
6 posts
Swap Control and Caps Lock in X.Org
In the keyboard section of xorg.conf:
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
This will naturally effect all X users on a system, so you may want to look at alternatives if you’re not the only one using your system ;-)
Bash Prompt
export PS1="\n\[\033[0;32m\]\w\[\033[0m\]\n[\u@\h]\$ "
Produces a prompt that looks something like this, with that initial newline giving some space from the output of the previous command:
~/src/lexblog/lexcode
[ches@porco]$
Literature and Latte - Scrivener →
Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. Has a screenplay mode, WriteRoom-like fullscreen edit,…
gitnub →
A RubyCocoa frontend to the Git SCM.
finding that just about everything in the Rails Recipes book is useful and pertinent
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“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.”
– Wisdom of Confucius