JetBrains: Teach with pleasure!
Whenever i’m teaching my class, my laptop is connected to the projector and i’m running through an example on the screen, I make a conscious effort to NOT use ReSharper because its refactorings do so...
View ArticleAdding attachments of any type to WordPress
All content here is written in relation to WordPress 3.0 self-hosted Amazingly I failed to find a single page on the net describing this problem, or how to attach any files to WordPress. It seems that...
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Chrome App Extensions
In the last few weeks I happened to come across Chrome web-apps. This feature of Chrome 6 obsoletes the Create Application Shortcut feature and replaces it with a more featured (or at the very least...
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Design of (Almost) Everyday Things: Impact Drill
Hopefully Don will forgive me for the creative licence I’ve taken in bastardising on the title of his book, but it seemed quite fitting given my recent experience with my Ryobi impact drill. Basically...
View ArticleCommand Line Replacement for Gitk
It’s no surprise I love git. To date, the worst part about git however, was the lacklustre downright shithouse state of the pre-packaged GUI tools – git gui and gitk. Well here’s a command-line...
View ArticleSetting up Time Machine on a LaCie Network Space, wireless-ly
The marketing of the LaCie Network Space 2 claims that the device is Time Machine compatible, but when you try and dig for instructions on how to get it to work, the tubes becomes very very empty. If...
View ArticleBASH – [: too many arguments
I’ve been writing a little bash script to wrap up the functionality in the JIRA CLI, and i’d noticed that sometimes, my script was spitting out the following error: sh.exe": [: too many arguments The...
View ArticleScripting Google Chrome for OSX using AppleScript
When it comes to software tools, i like to spend my time bleeding on the edge, where possible. One of the downsides to this, however is when you hit the carotid artery and bleed your tech heart all...
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git-describe and the tale of the wrong commits
Like most things in life, our current software project is powered by Git, and historically we’ve been using git to generate the version numbers for our builds by sucking it out from the tags in our...
View ArticleResizing Raspbian image for QEmu
I’m running Raspbian (Wheesy 2013-05-29) under QEmu just to make dev a bit quicker. The problem goes that the Raspbian image is 2GB which leaves only 200Mb free for apps/data. To resize the image,...
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