For the Developer

This command is going to save me so much time:
find . -path “*/.git” -execdir git pull origin master ‘;’

This is how you can configure Railo Express to use Jetty virtual hosts and local host file entries to point to a single Railo Express installation. This was extremely useful while developing applications that power multiple domains.

Today I wanted to setup local host entries on my MacBook. Searching around I found several articles about editing the /private/etc/hosts file to add local domains entries pointing back to my computer. I don’t know if it is something that changed with Leopard or Snow Leopard but it just wasn’t working for me. Even restarting [...]

Here is how I setup a VirtualBox Virtual Machine (VM) running Ubuntu 9.10 Server edition for ColdFusion development on my MacBook Pro.

As I amass more photos I get squeamish. Photos are some of the most valuable data on my computer besides the code I write. My code generally isn’t a big worry because it is being versioned and usually exists in several working copies so the risk of loss is smaller. With photos I have at [...]

I am a terminal n00b, but I’m liking it. I grew up on a M$ box and didn’t take the ‘leap’ to a linux / unix based operating system until about a year and a half ago when we got new computers at work. Since that time I have been trying to learn more about [...]