Category: Tech

• Using Jekyll with Github Pages (16 Dec 2020)
  
• Jeykll Categories (24 Apr 2018)
  
• Home Directory File Structure (22 Oct 2015)
  
• OS X disable back gesture (18 Feb 2015)
  
• Vim: Macro (18 Feb 2015)
  
• Find your ruby gems path (18 Feb 2015)
  
• tcsh Remove trailing / (08 Oct 2014)
  
• Word WORD the Difference (19 Aug 2014)
  
• List files ignored by git (30 Jul 2014)
  
• xkill (30 Jul 2014)
  
• error: storage class specified for parameter (19 Jun 2014)
  
• Shell redirection (19 Jun 2014)
  
• Octopress categories with different styles (14 Jun 2014)
  
• Licence Types and Short Identifiers (05 May 2014)
  
• Ruby Methods and Splat (09 Apr 2014)
  
• Thor Adding --verbose (09 Apr 2014)
  
• Creating Lightroom Metadata Views (09 Apr 2014)
  
• iTerm Exit Fullscreen (08 Apr 2014)
  
• Fixing Mangled Octopress Tags (01 Apr 2014)
  
• Thor Variable Arguments (01 Apr 2014)
  
• Ruby Print Array (01 Apr 2014)
  
• Screen Scrollback (25 Mar 2014)
  
• Mavericks Disable Mail Sound (18 Mar 2014)
  
• Ruby iterate over lines in a string (13 Mar 2014)
  
• Macbook keyboard light not working (13 Mar 2014)
  
• Git tag and push to Github (13 Mar 2014)
  
• Bash String Manipulation (05 Mar 2014)
  
• Octopress, Pages and Custom Domain (04 Mar 2014)
  
• Revert in Git (03 Mar 2014)
  
• Edit Octopress Posts (01 Mar 2014)
  
• Gnome: disable focus tracking (20 Feb 2014)
  
• Monkey Patch Octopress (18 Feb 2014)
  
• brew update fail (11 Feb 2014)
  
• git submodule update fatal (21 Jan 2014)
  
• Reverting in git (08 Jan 2014)
  
• rtorrent move on download completion (08 Jan 2014)
  
• Check you current Vim colorscheme (20 Dec 2013)
  
• Cshrc alias loop (19 Dec 2013)
  
• Vim: Status line (17 Dec 2013)
  
• OS X Handbrake install libdvdcss (Decryption) (30 Oct 2013)
  
• VIM: Convert tabs to spaces (14 Oct 2013)
  
• set vs setenv (11 Oct 2013)
  
• For loops in csh/tcsh (11 Oct 2013)
  
• Find RedHat Version (04 Sep 2013)
  
• Unlocking a Nokia 8310 (31 Aug 2013)
  
• Weather alerts via eMail from the MetOffice (15 Aug 2013)
  
• tcsh check a var exists (07 Aug 2013)
  
• Ruby Evaluate Envvars in string. (12 Jul 2013)
  
• Terminal Colours (12 Jul 2013)
  
• Home Wi-Fi (17 Jun 2013)
  
• Stackoverflow sites and images (16 Jun 2013)
  
• Ruby: optionally add path separator (05 Jun 2013)
  
• Add about page to Octopress (19 May 2013)
  
• Push local folder to remote server over ssh (10 May 2013)
  
• Ubuntu and the Jetway ADPE4S (02 May 2013)
  
• Ubuntu (Linux) List Disks (02 May 2013)
  
• BT Broadband messing around with your DNS (25 Apr 2013)
  
• JavaScript Net Curtain (24 Apr 2013)
  
• BitTorrent Sync, free rival to DropBox (24 Apr 2013)
  
• ISO 8601 - Standardised Date Format YYYY-MM-DD (12 Apr 2013)
  
• Algebra : Properties of Real (ℝ) Numbers (14 Feb 2013)
  
• Vim Code Folding (22 Jan 2013)
  
• Ruby duck typing Strings and Arrays (20 Dec 2012)
  
• Reverting rtorrent version on Snow Leopard (06 Dec 2012)
  
• OS X Screen Capture (15 Oct 2012)
  
• Print nested array structures in table format (03 Oct 2012)
  
• Converting flat structure into a nested structure (03 Oct 2012)
  
• Safari 6 not playing YouTube content (30 Sep 2012)
  
• Calculating Regression Coefficients in R (29 Sep 2012)
  
• Git Submodules (28 Sep 2012)
  
• Retina Support for background images (26 Sep 2012)
  
• Speed up Mission Control Animation (18 Sep 2012)
  
• Syncing Google Contacts in Mountain Lion (18 Sep 2012)
  
• Syncing Safari via dropbox for pre iCloud OS X (15 Sep 2012)
  
• Vim consistent spelling correction highlighting (11 Sep 2012)
  
• Get snipMate working, a #vim plugin (04 Sep 2012)
  
• OS X Installing R (03 Sep 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion Setup, Part 5 /etc/hosts (30 Aug 2012)
  
• OS X Get Info Summary for multiple items (29 Aug 2012)
  
• #vim toggle between last 2 edited buffers (29 Aug 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion finding the Library folder (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion Setup, Part 4 Apps (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion Setup, Part 3 : Little Snitch & Dotfiles (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion Setup, Part 2 Homebrew & RVM (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Xcode 4 Install, Disk Usage (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion Setup, Part 1 : Upgrade Lion (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Mountain Lion default $PATH (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Lion default $PATH (16 Aug 2012)
  
• Web Automation with Watir (06 Aug 2012)
  
• Transferring a Memory Map 2012 map to iOS (17 Jul 2012)
  
• Mac Mountain Lion Compatibility (16 Jul 2012)
  
• Pragmatic Programmers, Dropbox integration (19 Jun 2012)
  
• Subscribe to a channel on YouTube iPad (10 Jun 2012)
  
• Gelaskins iPad cases (07 Jun 2012)
  
• iTunes Match and Genius, Why cant we have both? (06 Jun 2012)
  
• iPad Docks / Cradles (30 May 2012)
  
• Device Ownership Password (29 May 2012)
  
• Create And,Or of multiple booleans (21 May 2012)
  
• rspec testing exceptions (20 May 2012)
  
• rspec testing exceptions (old post) (20 May 2012)
  
• Ruby special exception variables made mnemonic (19 May 2012)
  
• Handle www. and no-www for better google juice (18 May 2012)
  
• Big Monitor Litmus Test (18 May 2012)
  
• iPad 3 Tethering (14 May 2012)
  
• Vim Terminal Colours (11 May 2012)
  
• Using Github behind a restrictive firewall (10 May 2012)
  
• Ubuntu, formatting a 3TB drive (03 May 2012)
  
• Syntax error: Not a valid color stop: Sass::Script::String: white (28 Apr 2012)
  
• Minify your HTML from Sinatra (26 Apr 2012)
  
• Sinatra application in ./lib and views, public routes not working (20 Apr 2012)
  
• Update your RVM Ruby and migrate gemsets (20 Apr 2012)
  
• Bash script get current script directory (07 Apr 2012)
  
• Encoding::UndefinedConversionError - (04 Apr 2012)
  
• Trying to disable Caps Lock on Unix systems (02 Apr 2012)
  
• CSS (Via SASS) Seperating Colour and Position (01 Apr 2012)
  
• User selectable stylesheets (Using Sinatra) (29 Mar 2012)
  
• What shell am i using? (28 Mar 2012)
  
• SVN multi-line comments on the command line (28 Mar 2012)
  
• unix mail command, delete all messages (01 Mar 2012)
  
• list_temp_files script (20 Feb 2012)
  
• Vim, paste from insert mode (27 Jan 2012)
  
• matrix: A Ruby Standard Library (20 Jan 2012)
  
• Recursive grep, with filtering (19 Jan 2012)
  
• Finding Tracks not in iTunes (14 Jan 2012)
  
• Ruby get a users real name (22 Dec 2011)
  
• Ruby send message to stderr (22 Dec 2011)
  
• Suppressing Warnings in Ruby Scripts (02 Dec 2011)
  
• Setting Ruby Defaults '||' vs 'fetch(){}' (09 Nov 2011)
  
• Benchmarking Ruby, explicit vs implicit returns (26 Oct 2011)
  
• Tagging a git repo and pushing tag to github (25 Oct 2011)
  
• Arrays 3, write idiomatic Ruby (25 Oct 2011)
  
• Ruby Search and Replace Script. (25 Oct 2011)
  
• warning: already initialized constant (05 Oct 2011)
  
• Homebrew list outdated packages (21 Sep 2011)
  
• Ruby Arrays Concatenation and Subtraction (24 Aug 2011)
  
• Ruby Blocks for better code reuse (30 Jul 2011)
  
• Make Ubuntu Samba share show up on OS X 10.6 finder (25 Jul 2011)
  
• New Macbook Air (2011) & OS X Lion (22 Jul 2011)
  
• Get latest Ruby 1.9.2 build with RVM (16 Jul 2011)
  
• Using ~/.ssh/config and no passowrds with Mac OS X (14 Jul 2011)
  
• Using ~/.ssh/config and no passwords with Mac OS X (14 Jul 2011)
  
• Ideas 1st July to the 3rd July (03 Jul 2011)
  
• Ruby Basic File Read and Write (01 Jul 2011)
  
• uninitialized constant Compass::Logger (23 Jun 2011)
  
• Sinatra ActiveRecord DB config on Heroku (22 Jun 2011)
  
• Ruby script connect to DB using database.yml (20 Jun 2011)
  
• Setting up PostgreSQL on OS X (20 Jun 2011)
  
• Ruby Arrays, Part 1 (23 May 2011)
  
• Installing gist.vim (20 May 2011)
  
• Obnoxious gem warnings (11 May 2011)
  
• Recent issue with building Gems (07 May 2011)
  
• bash scripts and cron (28 Apr 2011)
  
• vimfu end of line character placement (24 Apr 2011)
  
• Vimfu Reindent (19 Apr 2011)
  
• Behaviour and State (16 Apr 2011)
  
• Better Open Source Project Setup, with RVM & Bundler (10 Apr 2011)
  
• Schwartzian Transform (08 Apr 2011)
  
• 'unregistered torrent' flush the DNS (31 Mar 2011)
  
• Ruby CLI user input using gets (27 Mar 2011)
  
• Amaras Site Updates (28 Feb 2011)
  
• ORM(Activerecord) or Ruby Sort (20 Feb 2011)
  
• Activerecord Find All/Multiple (19 Feb 2011)
  
• gem permissions on WebFaction (12 Feb 2011)
  
• Sinatra regex routes (12 Feb 2011)
  
• Mac mini (mid 2010) 8GB memory upgrade (02 Feb 2011)
  
• My Backup Strategy (18 Jan 2011)
  
• screen -x not connecting when running as an other user (30 Dec 2010)
  
• Ruby Block Selection in Vim (Plugin) (28 Dec 2010)
  
• Tagging a git repo for a Release (18 Dec 2010)
  
• Fixing Ncursers on OS X 10.6.3+ (13 Dec 2010)
  
• Mac OS X libSystem cache out of sync (13 Dec 2010)
  
• Put methods not working with Classy Sinatra apps (11 Dec 2010)
  
• rake aborted! undefined method `info' for nil:NilClass (04 Nov 2010)
  
• Sinatra Heroku and config.ru (03 Nov 2010)
  
• Sinatra Session Extension (02 Nov 2010)
  
• Sinatra reload source file changes in development mode (02 Nov 2010)
  
• OS X open finder from command line (13 Oct 2010)
  
• Stop/Start and Restart Samba on OS X (10 Oct 2010)
  
• Ruby each or delete_if (25 Sep 2010)
  
• Storing secret keys in Ruby config files an approach (11 Sep 2010)
  
• Remove sensitive data from git (10 Sep 2010)
  
• Amazon Drops EC2 Web Service Prices (09 Sep 2010)
  
• Ruby Regular Expressions Lookahead / Lookbehind (07 Sep 2010)
  
• Ruby Time save and Restore (serialise) (06 Sep 2010)
  
• Mac OS X Harddrive Spin Down Time (01 Sep 2010)
  
• Mac OS X Default Path (26 Aug 2010)
  
• Error: NoMethodError: undefined method `compact' for nil:NilClass (21 Aug 2010)
  
• Basic grep usage (20 Aug 2010)
  
• Removing Ports OS X (17 Aug 2010)
  
• Active Record attributes simplify update and create. (13 Aug 2010)
  
• Active Record create unique or return existing element (08 Aug 2010)
  
• Activerecord queries on table joins (02 Aug 2010)
  
• Benchmark your website for load times. (27 Jul 2010)
  
• @philip_roberts taught me a thing or two about CSS (22 Jul 2010)
  
• Turn a .jar file into a mac .app (18 Jul 2010)
  
• Adding USB drives to a headless Ubuntu Linux box (17 Jul 2010)
  
• Installing git on a clean build of OS X (16 Jul 2010)
  
• Get client IP on Heroku (12 Jul 2010)
  
• Sinatra running on Heroku (09 Jul 2010)
  
• [vim] Indenting with Vim (07 Jul 2010)
  
• OS X iTunes play .ogg videos (06 Jul 2010)
  
• jQuery clear form on focus and restore on exit (27 Jun 2010)
  
• WebFaction problems restarting nginx (27 Jun 2010)
  
• Vim show lines over 80 charaters long. (26 Jun 2010)
  
• Vim search and replace (24 Jun 2010)
  
• Homebrew package management for Mac OS X (22 Jun 2010)
  
• Creating executable gems (21 Jun 2010)
  
• gem install memory_usage (17 Jun 2010)
  
• Save space on your Mac by going Monolingual (16 Jun 2010)
  
• 64Bit Handbrake for Video Encoding on Mac OS X (15 Jun 2010)
  
• MacBook Power Consumption (14 Jun 2010)
  
• Ruby runnable and includeable (11 Jun 2010)
  
• M4B Audiobooks on Android (07 Jun 2010)
  
• GitHub command line tools with static paths (04 Jun 2010)
  
• Ruby parsing torrent files for meta info (04 Jun 2010)
  
• Open Office Impress AutoStart (31 May 2010)
  
• Super simple Ruby list directory contents (16 May 2010)
  
• Mac OS X run nginx as a user process (11 May 2010)
  
• Add HTTP (web) control over your InfaRed devices (11 May 2010)
  
• Nginx Enable Directory Listing (10 May 2010)
  
• Stop git status monitoring file permissions (08 May 2010)
  
• How to test subdomains on a development machine (08 May 2010)
  
• 413 Request Entity Too Large (08 May 2010)
  
• Installing Ruby Enterprise on Mac OS X (04 May 2010)
  
• Ruby Memory Issue on Web Faction (03 May 2010)
  
• Sinatra File Upload (01 May 2010)
  
• Webfaction new user with access to their own site (28 Apr 2010)
  
• Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, why are you so wierd at times? (26 Apr 2010)
  
• Testing tweets from Production server This should be working! (18 Apr 2010)
  
• Ruby incase sensitive sort (18 Apr 2010)
  
• iTunes play FLAC on OS X (18 Apr 2010)
  
• Ruby and gemspec (16 Apr 2010)
  
• Ruby .nil? tests fail ? you really want ||= (15 Apr 2010)
  
• Installing the ruby gem twitter on webfaction (12 Apr 2010)
  
• gem install with out the docs (10 Apr 2010)
  
• Sinatra blog retrieving next and previous ids (09 Apr 2010)
  
• Sequel ORM Migrations (31 Mar 2010)
  
• Sinatra and compass sending compressed cached CSS (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Sinatra 1.0 Released (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Ruby run (execute) command line (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Ruby include (require) local files (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Ruby Performance Measure (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Ruby Logger (30 Mar 2010)
  
• FourThirds Sinatra RESTful example (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Amaras Finally Online (30 Mar 2010)
  
• GitX (30 Mar 2010)
  
• Ruby Time Formats (30 Mar 2010)