chrisjean.com

In older Ubuntu releases you could ALT+drag any panel bar to another position and/or monitor. In Ubuntu 11.04 Natty...

devnet.jetbrains.net

To activate the shell command, go to Tools > Create Command-line Launcher and confirm. Now you have mine as bash...

Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec...

Attached you can find an example ~/.ssh/config file which makes working with SSH more pleasant. It contains several tweaks:

geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...

superuser.com

Ubuntu natty introduced new "invisible" scrollbars for GTK programs such as gEdit or Nautilus. If you do not like them...

askubuntu.com

When using gnome-open (i.e. double-clicking a file, telling to browser to open a download, etc.) on Ubuntu you...

My front audio output would not work even though the front mic input did fine. The Pulse Audio mixer (= Ubuntu...

This will install a printer called "PDF": sudo apt-get install cups-pdf Files will be put into ~/PDF/ without...

You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default...

makandra dev

If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...

yehudakatz.com

When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...

blog.jayfields.com

Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...

You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias...

When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.

howtogeek.com

One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...

If you copy the data files of a VirtualBox machine to another PC without exporting it as an .ova appliance...

Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...

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github.com

After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...

Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...

Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...

makandra dev

Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide

If you need to strip carriage return characters from a text file, you can use Vim: vim file.txt

We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...