When I write anything I prefer to do it in markdown then export it to MS Word, Evernote or WordPress. VS Code makes a great markdown editor with a couple of extensions. Extensions Markdown All in One Seems like an obvious place to start. Adds useful shortcuts, ToC, table formatting and some other useful features. […]
I use multiple machines so it is easier if everything syncs automatically. While Filezilla doesn’t have this built in, there is the option to move all the settings to another location so it can be done with Dropbox etc. On OSX right click the Filezilla app and show package contents. The file Contents/docs/fzdefaults.xml.example contains instructions […]
I don’t use panes in iTerm often enough and whenever I do I seem to have forgotten the keyboard commands to split and navigate them, so… ⌘D – Split vertically ⌘⇧D – Split horizontally ⌘⌥↑ (or ↓, ← or →) – Navigate between panes ⌘⇧↩ – Maximise pane toggle
It’s easy enough to set up a staging environment on Heroku and have the environment use your staging.rb at runtime by setting the RACK_ENV variable to “staging”. Currently there is a problem if you need anything from your staging.rb whilst the slug is being compiled. I ran into this when I specified an asset host. […]
https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts is a plugin for Heroku to allow you to use multiple accounts, e.g. work and personal. To install: heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts.git Then set up each account: heroku accounts:add personal –auto heroku accounts:add work –auto Set your default: heroku accounts:default personal Then to switch account for an app: heroku accounts:set work
I’ve decided to use Vim for a few weeks at least and am enjoying it. There are plenty of posts on using Vim as a Ruby IDE and switching from your IDE of choice. Most of the TextMate to Vim posts seem to recommend Janus and for good reason. Janus adds a number of plugins […]
I originally wrote this as a code walkthrough but the code is fairly self explanatory and there is not much of it so I gave posted it on CodePlex http://sdbvc.codeplex.com/ under the MIT license (which basically allows anyone to do anything with it except sue me for it not working). DBManager DbManager has one public […]
Requirements I imagine most developers keep their code under source control and I doubt many would argue about keeping their databases under source control, but it seems it is not as common as it should be. There are a number of commercial offerings to support this, but they are generally overkill for my requirements. My […]
Just installed Visual Studio 2010. The first thing I tried was creating an new Cloud project. The whole process was surprisingly painless. After creating the solution, I was prompted to download and install the Azure tools. Once they were installed, I deleted and recreated the solution and was prompted for which Roles I wanted: After […]
My requirements are to host the repository on a windows machine, mostly for access from the LAN but also to be accessible over the Internet. The server is running Vista but the install and set up process should be similar on other versions of windows. Currently there are two relevant builds of Subversion, one based […]