Productivity Tip: Your Hosts file is Just Barely Annoying Enough

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with taking a mental break when working on software development. However, there’s a small but significant difference between taking a break and randomly scouring the internet.

Stop Annoying your Git Collaborators

Over the past couple of years, Git has become the standard version control system among the Open Source community. As a consequence of Git hitting the mainstream, the number of Git novices is at an all time high. While there is absolutely no shame in being a novice, the following habits shared among many designers/junior developers should be kicked as soon as possible.

How to fix Guard events not firing on OS X

How to fix Guard when events seem to not be firing when working on OS X.

Nginx, PHP-FPM Installation Guide on Ubuntu 10.04

In my first screen cast ever, I’ll guide you through setting up Nginx with php-fpm on Ubuntu 10.04.

Multiple .screenrc Configurations | GNU Screen Tutorial

As an extension of my example .screenrc article, this article describes the why and how of multiple .screenrc configurations.

Autotest Won’t Work – Just Be Ghetto!

So I somehow managed to botch my Autotest installation I described in this tutorial. After spending many hours trying to get it back up and running again, I’ve decided it’s just not worth it. Here’s a ghetto bash script for semi-auto testing. You just have to press any key and it’ll run the test.

[SOLVED] warning: Insecure world writable dir

I’ve had my face-palm moment for the day.

While searching for how to solve the annoying ruby alert of “Insecure world writable dir”, the fact that I was on a FAT32 partition completely skipped my mind. The chmod/chown commands tutorials told me to execute weren’t working, and my mind was blown. If you’re an Ubuntu user working on a FAT32 partition, you can’t change file permissions!

PyQuery Tutorial: Basic HTML Parsing with PyQuery

As Python is my programming language of choice when it comes to getting things done quickly, I need a dead simple XML parser that gets me the data I want and gets the hell out of the way.

List of Rails Session Variables

As a rails novice, one of the more frustrating things I’ve encountered with rails is the inability to search for specific method names in its API. This is because a lot of these methods are dynamically generated helpers that you should know by heart once you’ve mastered the “Rails Way.” Unfortunately for me, I’m not at the point of calling myself a Rails guru, so I still need to know what all I have available to me. In my opinion, nothing is more frustrating than not knowing what methods you have at your disposal.

Start VIM in File Navigation Mode

A quick way to open VIM in file navigation mode when no files are passed to VIM.