Git is available from the Ubuntu repositories in the git-core, git-doc, and git-gui packages (there are other Git-related packages available but I think those three make up a basic installation). The package maintainer’s version tends to be behind the currently available version of Git. To have the latest features and fixes in Git it is [...]
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PyOhio Attendee Wannabe
Yeah, the badge says “attendee” but it turns out I have a conflict this year and won’t be attending. It’s a family matter that could not be rescheduled, and it’s important to me, so I will have to miss out on a terrific event around the Python programming language. I made it to one day [...]
Tweaking the Bash Prompt
A little Saturday morning tweaking. Based on this post at railstips.org, I decided to adjust my Bash prompt by appending the following to my ~/.bashrc file: #… function parse_git_branch { ref=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null) || return echo "("${ref#refs/heads/}")" } BLACK="\[\033[0;30m\]" BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]" VIOLET="\[\033[1;35m\]" CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]" PS1="\n[$CYAN\u@\h:$BLUE\w$VIOLET \$(parse_git_branch)$BLACK]\n\$ " The prompt will now show the name of [...]
Columbus Ruby Brigade – June 2010
The Columbus Ruby Brigade met at Quick Solutions on 21 June, 2010. Mike Doel who works at VacationView gave a talk on Capybara (a giant rodent that occasionally eats its own poop) and Capybara ("Son of Webrat"). One virtue of Capybara is that it facilitates testing the JavaScript bits on your site which Webrat cannot [...]
Columbus Ruby Brigade
Here is my linkdump from the May 2010 meeting of the Columbus Ruby Brigade: The erubycon conference will be held Oct 1-3, 2010. Ben Wagaman presented Core of the Core – Reflection. Greg Malcolm showed us ruby-debug (cheat sheet). Kevin Munc presented Method of the Month (methods actually) empty?, nil?, blank?, and present? Matt Forsythe [...]
Crowdsourced Internationalization
I listened recently to a couple (not so recent) episodes of the Startup Success Podcast where the topic was “crowdsourced” testing. In episode 20 Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley interviewed Dave Garr and Darrell Benatar, founders of UserTesting.com. In episode 22 they interviewed Matt Johnston from uTest. These are both interesting services that facilitate a [...]
Git Resources
I have been learning to use Git. The following is a list of resources I found to be useful, interesting, or that I want to explore further as I get into Git: Website: Git – Fast Version Control System – The home of Git. When you think source code management it’s only natural to picture [...]
Keith Hill’s Effective PowerShell Series
I’ve been aware of PowerShell for some time now but I haven’t had the need to use it much. As one who has written many batch files over the years I want to be ready to take that sort of automation to the much higher level PowerShell makes possible. Windows PowerShell MVP Keith Hill's Blog [...]
COhPy Meeting – December 2009
Here is my link dump from last night’s meeting of the Central Ohio Python Users Group: The scheduled presenter, Brian Costlow, didn’t make it. Something about work being more important than a Python meeting. Priorities? To fill the void, Eric Floehr showed a weather-related web application he has been working on that is built with [...]
CbusPASS – November 2009
Last night I attended the CbusPASS (that’s the Columbus chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server, aka the Columbus SQL Server Users Group) meeting. I’m not using SQL Server much these days so the take home value isn’t immediate for me. I’m interested in databases in general, I have used SQL Server in the [...]