I wrote this to simply backup a site. Its quick and dirty, but gets the job done. Save this file as “savesite” or whatever you want and “chmod +x {filename}”. If its hushed-up a bit it can be set as a cronjob. I’ll mess around with this when its not 1:30am on a thursday.
MAKE SURE [...]
Edit: I just started using subversion and like it way better — CVS has been retired for now. This is partially because SVN works from my office and CVS doesn’t
This is just a simple way to setup CVS on your dreamhost account. My current setup is that I do most of my development on my [...]
Office life is boring. We can all pretty much agree on this. When inspiration strikes at work you need to be a clever little devil, and thats what this is all about. It always stuck me as odd that Apple never released a cubicle wall iPod holder. Their loss. Here is the DIY version of [...]
The iNotepad, for convenient access to notes on your cubicle wall.
Step 01
Secure yourself a rare office legal notepad and 3 giant paper clips. Yellow paper works best for numerous reasons. (Src: Why yellow is best)
Step 02
Bend paper clips north-end to a perfect 43.89° angle.
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Step 03
Create a hook out of the non-bent [...]
Heres a quick tip on how you can make Gnomes gedit behave like TextMate. If you’ve read any of my other posts you would know that I’m hopelessly hooked on TextMate — to the point where I can’t develop in any other editor. Sad, I know. This is probably the first application I’ve bought in [...]
Some Great Windows Programs
I’ve stated numerous times that I really am not a huge fan of the mouse and clicking and all that jazz. Without further ado, here are my top 3 favorite “make life easier by not making me jump through hoops to do simple chores” applications.
Number 1 – Bayden’s SlickRun
http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
This app is amazing. [...]
Problem
Well. As you can see I’ve been making screenshots lately, and, as always, putting a large picture in a blog is a bad idea. My normal process was to drag it into photoshop, resize it to around 30% and save a copy. Thats a major waste of time considering the Photoshop startup isn’t exactly lightning [...]
Found this while looking for something that isn’t this. It will take a normal string and convert it into numbers. There really is no point to it, I think it was written years ago as a learning exercise or because I was really bored. Anyways, I converted it really fast to a shell script instead [...]
I keep finding fun scripts the more I look around. This one is from about a year ago, I used it in a small project so it isn’t the greatest. Regardless, it is very lightweight and is pretty flexible. It doesn’t include all that CRUD admin mumbo-jumbo because I’m being lazy, but it can be [...]
This is my home desktop. Its just an old Dell running ubuntu feisty fawn (7.04) and some random open windows. Also running beryl window manager in this shot.
Screenshot (Click for bigger image)
