Technology musings and ramblings from a distracted mind
As my software developer career has evolved, my practices and techniques have also evolved. The other day I was looking back at how my use of a development environment has changed over time and it was interesting to note this evolution. Over the years I have tried many different text editors. I remember way back …
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After you have done a lot of work with branches on Git, things might become a bit unwieldy and hard to manage. So it is a good housekeeping practice to regularly cleanup your git branches; both local and remote tracking ones. One way you can remove remote tracking branches that have been deleted in your …
Recently the micro SD card in my mobile got corrupted, here are the steps I took to rescue most of the files: 1. Remove the card from the mobile immediately and do not use it 2. Install ddrescue 3. Insert the card and find the mount point of the sd card In my case, mmcblk0p1 …
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Sometimes, when trying to start up Truecrypt, a message will come up saying “Truecrypt is already running”. This may happen when the previous Truecrypt session was not closed properly. To resolve the problem type at a terminal prompt: where USERNAME is your username.
Anacron is a very handy utility to run scripts in regular periods in machines that are not turned on 24/7. It is actually very simple to use, but I found that there were very few resources describing how to actually set up an Anacron job. Setting up an anacron job in Ubuntu is as simple …
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Here are some basic concepts on how to set cron jobs in Ubuntu 12.04. 1. The crontab The crontab is the file that contain entries for each scheduled job, more information at Ubuntu’s Cron How To. In order to edit the current user’s crontab use: To edit the root’s crontab: In this case we will …
In order to add line numbers there are seveal options: Add line numbers (applies to the current session only) or: To turn it off there are three ways: (only applies to the current session) To enable line numbers on start up, add the following to .vimrc or Having the line numbers displayed is extremely useful …
Over the years of developing and creating different websites I have come up with my own tried and tested method for doing web development. I would like to describe here my method for developing front end code in particular. All of these techniques will probably be familiar to seasoned web developers as they have proven …
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