OMG git on Windows
July 25th 2008
Now I can use git on Windows. There is much rejoicing.
Getting Started with Git and GitHub on Windows - Kyle Cordes
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Microsoft Outlook is stupid
February 4th 2008
So I have to use Outlook at work. I say have to because I really don’t like it.
I have it setup to move emails to a folder instead of leaving them in my inbox, because they are just stupid build notification emails, that I still like to look at but really don’t need past 5 seconds.
The problem is, when Outlook pops up it’s little message to say I got a message, if I click it, it whines because the message isn’t in the inbox anymore and it can’t find the message. So I actually have to go into Outlook and look at the message, then move off the message so it gets marked as read, and then move back to it and delete it. Lame.
Learn Ruby on Rails
August 24th 2007
I’m very interested in Ruby on Rails. I’m planning/designing just in my head so far, an application for tracking pets (mainly reptiles) and want to use RoR to develop it. RoR is very new to me though, so I’m going through tutorials like Emril goes through spices. This one gets you off your feet. It’s a sample from a book, and if I had money I might buy the book, but I am poor and am going back to school, so I have to pay for that and buy textbooks and whatnot. *sigh*
Anyway here’s the tutorial from www.sitepoint.com
Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner’s Tutorial [Server Side Essentials]
Video Game Related Commericals
July 14th 2007
Too many good ones to post individual videos so here’s the full link. Some of these are money. I like #5, #6, and the Evil Dead one.
the gamer collective blog » Blog Archive » 32 of the best video game commercials ever!
find + xargs + spaces in the filename
July 10th 2007
So today I had to use find + xargs + grep to search for some things in cygwin, since Windows search is like a hunting dog with no sense of smell. Being Windows, there are spaces in file paths left, right, and center. xargs and grep don’t play overly nice with this.
Originally I had:
find . -name *.js | xargs grep Saving
Which didn’t work. grep was looking for weird things which did not exist. Then I found this link with Google,
find + xargs: how do I handle space in the path - comp.unix.shell | Google Groups
which provided a solution:
find . -name *.js -print0 | xargs -0 grep Saving
A friend pointed out that if there are any JavaScript files in the current directory, *.js will get expanded by bash and not work too well. Final solution:
find . -name "*.js" -print0 | xargs -0 grep --color=always Saving
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