I love Meld. It’s is my favorite diff tool, and one of the tools I missed the most when I switched over to Mac from Linux. Except, you can run Meld on Mac too. The easiest way is using Homebrew, via brew install meld. If you don’t have Homebrew on your Mac yet, it will […]
Summary of Maintainable JavaScript Talk by Nicholas C. Zakas
Why do we care? Most of out time is spent maintaining code. If you open an editor and: It’s blank – you are writing new code. Something already there – you are maintaining code. Most of us learned JavaScript on our own and developed our own “best” practices Maintainability = Developing as a Team What […]
Batch Rename Files in Unix Command Line
Sometimes the unix shell script is still the best tool for the job. Today I needed to rename a bunch of java properties files from *.property to *.json. Ok, I needed to do more then just rename them, but it makes the example easier to assume that is all that I needed done 🙂 I […]
Easy Way to Run JavaScript Tests On Multiple Browsers Using Free Tools
tl;dr I though of an interesting idea that helps me test my JavaScript code simultaneously on multiple browsers using two free tools ngrok and screenshots from BrowserStack. Simply pipe your JavaScript tests running on localhost through ngrok to make them accessible to the real world. Then use that link on BrowserStack to generate screenshots on […]
Delete Fork Dependency of a Repository on Atlassian Stash or GitHub
A colleague of mine forked a repo on Stash, just to re-use configuration. A better way of doing things would be to clone the original repo, keep the necessary config/setup files, delete .git folder, and re-initialize the new repo from scratch. In our case, we only noticed the fork about a week into the project, […]
How to Allow Node.Js App to Bind to Port 80 on Mac – For Testing Purposes Only
Run it as sudo i.e. I just spent over 10 minutes looking around the internet for this simple solution. Hopefully, this post will save somebody some time 🙂
Pipe Your Localhost to the Real World
I often have to demo my locahlost code to people who might not be in the same room with me. Usually it’s being done via a development environment. However, for a small change, it might be more work than it’s worth. That is why I was so happy to come across this tool https://ngrok.com/ All […]
Summary of a talk by Tom Katis – CEO of Voxer at Silicon Valley Bank Talks
I attended a talk by Tom Katis – CEO Voxer back in 2012. I really enjoyed his talk and took good notes. Bellow is the summary of key things that stood out for me. Ask yourself every day, what is one thing that will kill you if you get it wrong? Then concentrate on getting […]
MySQL Pretty Print in Command Line
TLDR; Use \G at the end of your query, as in mysql> SELECT * FROM sometable\G; I was looking for a better way to output mysql tables in console, and came across the following gem: So an ugly output like this: Was transformed into a nice looking output like this: Another option is to add […]
Ubuntu Linux Terminal Commands Cheat Sheet
Add New User adduser Add New Group groupadd devs Add user to a suplimentary group usermod -a -G admin alex See user groups groups Change Group Ownership for a directory sudo chgrp -R devs tomcat Change Time Zone sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Select ETC -> Greenwitch Change hostname sudo vim /etc/hostname rename and restart Restart computer […]