I’ve already written a time or two how you can use git rebase to change your commit history as you work. Handy handy.. I think everyone should know how to do that. Next up.. what if you pushed a commit and realize it’s not so great. First of all, everyone discourages this of course. The [...]

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OK, so I changed my virtual server ip address in response to my host being allocated a new block of IPs. Anyhow, things seem to have gone ok. I changed DNS timeouts to short, waited, updated everything etc etc… Of course, it seems that there are always some DNS servers here and there that don’t [...]

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So there you are, using git to store, track and share your code with a few others. Maybe many others. You make a change, someone else makes a change, one or the other of you pulls the others changes and BAM.. you get that merge commit. It really isn’t harmful of course, but it cleans [...]

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I hadn’t realized I was a victim of the wp blank line bug in my RSS feeds. I found an extra space at the bottom of my wp-config.php file. Fixed. Perhaps that’ll help the rss readers out there.

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Normally I’m an email kind of guy and if a site takes so many precautions to not publish any possible way to contact them except via phone, I’d just bag it altogether and choose an alternative. I actually took the time to call Netflix though. Their streaming service is pretty much unusable for us. I’ve [...]

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Well, have you ever wanted to pull a bunch of libraries off an Android phone? I bet you wish you could execute the command like this:   > adb pull /system/lib/*.so   Sorry. A no go. What about this then:   > for file in `adb ls /system/lib/`; do adb pull /system/lib/$file; done   Well, [...]

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