Author Archives: Dennis

How to fix that mistake commit you just pushed to your git repository

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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Changing server ip addresses

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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Git Rebasing Tips

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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Fixed my RSS feeds

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Dennis

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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Netflix: Your parental controls break everything

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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Pulling libraries off Android phones

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Dennis

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 … Continue reading →

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