A post or two back, I looked at having BASH detect if I was on my “desktop” (for lack of a better word) or a server and decided the best approach was to hard-code that fact. I casually tossed the configuration in my .bashrc. Was that the...
rsync will happy copy files between servers and will keep the ownership and permissions the same. However, if you aren’t the owner of all of the files then ownership sync requires the rsync on the receiving end (which we’ll call server B...
I’m embarking on a long, long over due project to organize my dotfiles, you know, all those files in your home directory that start with “.” and configure your software. (If you don’t then this isn’t the post or the blog for you.)
In my occasional series on waiting for things, I setup a BASH function to wait for AWS CloudFront invalidations. I mentioned it would be possible to invalid and wait in the same function, but was feeling lazy and left it to the reader. W...
Here’s about as esoteric a post as I ever write, my love of pushd and it’s little abused directory stack. If you don’t live on the command line, move along, there is nothing to see here. Both Bash and TCSH have a built in command pushd a...
If you have a lot of SSH keys loaded you may run into the dreaded:
It’s surprisingly hard to find info on getting the MIME type of a file in Rails. Rails has MIME::Type (and the confusing and undocumented MIME::Types). You can call Mime::Type.lookup on a filename or Mime::Type.lookup_by_extension on an ...
A quickie today on leveraging “the cloud” for warm-ish spare servers.
So, first I talked my first programming experience, learning via type-in programs. Then I looked at the shotgun approach my university took. In this final post of the series, I’m going to talk about what was the most important learning e...
Last time I talked about my first experience with coding, entering and debugging a type-in program on a mainframe. This time, how I learned “Computer Science”. I went to school for “Computer Engineering”. The school I went to also had “C...