Posted on February 4th, 2010 –
0 comments
–
rss
Education, knowledge sharing, and creation are all parts of my daily diet. I enjoy reading about what other developers say and so should you! Exercising the knowledge sharing, here is my development RSS bundle.
http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/04345256806204706511/bundle/Development
Some of my favorites
High Scalability - http://highscalability.com/
Reliably Broken - http://reliablybroken.com/b/
B-list - http://www.b-list.org/
Signal vs. Noise - http://37signals.com/svn/posts
Armin Ronacher - http://lucumr.pocoo.org/
Please feel free to leave comments about your favorite development feeds.
[0]
Posted on January 14th, 2010 –
0 comments
–
django
python
My development environment consists of Eclipse, Dreamweaver, and Putty.
Eclipse can do syntax highlighting for Python with awesomeness but lacks in others.
I use Dreamweaver for syntax highlighting of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The auto completion is great too.
But what about syntax highlighting of the Django template language?
Over time I created a simple coloring scheme with earthy tones to highlight just that.
To install the syntax highlighting you will need the following snippets of XML:
Add the scheme to CodeColoring.xml and the colors to Colors.xml then RESTART Dreamweaver
Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver xx\Configuration\CodeColoring
Windows Vista/7
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Dreamweaver xx\Configuration\CodeColoring
If you don't like the colors you can always change them by going to "Edit | Preferences | Code Coloring" in Dreamweaver, selecting "HTML", and clicking "Edit Coloring Scheme"
You will then find yourself with a list of styles for each scheme. Locate the Django scheme and you customize your colors
from there.
Happy Coding!
[0]
Posted on November 19th, 2009 –
0 comments
This morning I released Tweetstone. It's a way to calculate when you will reach any number of tweets. Let's say your goal is 1000 tweets. Just enter in your name and the number of tweets and it will give you an estimated date of completion based on your recent frequency of tweeting.
The twitter frequency is derived from the Twequency API and the rest is calculated from the Twitter API with some simple math. The design was done by my good friend Illustrationdan.
It was a fun little side project and brought back some cowboy programming memories. :)
Try it out!
[0]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 –
0 comments
–
linux
ubuntu
On an almost daily bases I work in Linux (Ubuntu).
I research and find commands that are useful to my daily work routine and save them in evernote.
Here is a compiled list of commands I commonly use. Share!
Grab Useful Linux commands and files with Google Docs
Download Useful Linux commands and files in Word format
Download Useful Linux commands and files in Evernote format
Users & Groups:
adduser <username> (add user to the system. Will create /home/<username> folder.)
adduser --group <groupname> <username> (add user to a group)
id <username> (display users id, groupid, and group information)
userdel -r <username> (remove user from system and home directory)
/etc/groups (file that holds all the groups in the system)
System:
cat /proc/meminfo (check the memory usage of the system)
vmstat (summary of the memory usage)
free -m (another summary of the memory usage)
ps -u <username> -o pid,rss,command (check memory usage under a specific user)
saidar (realtime monitor of system usage. Installed from apt-get)
pgrep (search for running processes)
kill <pid> (kill a running process by process id)
pidof <processname> (get the process id of a process by name)
Networking:
/etc/init.d/networking restart - (restart the network)
iftab (file that stores manual information of the NIC cards like mac address. Exists in older systems)
ifup ethx (bring a NIC up)
ifdown ethx - (bring a NIC down)
ifconfig (similar to ipconfig in windows. It display the networks properties)
/etc/network/interfaces (file that stores the settings for all NIC cards)
netstat -plntu (shows the open ports and what is listening on them)
iptables -L (displays the current configuration of the tables)
FTP/SSH:
/etc/ftpusers (list of users allowed and not allowed to connect to the machine via ftp)
/etc/ssh/sshd_config (config file for open ssh)
/etc/init.d/sshd restart (restart the open ssh services)
File System:
sudo (run a command as the super user)
pwd (shows the present working directory)
cp (copy a file from one location to another)
cp -R dir newdir (copy a fill directory from one place to another)
mv (move a file from one location to another)
rm (remove a file or folder)
rm -rf (remove files and folders recursively)
rm link (remove a symbollic link)
cat (display the contents of a file)
ln -s (create a symbolic link)
mkdir (make a folder)
df -h (get hard drive and partition usage)
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 (chmod all folders in a given folder)
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 444 (chmod all files in a given folder)
find . -mtime -1 -print > last_modified_24hours.txt (find files modified within last 24 hours)
Web & Packages:
wget (download a file from the internet. Usage: wget <addresstofile>)
apt-get update (updates the package in the Advanced packaging tool.)
apt-get install <application> (downloads and installs a linux package. i.e mysql squid etc.)
/etc/apt/sources.list (file that lists the advanced packaging tools (apt-get) sites)
Text Editors:
nano (a great easy to use text editor)
vi (a basic text editor for linux)
Apache:
/etc/init.d/apache2 (start, stop, or restart the apache server)
a2ensite (enable a site in sites-available)
a2dissite (disable a site in sites-available)
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl -k graceful (gracefully restart apache)
Subversion:
sudo svn export -r HEAD file:///var/svn/repository/tron/trunk/ folderorfilename (export files from a specific svn folder)
svn co urltorepository (check out files from a remote or local repository)
Mysql:
mysql -u root -p (connect to mysql with use root)
[0]
Posted on November 8th, 2009 –
0 comments
–
introduction
I have decided to create a professional blog. Phew. *wipes sweat*
That last sentence took a lot of designing, chopping, coding, and platform research. I chose the wonderful posterous as my platform. No solid reason other than the connections to social media and easy posting by email.
My plans for content types in the informative/rant/tutorial forms are:
- Python, PHP, Javascript programming languages
- MySQL, MSSQL database
- Linux/Windows
- Other Geeky Stuff found worthy.
Check out the awesome people I have linked in the Link Love section!
[0]
