Use Rsync to Copy Your ASP.NET Website
If you’ve ever tried to copy the source files from a Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET solution, especially if you’re using TFS and Resharper, you’ll have probably noticed all great steaming heaps of fluff...
View ArticleSaving Your WordPress Blog to CD
So the wife has been writing her mandatory university course diary as a wordpress blog, but now she needs to hand it in. > Can you put it on a CD for me? She asks. Unix to the rescue! Following this...
View ArticleFetch and Parse HTML Web Page Content From Bash. Wow.
Okay, this is another one of those linux newbie posts where I tried to figure out how to do something that’s probably really obvious to all you seasoned hackers out there. Anyway here I go clogging up...
View ArticleDanger: MacPorts Breaks Your Rails/Ruby Relationship
So I just spent a fun morning trying to work out why so many of our unit tests were breaking on my machine with the message: undefined method `[]' for #<Enumerable: I turns out that Ruby 1.8.7...
View ArticleUbuntu Eee – The OS Your EEE Should Have Been Born With
On finishing a long contract and project at the BBC a few months ago, I was incredibly touched to be given a brand new Asus EEE PC as a leaving gift by my colleagues. Although I loved the tiny form...
View ArticleQuick and Easy Password-less SSH Login on Remote Servers
Like so many posts in this category, this is surely child’s play to you linux aficionados. For those of us mere morals though, this is a very useful little trick, and it shows how you can easily move...
View ArticlePain-free and fun password-less SSH with ssh-forever
A while ago I wrote a tip that showed you how to copy your public SSH key to a remote server to allow you to login without entering a password every time. I’ve since put this into a script that I use,...
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