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How to install hub for GitHub on Linux Mint and Ubuntu 21 Feb 2012 | 09:21 am
hub is a command-line wrapper for git. It’s not immediately obvious how to install it from a fresh Ubuntu or Linux Mint install, so here goes. Install Ruby First off, hub is a Ruby program. So we’l...
Make PHP errors easier to read 20 Feb 2012 | 10:48 am
If you’re not using a framework like Slim for PHP, your errors will be echo’ed out to your browser without formatting. Easy error formatting You’ll need to edit out php.ini file for this. We’ll be ...
tmux for noobs: Multiple windows and panes in your terminal 10 Jan 2012 | 09:58 am
If you use Linux, and have multiple terminal windows open on your desktop, read on. Thanks to Randall Degges who gave an introduction to tmux. Splitting your terminal – use a a multiplexer tmux is ...
Syncing SSH config 19 Dec 2011 | 03:58 am
You can set up SSH to connect without requiring a password each time. SSH config It’s handy to configure SSH connections. For example, you can keep all SSH connections alive by default. Edit ~/.ss...
Learnings from having Mailchimp ask me to kindly leave. 21 Mar 2011 | 09:26 am
You know that little button beside each email? The little one that says “Mark as spam”. Clicking that button feels like one little victory against spammers. I love clicking that button. And so did p...
48 hours in L.A. 10 Feb 2011 | 07:48 pm
Rodeo Drive, L.A. I’ve lived in Ireland for most of my life, except for two trips to France for study and work experience. I live my life with certain prejudices, formed by what I have already exper...
An unexpected benefit of mailing lists 15 Nov 2010 | 07:25 am
A personal letter. Thanks to Shirley on Flickr. We launched Bitesize Irish Gaelic in August 2010 after toying with the idea in 2008. It’s a site with online Irish Gaelic language lessons, in bitesize...
In favour of a single-forum forum 9 Oct 2010 | 05:08 am
Bit of background My web site as of around 1999. During Christmas 1995, I decided to code myself a “personal webpage”. It was a one-page site. Of course, it had “under construction” dividers. On it...
Aargh. 2Checkout.com’s instant notification system is a mess. 8 Oct 2010 | 06:35 am
2Checkout.com In developing Bitesize Irish Gaelic (the idea was there for a while, but needed to be polished), I decided to use 2Checkout.com as the processor of recurring payments. Why them? I’ve b...
Old tricks to encourage user involvement 10 Feb 2010 | 08:45 pm
Mario kept me involved for many hours! Irishionary.com, the collaborative Irish dictionary that I have been building, depends on user involvement. It’s the active users that keep it going. The whole ...
