Set Your zsh Prompt
Since the beginning of time, all the cool kids have had really cool shell prompts. It's a great place to display helpful information, and zsh has features that let you have a flexible, informative,...
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Insist on Automatic Tests
At some point your team is going to be gone. Not all at once (well, maybe, but in that case you won’t care), but over time turnover will completely replace your team.
If you are the manager,...
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Make the zsh zle handle “words” correctly
Snippet from my .zshrc:
# This controls what the line editor considers a word. By default it
# includes '/', which makes it so that when I M-del (attempting to erase
# a directory in a path), I erase...
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Moving to zsh
To get started:
sudo aptitude install zsh
chsh /bin/zsh
That’s pretty simple.
Of course, you’re not running zsh yet… either logout and log back in or just run zsh at the prompt....
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9 “Must-Have” Tools for Software Teams
The items below are useful systems based on my experience working with a bunch of different software teams at a handful of companies over the past decade-plus. I haven’t bothered to list things...
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Use SSH to Forward Multiple Protocols to Multiple Machines
Let's say you have a half-dozen machines at work you want to log into. Instead of setting up a remote forwarding connection from each of those machines, you can have the connection from your main...
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Open an SSH Tunnel in Four Seconds or Less
As I mentioned in a previous post on ssh configuration, your config file can specify a variety settings for each server. In fact, the Hosts you use don't even have to exist! Consider the following...
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Use Local SSH Forwarding to Reduce the Number of Manual Hops
Local port forwarding is the same as remote port forwarding but works in the opposite direction. An example is the clearest way to explain...
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How to Use SSH Remote Port Forwarding to Set Up Secure Tunnels
Ssh tunneling can be a bit mind bending at first, but it's simple when you get used to it.
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How to Tell SSH Who You Are
Do you log in to several servers with different usernames via ssh? Save typing by telling ssh which username to use on each server.
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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