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Helpful shortcuts for git svn

Tired of having to stash your changes when you want to grab the latest from svn or want to dcommit one file while keeping others in your working tree?
In your bash profile:

alias svnpull=’git stash && git svn rebase && git stash apply’
alias svnpush=’git stash && git svn dcommit && git stash apply’

Virtualization BoF at RailsConf

I will be doing a BoF session on virtualization and Elastic Server On-Demand at RailsConf on Saturday. If you have some stories to share about how you’re using virtualization for your projects, please come on by and contribute! If you’d like to be mentioned in the intro presentation please send me a couple lines on [...]

Disabling spindump on OSX to prevent slowdown after a crash

Update: it’s better to use a spindump script that sleeps, otherwise launchd keeps trying to restart it every ten seconds. Thanks to Steve Ryner for the script. And yes, it’s very simple but here it is :-)

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
sleep 60000
done

Sometimes when things crash on OSX (biggest offenders: Quicktime, and Safari playing flash movies), a program called [...]

Google entering big brother territory with Health

Google Health wants to catalog your diseases. Is anyone else slightly uncomfortable with this?

Infoworld names CohesiveFT in top 10 startups for 2008

It’s an exciting day for us here at CohesiveFT as Infoworld named us a Top 10 startup for 2008! It’s nice to be recognized for the hard work we continue to put in to make Elastic Server On Demand a highly valuable service. We’ve recently launched a customer forum at GetSatisfaction so please come and [...]

Rails tagging plugins overview and comparison

span.pro, li.pro {
color: green;
}
span.con, li.con {
color: red;
}
span.maybe, li.maybe {
color: orange;
}
table.separated td {
border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;
vertical-align:top;
line-height:1.2em;
}
[...]

Ruby/html trick: wrap long strings with invisible wordwrap characters

def wrap_long_string(text,max_width = 20)
(text.length < max_width) ?
text :
text.scan(/.{1,#{max_width}}/).join(“<wbr>“)
end

Git tips & tricks part 4: more on cherry picking

In my previous post I discussed how it was possible to merge individual changes from one branch to another. At that time I mentioned using the log on the original branch to figure out which changes were available to merge, but it turns out there’s an easier way.
Let’s say you made some changes in local-trunk [...]

Git tips and tricks part 3: working with svn branches and cherry-pick

After several weeks of git usage, I’ve developed a nice workflow. First, we’ll start with working with several svn branches via git.
Working with svn branches via git
Assuming you’ve properly cloned your svn repository, you should have your trunk and remote branches fetched from svn. You can see the remote branches via
git branch -r
If you [...]

Why twitter is relevant and how it can make money

There’s been some speculation on how twitter can make money and while there are detractors who still don’t understand why people would twitter, it’s becoming clear that twitter happens to have captured a unique segment of the population in a way that practically no other site has.
Twitter’s very nature attracts chatterboxes, connectors, social sneezers. [...]