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Tweak AppCode font aliasing on your mac
If you can’t use your beloved Monaco font in AppCode because it has gained weight and simply looks too bold, you might want to trim your anti-aliasing settings. Try running this in your terminal $ defaults write com.jetbrains.AppCode.plist AppleFontSmoothing -int 1 You might tweak it even more by using different values for -int 1 e.g. 0, 2 or 3. I’m not changing the system wide font smoothing setting, but only the one for AppCode.
Immediately flush IIS log for real time tail to avoid 60 second buffer delay
I wanted to tail my IIS log in realtime to avoid having to wait 60 seconds as is the default on IIS 7. I found out that I could run the command > netsh http flush logbuffer This is great but I wanted to do a tail so this short script does the trick for you (I assume you have cygwin installed if you’re on Windows) Run command every second in the background and flush output (the “Ok.” message) $ while true; do netsh http flush logbuffer > /dev/null; sleep 1; done & Then you’re ...
How to slice a PSD for use with iPhone & iPad
If you are designer doing iOS interfaces and want to help your developer, these guidelines are for you. Slice both a regular and Retina version. Retina files are postfixed with “@2x.png” (for “two times”) e.g. “account.png” vs “account@2x.png” Retina files must be placed in same folder as its non-retina brother Retina dimensions must be dividable with 2 e.g. 25x13 is not a valid retina dimension but 26x14 is fine All files should be of type PNG (24bit if necessary) Background files might be...
Resolving DNS issues on my ThinkPad running Windows 8
I just installed Windows 8 but had a hard time figuring out why not all sites were available. I quickly found out the DNS lookup failed. Since I had to uninstall my ThinkVantage WIFI manager before installing Windows 8 I assumed it could have something to do with an invalid configuration. I had to reset my TCP/IP stack before I got it to work which is done using C:\> netsh int ip reset reset.log followed by C:\> netsh winsock reset catalog It should do the trick – you might have...
A quick Rails guide for designers
I almost always work with great designers when building Ruby on Rails web applications. These designers are capable of doing amazing HTML and CSS and are already able to navigate a RoR directory structure or able to do so after a quick intro. I’m not focusing on this basic structure convention in this guide but instead I will be taking designers a step further and actually enable them to add a little bit of functionality to views i.e. enabling them to control some logic in *.erb.html files lo...
Restore full backup of Redmine from Google Storage
Restore database from dump file # required settings DB_USERNAME='<redmine db username>' DB_PASSWORD='<redmine db password>' DB_NAME='<redmine db name>' REDMINE_ROOT='<full path to redmine root>' # e.g. /home/peter/rails/redmine.commanigy.com' BACKUP_ROOT='<full path to backup root>' # e.g. /home/peter/backups (will be created) RESTORE_FROM='<date in YYYYmmDD format>' # e.g. '20110201' for February 1, 2011 $ mysql -u $DB_USERNAME --password=$DB_PASSWORD $...
A bash version of keep_releases known from Capistrano ruby scripts
Today I needed a clean up feature in my bash script similar to what’s known from Capistrano when using the “keep_releases” argument. I wasn’t able to find a simple version so I created it myself. Maybe others find it useful too so here goes releases_path=/data/sites/yoursite.com/releases # change this keep_releases=5 versions=`ls -xt $releases_path` releases=(${versions// / }) # check available number of versions in releases directory releases_count=${#releases[@]} if [ $releases_count -...
Finding Apache configuration file (httpd.conf) location
Just a quick tip for programmers working with Apache. Sometimes I’m asked where to find the Apache configuration file on a given server. Since it’s possible to configure this there is no “default location” so I usually do: $ ps -ef | grep apache which gives me a list like deploy@cmd01:/$ ps -ef | grep apache root 4053 1 0 06:26 ? 00:00:04 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www 5189 4053 0 11:00 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www 5199 4053 0 11:00 ? ...
How to hide icon in your dock for any Mac application
Just got a beta of a Mac notifier for Podio and didn’t like it showed both an icon in my menubar and my dock (sometimes also referred to as the taskbar). If you want to avoid having any Mac application shown in your dock, it’s possible to patch its package by doing these simple steps Open Finder and browse to your application Right-click the file and select “Show Package Content” Browse to “Contents” and open “Info.plist” If you find an element called “Application is agent (UIElement)” ...
Use sensible defaults when building a web, mobile or desktop application
While working on migrating “gomore.dk”, a Danish ridesharing service, to Rails 3, I figured it would make sense to look into the existing database to figure out if I could add some sensible defaults when creating e.g. new rides. The site already contains a decent database so I figured it would be rather easy to measure which defaults to use. As an initial example, I would like to know how many seats were shared on each trip and therefore I did a simple query as shown below: From this, ...