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Here’s a pretty common git error message if you’ve added a remote origin server manually.
You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want to merge with, and …
easy_install on the mac has some weird hardcoding issue where it uses a specific version of setuptools. You can read a really good explanation by Andreas Jacobsen here.
The fix is to use python to …
I tried Python out a while ago, but stopped trying it to learn it after some major frustrations. Maybe I didn’t dig deep enough into it. I found the documentation hard to read, and the module …
Excellent question on superuser.com with a fantastic answer. If anyone needs to jump through multiple servers via ssh (or any other protocol) take a look at this answer.
ssh -L 9999:localhost:9999 …
Redis supports a keys command, which takes in a pattern, but you can’t use patterns for deletes. Fortunately awk and xargs makes this easy.
Just throw this on your server (somewhere in the …
I had written a post about how to set up reloader.erl about a year ago. Reloader.erl is an incredibly useful library included in mochiweb for automatically reloading erlang libraries if they’ve …
iWatch is a perl script that uses inotify to monitor files directories. It’s similar to the watch tool, which can do all sorts of stuff if the files or directories it’s watching are …
Setting up a local cache is a smart idea if you’re going to be running a VM server, whether it be KVM, VirtualBox, or any other option really. I assume the same instructions will work with …
I wrote a post a few years ago that made the digg and reddit homepage saying Experts Exchange should be removed from Google’s search results because they were using a technique called cloaking - …
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