If you’re anything like me, you probably log in and out of a half dozen remote servers (or these days, local virtual machines) on a daily basis. And if you’re even more like me, you have trouble remembering all of the various usernames, remote addresses and command line options for things like specifying a non-standard [...]
Ever since I had the pleasure of keynoting at Make Web Not War: For The Web in 2010, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the 2011 edition, which was announced just a few days ago. The title of this year’s competition is Code Your Art Out, and the theme is that of “helping non-profits [...]
Last time, we looked at how one could maintain a persistent session in IRC through the use of a terminal multiplexer (such as screen or tmux) and SSH. While this has the advantage of being very easy to setup, there are a few very obvious disadvantages and trade-offs: You must be on a machine that [...]
As is the case with most people involved in Open Source, I’m on IRC all day long. I can help people from around the world use some of the projects I’ve helped create, as well as some of the software that I use on a daily basis. Additionally, IRC is also the preferred form of [...]
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Git, and of distributed version control in general; they offer a compelling toolset and degree of flexibility that you would be hard pressed to find in a “traditional” centralized version control system. Instead of discussing the merits of a DVCS or performing feature comparisons between particular [...]