http://blog.jerodsanto.net with Jerod Santo Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:02:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/ye-zAJnqNgw/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/managing-broken-symlinks/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:02:32 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=751 I just added two new functions to my bashrc which make it super-simple to find & remove broken symbolic links on your system. They’re simple wrappers around the ever-useful “find” utility: function find_broken_symlinks() { find -x -L "${1-.}" -type l; } function rm_broken_symlinks() { find -x -L "${1-.}" -type l -exec rm {} +; } You can call the [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/managing-broken-symlinks/feed/ 0 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/managing-broken-symlinks/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/UuFbBF8Wj14/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/learning-cappuccino-a-linked-list/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:51:32 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=718 Picking up a new framework can be a daunting task, especially if you’re simultaneously learning a new language. I’ve done this before when I learned Ruby & Rails all in one fell swoop. It was not easy. I’m doing it again with Objective-J and Cappuccino. Along the way I’ve compiled a list of valuable resources. I [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/learning-cappuccino-a-linked-list/feed/ 4 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/11/learning-cappuccino-a-linked-list/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/UQLiYmK3eSU/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/a-wordpress-skeleton-key/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:40:19 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=690 File this one under “scratching my own itch” A Problem I often use WordPress as a CMS and have a couple of sites with many users contributing. I rarely go a week without an email or phone call from a user who needs help posting. When it comes to remote support there is no substitute for seeing [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/a-wordpress-skeleton-key/feed/ 6 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/a-wordpress-skeleton-key/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/T4dVsFMfgR0/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/cheating-on-rails/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:35:06 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=681 Fellow command-line junkies either love the cheat gem by Chris Wanstrath or they’ve never heard of it. What “cheat” offers is a plethora (currently 601) of text-based cheat sheets at the tip of your fingers. Go ahead, give it a try: jerod@mbp:~$ sudo gem install cheat jerod@mbp:~$ cheat apache2 Pretty cool, huh? Some cheats are kind of long, so pipe [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/cheating-on-rails/feed/ 0 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/cheating-on-rails/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/XW1rcVwcqGw/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/cappuccinoflow/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:38:30 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=672 In Brief: I just launched CappuccinoFlow: a community driven link blog for the Cappuccino framework. If you’re at all interested in this amazing new technology out of 280north, make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed, follow along on Twitter, and post cool Cappuccino-related links to the flow! In Detail: It has been a little quiet around these [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/cappuccinoflow/feed/ 0 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/10/cappuccinoflow/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/_HNu_hGYduE/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/run-os-x-system-profiler-from-terminal/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:46:38 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=661 OS X’s built-in System Profiler provides a great graphical display of pretty much anything you’ll want to know about your Mac. That’s cool and all, but what if you want to access that information programmatically? Turns out you can also run the System Profiler from the terminal by executing this command: jerod@mbp:~$ /usr/sbin/system_profiler What’s great about this access [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/run-os-x-system-profiler-from-terminal/feed/ 0 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/run-os-x-system-profiler-from-terminal/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/EwRO2LK6xy0/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/cd-up-up-up/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:10:44 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=634 Command-line jockeys are intimately familiar with the cd command. We’ve typed commands like this one a gozillion times: jerod@mbp:~/src/ruby/rails$ cd .. jerod@mbp:~/src/ruby$ We all know that . represents the current working directory and .. represents the current working directory’s parent directory. If we follow this pattern to its logical conclusion, then … would represent the current working directory’s [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/cd-up-up-up/feed/ 4 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/cd-up-up-up/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/2Mjke_ewHDE/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/kill-snow-leopards-blue-ring-of-expose/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:55:43 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=625 Looks like I’m not the only one who hates Snow Leopard’s blue ring around selected windows in Exposé. Thankfully, we don’t have to live with such monstrosities. Here’s a quick fix to free yourself from the blue haze. Fire up Terminal.app, then: 1 2 3 4 cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/ sudo mv expose-window-selection-big.png expose-window-selection-big.ugly sudo mv expose-window-selection-small.png expose-window-selection-small.ugly sudo killall Dock This will disable the blue rings [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/kill-snow-leopards-blue-ring-of-expose/feed/ 3 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/kill-snow-leopards-blue-ring-of-expose/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/vzR4c8KbY-Q/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/08/just-abort-it/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:15:52 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=619 A lot of people end up writing Ruby methods that looks something like this: def stop_error(message) puts "ERROR: #{message}" exit(1) end Which they call in their app like so: stop_error "Oh noes, file doesn't exist!" unless File.exist?(file) I used to write that method a lot too. Did you know Ruby has a built-in method that provides just what [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/08/just-abort-it/feed/ 2 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/08/just-abort-it/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nomeanblog/~3/F4oLriTTm10/ http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/08/appstore-ruby-module/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:29:14 +0000 Jerod http://blog.jerodsanto.net/?p=611 So I was writing my first iPhone on Rails app when my Google Reader dropped some pretty awful news on me. Somebody pre-empted my release with their (pretty excellent, but poorly named) “Bargain Bin with Push!” app (iTunes link). The Bad News “Bargain Bin with Push!” does pretty much exactly what my app was going to do. [...] http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/08/appstore-ruby-module/feed/ 1 http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/08/appstore-ruby-module/