28 Feb, 2015

EDIT: Apparently it’s not possible to run docker inside a Bowery instance because Bowery uses docker and docker has a hard time running inside a docker container - see this post on the forum

23 Feb, 2015

On OSX and linux it seems to be fairly common practice to totally define the PATH in a .profile or .bashrc file. This gives total control over the order in which various locations are searched through. Here’s the line from my .profile:

6 Feb, 2015

I’ve written a blog post for work about how much you can and can’t mess around with urls in WordPress before old links stop working. It boils down to 5 rules:

4 Feb, 2015

When using git, your commits are labelled with your name and email address. These are usually based on the user.name and user.email fields in a global .gitconfig file in your home directory, ensuring that these values are always available.

22 Oct, 2014

http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Labs-Tech-Talks/events/213571202/

20 Aug, 2014

TL;DR - this was my approach:

15 Aug, 2014

heroku apps:create swingoutlondon2 --region eu
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate

23 Jun, 2014

I’ve always tended to write commit messages by answering the question “What did I do?”, but I learned a different approach recently which tends to produce much more expressive commits, which are often more terse as well. Compare the following:

15 Jun, 2014

When inside any directory with a Rakefile, you can bring up the list of available rake tasks with rake -T

4 Jun, 2014

when matching on the final segment of a string, e.g for a file extension, you could use a regular expression: