Here you will find an assortment of posts, tips, brain dumps and my personal reference materials. Some of the posts such as Unix tools are a collection of mini-posts which will keep growing over time.
Upgrading Natty (11.04) the same should apply to other upgrades.
I use Rackspace which replaces the default apt repositories with its own mirrors. Once a Ubuntu becomes unsupported Rackspace removes the repository and installing any software results in 404 errors.
First backup the entire server as an image.
$ cp /etc/apt/sources.list ~/sources.list.backu
19/06/2013
Two methods of creating remote secure storage which you control.
14/02/2013
My shell was taking 2 seconds to start, after a bit of commenting out in .zshrc I narrowed it down to the `rbenv init -`. Some Google time later I found that rbenv rehashes all gem during the init process and this can be stopped by changing it to `rbenv init - --no-rehash`.
I also took the time to remove oh-my-zsh plugins I didn't use very often and change my theme to `miloshad
04/02/2013
This is a simple way to run specs using an in-memory SQLite3 database in Rails 3.
After doing this the time to run our specs reduced, however a couple of specs are failing when using an in memory database. I'm not sure why yet, hence I'm using a ENV var to switch between file and memory SQLite database.
29/01/2013
How to SSH in to your office machine from a remote location using DDNS, Port forwarding and Wake on LAN.
02/01/2013
Using a PS3 controller to play Super MeatBoy on MacOS using GamePad Companion.
02/12/2012
Solving "Cookie Disabled" error in IE7 when using Alfresco share in an iframe. Using P3P headers.
30/11/2012
Virgin Media now blocks access to Piratebay, but if you have a server (e.g Rackspace/EC2 etc.) then you can create a SSH tunnel to that server and use it to proxy your HTTP traffic.
23/11/2012
If you are using a public network, e.g a cafe, then you can listen to everyones HTTP traffic quite easily and snoop passwords and usernames from logins to non-SSL websites. Just fire up Wireshark in promiscuous mode to find out.
11/11/2012
Installing a development environment of MacOS
20/08/2012