Category: Code

Setting up Push-to-Deploy with git – Kris Jordan

I first set up a push-to-deploy system with git and puppet for a side project a few years back. It worked so well I transitioned my company’s development process onto it for all of our new projects starting last year. It offers the simplicity of the “push-to-deploy” model Heroku pioneered, with full control and flexibility […]

March 27, 2022
Setup .dev root domain for local web development on mac

Terminal commands for setting up a .dev root domain on your Mac OS X 10.9+ for local development. Homebrew ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” dnsmasq brew install dnsmasq cd $(brew –prefix) mkdir etc echo ‘address=/.dev/127.0.0.1’ > etc/dnsmasq.conf sudo cp -v $(brew –prefix dnsmasq)/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist sudo mkdir /etc/resolver sudo bash -c […]

October 17, 2015
IE8 checkbox not printing bug fix using jQuery

checkbox IE8 bug IE8 has a bug where if you check a checkbox then print the form the checkbox does not show as being checked. MSFT bug #431489 I’ve found that this piece of code solves that problem and it works for HTML5. IE8 checkbox printing bug FIX // fix for ie8 printed checkbox bug […]

October 29, 2012
How to create a 1 gig file

dd if=/dev/zero of=big-file.bin bs=1g count=1 or mkfile 1g big-file.bin

August 12, 2011
How to tar a directory and only include certain file types

find myProjectDirectory -type f \( -name \*\.php -o -name \*\.js -o -name \*\.css -o -name \*\.inc \) | xargs tar -rf myProjectTarName.tar

March 28, 2011
How to change file or folder permissions recursively with chmod

To set only files that end with .tpl to 600 (pattern escaped with slashes) find . -name \*\.tpl -exec chmod 600 {} \;

March 28, 2011