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Comment on jQuery selector escaping by rees

rees — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:15:31 +0000

Great function, this has made it to my util library

Comment on LXC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server by Alan Boudreault

Alan Boudreault — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:22:05 +0000

Thanks, works like a charm on natty. Good starting point!

Comment on Simply logging JavaScript calls. by Kieren Evans

Kieren Evans — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:20:19 +0000

Can you not just set a breakpoint in the js debugger in firebug/chrome dev tools and follow the calls though you get the arguments and ability to live edit code/variables!

Comment on Showing git status in my Zsh prompt by cavokz

cavokz — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:13:29 +0000

Nice job Gio, unfortunately it’s a bit too slow to give the prompt back on a kernel-size git repository

Comment on Tracking WordPress using Git by Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:30:06 +0000

@Jerry,

I’m not sure what the best approach to that would be – perhaps maintaining a wp-content directory template (with the right plugins & themes in there) would be your best bet.

With WordPress’s new upgrade system I’ve given up on maintaining the source in git.

Comment on Tracking WordPress using Git by Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:13:11 +0000

I am wondering if you would know how to create a custom WordPress installation ( with custom plugins/themes/directories ), and store it on GIT, so I can grab it from command line, and not have to install all the plugins/theme and make all the settings every time?

Comment on LXC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server by Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:45:29 +0000

checkpoint, freeze and unfreeze weren’t even begun implementation last I looked.

LXC, once you dig into it, is sort of frighteningly duct taped together. That’s not to say it’s a terrible idea, but it’s a project that is iteratively approaching an abstraction, not one that starts with strong fundamentals and is building out functionality.

Comment on LXC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server by Matt Franz

Matt Franz — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:11:40 +0000

Nice blog. Wish I’d seen it an hour ago because I just finished getting it working (although it really is suprisingly easy) going back and forth between the Debian and Ubuntu LXC wiki pages.

Comment on Python’s collections.defaultdict by Richard Crowley

Richard Crowley — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:37:36 +0000

And lots of folks forget about the built-in set class, too. defaultdict(set) is one of my very favorite things.

Comment on Showing git status in my Zsh prompt by Alastair Irvine

Alastair Irvine — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:01:16 +0000

Beautiful code and snazzy idea!

For those who don’t know, sh conditional/loop syntax was originally designed to test the exit code of programs. (All most people seem to do these days is use “[” or “[[“.) So in the case where zero/non-zero is what matters, not “it has to be 1″ as in Ian’s code above, try this:

if false ; then
echo “I won’t be shown”
fi

For longer commands, it looks neater if you put the “then”, “do”, etc. on the next line, as Ian did.