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Preventing the stupid mistakes, like committing focus:true

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Jamie Lawrence in Ruby on Rails, Useful

I frequently use focus: true in my specs when I’m working in a particular area of the code. I also frequently forget to remove this tag and subsequently commit the spec to Git, resulting in most of the test suite not running. Duh! “Removing focus:true” is my most frequent commit message :-/ The solution is [...]

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How to backup a Linux server with Tarsnap

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Jamie Lawrence in Linux, Useful

I picked up a dedicated server just before Christmas from OVH. It’s a nice little ‘Kimsufi’ 4GB Atom server which is more than enough for a couple of WordPress blogs and some personal projects. As it’s a bare-bones dedicated server I really want a decent backup service to make sure I don’t lose 11years of [...]

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How to stop Mail starting up on iCal events

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Jamie Lawrence in Uncategorized, Useful

Disable it using sudo chmod 000 /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail Particularly useful since I don’t use Apple’s Mail. Source

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