Posted on September 22, 2012
Just installed Windows 8? Looking for Notepad? Powershell? Windows+R still works, so you could just run the command. Ditto Windows+E to navigate the file system and find it, but in either case that's
Posted on October 13, 2012
I was building a shared work laptop the other day, something that I would primarily use on building sites for system commissioning. As part of the install I had automatically installed Dropbox along
Posted on January 15, 2013
[caption id="attachment_1152" align="alignright" width="210"] Powershell, much less sucky[/caption] Want to find your Windows start-up folder to add a new shortcut? Win+E
Posted on February 7, 2014
Problem: you need to get someone else to set up your web application on another server. Even with a signed NDA it's not really a good idea to be sending over MySQL dumps containing real people's
Posted on February 15, 2014
Quick post for future reference. Just installed Debian or Ubuntu, need Vim back to what you're used to? edit /etc/vim/vimrc uncomment set background=dark add set autoindent set expandtab set
Posted on March 18, 2014
Type: Win + R Type: shell:sendto Copy an app/folder shortcut here. Done.
Posted on June 19, 2014
Assuming you want to develop HTML5 apps to run on mobile devices using Phonegap/Cordova then the easiest place to start is Android if you're a Windows user as you don't need a separate Mac, you don't
Posted on July 7, 2014
If you're using Vagrant to control your dev VMs on a headless server it's easy to lose track of the number of running machines. Here's a one-liner to gracefully shut-down all of them to free up some