I spend a lot of time in the Terminal on Mac OSX and thought it would be cool to tweet from the command line. It saves you time by not having to open a browser window or twitter client. I started playing with the Twitter API and writing a bash script that would let you do this with curl. In the process I found a Ruby Gem that would let you tweet from the command line. The gem is called twurl. I Continue Reading
September 16, 2012
Installing Node on CentOS
I've recently installed NodeJS on CentOS so I can make use of it on my web server. It took a decent amount of googling and I came across a couple good resources that I've decided to combine here in hopes to save someone else time. Some of this information is taken from other blog posts in which case I have linked to the source. You'll need command line access and basic Unix skills. Node Continue Reading
September 2, 2012
Basic Unix and Git Basics – Pulling From and Pushing to Github
UNIX Commands pwd present working directory ls list current directory contents ls -la list current directory contents in long format and show hidden files man Bring up the manual pages for a command. Type q to exit man ls will show you what ls does and the possible flags you can pass cd change directory cd somedir will take you into the directory called "somedir" if it's a Continue Reading
