Post tagged: terminal

DVTM

The other day I found dvtm. Looking at it, it looks very nice. It appeals to me because I am particularly fond of text user interfaces.

At the end I choose not to use it because:

• terminal support was less than 100% useful.
• At the end of the day using …

Replacing emacs...

So after over 30 years of using GNU emacs I have switched to a more modern options.

So I am using:

• Geany: For use in a Window environment (both X11 and MSWIN)
• micro: For command line use
• vi: For small environments

Geany

Geany is a nice programer's text editor. I …

Windows administration from the command line

Windows system administration is very mouse driven and to reach all tools you need to browse through Windows explorer.

If you are like me and prefer to log on a limited privilege account and use Runas to perform admin tasks, you can open these consoles with the .msc file names …

My Must Have Android Apps

This is a list of my favorite Android Apps:

Essentials

• Barcode Scanner - Play Store F-Droid
• Ghost Commander - F-Droid
• F-Droid Alternative Application Manager. Usually Open source stuff with significantly less crap ware and ads.

Productivity

• WordPress - PlayS tore
• KeePassDroid - f-droid
• GoTasks - Play Store
• Dropbox - Play Store
• Quickoffice - Play Store
• SimpleNote - Play …

Driving Continuous Integration from Git

Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git.

If you're among the rising number of Git users out there, you're in luck: You can automate pieces of your development workflow with Git hooks. Hooks are a native Git mechanism …