On and off programming

Modify gitconfig for easy gitting

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:32 +0000

Caching your Github credentials

$ git config --global credential.helper cache

Creating a digitalocean droplet

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:42:55 +0000

Building this blog

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:02:01 +0000

So to get jekyll to run on linux mint you have to run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Surprised by Ubuntu on Windows 10

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:02:56 +0000

While following the directions to get jekyll up and running on Windows 10 I installed Ubuntu for Windows and I have to say I am pretty impressed with the result. It took about an hour or so to following all of the instructions but atter that I can us all of the Linux commands I want but using bash <command> for example to list the files I can type this into the command line bash ls -ila.

Getting started with Ruby

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:18:55 +0000

On using rake files

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:04:15 +0000

I’m really beginning to warm up to ruby. I just found out about rake files. Basically you can make ruby do some pretty complex tasks through these things.

More content to come in the mean time checkout @gummesson’s Jekyll Rake Boilerplate