A couple months back, I threw together my first AngularJS page for SpeechPeek.com. According to git it took me 2 days – which is actually two nights at home. Inconceivable!

Docs were a plenty, answers available and the whole experience was…. pleasant.

Not to dog backbone, but when I put together a similar page in backbone, git says it took me about a month – there are a lot more commits to prove it.

We use a hybrid of semantic versioning at work, and tag releases with each deployment to QA.  After a production deployment, the QA tags are fairly useless, so I like to clean them up to keep the tags fairly clean.

Here’s a little script that will delete QA tags (which are denoted by a 4th decimal #):

Git branches are cheap and fun… until you have so many you can’t remember which branches have been merged into develop.

Here’s a little script that will find and delete local & remote branches that have been merged into develop or master:

Find the current vnc port:

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ps aux | grep vnc

Then run vinagre to connect to the vnc server:

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vinagre

Yet another step-by-step for my own reference.

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ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
SQLite3::SQLException: near “SAVEPOINT”: syntax error: SAVEPOINT active\_record\_1

Was getting the above error, and found that I needed to upgrade CentOS default version of sqlite.  Pretty simple right?