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#!/bin/bash

# dropbox-set-app-config-symlinks.sh
# Shell Script to allow Dropbox to sync the Application Support folders for often used applications
# Note: In the finder you will not see the Dropbox icons next the files, however, if you look at the web interface, you will see that they have indeed been synced

#Quicksilver
ln -s /Users/admin/Library/Application\ Support/Quicksilver /Users/admin/Dropbox/_apps/Quicksilver

#TextMate

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Media Temple Capistrano Deployment Recipe

With GitHub

See comments in the files for explanation. This works flawlessly for me on MediaTemple + Git(Hub).

NOTE: this assumes that the application name on the grid container and the application name in GitHub are the same.

To use:

On the Server

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*.pbxproj -crlf -diff -merge

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# $ tweet Hi mom!
#
# Put this in ~/.bashrc or wherever.
# If it doesn't work, make sure your ~/.netrc is right
#
# (Thanks to @anildigital for curl-fu)

function tweet {
  curl -n -d status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml &> /dev/null
  echo "tweet'd"

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- simple
- public over private
- personal vanity
- internet is global
- permalinks
- one important item per page
- don't break the browser
- don't wanker in technology
- a medium is not a grande
- break convention for your users

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement;

namespace ActiveDirectoryAccountLockOut
{
    class Program

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Poor Man's Deploy

• Start a Sinatra server on port 4000
• GET / to that server triggers a git pull and mod_rails restart
• Hit port 4000 locally after pushing

Why?

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using terms from application "Quicksilver"
	on process text log_text
		set theDate to (do shell script "date '+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M'")
		set theText to log_text
		set theText to theDate & " " & theText & "
"
		set thePosixFilePath to "/Users/msippey/Dropbox/taskpaper/log.txt" as string
		set theFilePath to POSIX file thePosixFilePath
		set theFileReference to open for access theFilePath with write permission
		write theText to theFileReference starting at eof

program247365

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
	on process text log_text
		set theDate to (do shell script "date '+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M'")
		set theText to log_text
		set theText to theDate & " " & theText & "
"
		set thePosixFilePath to "/Users/msippey/Dropbox/taskpaper/log.txt" as string
		set theFilePath to POSIX file thePosixFilePath
		set theFileReference to open for access theFilePath with write permission
		write theText to theFileReference starting at eof

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

unless ARGV[0]
  puts 'Usage: newpost "the post title"'
  exit(-1)
end

date_prefix = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
postname = ARGV[0].strip.downcase.gsub(/ /, '-')
post = "/Users/al3x/src/al3x.github.com/_posts/#{date_prefix}-#{postname}.textile"