Christopher - Blog Posts

Blog Posts

22 Aug 2025 »Installing Rails 6 on Heroku Revisited
02 Aug 2025 »Installing Rails 6 on Heroku
30 Oct 2018 »Get the pull request number from the branch
16 Jul 2017 »The Next Era of Remapping Caps Lock
15 Nov 2016 »Migrate ActiveRecord column to an hstore key in Rails
07 Nov 2016 »Multiple SSL endpoints on Heroku with SNI
24 Jun 2016 »Fenced codeblocks in unordered lists with Github Flavored Markdown
30 Apr 2016 »Automatically attach to tmux when connecting via ssh
27 Apr 2016 »Heroku CLI Environments Wrapper
20 Mar 2016 »Signing AWS API Requests in Swift
18 Mar 2016 »Simple NSData hexdigest utility in swift
18 Mar 2016 »Calling CCHmac from swift
19 Feb 2016 »AWS Version 4 Signing Key on Mac
11 Feb 2016 »Export Heroku Postgres to CSV
27 Nov 2015 »Fix Xcode's Open Quickly Navigation
21 Sep 2015 »Testing for TLS 1.2
02 Aug 2015 »Playing Minecraft when the Port is Blocked
17 Feb 2015 »How do you write great commit messages?
05 Feb 2015 »Render a JBuilder template outside of a request
04 Apr 2014 »Upload to imgur from applescript
20 Mar 2014 »Versioning in the URL?
19 Mar 2014 »Ignoring people on IRC
03 Feb 2014 »Ruby Retrocession Retrospective
17 Jan 2014 »Use pow to serve your static html
19 Dec 2013 »Most useful rake task for an idiot
09 Oct 2013 »iOS Frameworks with both 64 bit and 32 bit ARCHs
23 Sep 2013 »How I setup chruby
20 Aug 2013 »Sample post
12 Aug 2013 »Another sample
26 Jun 2013 »Remapping Caps Lock was only the Beginning
19 Jun 2013 »Navigating Vim and Tmux Splits
17 Jun 2013 »Replacing All The Things with Unite.vim
11 Jun 2013 »install macvim with lua support
16 May 2013 »Fancy tmux keybindings with iTerm
22 Mar 2013 »Apache, Passenger and mod rewrite
26 Feb 2013 »localtime directive for angularjs
10 Feb 2013 »Vim - highlight debugger statements
08 Dec 2012 »Source Maps with Chrome Canary and Rails
11 Oct 2012 »Convert timestamps to localtime with jQuery
23 Sep 2012 »Howto setup the Ultimate IRC Server
30 Mar 2012 »Mobile Safari Inspector with the iPhone Simulator
20 Feb 2012 »Vimscript is Super Awesome
13 Jan 2012 »Navigating the Command Line
10 Oct 2011 »Making ARC and non-ARC files play nice together
05 Oct 2011 »Prevent Xcode from opening extra projects
05 Aug 2011 »Project specific git author, without the gas pains
07 Jul 2011 »Multiple Dropboxen on Mac the right way
14 Jun 2011 »Dynamic fixed width layout with CSS
10 May 2011 »Zsh trick: restart pow with command completion
01 May 2011 »Quickly navigate your projects in zsh, with tab completion
27 Apr 2011 »Keeping track of deploys: Make an about.txt with Capistrano
01 Apr 2011 »Basics of RubyGems Slides
11 Mar 2011 »Define Your Inner Foo
14 Feb 2011 »Focus on a test in Vim
09 Dec 2010 »Deploying from your current branch with Capistrano
02 Dec 2010 »Most important configuration on a Mac
02 Nov 2010 »Conditionally Colorful Test Unit
25 Sep 2010 »Zip for Distribution: The missing build step in Xcode
02 Aug 2010 »How to make Vim a first class CSS editor
28 Jul 2010 »PackageMaker could not copy unreadable files
13 Jul 2010 »Don't need no json.vim, get json syntax highlighting for free
25 Jun 2010 »rvm and vim combined: tastes like awesome
20 May 2010 »Exclude bundler gems from Heroku deployment
19 May 2010 »Truncating strings in css
30 Apr 2010 »Using factory_girl and Rspec with Rails 3
29 Mar 2010 »Fix Snow Leopard's ruby line editor with homebrew's readline
24 Mar 2010 »Simple Capistrano email notifier for rails
17 Mar 2010 »Howto: Mirror Git to Subversion
15 Mar 2010 »Running git-daemon on Ubuntu
10 Mar 2010 »RVM info in your prompt
01 Mar 2010 »Alias a Class in Ruby
20 Feb 2010 »Making Vim play nice with Jekyll's YAML Front Matter
20 Feb 2010 »Convert ugly HTML links to pretty Markdown links
16 Feb 2010 »Couple of vim tips
01 Feb 2010 »Getting irb with readline support on Mac
12 Jan 2010 »Blogging with Vim
05 Jan 2010 »Top 10 Mac apps for non-programmers
28 Oct 2009 »Open Xcode Project from the Command line
21 Oct 2009 »Creating custom ohai plugins
15 Sep 2009 »Install git man pages the easy way
11 Sep 2009 »The terminal says Grr
04 Sep 2009 »Automating Apple's PackageMaker
19 Jun 2009 »Detecting native ruby gems with the wrong archetecture
09 Jun 2009 »Nice syntax highlighting in Xcode
05 Jun 2009 »Vim Tip - VimGrep and QuickList
03 Jun 2009 »Working with binary data in irb
30 May 2009 »Setting up cgit under Ubuntu
26 May 2009 »Speedy Bash Prompt: Git and Subversion Integration
22 May 2009 »Pure Ruby CRC-32/ADCCP (CRC-32/PKZIP)
20 May 2009 »Working with FILETIME in Ruby
19 May 2009 »ssh-keyput
02 May 2009 »Working with binary data in Ruby
16 Apr 2009 »Browse vim command history
14 Apr 2009 »Update the locate DB on OS X
13 Apr 2009 »Development environment for OS X
11 Apr 2009 »Resolve .local domains in Ubuntu
11 Apr 2009 »Installing Git on OS X with the fancy stuff
11 Apr 2009 »Create a new post in Jekyll
30 Mar 2009 »Getting Started with Jekyll
24 Jan 2009 »shush-kaput
02 Oct 2008 »Programming for fun?
21 Sep 2008 »Instiki 0.13 Installation on Dreamhost with Passenger
20 Sep 2008 »Using sqlite as a production DB
20 Sep 2008 »Building Visual Studio Projects with Rake
13 Jul 2008 »Git on OS X
13 Jul 2008 »CBT Error
13 Jun 2008 »Javascript Code Prettifier
10 Jun 2008 »Dynamic Cheese Grater
01 Jun 2008 »The next post will be better.
23 Mar 2008 »Bash + Rake +
07 Mar 2008 »Added a Trac-Hack
12 Feb 2008 »Focused rails tests in vim!
22 Nov 2007 »Vim on Vista