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Aug 19, 2016 TIL 8/19 - Shell keyboard shortcuts
TIL:
Jul 26, 2016 TIL 7/10 Using wildcards for quickly moving multiple files
I needed a quick way to move all of the .sh files in one directory to a new directory so I found the following solution which uses wildcards:
May 29, 2016 Running multiple tests with one command using the Monkeytest.it API and cURL
A few weeks ago I discovered the MonkeyTest.it service on Product Hunt and wanted a way to run a single command to test my current organizations production help site for any broken links. (This site is hosted using desk.com making traditional automation slightly more tricky)
Dec 17, 2015 Twilio Wishlist
I wish that it were possible to append pre-hosted voice attributes on Twilio verbs “out of the box”, specifically the “allowed value” Jar-Jar Binks from the Star Wars universe.
Jul 5, 2015 TIL: Historic counter variables
Over the past week I have been picking up C# so that I can better contribute to our front-end automation efforts. Luckily a lot of the Selenium Webdriver syntax is transferable from what I learned and have used with Ruby.
Jun 26, 2015 Quickly adding Coveralls.io and TravisCI to your Rails project
What you’re going to need:
Jun 15, 2015 Utilizing Sublime Text via the command line in OS X
Despite this question having been covered a number of times I figured that I would make a note for myself in the instance that I have to set this up again within a new environment. I also wanted to combine the multiple sources into one post that I found scattered throughout the interwebs.
Feb 12, 2015 Quick Rails Installation
For test projects I have been using the following command to install rails in a clean directory much more quickly as it installs without documentation or the Ruby ri tool:
Jan 17, 2015 Spellcheck for Markdown
If you’re using Jekyll to blog or just using Markdown files for blogging and want to ensure that you’re not making spelling errors you can do the following:
Jan 16, 2015 ODOT - Refactoring woes
I am currently burning through the Rails Treehouse tutorial to brush up on RSpec and noticed the following code written in one of the models:
Dec 22, 2014 Today I learned 12/22
TIL:
Dec 15, 2014 Mobile camera access via web - Test
Quick test:
Oct 5, 2014 Github Issues
I decided on using GitHub issues over both Atlassian JIRA and Pivotal Tracker for maintaining bugs in the MangaBytes web app. I figured that GitHub Issues works for this project because MangaBytes is open source and if anyone wants to contribute they can have at it.
Sep 17, 2014 The beginning of a simple acceptance test
I ran across a simple copy verification test case today that was dying to be automated, the following is what I whipped up:
Sep 9, 2014 Amazon apk - Fire phone
I had some trouble last week sideloading a native amazon app to our offices Fire Phone so I wanted to share the easiest solution for this installation. Normally with other android devices I add the apk to the root and simply navigate to the file on the phone for installation but it seems the device does not allow for root access.
Aug 28, 2014 Mangabytes - remaining items
Remaining tasks for September:
Aug 24, 2014 Blueimp Bootstrap Image Gallery + Ruby on Rails integration
I got a working version of the Ruby on Rails and Blueimp Gallery integration after failing to find any tutorial online so I figured i’d share the steps to make the process a lot easier for any of you reading.
Aug 15, 2014 Blueimp Bootstrap Image Gallery + Rails, Gallery integration
Now that I have all of my gallery assets in the appropriate folders I went ahead and updated the asset pipeline with ‘require .’ to import all of the files.
Aug 11, 2014 Blueimp Bootstrap Image Gallery + Rails
I revived an older rails project that I was working on and found that my bootstrap image gallery was now returning some errors in the console.
Aug 7, 2014 Current environment on OSX
Current tools and installations within my environment:
Aug 5, 2014 Demo day - Mangabytes
Remaining tasks:
Aug 5, 2014 Sass - Favorite aspect
If I was to choose only one aspect of Sass as my favorite it would have to be using @import. Otherwise, from my beginner perspective declaring variable names a color name and using that variable in place of a hex value saves some time and is my runner-up.
Jul 27, 2014 Git repo - Foundation
I am running into an issue where I create a new foundation project within a directory that already has an existing git repo. The new foundation project seems to be automatically generating a .git file on creation.
Jul 21, 2014 Jekyll Liquid Exception Error - Resolved
When I attempt to run the Jekyll local server I am returning the error:

Liquid Exception: Included file ‘_includes/JB/setup’ not found in _posts/2014-07-21-test-post-with-rake.md/#excerpt
Jul 21, 2014 Test post with Rake
Jul 16, 2014 Today I Learned 7/21
Today I learned about the python server existed. We used the command “python -m SimpleHTTPServer” which generated a local server and allowed us to review the data from our JSON file.
Jul 16, 2014 Jekyll Error - deprecation
When attempting to run my Jekyll build on my local machine using jekyll –server I returned the following error:
Jul 16, 2014 JSON Introduction - Video
This video is an introduction to JSON and assisted in helping me understanding the purpose of the format. The end examples are done using Python.
Jul 16, 2014 First blog post
Cześć, jestem Evan Niedojadlo. Miło mi.