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Deploying git branches from GitLab using Slack commands

October 19, 2017 jhigman Leave a comment

tl;dr Deploy a branch called ‘staging’ to a server called ‘staging’ with a Slack slash command: /gitlab deploy staging to…

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Deploy straight from Slack using Jenkins and Capistrano

April 21, 2017 jhigman 3 Comments

Deploy code by typing ‘/deploy_code_to_dev’ in a Slack channel. Overview Slack allows you to define slash commands, which will do…

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Jenkins builds of GitLab branches stopped working due to security patch

May 17, 2016 jhigman 1 Comment

There have been some security patches to Jenkins recently, which have stopped some plugins from working – in our case,…

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Posted in: Work Filed under: continuous integration, jenkins, security, ubuntu

Search and replace with regex in Sublime Text

October 19, 2015 jhigman Leave a comment

One of the things that we do a lot in our Ruby on Rails project is replace old-style Ruby hashes…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: ruby, sublime text

Two-Legged OAuth with the Google Drive API in Ruby

April 19, 2015 jhigman Leave a comment

Google are discontinuing support for the Documents List API, and moving to the Drive API. The old API supported authentication…

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Posted in: Work Filed under: google drive, ruby

Not enough free disk space for Ubuntu software updater

August 15, 2014 jhigman 23 Comments

Sometimes the Ubuntu software updater finds it doesn’t have enough temporary space to download and apply updates – you get…

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Posted in: Work Filed under: ubuntu

from_sentence : the opposite of Rails to_sentence

July 14, 2014 jhigman Leave a comment

I like the Rails to_sentence method on String class, which converts an array to a comma-separated sentence where the last…

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Posted in: Work Filed under: rails, ruby

Installing CyanogenMod Android 4.4.2 on Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini

July 8, 2014 jhigman 3 Comments

These notes are based on the instructions at http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_serranoltexx

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Posted in: Work Filed under: android, cyanogenmod, heimdall, ubuntu

Setting up an IE6 image for VirtualBox

November 15, 2013 jhigman 2 Comments

VirtualBox provides a great way to run IE browsers for testing during development.

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Posted in: Work Filed under: ie6, virtualbox

Setting up PhoneGap on Ubuntu for Android app development

October 17, 2013 jhigman 37 Comments

This is just some notes I made, mostly taken from http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.0.0/guide_overview_index.md.html. I was installing PhoneGap 3.0.0 on Ubuntu 12.04.

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Posted in: Work Filed under: android, ubuntu

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