My UNIX terminal configuration has gradually evolved over the last couple of years, and I finally feel like I'm happy with the setup. In short, I use Tilda for my terminal, Zsh (with Oh My Zsh) as my shell and tmux as a multiplexer. This post explains why, and how, to set it all up, making you the envy of all your friends and colleagues.
I've been completely off the grid for the past two weeks, due to the birth of my first son! Joshua Daniel Cairns was born on April 12th, and it was one of the proudest moments of my life. As a result (and hopefully understandably) my blogging and open source work has taken a back seat. This includes work on Vdebug, which I was hoping to update soon.
This post explains how I use nginx and dnsmasq in my development environment to streamline the process of working with several Rails projects.
Last year, I wrote a post about using Vim as a PHP IDE. It turned out to be pretty popular, and I've been updating it despite the fact that I now write considerably more ruby than PHP.