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I created a ruby gem to provide email and slack notifications for Systemd services, which gives visibility over process stops, starts, restarts and reloads. This post documents why and how.
I also need some testers, so if this is relevant to you please give it a go and send the appropriate feedback.
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.
You may have come across the following message when doing some operation that uses your private key, such as working with git or ssh:
The other day, I was in the position where I had to recompile Vim (and GVim) on Ubuntu. I had installed the version from aptitude, which is perfectly good apart from the fact that it requires and installs the ruby 1.8.7 package. I actually use RVM for my ruby binary management, and I wanted to tell Vim to use the ruby 1.9.3 installed on my system via RVM.
If you're a regular user of Netbeans IDE then, like me, you might sometimes get the feeling that you're not using it to its full potential. Take debugging for instance: did you know that you can use Netbeans to debug a web application by pausing at particular lines of code, and get a list of all the variables in the current scope? It takes a bit of setting up, but you can do it - here's how.