Github explains pretty well how to sign commits. You can make it automatic by globally setting commit.gpgsign = true by using git config --global commit.gpgsign true What if you have different signatures for your personal ID and your work ID? First, you create multiple signatures. It is important that the...

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I had been procrastinating movement to a dev-ops style Chef deployment for my servers to ease it’s management because of the age old “If it ain’t broke..”. Well, upgrades on Bumblebee were getting more expensive so I finally decided to take the leap. I introduce the trion cookbook that I’m...

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Installing Oracle’s version of Java on your machine does (for most machines I’ve encountered) add a Java Home system variable. Rarely however it doesn’t work on some machines. Such folks are recommended to add the path themselves. On a Mac, you can do this by using the following export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)...

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The Atlassian suite of tools are a good way to have your organization’s workflow administered. If you’re using Atlassian Stash to manage your source code and are attempting to get Atlassian Bamboo to download code off Stash’s copy of git, the answer isn’t quite straight forward. Having experience with Atlassian’s...

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I finally took the time out to move away from shared hosting into my own server. It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally here! I hope this will stop issues for Wordpress caused by shared hosting. If it doesn’t, it’s out with Wordpress :) I ported over data...

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If you want Eclipse to integrate well with GitHub (I know there are millions of tutorials out there), you should really follow the tutorial for EGit and make sure you have Git set up on your Windows machine first!

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Here’s something small but interesting and useful I learnt today. Often times, I update my linux profile so that I can have aliases to work with on my server. Problem is that the profile is only loaded when you login so, in normal circumstances, you would have to relogin to...

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