by CodeMangler | Jul 11, 2013 | Programming, Software
At times, I have to switch between a few different Heroku accounts. Apart from having to login again, the other annoyance is having the right SSH key active. If you don’t have the right SSH key active, (i.e. if the SSH auth agent has more than one key added to...
by CodeMangler | Jul 3, 2013 | Programming, Software
Fiddler usually works out of the box, with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions is capturing traffic from a JVM. To capture plain HTTP traffic from a JVM, you can configure Fiddler as the proxy by setting these VM args: -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=127.0.0.1...
by CodeMangler | Jun 28, 2013 | Programming, Software
Have you ever wished to have a finer control over your Heroku git repository? There’s a neat little Heroku plugin that gives you just that: heroku-repo. Around the first release of my current project, things were happening in a frenzy. There were plenty of last...
by CodeMangler | Feb 10, 2013 | Programming, Software
I was trying to upgrade my Ubuntu installation to 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), and the update manager (Muon) kept failing with error messages like: dpkg: warning: ‘ldconfig’ not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: warning: ‘start-stop-daemon’...
by CodeMangler | Apr 13, 2012 | Programming, Software
I just set-up my new MacBook Pro, running OSX Lion (10.7.3), for Rails development. Installed rvm, installed Ruby 1.9.3 using rvm and did a gem install rails -v 3.2.3. Everything went fine, until I tried to create a new rails app. rails new <app_name> would...
by CodeMangler | Feb 7, 2012 | Programming, Project, Software
My job for the past few years primarily involved developing eclipse based applications, and so, I’ve had to use eclipse full-time for quite some time. My pet peeve with eclipse has always been it’s usability. It’s not particularly keyboard friendly...
