Preparing your machine for the ELK stack: installing a recent Java, and getting repositories and keys.
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The ELK Stack sounds like a great plan - so let's look at what it's about.
read moreDot Bashprompt Public Release
"An easily extensible collection of Bash Prompts" - my new github project.
read moreThanks for Open Source
A big Thank You to the open source community.
read moreFun with Git Branches
Moving a git branch to its own repository.
read moregitcheck version 0.3 Public Release
gitcheck is a program to check both the local and remote statuses of your git repositories. This is the third public release.
read moreDealing with git Remote Branches
Like so many things with git, dealing with remote branches is non-obvious. This is how to do the basics, like pulling a branch to your machine, changing to it, committing and pushing changes.
read moreVim Colour Scheme Automatic Look-up
How to make vim automatically figure out what colour scheme to use for a particular file type and keep the list of colour schemes in a single file.
read moreUsing Python's matplotlib to Plot Web Server Stats
Python's matplotlib library isn't part of the Python standard library and it's somewhat complex, but it's a great library if you need to generate graphs.
read moregitcheck Public Release
gitcheck is a program to check both the local and remote statuses of your git repositories.
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