Ant Tasks for Git

Posted by Tom on November 13th, 2008 — in Git, Programming

Ant has tasks for CVS and Subversion, but none that I could find for Git. I threw together these simple Ant macros to get started:

<macrodef name = "git">     <attribute name = "command" />     <attribute name = "dir" default = "" />     <element name = "args" optional = "true" />     <sequential>         <echo message = "git @{command}" />         <exec executable = "git" dir [...]

“Mark Old As Read” for NetNewsWire

Posted by Tom on November 13th, 2008 — in AppleScript, Hacks, Mac

I recently heard about an RSS reader (can’t remember which) that had a feature to mark all messages older than a certain threshold as “read”. I thought this was an incredibly useful feature, since I often forget to check my feeds for days at a time, and end up with hundreds of unread items that [...]

A Better BugMeNot Bookmarklet

Posted by Tom on November 9th, 2008 — in Hacks, JavaScript, Programming, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Web

BugMeNot is a great little service for bypassing the registration process for websites that really shouldn’t require it (ahem, nytimes.com). The bookmarklet brings up BugMeNot for the current website you’re viewing, and gives you login/password pairs which you can then copy and paste.

But wouldn’t it be better if it automagically filled in the username and [...]


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