A better Shell with oh-my-zsh

On January 8, 2012, in Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

In the last few months, I have found myself using the Terminal on my MacOS more and more. I just find it more satisfying to be in more control of what I am doing and it’s definitely faster too (if you know your commands well). And it was this inclination that led me to find […]

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Simplifying Git Commit Graph

On January 2, 2012, in Git, by Anuj Gakhar

Git is my favorite source control tool and I try to use it in pretty much all the projects I work on. Yesterday, I watched the Advanced Git Screencast from PeepCode and like all other screencasts from PeepCode, I liked it a lot and ended up with a much better understanding of Git branching/merging/reflog in […]

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Flex VideoDisplay and MP3 files

On January 1, 2012, in Flex, by Anuj Gakhar

I have been troubleshooting a Flex application which plays audio/video files using the Spark VideoDisplay component. I know that a VideoDisplay component is bit of an overkill to play just mp3 files, but why this application has been doing so, is out of the scope of this post. Rest assured, there are valid reasons for […]

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Book Review: Railo 3 Beginner’s Guide

On December 20, 2011, in ColdFusion, Railo, Books, by Anuj Gakhar

I am a regular Railo user and use it everyday. I absolutely love the product and CFML in general. So, when this book came out, my first reaction was to ask Packt Publishing for a review copy, which they happily gave to me. I have spent a few hours reading the book already and my […]

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My 5 minute video intro using PresentMe

On December 17, 2011, in Miscellaneous, by Anuj Gakhar

This week, I did a brief 5 minute video introduction about myself using PresentMe. I thought I should post it here too. PresentMe is a great tool to present yourself and I encourage everyone to give it a try! You will like it 🙂

 

Sending Email with the new SMTP Support for Amazon SES

On December 14, 2011, in ColdFusion, AWS, Railo, by Anuj Gakhar

Amazon recently announced that they have added an SMTP interface to their Simple Email Service. Now, this is pretty cool. This means that we can now use our very own cfmail tag in ColdFusion to send emails using Amazon’s SMTP/SES service. The Simple Email Service allows you to send emails – although you need to […]

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ColdFusion Job Opening in London

On December 13, 2011, in ColdFusion, by Anuj Gakhar

Title: ColdFusion Developer Description: This position is responsible for creating/modifying ColdFusion code and database communications for company’s enterprise website. We are looking for a highly motivated, detail oriented ColdFusion Developer who understands the unique needs of Internet and Web Applications.  You must be a team player responsible for designing, developing, testing and deploying enterprise level […]

 

Phonegap Book Give-away winners

On December 12, 2011, in Mobile, Books, by Anuj Gakhar

Last month I ran a book give-away contest for the phonegap book, sponsored by Packt Publishing. I think the response was great and I got some great comments in there. However there can only be 2 winners for the print version of the book and after speaking to Packt, they have been kind enough to […]

 

Using SSH Host shortnames to connect to Amazon EC2 servers

On December 9, 2011, in AWS, Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I work with quite a few different Amazon EC2 instances on a daily basis and I use SSH command line interface to connect to these servers and as you can imagine, a normal command for that would look something like this :- [xml] ssh -i ~/.ec2/server.pem username@ec2-identifier.compute-1.amazonaws.com [/xml] Now, imagine typing that in for 5 […]

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Using MacOSX Lion command line mail with Gmail as SMTP

On December 9, 2011, in Mac, by Anuj Gakhar

I have been trying to get my command line mail working on my MacOS (Lion) today and I noticed that the normal postfix emails get treated as SPAM by Google and because I was sending emails to myself on my gmail account, that was an issue for me. So, I thought of using gmail as […]

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