Brian Gershon briangershon

Integrating Git on Mac OSX with Microsoft TFS on Windows

Here's an experiment to work locally on a Mac using Git and my editor of choice -- while integrating well with Microsoft TFS which houses company-wide code.

If you want to work completely in Windows see:

Download latest Raspbian and write to SD card

# identify the disk (not partition) of your SD card. e.g. disk4 (not disk4s1)
diskutil list
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/<disk# from diskutil>   # e.g. diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk4
sudo dd bs=1m if=<your image file>.img of=/dev/<disk# from diskutil>
# e.g. sudo dd bs=1m if=2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/disk4
(This will take a few minutes)

Boot Raspberry PI and install a Bonjour client

My notes on creating a Rails 4.2 app for hosting on Heroku. With RSpec and Postgresql.

# Install RVM, Ruby and Bundler
...

# Install Rails
gem install rails --no-ri --no-rdoc

# Create new app without Test::Unit, and for Postgresql (for Heroku)

rails new MYAPP --skip-test-unit --database=postgresql

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am briangershon on github.
I am brianfive (https://keybase.io/brianfive) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is FACB 3AA6 562C A75C 1708 D187 0B22 B8EE 9244 656E

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Karaoke Session at Rockbox - July 2021

In The Navy - Village People
Beauty School Dropout Grease
Raspberry Beret - Prince
It Ain't My Fault - Brothers Osborne
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Invisible Sun - The Police
Let's Go - The Cars
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out - Bruce Springsteen

Minecraft Plugin Development Guide

For those new to Minecraft Plugins, there's a lot of new and old documentation to run through on the web.

Additionally plugins compiled on newer versions of Java weren't working on older stable Minecraft server versions.

I've captured my learning in two places:

This guide covers the workflow of editing, compiling and testing plugins.

	/globals Parse/

	/**
	* Playing with using the Q promise library with Parse.com
	* to ease offline development and testing.
	*
	* http://documentup.com/kriskowal/q/
	*
	* Was tricky to mock-up Parse's promise implementation.
	*

	# various Yeoman generators (generator-webapp) are failing due to using npm 2.x beta with errors
	# like "grunt 1.4.x" peer dependency not met (when in fact the dependency is met).

	# fix for me was to upgrade node, but install npm separately, since upgrading node automatically installs latest npm which is 2.x

	# to install latest node
	brew update
	brew install node --without-npm

	# to install latest 1.x branch of npm

	buf, bodyErr := ioutil.ReadAll(r.Body)
	if bodyErr != nil {
	log.Print("bodyErr ", bodyErr.Error())
	http.Error(w, bodyErr.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
	return
	}

	rdr1 := ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewBuffer(buf))
	rdr2 := ioutil.NopCloser(bytes.NewBuffer(buf))
	log.Printf("BODY: %q", rdr1)