ProgrammingRuby

Contributed a patch to chit

A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon Chit. If you're not familiar with it, Chit is a command line cheat sheet utility based on git. Chit was inspired by ‘cheat’ (cheat.errtheblog.com/) by Chris Wanstrath of GitHub fame,...
General

Editing a crontab with vim

If your vimrc is configured to use backup files and you try to invoke crontab -e (or vipw or visudo, etc.), you might get an error like this: crontab: temp file must be edited in place You need to make vim not do backups of temp...
Mac

OS X cron log

Surprisingly, I could not find a log on my Snow Leopard system that showed what cron was doing. I know that Apple is big on launchd (which is on my list of things to learn about someday), but I'm a Unix guy and I needed to debug...