Lake Denman

face Hello World. Welcome to my blog! I'm a software developer from Charlotte, NC. I mainly develop websites with Ruby on Rails. I use Xubuntu as my OS, Vim as my editor, and love open source software! Thanks for stopping by! :)

  • Learn To Type Week Wednesday

    Learn To Type Week Wednesday...

  • Learn To Type Week Tuesday

    Learn To Type Week Tuesday...

  • Learn to type week Monday

    Corey Haines has declared a "Learn To Type Correctly Week" and I hope you participate!

  • The Cure for Fingernail Biting

    After 18 years of nail biting, I came up with my own cure...

  • Developer Day: 3 Questions of a Product Champion

    @jessmartin gave a lightning talk that asks not just the What and How of product development, but the Who, When, and Why.

  • A tip for selecting a file in OS X

    Just type the name of a file in finder and it will be selected automatically

  • Exploring Ruby: Arrays - the zip method

    The zip method is somewhat obscure, I haven't seen it used very often. Still, it is good to look overview what options ruby provides.

  • Checking out deleted file from git repository

    git checkout "commit" -- "filename"
    git checkout 1A2B3C -- public/index.html

  • StopForumSpam Ruby Api Wrapper

    Use my Stop Forum Spam api wrapper to detect and report spammers!

  • Copying files between S3 buckets

    Using ruby and right_aws, you can easily duplicate Amazon S3 buckets.

  • New Theme!!!

    Props to Nik for the new theme of my site!

  • Simple Steps for Installing Ubuntu Desktop

    Thanks to branchus for spilling the beans about installing Ubuntu Desktop

  • A Fix for Postfix

    Have you had trouble sending mail from your server to an email address of the same domain? Me too...

  • How to Start a Background Job

    The nohup command is handy when you need to run a command even after you log out of your terminal session.

  • Jekyll Blog Generator

    Jekyll is the nice generator of this website. It has many cool features and if you are looking for a simple blog solution, it might just fit the bill.

  • How to Check Available Hard Drive Space

    It's easy to use, but sometimes easy to forget the command that shows the amount of disk space left on your computer.

  • How to Launch a URL from Terminal

    Mac OS X and Linux provide nifty tools for launching applications, files, urls, and more from terminal.

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