Load private key to Heroku

As you know Heroku runs ephemeral filesystem which doesn’t allow us to store any arbitrary file beside the actual application repository, but pushing keys to the respository seems like a bad idea…

So, what to do?

Localtunnel alternatives

Localtunnel lets you expose a local web server to the public Internet.

But since the project is officially down what alternatives do we’ve?

TDD persistence without any ORM

Here is simple tip how to make your data persisting between requests, without actually using any ORM, so, you can keep in focus on your domain model.

Helper function to start new tmux session with the name of current directory

There are many promising tools that helps with bootstrapping tmux sessions, but this simple function, originally shared by Chris Toomey from thoughtbot, beat them all :)

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function tn() {

    if [ -z "$1" ]; then;
        session_name=$(basename `pwd`)
    else
        session_name=$1
    fi

    tmux new-session -s $session_name -n 'main'
}

Once added to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, etc., you can start new tmux session as simply as typing the following:

> tn

And it will take the name of current directory.

Enjoy!

php-fpm 0.6.2 cookbook released

With the help of all great contributors and particularly @ameir we reached 0.6.2 release today, which, among others changes and fixes, introduces definitions similar to LWRPs, so, no more testpool automatically setup ;)

Please, make sure to checkout updated Usage section in README.

Enjoy!

Develop like a pro with VirtualBox

Here I’m going to demonstrate how to utilize the power of VirtualBox among with Infrastructure Automation Tool like Chef to develop your next Magento powered project in a production ready environment without bloating your personal PC with extra services which you might never need otherwise.

Basically we’re going to mount working tree directory of our web store into VirtualBox instance build with chef-solo and corresponding cookbook.

Zsh History Control

Many comes to Zsh through the famous oh-my-zsh project, but fewer, including myself, aware of the power Zsh gives us out of box.

In this post I’d like to illustrate history control feature.

TDD with Meteor: mocha-web

I been doing research recently on test driven development practices and tools for developing web applications with Meteor platform. While there is no official TDD approach, at least at the moment of writing, I was able to find several techniques contributed by growing community.

Here I’ll start with mocha-web which is smart package available through the Atmosphere repository.

Add Robolectric to AndroidKickstartR generated project

Here is quick HOWTO and up to date alternative to Robolectric’s maven quick start guide.

TLDR: Look at this gist.

Continuous deployment with Capistrano

In this post I’ll cover the Strano and how to setup it to trigger cap deploy task whenever you push/merge into the master branch of your project on GitHub.