Site-specific browsers (SSB) have made a bit of a stir recently due to programs like Fluid and Prism. These tools customize a very thin layer over a browser to provide something that looks a like a standard desktop application, complete with a nice icon and entry in the dock or start menu.
SSBs can be used for a variety of sites, but I find they are particularly useful for social networking (Yammer, Twitter etc) and project management sites (Unfuddle, Basecamp etc). This is because these sites tend to present themeselves as applications, with virtually no dependancy on the standard browser ...
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You've been able to clone github repositories using http for a while now which allows you to get around proxies at work. But using this method won't allow you to push any changes back, which is a major pain point to using Github behind at my workplace.
Today, a co-worker brought this article from Justin Bailey to my attention, which describes how to use an ssh tunnel over port 443 to get push access to github.
The steps in the above are pretty clear and consice, however I added a few minor changes. Here are the steps I ...
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It happened. Everybody thinks it won't happen, at least not to them. My hard drive failed. Completely. As in not even able to see it in any recovery tools.
I was happily doing my thing, when everything froze on screen and I got a SBoD. A quick restart later and I got a terrible clicky sound from the hard drive followed by this:
We lost it all. All our photos, the most impossible to replace, our home movies from our travels, our documents like resumes etc., my side projects, the lot. The funny thing is, I have an external ...
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