Posts tagged with “linux”

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I created a ruby gem to provide email and slack notifications for Systemd services, which gives visibility over process stops, starts, restarts and reloads. This post documents why and how.

I also need some testers, so if this is relevant to you please give it a go and send the appropriate feedback.

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The other day, I was in the position where I had to recompile Vim (and GVim) on Ubuntu. I had installed the version from aptitude, which is perfectly good apart from the fact that it requires and installs the ruby 1.8.7 package. I actually use RVM for my ruby binary management, and I wanted to tell Vim to use the ruby 1.9.3 installed on my system via RVM.

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If you're a regular user of Netbeans IDE then, like me, you might sometimes get the feeling that you're not using it to its full potential. Take debugging for instance: did you know that you can use Netbeans to debug a web application by pausing at particular lines of code, and get a list of all the variables in the current scope? It takes a bit of setting up, but you can do it - here's how.

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