For various reasons, we have a MASSIVE (14gb) git repository that we work with. We have a clone of this repository out in the cloud behind an SSH server. Recently, when I would attempt to push the ...

I recently learned that Outlook for Mac had been uploading multiple copies of the same message to the Exchange server. At final count, I had approximately 280,000 email messages sitting in my “Arch...

I use instapaper.com as my read later service. I have installed the Chrome add-on to allow me to quickly tag an article to read later. Also, I have configured it as my read later service in Tweetbo...

There comes a time as you build up a rails application that you end up using the has_and_belongs_to_many (HABTM) macro. This macro is an easy way to create a many-to-many relationship between two o...

Posting mostly for my own reference… One thing I find that I need to do a lot is position a footer bar across the bottom of the page. The most common way to do this is to set a fixed position on t...

Several times over the past months, I’ve received questions about the software and setup that I use to run the mattberther.com blog and related pages. Since the site recently underwent a dramatic c...

More and more, I have developed a passion for the Git source control system. I love how Git stays out of my way, until I need to use it. Git offers a very easy way to test things out, whilst utiliz...

Goals and Goal Setting: In the book What They Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School, Mark McCormak discusses the importance of setting goals. The students in the 1979 Harvard MBA program were...

I find the windows command prompt somewhat limiting and have never really been able to make the leap to Powershell. Personally, I like to use a Cygwin shell for command line work. I am comfortable ...

This gem was spotted in some code that my team was working on today. It made us chuckle anyway. :) function GetAgeOptions(localization) { var ageArray = new Array(); ageArray[0] = "Nick Rocks"...