Its a long video at a little over 1.5 hours but there is no better resource on the internet that can explain Git like how this video does!

So, here I was trying to setup Vagrant on my Mac. Everything went fine till the vagrant up command and boom: myfirstvagrantproject $ vagrant up Bringing machine 'projectname' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> projectname: The cookbook path '/Users/cruisemaniac/.berkshelf/projectname/vagrant/berkshelf-20140909-37664-1gf5t34-projectname' doesn't exist. Ignoring... Updating Vagrant's berkshelf: '/Users/cruisemaniac/.berkshelf/projectname/vagrant/berkshelf-20140909-37664-1gf5t34-projectname' RuntimeError: Couldn't determine Berks version: #<Buff::ShellOut::Response:0x00000101040360 @exitstatus=1, @stdout="", @stderr="/Users/cruisemaniac/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:298:in `to_specs': Could not find 'berkshelf' (>= 0) among 56 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)\n\tfrom /Users/cruisemaniac/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:309:in `to_spec'\n\tfrom /Users/cruisemaniac/.rbenv/versions/2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:53:in `gem'\n\tfrom /Users/cruisemaniac/. Read more

I was recently trying to setup MySQL with Homebrew and noticed that the mysql server that brew installed was not playing nice with the existing setups. The solution is to wipe out any existing MySQL installs you’ve got on your mac and redo everything from scratch with brew. This makes the mysql installed from Brew your main installation. Read up on this blogpost that details the sequence. 5 minutes, a few commands and all is hanky-panky in mysql land :-) Read more

The most important offering at a restaurant is not the food. Its the experience while at the restaurant that makes a person go visiting again. Or swoon about it on social media! Good food is just, “so to speak”, the icing on the cake! Thats why I pay you a premium for the experience! When you forget something as essential as a customer’s order, the tastiest of dishes at your establishment takes a back seat over a spoilt evening for the people at the table! Read more

Bad title for a post but thats how my relationship with the [jekyll][1] static site generator stands. I love it: It just lets me blog - no shitty admin console, no extra jazz, just keyboard noise –> blog post with some very simple magic in between. it serves static html - no wordpress security headaches, no server load problems, instant load times given that i load off an SSD on my [host][2]1. Read more