Mac equivalent to CTRL + ALT + DELETE

Not groundbreaking but I can never remember this

apple option escape

I finally got tired of all the .swp files in my vim directories. To delete them in one pass you can run

rm -rf `find -type f -name *.swp`

note: those aren't single quotes, they're grave accent quotes (the thingy under the ~)

Debug Rake Tasks

$ rdebug rake my:task

Ruby super is not the super you used to know

Worth reading before you try and extend / override anything http://blog.ethanvizitei.com/2008/07/ruby-inheritance-gotcha.html

Andriod ADB Device Not Showing Up In Ubuntu?

I've been debugging an Android app in Ubuntu and have had ongoing issues getting the debugger to recognize my device. Starting and stopping the ADB server seems to do the trick every time:

$ANDROID_HOME/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ sudo ./adb kill-server
$ANDROID_HOME/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ sudo ./adb start-server

MySQL Vertical Output

To see results structured vertically in the mysql console use \G instead of ;

mysql> select * from users \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
id: 1
email: user1@somedomain.com
encrypted_password: asdf123
created_at: 2011-11-07 22:24:46
updated_at: 2011-11-07 22:24:46
roles_mask: 1
*************************** 2. row ***************************
id: 2
email: user2@somedomain.com
encrypted_password: asdf123
created_at: 2011-11-07 22:27:33
updated_at: 2011-11-07 22:28:18
roles_mask: 0

View table details in MySQL

show table status like 'yourtablename';

Will display info on row_count, auto_increment value, etc. Handy.