If you’re new to Git you may be working on a branch and realize that you’ve fallen out of synch with the master. In the case of Subversion you can normally do “svn up” and be good to go. In the case git you’ll normally do a “git fetch” and then a “git status” shows [...]

I wanted to share what I’ve found to be some of my favorite shopping add-ons for Firefox. I put together this collection of shopping add-ons that can either save you money or help you search quicker. My favorite is PriceBlink, which finds cheaper prices for the product you’re currently viewing on a retailer’s site. It [...]

If you’re doing Firefox extension development you may be surprised by the lack of the XPath replace function. I definitely was. After looking through the list of supported Firefox XPath functions I found that the translate function did the trick. Here’s a list of supported Firefox Xpath functions for future reference:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPath/Functions

I’m spending a lot of time with the SVN command line right now because we’re trying to get a product release out the door. One thing that I’ve found handy is the ability to get the comments and list of files changed for a certain revision number. This is fairly commonplace for SVN GUI tools, [...]

Just a quick post if you’d like to get a history of SVN commits between an older revision and your current working copy. Get the current revision number from your local copy:
svnversion .
Then get a commit history between and older version and your current version:
svn log -r 6885:8485
Where the number before the colon is your [...]

If you’re working with Magento Commerce you’ll most likely want to remove index.php from the URL when you go live. Or maybe you don’t care so feel free to stop reading.
This post addresses all the things you can do to remove index.php, but let me touch on the items that worked for me:
- From Magento’s [...]

If you’re really bored and decide you want to lobby for a GPS bus tracker on your campus then be sure to check out the video below. I recently posted this article about a Tufts GPS bus tracking project with Ublip. At Ublip, we’re working hard to connect people with remote assets and this project [...]

One of my pet projects at Ublip is focusing on building an online community centered around M2M. If you’re interested in learning more about the M2M industry then I encourage you to check out www.m2mforums.com. The site is in its infancy, but there’s already a strong community of knowledgeable experts talking about all different aspects [...]

A buddy recently sent me a link to a cool site that allows you to search for Amazon Prime items. The site is called iPrimr and if you haven’t heard of Amazon Prime yet you should definitely check it out!  I can guarantee this will come in very handy for holiday shoppers.  I’m not currently [...]

The cat is out of the bag. At Ublip, we’ve just released our easy to use GPS tracking system that is very affordable and can be self-installed. If you analyze a majority of our competitor’s offerings you’ll notice the “kitchen sink” approach where the GPS software has every feature under the sun. [...]