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Ignore a single file in a GIT repository that is checked in but changes a lot (and you don't want to keep those changes)

Purpose You have a repository in GIT. For some reason, your project produces artifacts that change all the time, for instance * A filename is injected into them (Stupid Entity Framework EDMX changes) and this filename changes depending on who runs it * A filename that continually gets injected with different line

Adapting existing code for Intravenous

I'm using Intravenous [http://www.royjacobs.org/intravenous/] more and more to implement the IOC pattern using Node at work. One of the issues with it however is that everything that you use with it either has to be: 1. An ES5 "class" with an $inject property (an array that

How to stop Kodi from importing Mac resource forks from SMB shares.

I am using Kodi [http://kodi.tv/] (previously XMBC) on one of my Raspberry Pi [http://www.raspberrypi.org/] as a small media centre. This is serving videos from my old SAN where I store and share my backed up DVD's via SMB. This works great except for one small

Adobe user credential leak

Just a quick note for readers to check if they're details were in the recent Adobe leak which saw somewhere between 150 million and 38 million email addresses and encrypted passwords dumped onto the Internet by Hackers. You can check out [this password check page](LastPass adobe password check) provided

Emoticons in the OS-X Terminal

I found a really neat little feature of the OS-X terminal today. You can display colourful little icons on the terminal by displaying a unicode character. You can enter a unicode character on the terminal with code such as the following (which works in the bash shell). echo $'\xF0\

How I write using Markdown

As I hinted in my last post [https://blog.blacksun.cx/zero-to-ghost-blog-hero-in-under-30-minutes/] I really like Markdown. So much so that when I am writing documentation, letters resumes or anything else, usually I will do anything to avoid having to write them up in Word or any of the many alternatives.

Zero to Ghost blog hero in under 30 minutes

I've been playing around with Node JS [http://nodejs.org] a little bit lately and at the same time had finally decided that I needed a blog to show off and record some stuff that I have been working on in my very meagre spare time. I then found Ghost