http://blog.floehopper.org/articles/tag/osx?tag=osx en-us 40 thoughts on the bergy bits of life <p>A while ago, <a href="http://blog.seagul.co.uk/">Chris</a> mentioned that <a href="http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2007/09/29/monitoring-the-mac-osx-filesystem-with-ruby">we&#8217;ve been trying out a few ideas</a> for making remote <a href="http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html">pair-programming</a> easier. We&#8217;ve been doing quite a bit more remote pairing recently. Most of the time we just use a combination of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC"><span class="caps">VNC</span></a> (I&#8217;ve been using <a href="http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html">Vine Server</a>) and voice over <a href="http://www.skype.com/">Skype</a> (using a headset really helps).</p> <p>But something else we&#8217;ve used successfully is multi-user <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/"><span class="caps">GNU</span> screen</a> sessions. The advantage of this technique is that much less bandwidth is required and the terminal is much more responsive. I thought I&#8217;d post the magic incantation we&#8217;ve been using (on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X"><span class="caps">OSX</span></a>), in case anyone else finds it useful&#8230;</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default "> # on the server sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen # first user connects to server over ssh and runs the following screen -S &lt;session_name&gt; ctrl-A :multiuser on ctrl-A :acladd &lt;client_username&gt; # second user connects to server over ssh and runs the following screen -x &lt;server_username&gt;/&lt;session_name&gt;</code></pre></div> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:48:22 +0000 urn:uuid:d04659dc-9918-4e46-8387-35eb394e538f James Mead http://blog.floehopper.org/articles/2008/03/13/remote-pair-programming pair programming agile xp gnu screen vnc skype osx terminal <p>Thanks to a tip from <a href="http://po-ru.com">Paul</a> and <a href="http://blog.seagul.co.uk">Chris</a>, I&#8217;m using GMail to deal with messages from a number of high traffic mailing lists e.g. <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020104.html">ruby-talk</a> and <a href="http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails">ruby on rails</a>.</p> <p>I&#8217;m using the <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/notifier/">GMail Notifier</a> on <span class="caps">OSX</span> to notify me of new messages. I have a number of filters set up to automatically <em>star</em> (<img src="http://mail.google.com/mail/images/star_on_sm_2.gif" alt="" />) potentially interesting posts and I wanted the Notifier to only tell me when I had new <em>starred</em> messages.</p> <p>I found <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=27663&#38;topic=1543">how</a> to do this for labelled messages and tried it with the label name set to &#8220;starred&#8221;. Sure enough it works :-)</p> <div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default ">defaults write com.google.GmailNotifier Label -string &quot;starred&quot;</code></pre></div> Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:03:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a3cfd12a-ef0d-4c1e-b88b-1d1997cdf6b7 James Mead http://blog.floehopper.org/articles/2006/08/11/gmail-notifier-starred-messages gmail notifier starred mail osx mac