My very customized bash prompt

Bash’s $PS1 variable is what you see every time you get a prompt. It’s there, waiting for you to type something.
Some people go minimal … maybe just “$” like the Bourne shell. Others go crazy and cram as much information as possible … on multiple lines … in colors.
My $PS1 falls somewhere in the middle, [...]

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Booklife now open-sourced!

I never intended to make money with booklife. There were 3 objectives for that project:

Practice Rails.
Track my books, obviously.
Be able to track my friends’ books.

Consequently, booklife has already fulfilled its purpose.
I’ve received feedback, but there’s only finite time I can invest in developing new features. Making booklife open-source would allow people to contribute and scratch [...]

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Booklife update

Since booklife went up (December 7th), I’ve added the following features:

logo links back to login page
“add to my books” link when looking at other people’s books
a direct link to amazon from the ISBN
per user RSS feed

Subscribe to a user by clicking on the “RSS” icon in your browser.
Here’s my RSS feed.

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Taking “control” of the command-line

I created a short screencast (3m40s) to show the ctrl-key shortcuts in action. I’m always surprised that people don’t know/use these more.

Cheatsheet:

shortcut
what does it do?

ctrl-l
clears the screen

ctrl-u
erases the whole line

ctrl-a
brings cursor to the beginning of the line

ctrl-e
brings cursor to the end of the line

ctrl-k
erases from cursor to the end of the line

ctrl-w
erases the last word [...]

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Booklife goes Live

I read a lot … enough to write a webapp to track what I want to read, what I’m reading and what I read. I give you booklife.
Booklife is an application to scratch one of my itch.
How I use it:

when I hear about a book, I put it somewhere in my lists
when I’m batching books [...]

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