Install CasperJS with PhantomJS on Cygwin
Stumbled across this much easier solution today for rigging up my favorite modern headless javascriptable browser tools on my favorite Windows-compatible shell. Should work in pretty much all versions of Windows/Cygwin/phantomjs/casperjs. Download phantomjs and casperjs and unzip them in c:\phantomjs…
PHPUnit for XAMPP on Windows with Cygwin
Steps to get PHPUnit to run on my XAMPP setup with Cygwin, so I can write and run Symfony2 unit tests. 1. Upgrade PEAR Download http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar to C:\xampp\php\go-pear.phar Run this in cmd.exe (cygwin prompts hosed somehow), taking all defaults c:\xampp\php>go-pear.batc:\xampp\php>go-pear.bat…
Open files in Emacs from the Cygwin command line
I just got this working today. The weirdnesses of Cygwin’s half Unix-half Windows nature had stymied me before, but I’ve prevailed! I’ve got Gnu Emacs 23.3 for Windows installed in c:/emacs, and a fairly recent install of Cygwin on Windows…
More Secure AND More Convenient: Secure Shell keys and agents everywhere you go
As security increases, convenience tends to decrease. But in this case we gain some of both. CONCEPTS Problem 1: Brute force SSH attackers I recently made a Linux machine accessible by port 22 from the Internet, so I could remotely…
