How to keep your forked repositories in sync with the source repository

This blog post aims to answer the following questions. How to contribute to Open Source Projects (Partially)? How to keep forked repositories in sync with the source repository ? How to pull the commits from source repository to the forked repository? I often forked open source repositories found in github and also commit back to … Continue reading “How to keep your forked repositories in sync with the source repository”

[Solved] How to deploy php app to heroku from windows

I am fulltime linux user and parttime windows user. Lately I have started working with windows for some project stuffs. I found windows quite frustating and limited to what linux provided me. Well it’s all personal feelings. I always hated unnecessary installations of extra applications for the same tools which most of the linux distributions … Continue reading “[Solved] How to deploy php app to heroku from windows”

[Solved] Mount of root filesystem failed – Ubuntu

I `dist-upgrade` my system yesterday. And there were few issues with locale package with my terminal. I manually edited the file `/etc/default/locale` and in hasty copy pasted the few codes found online at (http://askubuntu.com/questions/33025/locale-settings-are-not-right-how-can-i-reset-them). I then saved and restarted my laptop to see the changes. Bang ! I began to receive the error. [sourcecode language=”bash”] … Continue reading “[Solved] Mount of root filesystem failed – Ubuntu”

Introduction to drush for drupal development

What is drush ? Drush is very popular and useful tool for drupal developers. It provides us shell access to the drupal commands and functions which otherwise had to be accessed using the menus provided in the drupal administration. It helps us to enable/disable modules, installs  dependency modules automatically, manage users, permissions etc. For complete … Continue reading “Introduction to drush for drupal development”

Install Instantbird in ubuntu11.10 with unity/docky launcher

I have been longtime user of Pidgin and liked it very much. But recenlty I was having problem with it. It was frequently breaking up the connections and dropping my messages. So, I had to look for alternatives and found instantbird and gave it try. It multimessenger client so you can be online in multiple … Continue reading “Install Instantbird in ubuntu11.10 with unity/docky launcher”