Here I am back in London. I have spent two lovely weeks back home in Slovakia. I almost manage to go through the whole period without checking my email, twittering or other online activity. It has been very refreshing and my batteries have been recharged. I met lots of friends, family and I even made a trip to mountains.
I have realised that there is something about London which makes me productive. I am really not sure if I could be as productive as I am in here back home. It might have been the weather or atmoshpere created by people who soround you.
Anyway. It’s good to be back and work on all my projects. It will take time to get back to all of my routines but I am sure I will get there. I have already managed to get back to my 5am wake up calls and sundays 10k running. In terms of web design and development I have been working all day on seting up my localhost which I haven’t setup properly since I installed MAMP on my MAC, creating repositories on Github for all of my open projects. I have also done some back-end planing for my upcoming project management application. I need to get back to reading the rails books and also finish the Mark Boulton’s desingn book. I also need to install Capistrano for deploying and create testing enviroment on my web server.
The books giveaway
The books giveaway wasn’t as successful as I thought. I have sent two books and they bought came back so the postage is gone and the books are back. I have contacted both guys and we will try to sort out the situation. The books are still available and I will be sending the rest but UK only.
Useful trick for today
If you are MAC user and you are using terminal (which you should) there is a simple way to create aliases so you do not have to type the whole path to get into the folder you need to. The file called .bash_profile in your home directory can store all these paths with aliases. As example I show you how did I setup my blog. If I type blog into the terminal I end up in the wordpress folder where my blog sits. The only line you need to setup in the .bash_profile file is this: alias blog=’cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress’. That simply means. When I type blog then the other part of the sentence will be executed and that is: change directory (cd) and the path itself. You can add as many lines with aliases as you like. I have setup this way all of my projects which is very handy specially working with GIT. I remember the same thing can be done on Windows I just do not remember the file name and the exact syntax. If any of you know the solution for windows please type it into the comments and I will update the post.
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