I’ve been using Ubuntu on my laptop for the past few weeks and have found a few handy tips for flinging windows around. Here are a few keyboard shortcuts as well as some custom little commands that use wmctrl to do some custom window sizes and locations.
Setting up dnsmasq for local development
The Network Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS uses dnsmasq already. This makes it easy to set up a development domain to always return your localhost IP address. That way you can route *.dev to always return 127.0.0.1. Here’s what you need to do.
Installing WP-CLI and PHPUnit with Composer
WP-CLI and PHPUnit are excellent tools to use when developing and testing WordPress plugins. Composer is a great tool as well. It seems most people use Composer on a per-project basis – installing the packages they need just for the project they are working on. You can also install “global” packages, like these system tools, […]
