Kate-Get

Kate-Get is now depreciated since Kate removed the external tools plugin.

Kate-Get is a little Ruby gem I made after I switched over to using Kate and Git for development. When working on web applications, I often find myself running several developments sites running on remote servers. I like to edit the remote files over SFTP directly so that once I save them I can see the changes applied immediately. I might have many files open in Kate at a time like this, but once I’m happy with the current state of them, I want an easy way to pull them into my local git repo to commit the changes. Kate-Get does this with rsync and can be configured for multiple remote sites through a simple YAML config file.

Install or develop Kate-Get

New site style using Sass and Compass

This is pretty much my first post since the soft launch of my site several months ago. I’ve been busy with other projects and I wanted to hold off on working on the site until I had a chance to become more familiar with git and decide on what web development tools to code the site with. The new style is still a first draft but I really like how it turned out. It’s now running on the technology I will be using for any future work on this site; here is what I’ve decided on so far:
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