My 2cents …

Bowery is a limitless development environment available at http://bowery.io/.It is free for DEVELOPERS and STARTUPS. All you need to do is configure one simple file per host. With a few lines bowery is setting up a host inkl. your app, the dependencies (like redis, mongodb,..) and up you go. Your app will be online in a short time inkl. ssh access to the VM.

PS: Signup is done via the CLI. I think this is a trend 😉

Working with several Vagrant boxes in parallel can be tricky. So today I wrote a small shell script to help me here. It will

• start the VM (if not already running),
• Login into the VM via SSH,
• suspend the VM after exiting the VM (if you want)

Shell script:
#/bin/bash
if [ -f ./Vagrantfile ]
then
if vagrant status | grep -q "running ("
then
echo Box is already running
else
echo Starting box ...
vagrant up
fi
echo Login in ...
vagrant ssh
read -n1 -p "Suspend box ? [y,N]" doit
case $doit in
y|Y) vagrant suspend ;;
n|N) echo OK ;;
*) echo OK ;;
esac
else
echo No Vagrantfile found!
fi

Just want to download a Podcast (like Frühstück bei Stefanie) to you local machine?
This does the trick:

www.ndr.de/ndr2/start/fruehstueck_bei_stefanie/podcast/podcast2956.xml
grep -oP “(?<=)[^<]+" podcast2956.xml | xargs wget

run inside a terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal CopyAttributesProfile com.apple.Terminal.no-attributes