Saving Time By Automating Simple Procedures
August 5th, 2009
This post is slightly geekier, and more hands on than most of my recent posts, but it follows the same theme: efficiency.
The life of a developer is fraught with repetition. Minimizing said repetition makes me very happy. The other day I noticed that whenever I start working on a project I start with the following routine:
- Open Terminal
- cd to the working folder for the project so I can pull the latest files from the Git repository
- Open the working files in TextMate.
After these steps, the process diverges, but those first three steps are constant. I keep my project files well organized so I have a hope in hell of remembering where things are, so even changing directories to my working files follows a pattern (cd projects/projectname.com/working). Continue Reading
