I was already using images in front of the fixed Menu/Page links (Home, Archives and Tags) and I wanted to be able to do the same for the additional pages. Putting an icon (using Font Awesome) directly in front of the title by either using the ‘Title:’ or first ‘#’ in the Markdown file for a page resulted in actual HTML code being displayed in the link. Not exactly what I was looking for…

Talking with David resulting in a change that now allows custom metadata to be used within {{#menu}} {{/menu}}. Couple of days after the implementation the functionality was broken…

Setting up Xcode Server with Xcode version 7.2.1 was troublesome to say the least. With a bit of Googling I got the following three issues resolved that prevent me from using the Xcode Server and its bots for continuous integration;

• Constant requests for access and asking to accept the license agreement
• SVN trunk with spaces in the name never get validated (works fine in Xcode itself)
• When running a web server on the same machine make original website inaccessible

Yesterday I posted an article on how to add Disqus comment and noted I was hoping to find a tag to get the Disqus shortname. I haven’t found the correct tag/variable yet, but there is already a method to at least make the template dynamic.

Blot.im allows you to create global variables for your template. I created a variable named disqus_shortname and gave it the value of sharedmemorydump.

On the entries page I wanted to be able to show the number of comments each post has. Disqus provides functionality for this purpose. See the article Adding comment count links to your home page (Disqus Knowledge Base) for more information about this feature.

Here are some of git commands I have found useful working with Git(Hub) repositories from the command line.

Make current directory into a github repo

git init

Push local repo to remote (github) repo

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git remote add origin <remote repository url>
git remote -v
git push origin master

For a GitHub repository the <remote repository url> has the following format https://github.com/<github user>/<repository name>.git

In January I have bought a number of applications for either my iOS devices or my Mac. I am planning to make a monthly post listed the most notable and/or useful applications and this is the first instalment.

Blink	Blink: Better Affiliate Links Squibner LLC
Version	2.2	With the iTunes affiliate program you can link to media on the iTunes Store, the iOS App Store, the Mac App Store and the iBook Store and earn commissions from purchases made via those links. This application makes is super easy to create these affiliate links.
Price	€ 4.99
Platform	iPhone/iPad
Requires	iOS 9+
Size	4.1 MB

In my post ‘Fixing dead links’ I described a little piece of jQuery code to automatically redirect URLs from the old blog to the URLs used on Blot.im.

David (the man behind Blot.im) had informed me that Blot.im has functionality for redirecting URLs as well as an overview of all the 404 errors for your blog. You won’t find these links anywhere in your Blot.im dashboard, but the links to be used are