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

To compress PNG I used to make use of a Mac application named PNG Compressor, but since this is a Mac application it is not much of use when I am not at home using my Mac. A quick search brought me to TinyPNG. Using their website you can upload your images to have them compressed. As soon as the compression is down you can download the images.

For the post Earning Bitcoins by playing games I want the include not only some screenshots from the applications, but also the application icons so one could easily identify the applications in the App Store.

Since I was abroad when I wrote the article I had only access to an iPhone 6 and an iPad Mini there were some challenges but in the end I managed to get everything done using my mobile devices.