Hello all,

This is a little problem due to the fact you are probably behind a proxy. You can solve this quickly with this command lines:

MAC:

export ATOM_NODE_URL=http://gh-contractor-zcbenz.s3.amazonaws.com/atom-shell/dist

WINDOWS:

// PERMANENT
setx ATOM_NODE_URL http://gh-contractor-zcbenz.s3.amazonaws.com/atom-shell/dist /M
// TEMPORARY
setx ATOM_NODE_URL http://gh-contractor-zcbenz.s3.amazonaws.com/atom-shell/dist

then finally run

apm install [PACKAGE-NAME]

reference: Unable to install packages behind corporate proxy

Hi everybody,
What do you do when a client of yours ask for a mailbox? Some developers prefer to buy mailboxes on their domain providers (1-5$ year/mailbox), others are so experienced in postfix and unix administration that can configure a mail server in 5 minutes. I sincerely hate handling mailboxes. They are long to configure, i don’t like self-hosted web interfaces like roundCube and i hate to spend time to fine-tune the server in order to avoid black lists and spam.

So i come up with this revelation:

let’s use something like Mandrill which has a huge free tier to handle personal emails.

I expected to find tons of material to support my idea or some critical issue that destroys it completely… but actually i found a little and i was able to make it working perfectly!

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Hello everybody.

This error occurs when this conditions are met:

1. You have node -v greater than 0.11.x (probably 0.12.x)
2. You are behind a proxy (probably your company’s)
3. You are using cordova-cli (that’s my guess, but it’s the same with ionic-cli)

The solution was not that easy to find on google, most of the people just treated it as a bug waiting to be fixed, but actually you can get your ‘cordova platform add’ in few seconds with these commands:

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Hello everybody,
I bet everybody has his own cloud solution for syncing it’s folders from home to work, viceversa and between devices.
Before today i always relied on a Dropbox / Google Drive combo depending on the project:

• Dropbox is great with Heroku which has a sync plugin (super-sweet!!) and its client is fast and not memory wasting
• Google Drive client is super slow and takes ages to init but i tend to use a lot the whole google suite on the web and it’s really integrated well (history, revisions, etc)

BUT as any other web developer i have this big, nasty problem of not wanting to sync:

1. Git repositories (.git folders)
2. NPM modules (node_modules folders) or Bower components (bower_components folders)
3. Other trash folders left by the various IDE (nbproject folder) or OS (Thumbs.db files)

Everybody have tried a npm install with devastating consequences for poor cloud clients and it’s a known fact that in the long run both dropbox/drive will corrupt a git repo.

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Hello all,
This is a rather important topic with a rather simple solution:

1. Add to your build an Execute Shell
   
2.  Set the command to something like:

   if [ -f "$file" ]
   then
       echo "$file found."
   else
       echo "$file not found."
       exit 1
   fi

The important part for the failure is exit 1

If the condition meets it (and for what we care they can always meet it), exit 1 will fail the job.

Remembers that anything that fails (even plugins/syntax errors) will make the job fail.
Don’t fail at failing.