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Jenkins CI has its own small HTTP server after installation. You can use it easily when you need to publish your own html pages, e.g. code documentation such as Rdocs or YARD docs. To publish you content you need to put your files to /var/lib/jenkins/userContent directory (default path for Ubuntu installation). That’s it! Now you can find your pages on http://<your_jenkins_url>/userContent/your_page.html . As a result you’ve got http -server with restricted access for Jenkins users. Written with StackEdit .

Gedit is my favorite text editor in Ubuntu . It’s almost perfect for me. I use it for fast files editing or simple scripts writing when I don’t want to open my IDE . But I feel uncomfortable with Gedit when I cannot click links directly in text. We can fix it easily with External Tools plugin. All we need is to write a simple script (I prefer Ruby ) and run it through External Tools . Write Ruby script Create click_link.rb in your home directory. Paste following text to click_link.rb #!/usr/local/bin/ruby v1 = ARGV [ 0 ] require "uri" url = URI . extract ( v1 )[ 0 ] system ( "firefox #{url.to_s}" ) Do not forget to make click_link.rb executable chmod + x click_link . rb Create External Tool for Gedit Enable External Tools plugin in Preferences Tools > Manage External Tools Add new tool Paste following text #!/bin/sh /< your_path_to_file >/ click_link . rb $GEDIT_CURRENT_LINE Set Input = Current line and se...

I really love Markdown . It’s simple, fast and powerful. I’m trying to use it everywhere. Evernote and markdown Many years I was trying to use Evernote as my own knowledge base . After some weeks copy-pasting from different web sites my notes turned to a mess. Marxico - the best markdown editor I found which allows to sync notes with Evernote . If you have a lot of code in your notes you need something like Marxico to make your notes more structured and pretty. But Marxico has some minuses as well: it’s not free . Year subscription costs $24.99 USD. You cannot edit your posts in the Evernote directly. You still have to use Marxico to edit your posts. Blogging with markdown Markdown can also help you to blog easily. This post is written with Stackedit . Just type simple plain text in markdown , import it to Blogger in one click and you will get pretty html post in your blog. It’s very similar to Marxico but it doesn’t have Evernote integration. On the ...