Current Packages for the Nu Package Management

I’ve been doing Rub on Rails now for about 3 months, and I’m really getting into it.  So many nice libraries and conventions to help get applications out the door faster.  Unfortunately my RoR work doesn’t pay the bills yet.  By day I’m a .NET developer.  Recently I came across a blog post written by Ayende Rahien that mentions the use of a new package management utility for .NET developers.  For years Ruby on Rails developers have enjoyed the luxury of installing libraries using the gem utility.  Its really handy to have at your disposal.  Read up on it.  There is now a similar package management utility available for .NET developers called Nu, short for Nubular.  If you read Ayende Rahien’s blog you’ll see how it works.

Current Nu packages are available here. 

I hope this project catches on and the list continues to grow.  This is going to make things really handy and really quick to get the latest versions of the most common libraries that I use for development.  Best of all now I don’t have to do the package management myself on some file share of mine.

Git back here

If you used the git rm command, ignored the warning, you will notice that the file doesn't get removed from your repository, it gets removed from your file system.  There is no trash bin with git either.  You might be in luck if you did a git add first, then issued the git rm command.  Your file will have been hashed and added to the git staging area.  You can retrieve that file by issuing the following command:

git fsck --lost-found

This will pull all the files out of the staging area and drop them in the folder .git/lost-found/other.  One catch though.  The file isn't named as you would think, or hope.  The file is named with its hash value.  This is ok, you haven't lost the contents of the file, just the file name.  If you poke around in the files a bit, you'll find what you are looking for.  Its not perfect, but the content is there.  And yes, I did do this.