Productivity : Use Keypass to keep track of your environment’s credentials,

Some use Excel, Others simply use text files to keep track of their passwords, but I use keepass .

It is simply a vault for your logins and passwords which you can unlock with a single password. However I use it also for auto-piloting my login procedure.

keepass main window

The whole idea is not to have to use a pool of passwords for all systems and also to auto-start you log-in procedure and save waring off your precious fingers in typing useless usernames and passwords.

In this article I will show how to use keepass to auto-login to:

• Putty
• WinScp
• Toad
• SQLPLUS
• SiebelTools
• FieZilla

And from the examples above you would be able to use it with any command line tool as well.

You could also use it for keeping track of your web site usernames ,passwords and URL’s

It is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.

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Learn vi in 100 minutes.

If your working environment  has Linux or Unix systems in it, then you must have heard about vi the text editor.

Everything would be just faster if you could edit the text files in shell window with vi, rather than transfer them to a windows with (S)FTP –> Edit with notepad –> transfer back to *NIX.

Thats why I created the “vi tutorial”. find it in my Tutorials page.

The tutorial is available here in PDF, HTML and Adobe-Flash Formats

I recommend you to have a look at the Regular Expressions tutorial also.

This tutorial:

• Explains the two modes of operations in VI.
• Explains various commands and shortcut keys for text manipulation.
• How to search and replace efficiently with regular expressions with vi.
• Using vi in several work scenarios, for example fixing CR LF windows-to-*nix problem.
• Explains 3  copy/cut’n’paste techniques possible with vi.
• How to set up vi properly.

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