Many developers use Vagrant to maintain development environments. Some may not realize that there is a Vagrant plugin architecture that can extended functionality. Plugins provide a wide range of functionality including, new commands, low level Vagrant interaction with action hooks, new providers to replace VirtualBox, and extended host and guest capabilities.

I would like to introduce a new blog project, shelldevel.net. The blog was setup to allow a few friends to easily share tips they found while working on setting up a shell-based IDE (integrated development environment). Using VIM, tmux, and a number of other command line tools, very powerful and fast development can be accomplished.

The day Jeremy Edgell, a co-worker at Classic, mentioned it was possible to checkout pull requests, I knew that this trick would greatly increase my code review efficiency. Jeremy's solution involved adding an additional reference to the pull request location in an individual git repo's .git/config file. You can see a similar example to Jeremy's Stash solution in this gist.

Checking out a Github pull request (Note: The git alias, gpr-origin, indicates the remote to reference. I have one setup for origin and upstream.)