Recently discovered Chocolatey, which I’ll be using for basic software installation on new machines.

Chocolatey both suffers and benefits from its community-driven packages. While there are a large number of packages available, especially compared to similar windows tools, several packages I tried are were not functioning and seem abandoned.

My current install script and package lists can be found here.

When running the setup_github_pages task, the ampersand in … can be escaped with a caret symbol.

Rakefile.rb

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ task :setup_github_pages, :repo do |t, args|
   mkdir deploy_dir
   cd "#{deploy_dir}" do
     system "git init"
-    system "echo 'My Octopress Page is coming soon …' > index.html"
+    system "echo 'My Octopress Page is coming soon ^…' > index.html"
     system "git add ."
     system "git commit -m \"Octopress init\""
     system "git branch -m gh-pages" unless branch == 'master'