kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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AndreaCatania

/// This 

unsafe {
        ffmpeg::av_register_all();

        // This portion of code was written by taking as resource: http://dranger.com/ffmpeg/tutorial01.html
        // This article is outdated, and some APIs got deprecated, here I used the non deprecated version.
        //
        // The idea of FFmpeg is to
        // 1. open the file

georgiana-gligor

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

charlesdaniel

var http = require('http');

var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
        // console.log(req);   // debug dump the request

        // If they pass in a basic auth credential it'll be in a header called "Authorization" (note NodeJS lowercases the names of headers in its request object)

        var auth = req.headers['authorization'];  // auth is in base64(username:password)  so we need to decode the base64
        console.log("Authorization Header is: ", auth);