bpierre

Switch To Vim For Good

NOTE: This guide has moved to https://github.com/bpierre/switch-to-vim-for-good

This guide is coming from an email I used to send to newcomers to Vim. It is not intended to be a complete guide, it is about how I switched myself.

My decision to switch to Vim has been made a long time ago. Coming from TextMate 1, I wanted to learn an editor that is Open Source (so I don’t lose my time learning a tool that can be killed), cross platform (so I can use it everywhere), and powerful enough (so I won’t regret TextMate). For these reasons, Vim has always been the editor I wanted to learn, but it took me several years before I did it in a way that works for me. I tried to switch progressively, using the Janus Vim distribution for a few months, then got back to using TextMate 2 for a time, waiting for the next attempt… here is what finally worked for me.

Original gist with comments: https://gist.github.com/bpierre/0a0025d348b6001394e0

JasonGhent

# pulled from  http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
# expanded via http://superuser.com/questions/690060/how-to-enable-network-with-a-raspberry-pi-emulated-on-qemu
# tested with  2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy.zip on OSX Mavericks

# OSX terminal
brew install qemu
# kernel-qemu is a linux kernel compiled with ARM1176 support.
# learn more here: http://xecdesign.com/compiling-a-kernel/
curl -OL http://xecdesign.com/downloads/linux-qemu/kernel-qemu
curl -o raspbian_latest.zip -L http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest

dwwoelfel

In your repo's root directory, check in a requirements.txt with

boto==2.30.0

Then, from the project's Project Settings > Environment Variables page, add the two env vars: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY, with an IAM key that can deploy to eb.

Then create a bash script to set up eb:

jsomers

How to make the Webster's 1913 your default Kindle dictionary

1. Download a Kindle-compatible version of the dictionary here. Unzip the .rar archive.

2. Get the "Send to Kindle" program on your computer. Here's the link for the Mac.

3. Right-click your recently downloaded (unzipped) dictionary file, and click the "Send to Kindle" menu item. It will arrive on your Kindle shortly.

4. Once the dictionary has arrived, go to your settings -- on my newish paperwhite, it's at Home > Settings > Device Options > Language and Dictionaries > Dictionaries > English. Choose the Webster's 1913.

selenamarie

SQL for reporting queries

Datatypes: JSON, HLL

JSON

• http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.html

javan

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :ensure_xhr

  private
    def ensure_xhr
      if request.get? && request.format && (request.format.js? || request.format.json?)
        head :forbidden unless request.xhr?
      end
    end
end

eric-hu

-- Adapted from these sources:
-- http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html
-- https://gist.github.com/cowboy/905546
-- 
-- Modified to work with files as well, cd-ing to their container folder
on run {input, parameters}
  tell application "Finder"
		set my_file to first item of input
		set filetype to (kind of (info for my_file))
		-- Treats OS X applications as files.  To treat them as folders, integrate this SO answer:

gido

Installation

This procedure is tested on Mac OS X 10.8 with Developpers tools installed (xCode).

PHP 5.4 installed with Homebrew.

Update: I wrote a blog post about this.

Preparation

Download the following files from Oracle website (yes, you need to create an account and accept terms):

SlexAxton

gifify() {
  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
    if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then
      ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png
      time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png  GIF:- | gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif
      rm out-static*.png
    else
      ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif
    fi
  else

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this: