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Setup OSX with a Clean Install

About once a year, my machine gets pretty sluggish and it's time to start fresh. Here's the process I use to update it with everything I need.

TODO: Add info about dotfiles set up and zsh (possible settings file?)

1. Start with a Fresh Install of OS X

• Save all dotfiles to a repo for easy transfer
• Back up all photos, music, apps, iTunes library, keychains, etc.

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OS X Preferences

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most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

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Use wget to mirror a single page and its visible dependencies (images, styles)

Graphic via State of Florida CFO Vendor Payment Search (flair.myfloridacfo.com)

This is a quick command I use to snapshot webpages that have a fun image I want to keep for my own collection of WTFViz. Why not just right-click and save the image? Oftentimes, the webpage in which the image is embedded contains necessary context, such as captions and links to important documentation just incase you forget what exactly that fun graphic was trying to explain.

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Project Overview

So this should take them about an 30 mins to 1 hr, depending on how in depth they get. I wanted to keep the instructions as vague as possible with little direction to see how they operate. Here is a list of things we'll be looking for as we QA:

• Questions, if they ask any
• Github
• Javascript/JQuery
• HTML Markup
• PHP Logic
• Git Committing

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Contract Killer 3

Revised date: 07/11/2012

Between us [company name] and you [customer name]

Summary:

We’ll always do our best to fulfil your needs and meet your expectations, but it’s important to have things written down so that we both know what’s what, who should do what and when, and what will happen if something goes wrong. In this contract you won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into signing something that you might later regret. What we do want is what’s best for both parties, now and in the future.

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To shut off all comments/trackbacks/pingbacks in the WordPress Admin, the steps for cleanup are:

• remove all pending comments marked as spam (the WP Optimize plugin is great for this)
• disable all comments/trackbacks/pingbacks in the WP Admin (following all the steps here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-comments-off/)
• remove all Theme references to comments_template/pingback_url in the active Theme
• set archive posts/etc. to disable comments/trackbacks in the database: http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/FAQ#I_have_disabled_comments.2C_but_comments_continue_to_be_posted
• [OPTIONAL] add Theme code to disable comments and access to comments: http://www.dfactory.eu/wordpress-how-to/turn-off-disable-comments/
• Deactive/remove antispam plugins after all steps are completed above. No plugins should be needed if you followed the steps above, but if you need to install a free plugin, [Antispam Bee](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/

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http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx
http://blo.gs/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blog.with2.net/ping.php
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2
http://blogpingr.de/ping/rpc2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://geourl.org/ping

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<?php 
$beforeTime = microtime(true);

function helloWorld() {  
  // Do stuff
}

$afterTime = microtime(true);

echo "Loading helloWorld: ".($afterTime - $beforeTime) . '<br />';

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To shut off all comments/trackbacks/pingbacks in the WordPress Admin, the steps for cleanup are:

• remove all pending comments marked as spam (the WP Optimize plugin is great for this)
• disable all comments/trackbacks/pingbacks in the WP Admin (following all the steps here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-comments-off/)
• remove all Theme references to comments_template/pingback_url in the active Theme
• set archive posts/etc. to disable comments/trackbacks in the database: http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/FAQ#I_have_disabled_comments.2C_but_comments_continue_to_be_posted
• [OPTIONAL] add Theme code to disable comments and access to comments: http://www.dfactory.eu/wordpress-how-to/turn-off-disable-comments/
• Deactive/remove antispam plugins after all steps are completed above. No plugins should be needed if you followed the steps above, but if you need to install a free plugin, [Antispam Bee](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/

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<?php 

/* =BEGIN: Remove WP generated junk from head
    Source: http://digwp.com/2010/03/wordpress-functions-php-template-custom-functions/
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
function removeHeadLinks() {
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' );
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wp_generator' );
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' );
    remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 );