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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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Running emscripten on OS X

There are a number of additional dependencies required for getting things installed on OS X. Starting with a blank slate OS X machine, this is the process it takes:

# Install Xcode Command Line Tools

# Install Homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

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'use strict';

var q = require('q');

/**
 * Constructs a function that proxies to promiseFactory
 * limiting the count of promises that can run simultaneously.
 * @param promiseFactory function that returns promises.
 * @param limit how many promises are allowed to be running at the same time.
 * @returns function that returns a promise that eventually proxies to promiseFactory.

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#!/bin/bash
# Install sleepwatcher
sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/sleepwatcher/2.2/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility.plist /Library/LaunchAgents/
sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/sleepwatcher/2.2/etc/sleepwatcher/rc.* /etc/c

# Add bluetooth script to /etc/rc.wakeup (the script requires root)
sudo tee -a /etc/rc.wakeup <<EOF
kextunload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport && sleep 3 && kextload -b com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport
EOF

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Ace editor component for Ember.

• A two-way binding is set up between value and the text in the editor.
• Configure Ace in the aceInit callback.

Template

{{ace-editor value=value aceInit=aceInit class="editor"}}

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let module = macro {
	case {_
		$name
			import $params (,) ...
	} => {
		letstx $name_str = [makeValue(unwrapSyntax(#{$name}), #{here})];
		return #{
			angular.module($name_str, [$params (,) ...])
		};
	}

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#!/bin/bash

OUT=$1
shift

# Usage: ./mergepdf OUTPUT file1 file2 file3 ...
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$OUT $@

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#!/bin/bash

sudo rm -Rf /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app
sudo rm -Rf /Library/Application\ Support/VMware
sudo rm -Rf /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion
sudo rm -Rf /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion
rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion
rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches/com.vmware.fusion
rm -Rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.vmware.fusion*

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// START //
struct node {
  node *left;
  node *right;
  int val;
};

// Mirrors the tree and returns the root node. The root should be passes as *node.
node* mirror_tree(struct node* node) {
  struct node* temp;

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Useful Google Wave Gadgets

Whiteboard

• Napkin - http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml
• Whiteboard Gadget - http://vps.michaelrose.id.au/canvas.xml - Draw on a virtual whiteboard.
• Vector Editor - http://jsvectoreditor.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wave/vectoreditor.xml - A cross platform collaborative real time vector graphics editor.

Project management

• Gravity (paid, I suppose)
• Plany - http://secowela.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Web/Gadget2/hello.xml - Plany is a wave gadget for collaboratively creating a project plan and to keep track of project progress.