jasonrudolph

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

saetia

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

ryanfitz

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

// Suggestions from golang-nuts
// http://play.golang.org/p/Ctg3_AQisl

dergachev

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:

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

PaulKinlan

(function() { 
  var CSSCriticalPath = function(w, d, opts) {
    var opt = opts || {};
    var css = {};
    var pushCSS = function(r) {
      if(!!css[r.selectorText] === false) css[r.selectorText] = {};
      var styles = r.style.cssText.split(/;(?![A-Za-z0-9])/);
      for(var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
        if(!!styles[i] === false) continue;
        var pair = styles[i].split(": ");

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

codeinthehole

How to share a folder with a docker container on OSX

Mounting shared folders between OSX and the docker container is tricky due to the intermediate boot2docker VM. You can't use the usual docker -v option as the docker server knows nothing about the OSX filesystem - it can only mount folders from the boot2docker filesystem. Fortunately, you can work around this using SSHFS.

e1024kb

{
  "countries": [
    {
      "country": "Afghanistan",
      "states": ["Badakhshan", "Badghis", "Baghlan", "Balkh", "Bamian", "Daykondi", "Farah", "Faryab", "Ghazni", "Ghowr", "Helmand", "Herat", "Jowzjan", "Kabul", "Kandahar", "Kapisa", "Khost", "Konar", "Kondoz", "Laghman", "Lowgar", "Nangarhar", "Nimruz", "Nurestan", "Oruzgan", "Paktia", "Paktika", "Panjshir", "Parvan", "Samangan", "Sar-e Pol", "Takhar", "Vardak", "Zabol"]
    },
    {
      "country": "Albania",
      "states": ["Berat", "Dibres", "Durres", "Elbasan", "Fier", "Gjirokastre", "Korce", "Kukes", "Lezhe", "Shkoder", "Tirane", "Vlore"]
    },

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent