timvisee

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

seanjtaylor

dirkgroenen

Grab new backup of database

Command: heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production

Response: >>> HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL (DATABASE_URL) ----backup---> a712

Get url of backup download

Command: heroku pgbackups:url [db_key] --remote production

fay59

#!/bin/bash

# requires jq
# arg 1: iCloud web album URL
# arg 2: folder to download into (optional)

function curl_post_json {
	curl -sH "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d "@-" "$@"
}

chriseidhof

// gem install cocoapods-playgrounds
// pod playgrounds LibYAML

// Update: @floriankugler had a great idea to use UnsafeBufferPointer

// Paste in the following:

import LibYAML

public struct YAMLError: ErrorType {

Nitewriter

#!/bin/bash
# Markdown change log for the last 20 commits
CHANGE_LOG=$(git log --pretty=format:"* %s" --no-merges --no-color -n 20)

echo CHANGE_LOG

curl \
  -F "status=2" \
  -F "notify=1" \
  -F "notes=$CHANGE_LOG" \

wcaleb

#! /usr/bin/env python

import sys, requests

# Usage: Pass URL to script, get back URL to Wayback Machine snapshot

base_url = 'http://web.archive.org'
r = requests.get(base_url + '/save/' + sys.argv[1])

if r.status_code == requests.codes.ok:

ScottCooper92

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtIMTCHWuI

http://www.youtube.com/v/-wtIMTCHWuI?version=3&autohide=1

http://youtu.be/-wtIMTCHWuI

http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D-wtIMTCHWuI&format=json

http://s.ytimg.com/yt/favicon-wtIMTCHWuI.ico

mattt

Season's Greetings, NSHipsters!

As the year winds down, and we take a moment to reflect on our experiences over the past months, one thing is clear: 2014 has been an incredible year professionally for Apple developers. So much has happened in such a short timespan, and yet it's hard to remember our relationship to Objective-C before Swift, or what APIs could have captivated our imagination as much as iOS 8 or WatchKit.

It's an NSHipster tradition to ask you, dear readers, to send in your favorite tips and tricks from the past year for publication over the New Year's holiday. This year, with the deluge of new developments—both from Cupertino and the community at large—there should be no shortage of interesting tidbits to share.

Submit your favorite piece of Swift or Objective-C trivia, framework arcana, hidden Xcode feature, or anything else you think is cool, and you could have it featured in the year-end blowout article. Just comment on this gist below!

If you're wondering about what to post, look to

daniellevass

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

<!-- google's material design colours from 
http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html#color-ui-color-palette -->

    <!--reds-->
    <color name="md_red_50">#FFEBEE</color>
    <color name="md_red_100">#FFCDD2</color>
    <color name="md_red_200">#EF9A9A</color>