Daniel S Poulin EpocSquadron

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:

ExpressionEngine 1.x cookies

This document outlines all of the cookies use by ExpressionEngine 1.x. With the EU cookie law coming into force on May 26th, it's important to know what cookies are set, which are 'essential' and why they are there. Hopefully this will help advise your decision process when altering your site to adhere.

I haven't yet gotten to any special addons etc. or even forums or comments. Please do fork and and send pull requests if you'd care to add anything.

Non essential

Awesome PHP

Awesome PHP has been relocated permanently to its own Github repository. No further updates will made to this gist.

Please open an issue for any new suggestions.

OS X Preferences

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

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# ~/.virtualenvs/postactivate
	#

	# This hook is run after this virtualenv is activated.
	source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

	# use a specific version of Ruby
	rvm use 1.9.3

	server {
	index index.php;
	set $basepath "/var/www";

	set $domain $host;

	# check one name domain for simple application
	if ($domain ~ "^(.[^.]*)\.dev$") {
	set $domain $1;
	set $rootpath "${domain}";


	#
	# Slightly tighter CORS config for nginx
	#
	# A modification of https://gist.github.com/1064640/ to include a white-list of URLs
	#
	# Despite the W3C guidance suggesting that a list of origins can be passed as part of
	# Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers, several browsers (well, at least Firefox)
	# don't seem to play nicely with this.
	#

	function domdown(dom) {
	if (dom.type === "tag") {
	if (dom.name === "br") {
	return " \n";
	}

	if (dom.name === "em") {
	return "" + ent.decode(dom.data) + "\n";
	}

	#!/bin/bash
	# Script for placing sudoers.d files with syntax-checking

	# Making a temporary file to contain the sudoers-changes to be pre-checked
	TMP=$(mktemp -t vagrant_sudoers)
	cat /etc/sudoers > $TMP
	cat >> $TMP <<EOF

	# Allow passwordless startup of Vagrant when using NFS.
	Cmnd_Alias VAGRANT_EXPORTS_ADD = /usr/bin/su root -c echo '*' >> /etc/exports