Alexis La Porte aklap

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:

Setting up github and bitbucket on the same computer (Windows)

Guide for Windows

mix3d asked for some help using this guide with windows so here we go. This was tested with Windows 10. Run all commands in Git Bash once it's installed.

Github will be the main account and bitbucket the secondary.

Git for Windows

Download and install Git for Windows
- In the installer, select everything but decide if you want a desktop icon (2nd step)

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

Jekyll & Liquid Cheatsheet

A list of the most common functionalities in Jekyll (Liquid). You can use Jekyll with GitHub Pages, just make sure you are using the proper version.

Running

Running a local server for testing purposes:

	# Ways to execute a shell script in Ruby
	# Example Script - Joseph Pecoraro

	cmd = "echo 'hi'" # Sample string that can be used

	# 1. Kernel#` - commonly called backticks - `cmd`
	# This is like many other languages, including bash, PHP, and Perl
	# Synchronous (blocking)
	# Returns the output of the shell command
	# Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001111

	=Navigating=
	visit('/projects')
	visit(post_comments_path(post))

	=Clicking links and buttons=
	click_link('id-of-link')
	click_link('Link Text')
	click_button('Save')
	click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
	click('Button Value')

	Steps to install and run PostgreSQL 9.2 using Homebrew (Mac OS X)
	(if you aren't using version 9.1.5, change line 6 with the correct version)

	1. launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
	2. mv /usr/local/var/postgres /usr/local/var/postgres91
	3. brew update
	4. brew upgrade postgresql
	5. initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
	6. pg_upgrade -b /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.5/bin -B /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.0/bin -d /usr/local/var/postgres91 -D /usr/local/var/postgres
	7. cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.0/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

	#!/bin/sh
	# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Extract the bookmark annotations from the Kobo database.
	# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
	kobodir=/media/KOBOeReader
	db="$kobodir/.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite"
	sqlite3 "$db" 'select VolumeID,StartContainerPath,Text,Annotation from Bookmark;' \|
	awk -F'\|' 'BEGIN{OFS="\|"}{gsub("/", "_", $1); print}' \|
	sort -t/ -k1 -k2 -n -k4 -k5 -k6 -k7 -k8 \|
	sed ' s/[^\|]\|// s/[^\|]\|// s/\|/\n\n/ s/$/\n\n/ '

	function delay(expressionAsFunction) {
	var result;
	var isEvaluated = false;

	return function () {
	if (!isEvaluated)
	result = expressionAsFunction();
	return result;
	};
	}

	---
	layout: default
	title: Archive
	---

	<div class="post">
	<h2>Archive</h2>
	<ul>
	{% for post in site.posts %}
	{% unless post.next %}