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@dnagir
dnagir / timezone.rb
Last active December 16, 2019 15:37
Rspec time zones sledgehammer
# spec/support/timezone.rb
module TimeZoneHelpers
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
def self.randomise_timezone!
offsets = ActiveSupport::TimeZone.all.group_by(&:formatted_offset)
zones = offsets[offsets.keys.sample] # Random offset to better vary the time zone differences
Time.zone = zones.sample # Random zone from the offset (can be just 1st, but let's do random)
puts "Current rand time zone: #{Time.zone}. Repro: Time.zone = #{Time.zone.name.inspect}"
end
@porras
porras / .bash_profile
Created June 25, 2013 08:29
Changing terminal color in MacOSX when SSHing
# Changing terminal color in MacOSX when SSHing (so you know at a glance that you're no longer in Kansas)
# Adapted from http://www.rngtng.com/2011/01/14/mac-os-x-terminal-visual-indication-for-your-ssh-connection/
# 1. Create a theme in your terminal setting with the name "SSH" and the desired colors, background, etc.
# 2. Add this to your .bash_profile (or .bashrc, I always forget the difference ;))
# 3. Optional but useful: in the terminal, go to Settings > Startup and set "New tabs open with" to
# "default settings" (otherwise, if you open a new tab from the changed one, you get a local tab with
# the SSH colors)
function tabc() {
NAME=$1; if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then NAME="Default"; fi # if you have trouble with this, change
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active May 5, 2025 13:05
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@brentsimmons
brentsimmons / gist:5810992
Last active January 3, 2021 02:22
Detect a tap on a URL inside a UITextView. Note: the rs_links method isn't included -- you'll need something that takes text and returns an array of detected links. This gist just demonstrates walking through the UITextView characters.
@implementation UITextView (RSExtras)
static BOOL stringCharacterIsAllowedAsPartOfLink(NSString *s) {
/*[s length] is assumed to be 0 or 1. s may be nil.
Totally not a strict check.*/
if (s == nil || [s length] < 1)
return NO;
@iwarshak
iwarshak / Gemfile
Last active May 12, 2018 21:54
Here is what you need to get your Rubymotion application logs sent to papertrailapp.com. I am using Cocoalumberjack (CLJ) which seems to be the logging framework of choice for Cocoa, motion-logger which is a thin RM wrapper around Cocoalumberjack. CLJ allows you to write your own loggers, which is what PapertrailLogger is. It simply fires off lo…
source :rubygems
gem "rake"
gem 'motion-logger' #cocoalumberjack wrapper
@adamwiggins
adamwiggins / adams-heroku-values.md
Last active November 27, 2024 17:06
My Heroku values

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@steipete
steipete / PSPDFUIKitMainThreadGuard.m
Last active May 27, 2024 12:11
This is a guard that tracks down UIKit access on threads other than main. This snippet is taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com, but relicensed under MIT. Works because a lot of calls internally call setNeedsDisplay or setNeedsLayout. Won't catch everything, but it's very lightweight and usually does the job.You might n…
// Taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com.
// Copyright (c) 2014 Peter Steinberger, PSPDFKit GmbH. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
//
// You should only use this in debug builds. It doesn't use private API, but I wouldn't ship it.
// PLEASE DUPE rdar://27192338 (https://openradar.appspot.com/27192338) if you would like to see this in UIKit.
#import <objc/runtime.h>
#import <objc/message.h>
class MyController < UIViewController
def viewDidLoad
@button = UIButton.alloc.init
@button.when_tapped do
weak_self = WeakRef.new(self) # <--- create a weak reference to self
@alert = UIAlertView.alertViewWithTitle "Alert",
message: "Message",
cancelButtonTitle: "Dismiss",
# in rails application.rb
initializer "postgresql.no_default_string_limit" do
ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::PostgreSQLAdapter::NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES[:string].delete(:limit)
end
end
@mattt
mattt / uiappearance-selector.md
Last active February 7, 2025 15:27
A list of methods and properties conforming to `UIAppearance` as of iOS 12 Beta 3

Generate the list yourself:

$ cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS*.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers
$ grep UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR ./*     | \
  sed 's/NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(.*)//g'     | \
  sed 's/NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(.*)//g'    | \
  sed 's/API_AVAILABLE(.*)//g'        | \
  sed 's/API_UNAVAILABLE(.*)//g'      | \
 sed 's/UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR//g' | \