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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:

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

The Ultimate Git Alias Setup

If you use git on the command-line, you'll eventually find yourself wanting aliases for your most commonly-used commands. It's incredibly useful to be able to explore your repos with only a few keystrokes that eventually get hardcoded into muscle memory.

Some people don't add aliases because they don't want to have to adjust to not having them on a remote server. Personally, I find that having aliases doesn't mean I that forget the underlying commands, and aliases provide such a massive improvement to my workflow that it would be crazy not to have them.

The simplest way to add an alias for a specific git command is to use a standard bash alias.

# .bashrc

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	var xmpp = require('node-xmpp');

	//Set node-xmpp options.
	//Replace with your projectID in the jid and your API key in the password
	//The key settings for CCS are the last two to force SSL and Plain SASL auth.
	var options = {
	type: 'client',
	jid: '[email protected]',
	password: 'XXXXXXXX',
	port: 5235,

	# This script has to be run as a root user
	echo "* Updating system"
	apt-get update
	apt-get -y upgrade
	echo "* Installing packages"
	apt-get -y install build-essential libmagickcore-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev git-core nginx redis-server curl nodejs htop

	id -u deploy &> /dev/null

	if [ $? -ne 0 ]

	#!/bin/bash

	# (optional) You might need to set your PATH variable at the top here
	# depending on how you run this script
	#PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

	# Hosted Zone ID e.g. BJBK35SKMM9OE
	ZONEID="enter zone id here"

	# The CNAME you want to update e.g. hello.example.com

	[
	{
	"week": 1,
	"game_days": [
	{
	"date": "2014-09-04",
	"matches": [
	{
	"id": "9.26",
	"timestamp": "Thu, 04 Sep 2014 20:30:00 -0400",

	package main

	import (
	"bytes"
	"code.google.com/p/go.crypto/openpgp"
	"encoding/base64"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"os"
	)

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