David Francisco dmfrancisco

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

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.

How to share a folder with a docker container on OSX

Mounting shared folders between OSX and the docker container is tricky due to the intermediate boot2docker VM. You can't use the usual docker -v option as the docker server knows nothing about the OSX filesystem - it can only mount folders from the boot2docker filesystem. Fortunately, you can work around this using SSHFS.

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

AngularJS Directive Attribute Binding Explanation

When using directives, you often need to pass parameters to the directive. This can be done in several ways. The first 3 can be used whether scope is true or false. This is still a WIP, so validate for yourself.

Raw Attribute Strings

<div my-directive="some string" another-param="another string"></div>

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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:

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	# Universal Analytics
	if window.ga?
	ga('set', 'location', location.href.split('#')[0])
	ga('send', 'pageview')

	# Classic Analytics
	if window._gaq?
	_gaq.push(['_trackPageview'])

	# encoding: UTF-8
	#
	# $ rake checkout new_branch_name
	#
	# Via https://gist.github.com/jonlemmon/4076864
	#
	# 1. Roll back any migrations on your current branch which do not exist on the
	# other branch
	# 2. Discard any changes to the db/schema.rb file
	# 3. Check out the other branch

	var parser = document.createElement('a');
	parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

	parser.protocol; // => "http:"
	parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
	parser.port; // => "3000"
	parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
	parser.search; // => "?search=test"
	parser.hash; // => "#hash"
	parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"

	$(function() {

	$('a').not('[href*=clientdomain\\.com]').attr('target', '_blank');

	});