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Setup Persistent Aliases & Macros in Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) using DOSKey

Saved from Archive.org, Date: May 14, 2010 Author: Jesse Webb

http://web.archive.org/web/20140330024520/http://devblog.point2.com/2010/05/14/setup-persistent-aliases-macros-in-windows-command-prompt-cmd-exe-using-doskey/

Our development machines here at Point2 are not standardized; we have a mixture of Windows XP, 7, and Mac OSX/Unix computers. I find myself constantly switching back and forth between command prompt interfaces when pair programming. As a result, I catch myself using “ls” to list a directories contents regardless of what system I am on. I am currently using a Windows XP machine for my developer box and I wanted to setup an alias to the “ls” command to actually perform a “dir”. Here is how I accomplished it…

There is a command available in a Window’s shell that let’s you “alias” command to whatever you please: DOSKey. It allows you to create “macros” to execute one or more other commands with a custom nam

MacOS X + oh my zsh + powerline fonts + visual studio code (vscode) terminal settings

Thank you everybody, Your comments makes it better

Install oh my zsh

http://ohmyz.sh/

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

XState + AWS Amplify example

A breakdown of a project that uses XState to manage state for authenticating a user with Cognito, and then finding the authorized application user with an invoked machine.

create auth machine
create auth context
handle AWS authentication
once user authenticates with Cognito, redirect to user route to get user from db
at user route use userMachine service from authMachine to get application user
once associated application user is found, send user to organization route to allow user to associate session with specific organization

Use npm scripts as your build tool

Basic dev task composition

// Dev tasks
{
  "scripts": {
    "eslint": "eslint --cache --fix ./",
    "stylelint": "stylelint '**/*.scss' --syntax scss",

	sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES;
	sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionDisabled;

	// by the way, you need to logout and log back in for this to take effect. Or at least that's what
	// Quartz Debug says. Who knows, maybe it's lying?

	// P.S. Go to [Apple menu --> System Preferences --> Displays --> Display --> Scaled] after logging
	// back in, and you'll see a bunch of "HiDPI" resolutions in the list to choose from.

	node: Platform built on V8 to build network applications
	git: Distributed revision control system
	wget: Internet file retriever
	yarn: JavaScript package manager
	python3: Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
	coreutils: GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
	pkg-config: Manage compile and link flags for libraries
	chromedriver: Tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers
	awscli: Official Amazon AWS command-line interface
	automake: Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles