Jouni Kaplas kaplas

Bootstrap an empty directory easily with web tech assets

This is a collection of some aliases that I regularly use to bootstrap an empty directory for web app development.

To be read

Must ones

Interesting ones

Setting up a new Mac

Folders

mkdir ~/Projects

App installs

Everything what I own from Mac App Store
Latest XCode from Mac App Store

How to set up a RPi as a Google Cloud Print server

Raspberry Pi installation

Download the raspbian image
Follow the installation guide for OS X
- On OS X: When using the dd command, use path /dev/rdiskX instead of /dev/diskX
For additional info, check this elinux.org wiki page

Configuration

Setting up Raspbmc to be used with an old composite TV

Installation

http://www.raspbmc.com/wiki/user/os-x-linux-installation/

Raspberry Pi configuration

Clojure training feedback (June 2014)

In June 2014 Futurice bought a two-day Clojure training from Metosin. It was held in our office in Helsinki, and had 20-something participant Helsinki, Tampere and Berlin. I was there as well, as a total Clojure-newbie.

It was two days very well spent. However I felt that there were quite a many things that could have gone better. As I managed to miss the official feedback form, I decided to write this letter. As many of the things I'm going to list here are quite generic things and ideas, I decided to make this into a gist, so other tech trainers can benefit from it as well.

Metosin dudes, don't get me wrong. I'm writing this to help you, not to bash you. I think you are incrediably talented people, and you have all what it takes to give world-class Clojure trainings. I just want to help you to get there.

Observations about replacing Compass with node-sass (using libsass) + autoprefixer

Node-sass is quite easy to use, but a custom grunt task will always require more custom boilerplate code than ready made compass grunt plugins (didn't try grunt-sass because we needed to use autoprefixer as well)
Absolute image paths don't work too well with node-sass. Ie. URL 'images/foo.bar', with node-sass imagePath '' will get transformed into '/images/foo.bar', which will of course break stuff. I had to make a dirty hack to overcome that one.
Image URL cache busters are not yet implemented in libsass
I couldn't get CSS source maps to work, but there was quite a many variables in our setup (eg. a Vagrant VM), so I'm not sure where the problem actually was
Autoprefixer was super easy to use, and worked out of box
We weren't using as much Compass mixins as I though we would be, so replacing those with vanilla CSS didn't take too lo

	#!/bin/zsh
	#
	# This script installs prezto into a vagrant/*nix box which already has zsh and oh-my-zsh
	# installed. It also replaces the prompt color and enables the git prezto module. If
	# executed via the suggested command below, also the default shell is changed into zsh.
	# BTW, if using this for a vagrant box, be sure to execute the command while ssh'd into
	# the box.
	#
	# Usage: curl -L https://raw-gist-file-address-here.sh \| zsh && chsh -s $(which zsh)
	#


	// Defining colors ===========================================

	$color-names : '';
	$light-colors : '';
	$dark-colors : '';

	@mixin define-theme-color( $color-name, $light-color, $dark-color ) {

	@if ($color-names != "") and (index($color-names, $color-name) != false) {

	var deepCopy = function (value) {
	return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(value));
	};

	var omitAttributes = function (obj) {
	var copy = deepCopy(obj);
	var keys = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);

	function omitIfFound(obj, parts) {
	if (parts.length > 0 && obj[parts[0]]) {