Luke Hedger lukehedger

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.

Screencapture and animated gifs

I say "animated gif" but in reality I think it's irresponsible to be serving "real" GIF files to people now. You should be serving gfy's, gifv's, webm, mp4s, whatever. They're a fraction of the filesize making it easier for you to deliver high fidelity, full color animation very quickly, especially on bad mobile connections. (But I suppose if you're just doing this for small audiences (like bug reporting), then LICEcap is a good solution).

Capturing (Easy)

Launch quicktime player
do Screen recording

Atom Keyboard Shortcuts

General

shift + ⌘ + p -- toggle command palette

⌘ + / -- toggle line/selection comment

alt + shift + s -- show available snippets

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed Homebrew and (Homebrew-Cask)[http://caskroom.io/].

# Install Homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# Install Homebrew-cask
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

	package main

	import (
	"net/http"
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	)

	# Usage: IE={box} vagrant up
	#
	# Eg. IE=XPIE6 vagrant up

	boxes = {
	"XPIE6" => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie6",
	"XPIE8" => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-xp-ie8",
	"VistaIE7" => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-vista-ie7",
	"Win7IE8" => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie8",
	"Win7IE9" => "http://aka.ms/vagrant-win7-ie9",

	'use strict';

	module.exports = function CustomError(message, extra) {
	Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
	this.name = this.constructor.name;
	this.message = message;
	this.extra = extra;
	};

	require('util').inherits(module.exports, Error);

	import transitions from './transitions.css';

	export default () => (
	<ReactCSSTransitionGroup transitionName={transitions}>
	{ ... }
	</ReactCSSTransitionGroup>
	);