Mike D michaelhayman

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

7 Tips for Successful Self Learning - by Bradford Cross

No matter what, you're going to have to learn most everything on your own anyway. Self-learning is hard. Regardless of where, when or how you learn - being a good self-learner will maximize your potential.

In this post, Hamilton Ulmer (an almost-done Stanford stats masters student) and I, will explore seven ways to become a great self-learner.

The longest path is the shortest and the shortest path is the longest

Vagrant Setup

This tutorial guides you through creating your first Vagrant project.

We start with a generic Ubuntu VM, and use the Chef provisioning tool to:

install packages for vim, git
create user accounts, as specified in included JSON config files
install specified user dotfiles (.bashrc, .vimrc, etc) from a git repository

Afterwards, we'll see how easy it is to package our newly provisioned VM

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

	require 'minitest/mock'
	require 'minitest/unit'
	require 'date'

	MiniTest::Unit.autorun

	class TestMailPurge < MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
	class MailPurge
	def initialize(imap)
	@imap = imap

	jQuery.extend({
	putJSON: function( url, data, callback ){
	return $.ajax({
	type: 'put',
	url: url,
	processData: false,
	data: data,
	success: callback,
	contentType: 'application/json',
	dataType: 'json'

	#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

	UIImageView *splashView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0, 320, 480)];
	splashView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Default.png"];
	[self.window addSubview:splashView];
	[self.window bringSubviewToFront:splashView];

	splashView.layer.anchorPoint=CGPointMake(0, .5);
	splashView.center = CGPointMake(splashView.center.x - splashView.bounds.size.width/2.0f, splashView.center.y);
	[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];

	// Taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com.
	// Copyright (c) 2014 Peter Steinberger, PSPDFKit GmbH. All rights reserved.
	// Licensed under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
	//
	// You should only use this in debug builds. It doesn't use private API, but I wouldn't ship it.

	// PLEASE DUPE rdar://27192338 (https://openradar.appspot.com/27192338) if you would like to see this in UIKit.

	#import <objc/runtime.h>
	#import <objc/message.h>

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.0.0-rc.3/handlebars.js"></script>
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ember.js/1.0.0-rc.3/ember.js"></script>
	<script src="//maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
	<script>

	group :production do
	gem "unicorn"
	end