Mike King micjamking

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:

Basic JavaScript MVC Implementation

Despite being derived from classical MVC pattern JavaScript and the environment it runs in makes Javascript MVC implementation have its own twists. Lets see how typical web MVC functions and then dive into simple, concrete JavaScript MVC implementation.

How Web MVC typically works

Typical server-side MVC implementation has one MVC stack layered behind the singe point of entry. This single point of entry means that all HTTP requests, e.g. http://www.example.com or http://www.example.com/whichever-page/ etc., are routed, by a server configuration, through one point or, to be bold, one file, e.g. index.php.

At that point, there would be an implementation of Front Controller pattern which analyzes HTTP request (URI at first place) and based on it decides which class (Controller) and its method (Action) are to be invoked as a response to the request (method is name for function and member is name for a variable when part of the class/object).

The case for Gist blogging

Why to bother?

The posts people write in blogs can be classified in two groups:

those that are going to be (or should be) maintained, expressing the real time information (like books one reads or read, todo lists, lecture notes, etc),
those that express the momentary thoughts of a writer on an event or activity.

Maintaining the post

While first ones can be managed using standart blog engines (livejournal, blogger, etc) via «Edit post» option, that’s hardly

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Send iMessages from the Command Line

Install

Just run the following in your shell:

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

you have a local git repo
with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
- your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
- your webpages are executed by apache
apache's home directory is /var/www/

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

	USER=rentzsch
	PASS=mypassword
	REPO=mogenerator

	# Delete default labels
	curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/bug"
	curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/duplicate"
	curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/enhancement"
	curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/invalid"
	curl --user "$USER:$PASS" --include --request DELETE "https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/labels/question"

	<?php
	add_theme_support('menus');

	/**
	* Register Menus
	* http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_nav_menus#Examples
	*/
	register_nav_menus(array(
	'top-bar-l' => 'Left Top Bar', // registers the menu in the WordPress admin menu editor
	'top-bar-r' => 'Right Top Bar'

	/global define: false, window: false /
	define(['jquery'], function ($) {
	'use strict';

	return function () {
	/* Begin monkey-patch Tap event support into $ */
	var x = 0,
	y = 0,
	threshold = 40,
	// Sometimes there is lag between the last update and touchend.

	function slugify(text)
	{
	return text.toString().toLowerCase()
	.replace(/\s+/g, '-') // Replace spaces with -
	.replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '') // Remove all non-word chars
	.replace(/\-\-+/g, '-') // Replace multiple - with single -
	.replace(/^-+/, '') // Trim - from start of text
	.replace(/-+$/, ''); // Trim - from end of text
	}