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This script scans your Dropbox (or any given folder) for folders stored in the ignore array and excludes them from syncing. Makes use of the official Dropbox CLI

I'm a beginner at bash, so all improvements are welcome!

#!/bin/bash

set -e

# SETTINGS

Searching Git commit history

This should be one of the core features of Git, but for some reason it's impossible to figure out how to search for a string in your commit history and see the diffs that that string is in. Here's the best I've come up with:

To find which commits and which files a string was added or removed in:

git log -S'search string' --oneline --name-status

To see the diff of that

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

Working effectively with ctags has always been a topic I missed for a long time because I was too lazy to invest time to learn about the it.

I was working on on my application and was constantly consulting Padrino's API doc in the browser. It would have been more effective if I can do the searching directly the Padrino's code on GitHub. Benefit I don't have to leave the terminal and can focus on my task.

What is ctags

ctags is a tool which make it easy for you to shift through in no time.

##Front-end blogs worth reading##

Even though for the last few years blogs have been losing popularity to Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus and so on, they're still not dead and have not been replaced with other media.

###Articles, showcases, resources###

A List Apart - articles design, development, and web standards
DailyJS - news, tips, examples and reviews of a variety of JavaScript frameworks and modules.
Mozilla Hacks - one of key resources for people developing for the Open Web

	# There was a day where I have too many color schemes in iTerm2 and I want to remove them all.
	# iTerm2 doesn't have "bulk remove" and it was literally painful to delete them one-by-one.

	# iTerm2 save it's preference in ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist in a binary format
	# What you need to do is basically copy that somewhere, convert to xml and remove color schemes in the xml files.

	$ cd /tmp/
	$ cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist .
	$ plutil -convert xml1 com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
	$ vi com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Building a router</title>
	<script>
	// Put John's template engine code here...

	(function () {
	// A hash to store our routes:

	package main

	import (
	"os"
	"log"
	"net"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	)

	function decodeUtf8(arrayBuffer) {
	var result = "";
	var i = 0;
	var c = 0;
	var c1 = 0;
	var c2 = 0;

	var data = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);

	// If we have a BOM skip it

	function endianness () {
	var b = new ArrayBuffer(4);
	var a = new Uint32Array(b);
	var c = new Uint8Array(b);
	a[0] = 0xdeadbeef;
	if (c[0] == 0xef) return 'LE';
	if (c[0] == 0xde) return 'BE';
	throw new Error('unknown endianness');
	}