Artem osadasami

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:

agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

Solarized
Git
Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Install ImageMagick for image conversion:

brew install imagemagick

Install tesseract for OCR:

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Or install without --all-languages and install them manually as needed.

Org-mode Org-mode Reference Card

Org mode reference card

Created from the plain text reference card on orgmode.org Download this file, and open it in Emacs org-mode!

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

Rails Models

Generating models

$ rails g model User

Associations

belongs_to

has_one

	Content
	Installation
	RubyGems
	Gemsets
	Updates
	Configuration
	Environment
	Using .rvmrc file (Best if many projects)
	Using different gemsets
	Databases

	From http://linux.die.net/man/3/strftime

	%a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')
	%A - The full weekday name (``Sunday'')
	%b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')
	%B - The full month name (``January'')
	%c - The preferred local date and time representation
	%d - Day of the month (01..31)
	%e - Day of the month without leading 0 (1..31)
	%g - Year in YY (00-99)