Patrick I. Oliveras patrickoliveras

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:

First of all you need to be able to run MAMP in port 80. This is a "heat check" if you don't have any process jamming http ports. You can check it like this:

sudo lsof | grep LISTEN

If you do happen to have any process with something like this *:http (LISTEN), you are in trouble. Before with adventure check if it isn't MAMP itself (yeah, you should close that beforehand)

ps <pid of that process>

If you don't see MAMP, you are in good hands, I have just the thing for you:

Munging Tools

Before unsheathing pandas on your next data munging problem, consider pulling out your unix toolbox to slice-and-dice stuff old-school.

Unix pipelines will take you far. Repeated operations can then be encapsulated in a script.

In addition to your standard stable of unix scripting languages (bash and other shell dialects, sed, awk, and perl), there are a handful standard power tools (jot, rs, etc) and add-ons worth your consideration. Use jot to print sequential or random data and rs to reshape a data array.

Installing SSHPASS

SSHPass is a tiny utility, which allows you to provide the ssh password without using the prompt. This will very helpful for scripting. SSHPass is not good to use in multi-user environment. If you use SSHPass on your development machine, it don't do anything evil.

Installing on Ubuntu

apt-get install sshpass

	Regex for matching ALL Japanese common & uncommon Kanji (4e00 – 9fcf) ~ The Big Kahuna!
	([一-龯])

	Regex for matching Hirgana or Katakana
	([ぁ-んァ-ン])

	Regex for matching Non-Hirgana or Non-Katakana
	([^ぁ-んァ-ン])

	Regex for matching Hirgana or Katakana or basic punctuation (、。’)

	# you have ctags but it does not work...
	$ ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *
	ctags: illegal option -- R
	usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...

	#you need to get new ctags, i recommend homebrew but anything will work
	$ brew install ctags

	#alias ctags if you used homebrew
	$ alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"

	#
	# nginx configuration example for CakePHP 2.x
	#
	server {
	listen 80;
	server_name cakephp2.example;
	root /var/www/cakephp2/app/webroot;

	access_log /var/log/nginx/cakephp2.access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/cakephp2.error.log;

	<html>
	<body>
	<p>Here are Webber’s points:</p>
	<ul>
	<li>If a method can be static, declare it static. Speed improvement is by a factor of 4.</li>
	<li>echo is faster than print.(<em>* compare with list from phplens by John Lim</em>)</li>
	<li>Use echo’s multiple parameters instead of string concatenation.</li>
	<li>Set the maxvalue for your for-loops before and not in the loop.</li>
	<li>Unset your variables to free memory, especially large arrays.</li>
	<li>Avoid magic like __get, __set, __autoload</li>

	<?php
	/** @var Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup $installer */
	$installer = $this;
	$installer->startSetup();

	$this->addAttribute(
	'catalog_category',
	'my_custom_attribute',
	array(
	'group' => 'General Information',