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How to use a PS3 controller on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

Open Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Bluetooth and disable Bluetooth on Mac as well as any other nearby Macs or devices which will try to pair with and confuse the controller.
Reset PS3 controller by inserting paperclip into pinhole near L2 button.
Connect PS3 controller to Mac with USB cable.
Enable Bluetooth.

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

Convert a 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:

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"
	require "json"

	# things you must configure
	TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
	MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted

	# get these from dev.twitter.com
	CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"

-<!doctype html>
-<html>
-  <head>
-    <title>Widget Removal Bug</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/codemirror.css">
-    <script src="lib/codemirror.js"></script>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="doc/docs.css">
-    <style type="text/css">
-      .CodeMirror {border: 1px solid black;}

	# Utilities for quickly accessing frequently used directories in bash.

	# Usage:
	# $ cd /path/to/project/src/
	# $ mark code # Will create a new shortcut.
	# # Becomes interactive if a shortcut already exists
	# # m is an alias for mark. You can also `m code`
	#
	# $ code # From now on, running this anywhere in the shell
	# # will put you in /path/to/project/src/code

	import Cocoa


	class WindowController: NSWindowController {
	}

	class AppDelegate: NSObject {
	var mainWindow: NSWindow?
	var mainController: NSWindowController?
	}

	def doctorize(string)
	string.gsub(/M(iste)?r/, 'Mister' => 'Doctor', 'Mr' => 'Dr')
	end

	find . -type f -name "* conflicted copy*" -exec rm -f {} \;
	awk '!/conflicted/' .git/packed-refs > temp && mv temp .git/packed-refs