poca-p0ca

/**
 NotificationBar presents status of app's internal workflow visually.

 In case of server disconnection... or receiving a new message... etc
 */
class NotificationBar: UIView{
    
    private let messageLabel: UILabel = UILabel()
    
    // You can change the mark as you wish, If it can be presented by Unicode text.

yannickl

import Foundation
import UIKit

extension UIColor {
    convenience init(hexString:String) {
        let hexString:NSString = hexString.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet())
        let scanner            = NSScanner(string: hexString)
        
        if (hexString.hasPrefix("#")) {
            scanner.scanLocation = 1

dergachev

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: