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Simple automated GIT Deployment using GIT Hooks

Here are the simple steps needed to create a deployment from your local GIT repository to a server based on this in-depth tutorial.

How it works

You are developing in a working-copy on your local machine, lets say on the master branch. Most of the time, people would push code to a remote server like github.com or gitlab.com and pull or export it to a production server. Or you use a service like deepl.io to act upon a Web-Hook that's triggered that service.

Smallest Lenses Adaptable to the Sony a7

This has been moved to a blog post.

The BBC has a server-side image service which provides developers with multiple sized versions of any image they request. It works in a similar fashion to http://placehold.it/ but it also handles the image ratios returned (where as placehold.it doesn't).

The original BBC News process (and my re-working of the script) follows roughly these steps...

Create new instance of ImageEnhancer
Change any divs within the page (which have a class of delayed-image-load) into a transparent GIF using a Base64 encoded string.
- We set the width & height HTML attributes of the image to the required size
- We know what size the image needs to be because each div has custom data-attr set server-side to the size of the image
- We then set a class of image-replace onto each newly created transparent image
We use a 250ms setTimeout to unblock the UI thread and which calls a function resizeImages which enhances the image-replace images so their source is now set to a URL whe

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:

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	# encoding: utf-8
	# Grab google web fonts and embed them as base64 data URIs
	# <http://brettterpstra.com/2015/03/14/embedding-google-web-fonts/>
	require 'base64'

	if ARGV.length > 0
	input = ARGV
	elsif STDIN.stat.size > 0
	input = STDIN.read.strip.split(/\n+/)