Saad ssaadh

Many people like the pomodoro technique because it helps them focus intently on tasks. It is also helpful for preventing interruptions. If your team, and extended team, know that you are in the middle of a pomodoro then they know to avoid interrupting you. But how do you communicate that you have a pomodoro in progress?

Team Pomodoro combines a tradtional pomodoro timer and a dashboard showing the status of each team member's pomodoros. A person can see at a glance who is currently available and when each person will be available.

Additional Features

Add features for messaging team members. Choice of

Spotlight Indexing switch

os x terminal command.

Turn off indexing

Turn off Spotlight Indexing

sudo mdutil -a -i off

INSTANT Pinboard search from Alfred 2

I've had a Python script that makes an HTML Bookmarks file for LaunchBar.
Now that I use Alfred 2, I modified it to make XML for Alfred.
This allows me to search my bookmarks with GREP SPEED!

Installation

First, add your token (from pinboard.in/settings/password) to ~/.netrc

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.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# Uses the Readability Metrics API from http://ipeirotis.appspot.com/readability-api.html
	# Accepts text from STDIN (piped) or as an argument
	=begin examples
	pbpaste\|text_score.rb # copy text and run (on OS X) to get the stats for the clipboard.
	cat myfile.md\|text_score.rb # get scores for the contents of a file
	=end

	require 'open-uri'
	require 'net/http'

	#require 'sqlite3'
	require 'mysql2'
	require 'active_record'
	ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
	:adapter => 'mysql2',
	:host => 'localhost',
	:username => 'USERNAME',
	:password => 'PASSWORD',
	:database => 'DATABASE_NAME'
	)

	/*
	* Takes provided URL passed as argument and make screenshots of this page with several viewport sizes.
	* These viewport sizes are arbitrary, taken from iPhone & iPad specs, modify the array as needed
	*
	* Usage:
	* $ casperjs screenshots.js http://example.com
	*/

	var casper = require("casper").create();

	NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

	<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
	ServerName pow
	ServerAlias *.dev
	ServerAlias *.xip.io

	ProxyPass / http://localhost:20559/
	ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:20559/
	ProxyPreserveHost On

	<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName pow
	ServerAlias *.dev
	ServerAlias *.xip.io

	ProxyPassMatch ^/~ !
	ProxyPass / http://localhost:20559/
	ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:20559/
	ProxyPreserveHost On
	</VirtualHost>

	# Define a setter to pass in a custom log formatter
	class ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger
	def formatter=(formatter)
	@log.formatter = formatter
	end
	end

	# Defines a custom log format (time, severity, message, PID, backtrace)... all with color!
	class Formatter
	SEVERITY_TO_TAG = {'DEBUG'=>'meh', 'INFO'=>'fyi', 'WARN'=>'hmm', 'ERROR'=>'wtf', 'FATAL'=>'omg', 'UNKNOWN'=>'???'}