jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

shobhitsharma

favicon-cheat-sheet

A painfully obsessive cheat sheet to favicon sizes/types. Compiled from:

• http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon.ico
• http://snook.ca/archives/design/making_a_good_favicon
• http://www.netmagazine.com/features/create-perfect-favicon
• http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/touch-icons

tadast

garybernhardt

(Chapters marked with * are already written. This gets reorganized constantly
and 10 or so written chapters that I'm on the fence about aren't listed.)

Programmer Epistemology
  * Dispersed Cost vs. Reduced Cost
  * Verificationist Fallacy
  * Mistake Metastasis
  The Overton Window
  Epicycles All The Way Down
  The Hyperspace Gates Were Just There

vaites

#!/bin/bash

# dependencies
FONTFORGE=`which fontforge`
TTFAUTOHINT=`which ttfautohint`

# base checks
if [ "x$1" == "x" ]; then
	echo "Usage: ./font-forge.sh [FILE]"
	exit

protrolium

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

You can get the list of installed codecs with:

anuragajwani

#!/bin/bash

realpath() {
    [[ $1 = /* ]] && echo "$1" || echo "$PWD/${1#./}"
}

FILE_PATH=$(realpath $0)
# File directory path
DIR_NAME=$(dirname "${FILE_PATH}")