James Walker walkah

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.10 Yosemite running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. On average, I reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between distros.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your own needs.

Install Software

2013-07-13 10:00 Andrew Berry Keynote

The Feature and It's Reflection: If you always chase what's hot in the Drupal community, you'll leave your own work behind and end up with nothing.

Ticket Soup: An effective project manage enables positive collaboration by identifying actionable units of work…

The Client in the User's Skin: Don't let your client pretend to be the user. Don't let the user in user stories be "I" or "me"…

The QA Tester and the other Devs: Testers ensure we have to acknowledge reality: QA is our best guard against software decay and run, even when it feels like it impedes progress towards our goes. We had better heed their device.

Gems that need help with Rails 4

cucumber-rails
simple_form - has a 3.0.0.rc but it depends on rails 4.0.0.rc1
delayed_job_active_record - has a v4.0.0.beta3 so likely ready to release soon
spork-rails - has no indication of even a beta for rails 4
authlogic: binarylogic/authlogic#368
activeadmin/activeadmin#1963

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

#Mac OS X

Mensch coding font

Apps

Webkit, Chrome, Firefox, iTerm,

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

	language: objective-c
	before_script:
	- chmod +x scripts/travis/add-key.sh
	- chmod +x scripts/travis/remove-key.sh
	- chmod +x scripts/travis/testflight.sh
	- ./scripts/travis/add-key.sh
	script: xctool -workspace [Workspace name].xcworkspace -scheme '[Scheme to use]' -configuration [Build configuration name] -sdk iphoneos7.1 CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR='~/build/' build
	after_success:
	- ./scripts/travis/testflight.sh
	after_script:

	var options = new FileUploadOptions();
	options.fileKey="fileupload";
	var time = new Date().getTime();
	var userId = getUserId(); // In my case, Parse.User.current().id;
	var fileName = userId+"-"+time+".jpg";
	options.fileName = fileName;
	options.mimeType ="image/jpeg";
	options.chunkedMode = false;

	var uri = encodeURI("https://BUCKET_NAME.s3.amazonaws.com/");

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx