Resources.md

Resources Guide

for O'Reilly Media's Mac OSX Productivity Tips for Developers video course

Introduction

• Apple supports the Single UNIX Specification and includes POSIX Libraries.
• OSX includes open source, such as the Apache web server, Ruby, Bash, and ZShell out of the box.
• Many system-wide keyboard shortcuts are pre-configured.

Keyboard Hacks

Global text expansion

• Configured via System Preferences → Keyboard → Text

Keyboard shortcuts

Configured via System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts

Modifier keys

Configured via System Preferences → Keyboard → Modifer Keys

Keyboard acceleration in Safari

• Type to Navigate (source code
• Vimari (source code
• gleeBox

Terminal Tips

Terminal Apps

• Terminal.app is built in to Mac OSX
  • Supports opacity
  • Easy split panes
  • Minimal theme configuration
• iTerm 2 is an alternative
  • Open source, open project
  • Profiles for window configuration
  • Scroll-back through history, even on remote machines
  • Cross-machine preference sharing
  • Configurable full screen behavior
  • Greater color selection
  • Configurable minimum contrast

Shell enhancements

• Git-core Git prompts
• Matthew's Bash prompts
• Oh-my-zsh Zsh prompts source code

Source Control Assistants

• Tig
• Hub Gem
• Matthew's shell scripts

File Formats

Markdown

• Markdown homepage
• GitHub Flavored Markdown (source)
• Mastering Markdown Guide
• Markdown cheat sheet

Asciidoc

• Asciidoc Homepage
• Asciidoctor project homepage
• Asciidoctor project code
• Asciidoc support on GitHub

DocBook format

• DocBook format
• DocBook HowTo
• DocBook blog post: The minimum you need

Pandoc tool

• Pandoc tool homepage
• Pandoc source code
• Pandoc definition

Package Management

• MacPorts
• Homebrew

Searching with Spotlight

Constraints

• name:<phrase>
• kind:<type>
• date:<date>
• date:today
• date:>1/1/08
• modified:3/7/08-3/10/08
• created:=6/1/08
• AND
• OR
• NOT

Behavior modifiers

• ⌘⌥ <hover>
• ⌘ <enter or click>

Viewing with Quicklook

Quicklook extensions

• Quicklook plugin directory

Quicklook command line

• ql
• quicklook
• qlmanage

Moving with Finder

• Command + Alt + V on paste

Saving to the Cloud

• CloudApp
• Gists
• Tweeting with T

Web Service Helpers

• curl
• wget

Pasteboard Command Line

• pbcopy
• pbpaste

Shell Tune-Ups

• zsh
• oh-my-zsh
• Matthew's Dotfiles

Display Control

• Caffeine
• Caffeinate at the command line
• Slate layout manager (source code)

Applescript Automation

Command Line

• osascript is the command
• -e indicates the script will provided on the command line
• Tell Finder to sleep osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to sleep'

Automator GUI

• Build automation scripts
• Record application actions
• Save as script or application .app

Open command

• open <filename> opens file with default association
• open -a "TextMate" <filename> opens with a specific application

Automator Apps

• Reformat to JPEG

Quick Directory Toggles

• z frecency navigation
• cd -

Boxen

• Boxen homepage
• Boxen source code