Mac OSX Productivity Tips for Developers

These are the slides that accompany the Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund video series produced in association with O'Reilly Media at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/110000007.do

The reference repository for this video series is at https://github.com/matthewmccullough/MacOSXProductivityTips/

Transcript

1. Developer Productivity Tips for Mac with Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund
3. a more productive developer
4. language-agnostic
5. trial and error and trial and success
6. UNIX roots
7. The Platform ✓POSIX compliant ✓Ruby, Bash, and Zsh scripts work out of the box ✓Application-imposed common shortcuts
8. Keyboard hacks
9. expand snippets system-wide
13. customize shortcuts system- wide
15. emacs hotkeys system-wide
16. ⌃+a Go to beginning of line ⌃+e Go to end of line
17. ⌃+u Delete from cursor to beginning of line ⌃+k Delete from cursor to end of line
18. ⌃+w Erase word to left ⌃+t Transpose characters around cursor
19. ⌥⌃+f Move forward a word ⌥⌃+b Move backwards a word
20. modifier Keys
22. Safari keyboard Link Selection
24. Terminal tips
25. iTerm 2
26. multi-monitor compatible full screen
27. multi-tab profiles
28. preservable window layouts
29. enhanced terminal prompts
30. $ echo "This is devoid of any useful info" $
31. [scripts (master)⚡]> echo "This is more informative"
33. ╭─mccm06 at Detronia in ~/Downloads ╰─◦ echo "This is much more informative" ╭─mccm06 at Detronia in ~/GitHubProjects ╰─◦
34. Source Control assistants
35. tig Git ASCII GUI
37. the hub gem
39. command line for GitHub
40. uses the GitHub API
41. $ hub clone dotfiles
    Cloning into 'dotfiles'... remote: Counting objects: 560, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (292/292), done. remote: Total 560 (delta 288), reused 517 (delta 256) Receiving objects: 100% (560/560), 214.32 KiB | 316 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (288/288), done.
42. file Formats
43. the Markdown format
44. Gruber, daring fireball
45. Multimarkdown
46. GitHub Flavored Markdown
47. the Asciidoc format
48. show gradle nao
49. the DocBook format
50. leveraging the Pandoc toolchain
51. Package management
52. MacPorts
53. rsync-based package manager
55. Homebrew
56. Git-based package manager
59. searching with Spotlight
60. search criteria constraints
61. name:<phrase> objects with this phrase in their file name
62. kind:<type> objects of this type
63. date:<date> objects modified on this date
64. date:today objects modified today
65. date:>1/1/08 objects modified after 1/1/08
66. modified:3/7/08-3/10/08 objects modified between these two dates
67. created:=6/1/08 objects created on this date
68. AND join two rules together
69. OR optionally join two rules together
70. NOT exclude a second condition
71. search result behaviors
72. ⌘⌥ <hover> show path to file
73. ⌘<enter or click> open containing folder in Finder
74. moving with Finder
75. moving files without cut
76. ⌘C copies file to pasteboard
77. ⌘⌥ V moves file from pasteboard
78. viewing with QuickLook
79. QuickLook Extensions
80. for Java files
81. for ZIP files
82. for Markdown files
83. for XML files
84. QuickLook from the CLI
85. $ ql <filename>
86. $ qlmanage -p "$@" >& /dev/null &
87. saving to the Cloud
88. saving to CloudApp
91. $ cloudapp <filename>
    Uploaded to http://cl.ly/text/ 1B0T0t2e0V3c.
92. saving to Gists
94. Tweeting with T
96. $ t update "Chirp from the CLI"
97. $ t update "At the @OReillyMedia studio in Sebastopol with the @tlberglund, ready to record some more videos with Kirk and crew." Tweet posted by @matthewmccull. Run `t delete status 369592150104633344` to delete.
98. $ t update X
99. Web Service helpers
100. curl for URLs
101. curl -I www.serverwatch.com
102. curl api.github.com
103. wget for files
104. Pasteboard command line
105. pbcopy
106. curl serverwatch.com | pbcopy
107. pbpaste
108. pbpaste | gist
109. Shell tune-ups
110. Zsh
112. oh-my-zsh
114. dotfiles on GitHub
115. search for "dotfiles" repositories
116. @pengwynn
117. @holman
118. @matthewmccullough
119. @<many others you'll discover>
120. Display control
121. Caffeine
122. GUI component
126. Caffeinate
127. command line
128. $ caffeinate
129. $ caffeinate -t 144000 &
130. $ caffeinate <command>
131. layout windows with Slate
132. arrange windows
133. size windows
134. switch windows
135. text based configuration file
137. bind e:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift ${showHintsLeftHand}
     bind right:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift push right bar-resize:screenSizeX/2 bind left:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift push left bar-resize:screenSizeX/2 bind up:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift push up bar-resize:screenSizeY/2 bind down:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift push down bar-resize:screenSizeY/2
138. bind g:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${centered} bind o:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${fullscreen} bind h:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${leftHalf} bind j:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${bottomHalf} bind k:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${topHalf} bind l:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${rightHalf} bind u:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${topLeftQuarter} bind i:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${topRightQuarter} bind n:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${bottomLeftQuarter} bind m:cmd;alt;ctrl;shift move ${bottomRightQuarter}
139. AppleScript automation
140. script Finder sleep
141. osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to sleep'
142. Automator apps
143. reformat to JPEG
144. Command Line GUI launches
145. open <filename>
146. open -a "TextMate" <filename>
147. Frecency directory navigation
148. z <directoryname>
149. Quick directory toggles
150. cd -
151. Proxy icon for files and folders
152. Drag to copy a file
153. Drag to copy a file path
154. show Hidden files and folders
155. defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
156. type to change folders
157. ⌘+⇧+G
158. os Screen Change
159. fn⌘ F1 = Mirror screen ⌃⌥⌘ 8 = Invert colors
160. keyboard based Screen Navigation
161. ⌃Shift+ F2 = Select menu bar
163. Boxen
165. The Big Ideas of Boxen
166. the Pre-Reqs
167. the Setup
168. the Boxen web app
169. the Boxen repo
170. Running Boxen
171. Adding packages
172. Adding applications
173. Adding puppet modules
174. Curating settings
176. in Sum...
177. hotkeys
178. automation
179. modifers
180. spotlight filters
181. replacements
182. add-ons
183. metadata
184. Developer Productivity Tips for Mac with Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund
185. Credits ✓ "Keyboard" designed by Luboš Volkov, http://thenounproject.com/noun/keyboard/#icon-No20868 ✓ "Computer" designed by Edward Boatman, http://thenounproject.com/noun/computer/#icon-No115 ✓ "Code" designed by Dmitry Baranovskiy, http://thenounproject.com/noun/html-code/#icon-No4991 ✓ "Written Document" designed by Thomas Le Bas, http://thenounproject.com/noun/written-document/#icon-No6119 ✓ "Package" designed by Arthur Schmitt, http://thenounproject.com/noun/package/#icon-No18159 ✓ "Magnifying Glass" designed by Edward Boatman, http://thenounproject.com/noun/magnifying-glass/#icon-No95 ✓ "Checklist" designed by Michael Young, http://thenounproject.com/noun/checklist/#icon-No3559 ✓ "Eye" designed by Volodin Anton, http://thenounproject.com/noun/eye/#icon-No17181 ✓ "Cloud" designed by Dmitry Baranovskiy, http://thenounproject.com/noun/cloud/#icon-No9758 ✓ "HTML Code" designed by WebPlatform.org, http://thenounproject.com/noun/html-code/#icon-No13024 ✓ "Clipboard" by Seth Taylor, http://thenounproject.com/noun/clipboard/#icon-No1712 ✓ "Console" designed by Austin Andrews, http://thenounproject.com/noun/console/#icon-No8571 ✓ "Exit Full Screen" designed by Olyn LeRoy, http://thenounproject.com/noun/exit-full-screen/#icon-No4780 ✓ "Apple Core" designed by Richard Zeid, http://thenounproject.com/noun/apple-core/#icon-No9817 ✓ "Robot" designed by Kenneth Appiah, http://thenounproject.com/noun/robot/#icon-No1616 ✓ "Rocket" designed by Jean-Philippe Cabaroc, http://thenounproject.com/noun/rocket/#icon-No7427 ✓ "Compass" designed by Márcio Duarte, http://thenounproject.com/noun/compass/#icon-No7175 ✓ "Light Switch" designed by Alexandria Eddings, http://thenounproject.com/noun/light-switch/#icon-No18388 ✓ "Linked Files" designed by Iconoci, http://thenounproject.com/noun/linked-files/#icon-No10081 ✓ "Hidden" designed by Rémy Médard, http://thenounproject.com/noun/hidden/#icon-No21609 ✓ "Folder" designed by Cris Dobbins, http://thenounproject.com/noun/folder/#icon-No8928 ✓ "Map Marker" designed by Edward Boatman, http://thenounproject.com/noun/map-marker/#icon-No462 ✓ "Box Trolley" designed by Michael Zenaty, http://thenounproject.com/noun/box-trolley/#icon-No21806 ✓ "Coordination" designed by OCHA AVMU, http://thenounproject.com/noun/coordination/#icon-No4222