[Slideshare] Introduction to Git

This is a quick introduction to Git for developers targeting SVN users.

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Organize your downloads, the OS X way

If you are one of these guys who move files and organize them manually under the correct directory, this blog post isn't for you.
I usually download lots of files and I keep trying to cleanup my Downloads folder in so many ways. First, I configured every application to download in its own folder so I had Firefox, iChat, Mail, etc...
This didn't really help. When the time comes to cleanup the Downloads folder, I usually need to delete very old downloads because I no longer need a software update from mid-2009.
So next I tried one of Firefox's extensions to organize my downloads and used Glims for Safari. The idea was to organize downloaded files in a directory hierarchy where I can identify older files and remove them.
The problem with that solution is that it didn't work for all the applications I use so I decided to write a script to do that for me.
Writing that script in Bash, PHP or Python is an easy job but I wanted to do it the Mac way so I created this AppleScript and attached it to the Downloads folder using Folder Actions in OS X.
Try it out:
http://gist.github.com/445641

My .vimrc

My .vimrc:

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" Start-up

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" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!). 

set nocompatible 

" First clear any existing autocommands:

autocmd!

" have syntax highlighting in terminals which can display colours:

if has('syntax') && (&t_Co > 2)

 syntax on

 set hlsearch 

endif

" Filetype plugins

filetype plugin indent on

setlocal spell spelllang=en

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

" General

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set history=1000

set viminfo=/10,'10,r/mnt/zip,r/mnt/floppy,f0,h,\"100

set wildmode=list:longest,full

set title

set showmode

set showcmd

set sessionoptions=blank,buffers,curdir,folds,help,resize,tabpages,winsize

" Status line

set laststatus=2

set statusline=%F%m%r%h%w\ [FORMAT=%{&ff}]\ [TYPE=%Y]\ [ASCII=\%03.3b]\ [HEX=\%02.2B]\ [POS=%04l,%04v][%p%%]\ [LEN=%L]

set modelines=3

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" Text Formatting/Layout

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set backspace=indent,eol,start 

set formatoptions-=t

set textwidth=0

set isk+=_,$,@,%,#,- " These aren't word dividers

set incsearch " do incremental searching 

set ignorecase " Do case insensitive matching

set nosmartcase " No smart case matching

set smartindent   " smart indentation

" Tab settings

set expandtab

set showtabline=2

set tabstop=2 " tab stop 2 spaces

set shiftwidth=2

set shiftround

" Comments

set comments-=s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/

set comments+=s:/*,mb:**,ex:*/

set comments+=fb:*

"set comments=s5:/**,mb5:*,ex:*/

"set comments=sr:/*,mb:**,ex:*/

"set comments+=fb:*

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" Theme/Visuals

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set showmatch " Show matching brackets.

set background=dark

set foldmethod=indent

set foldlevel=50

set mouse=i " Enable mouse usage in Insert, View and Command line modes in terminals

set ruler " show the cursor position all the time 

set number " show line numbers

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" File Handling

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set autowrite " Automatically save before commands like :next and :make

set nobackup " do not keep a backup file, use versions instead 

set noswapfile

if has("autocmd")

  " Enabled file type detection and file-type specific plugins.

  " filetype plugin on indent

  filetype plugin on

  " Drupal *.module and *.engine files.

  augroup module

    autocmd BufRead                     *.install,*.schema,*.inc,*.module,*.engine set filetype=php

  augroup END

  " Python code.

  augroup python

    autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre      *.py set tabstop=4

    autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre      *.py set expandtab

  augroup END

  " PHP code.

  augroup php

    autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre      *.php set tabstop=2

    autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre      *.php set expandtab

  augroup END

  " ANT build.xml files.

  augroup xml

    autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre      build.xml set tabstop=2

  augroup END

endif

" Set Drupal files as php syntax-like files

au BufNewFile,BufRead *.module,*.install,*.schema,*.inc set filetype=php

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

" PHP Specific Settings 

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" PHP Error check

set makeprg=php\ -l\ %

set errorformat=%m\ in\ %f\ on\ line\ %l

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" Cool Abbreviations

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" HTML

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" Print an empty <a> tag.

map! ;h <a href=""></a><ESC>5hi

" Wrap an <a> tag around the URL under the cursor.

map ;H lBi<a href="<ESC>Ea"></a><ESC>3hi

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" Cool Shortcuts

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" Some keymaps:

nnoremap <C-M> <Esc>:w<CR>   "Save

nnoremap <C-O> <Esc>:Texplore<CR>   "Show Explorer in a new tab

nnoremap <C-N> <Esc>:tabnew<CR>                    "CTRL+N to open a new tab

map <C-Right> <Esc>:tabn<CR>                    "CTRL+Down to view next tab

map <C-Left> <Esc>:tabp<CR>                    "CTRL+Up to view previous tab

no <C-E> <Esc>:mks! ~/.vimsession<CR>    "CTRL+E saves the current session to ~/.vimsession

" Don't use Ex mode, use Q for formatting 

map Q gq 

map q :q<CR>

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" Explorer

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

"Make Explorer open files in new tabs

let g:netrw_browse_split=3

Push-any Git post-update hook

Maintaining multiple branches in Git is very easy. Maintaing multiple "remotes" in Git is very easy. The tricky part comes when you join both.

Unless you have a testing, staging and production server and you maintain a branch per-server, aka remote, then you need to git your hands dirty with some code.

The other day, I wanted to have a single remote for testing multiple branches and the web had half the answer with this script, but unfortunately, it doesn't checkout the branch you're pushing.

After few lines of code, I can now push multiple branches to a non-bare remote repository and have the post-update automatically checkout the branch I pushed and update the worktree, handy huh?

Code is here. Your comments are welcome.