Window resizing is one of the more inefficient actions in modern desktop operating systems. It's particularly bad on Mac OS X. That little green button at the top left of every windwo doesn't really do anything useful, and dragging to resize requires the user to hone in on that little handle at the window's bottom right corner.
Enter Divvy for Mac OS X, the best window resizer ever created. It's a mouseless dream. Bringing it up is easy with a quick key combination. …
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In case you changed the actual view code, make sure to run the clean-up command ( curl -X POST http://server/db/_view_cleanup ) to regain disk space.
Performance impact
Database and view compaction (especially on larger sets) will slow down reads and writes considerably. Schedule downtime, or do it in off-peak hours if you think the operation is fast enough.
This is especially hideous when you run in a cloud environment where disk i/o generally sucks ( OHAI, EBS!!!).
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…can become a first-class citizen in the browser on Windows, Linux and OS X.. think <script type="text/ruby"> - yes, it's possible! This walkthrough will get you started with using Ruby in the browser for HTML and vector-graphics-based applications. IronRuby enables Web developers to use Ruby to write client-side browser applications and even reuse code between the server and the client.
Background
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…been using this tool, and it's been working well for us.
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toto - Blog engine built atop rack and aimed at heroku deployment.
Ubiquitous Analytics and Tableau Public - This looks nice; the Tableau data visualization app is one of the things I remember from Windows days, and now they're bringing it to the web.
DTerm - Popup command line for OS X.
* To recall a macro, use @ (register name). To call macro x, you hit @ x. You can run the macro multiple times if you
precede it with a number. 10@x
* To see the contents of the macro use :register. To see whats in register x, all you need to do is : reg x.
* Your macro should automatically persist across sessions if you haven't modified your viminfo. To verify the contents of your viminfo, run :set viminfo?. If you see <50,s10 ... this means that your registers can be …