J.N. Breuer wjnbreu

REFERENCES FOR LEARNING & USING APPLESCRIPT Modified: 2018/06/19 18:47

NOTES

AppleScript is a rather peculiar scripting language to learn.

BBEdit Rename Active Document Script

The script itself has most of the documentation. Just know that there are two scripts here:

A plain-text version (.applescript)
A compiled version (.scpt)

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Frontend Development

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Contract Killer

The popular open-source contract for web professionals by Stuff & Nonsense

Originally published: 23rd December 2008
Revised date: March 15th 2016
Original post

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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	NOTES:

	The PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) engine is what BBEdit uses.

	Items I'm unsure of are marked '# PCRE?'. The list while fairly comprehensive is not complete.