Oneliner to Have Jekyll or Any Other Staticly Generated Blog Pushed to Repository

23 Mar 2015

Once your blog is generated, you can commit and push it to the origin to be deployed (if you are using Git as a deployment instrument of course)

The oneliner defaults to a _site folder here in the example because this is what is usually used with the static site generators. Make sure to replace it with the correct path.

This also assumes that you are building the blog on your machine and are only pushing static files to the repository. You may want to do that to support custom plugins which Github's version of Jekyll does not support because it runs with a --safe flag on their servers

alias blog-delploy="cd ._site && git add -A && git commit -m 'blog-delploy UPDATE' & git push"

Here's a bonus oneliner that is Jekyll specific to build and deploy the blog. Just adding the build command in front

alias blog-delploy="jekyll build && cd ._site && git add -A && git commit -m 'blog-delploy UPDATE' & git push"

Alternatively with zsh you can do it in a much nicer format

function blog-delploy() {
    jekyll build &&
    cd _site &&
    git add -A && git commit -m 'blog-delploy UPDATE' &&
    git push
}

US States Resource for Android

23 Mar 2015

Put this into values folder and use in your code by referencing us_states.

<string-array name="us_states">
    <item>Alabama</item>
    <item>Alaska</item>
    <item>American Samoa</item>
    <item>Arizona</item>
    <item>Arkansas</item>
    <item>California</item>
    <item>Colorado</item>
    <item>Connecticut</item>
    <item>Delaware</item>
    <item>District of Columbia</item>
    <item>Florida</item>
    <item>Georgia</item>
    <item>Guam</item>
    <item>Hawaii</item>
    <item>Idaho</item>
    <item>Illinois</item>
    <item>Indiana</item>
    <item>Iowa</item>
    <item>Kansas</item>
    <item>Kentucky</item>
    <item>Louisiana</item>
    <item>Maine</item>
    <item>Maryland</item>
    <item>Massachusetts</item>
    <item>Michigan</item>
    <item>Minnesota</item>
    <item>Mississippi</item>
    <item>Missouri</item>
    <item>Montana</item>
    <item>Nebraska</item>
    <item>Nevada</item>
    <item>New Hampshire</item>
    <item>New Jersey</item>
    <item>New Mexico</item>
    <item>New York</item>
    <item>North Carolina</item>
    <item>North Dakota</item>
    <item>Northern Marianas Islands</item>
    <item>Ohio</item>
    <item>Oklahoma</item>
    <item>Oregon</item>
    <item>Pennsylvania</item>
    <item>Puerto Rico</item>
    <item>Rhode Island</item>
    <item>South Carolina</item>
    <item>South Dakota</item>
    <item>Tennessee</item>
    <item>Texas</item>
    <item>Utah</item>
    <item>Vermont</item>
    <item>Virginia</item>
    <item>Virgin Islands</item>
    <item>Washington</item>
    <item>West Virginia</item>
    <item>Wisconsin</item>
    <item>Wyoming</item>
</string-array>

Aliases for Most Useful Android Emulator Networking Commands

22 Mar 2015

I have recently posted about how to throttle android emulator via custom networking parameters. However it may be quite tedious to type that every time we want to throttle the networking. Aliases to the help!

alias android-network-throttle="echo 'network delay 4000' | nc localhost 5554 && echo 'network speed 6 6' | nc localhost 5554"

alias android-network-reset="echo 'network delay 0' | nc localhost 5554 && echo 'network speed 0' | nc localhost 5554"

alias android-network-status="echo 'network status' | nc localhost 5554"

With ohmyzsh which will complete the aliases it's pure delight.

Gradle Libraries that Actually Get Included in Android Studio

22 Mar 2015

It is very easy to see the actual libraries that are used for your project. You just go to .idea folder and then to libraries folder where the actual libraries will reside.

Gradle Included Libraries

Throttling Android Simulator via Custom Networking Parameters

22 Mar 2015

This is how you can easily throttle Android networking interface on the emulator. You can go via telnet or netcat.

TL;DR

To set the network interface to have throughput of 6000 bits/s (0.7 KB/s) and 2000 ms latency you would use these commands (for the first emulator that usually defaults to port 5554)

echo "network delay 2000" | nc localhost 5554
echo "network speed 6 6" | nc localhost 5554

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How to Remove Pushed Pods Folder from Git Repository

19 Mar 2015

If you (or someone else) have pushed a /Pods folder into the repository (or any other file that is not supposed to be there) by mistake, there's a way to permanently remove the file(s) from the repo. The filter-branch option may be a little more complicated than doing rebase but it is very effective and will remove the files from all the branches.

Here's the recipe to remove the Pods folder. You can change the file/path matching and also limit the command for range of commits

Step 1: filter-branch

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch Pods/*' --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

Step 2: push --force

git push --force

This will clean the unwanted Pods folder from the repository. It will not rewrite the log commits though and the commit messages will still be there.

*Loosely based on: https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data/

OS X Special Characters - Images and Unicode Codes

19 Mar 2015

A collection of the special sign for the special keys for OS X with the accompanying Unicode codes.

Sign	Name	Unicode
⎋	Escape	U+238B
⇥	Tab forward	U+21E5
⇤	Tab back	U+21E4
⇪	Capslock	U+21EA
⇧	Shift	U+21E7
⌃	Control	U+2303
⌥	Option (Alt, Alternative)	U+2325
	Apple symbol 1	U+F8FF
⌘	Command (Open Apple) 2	U+2318
␣	Space	U+2423
⏎ ↩	Return	U+23CE/U+21A9
⌫	Delete back	U+232B
⌦	Delete forward	U+2326
﹖⃝	Help	U+003F & U+20DD
⇱ ↖ ↸	Home	U+21F1 / U+2196 /U+21B8
⇲ ↘	End	U+21F2 / U+2198
⇞	Pageup	U+21DE
⇟	Pagedown	U+21DF
↑ ⇡	Up arrow	U+2191 / U+21E1
↓ ⇣	Down arrow	U+2193 / U+21E3
← ⇠	Left arrow	U+2190 / U+21E0
→ ⇢	Right arrow	U+2192 / U+21E2
⌧	Clear	U+2327
⇭	Numberlock	U+21ED
⌤	Enter	U+2324
⏏	Eject	U+23CF
⌽	Power 3	U+233D

Individual Google Play Services for Android with Gradle

15 Mar 2015

Google Play services API split by individual service

Google+

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-plus:6.5.+'

Google Account Login

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:6.5.+'

Google Activity Recognition

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:6.5.+'

Google App Indexing

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-appindexing:6.5.+'

Google Cast

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:6.5.+'

Google Drive

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-drive:6.5.+'

Google Fit

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-fitness:6.5.+'

Google Maps

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:6.5.+'

Google Mobile Ads

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:6.5.+'

Google Panorama Viewer

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-panorama:6.5.+'

Google Play Game services

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-games:6.5.+'

Google Wallet

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wallet:6.5.+'

Android Wear

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:6.5.+'

Google Actions
Google Analytics
Google Cloud Messaging

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:6.5.+'

Source block:

Copy and uncomment the ones that you need

// Google+
// compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-plus:6.5.+"
// Google Account Login
// compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:6.5.+"
// Google Activity Recognition
// compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:6.5.+"
// Google App Indexing
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-appindexing:6.5.+"
// Google Cast
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:6.5.+"
// Google Drive
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-drive:6.5.+"
// Google Fit
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-fitness:6.5.+"
// Google Maps
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:6.5.+"
// Google Mobile Ads
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:6.5.+"
// Google Panorama Viewer
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-panorama:6.5.+"
// Google Play Game services
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-games:6.5.+"
// Google Wallet
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-wallet:6.5.+"
// Android Wear
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:6.5.+"
// Google Actions
// Google Analytics
// Google Cloud Messaging
//compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:6.5.+"

Including Facebook SDK to Android project via Gradle

15 Mar 2015

It is much easier (finally, sigh) to setup Facebook SDK dependency via maven central dependency than local library dependency.

dependencies {
    compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:3.23.1'
}

If you feel adventurous, you can wildcard the version number (which is in general not recommended to avoid unexpected build results)

but, it can be either one of these:

'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:3.23.+'

will pull any patch update

'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:3.2+'

will pull any minor update smaller than 30

or if you feel especially adventurous then even:

'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:3.+'

which will pull any update up to major being 4

DNS FLush Cache for OS X, Linux, and Windows

15 Mar 2015

OSX 10.10

sudo discoveryutil udnsflushcaches

OSX 10.9

dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

OSX 10.7 – 10.8

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

OSX 10.5 – 10.6

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

Windows

ipconfig /flushdns

Linux (depending on what you’re running for DNS resolver)

/etc/init.d/named restart
/etc/init.d/nscd restart

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