Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a machine packaging manager for Windows, which makes it very easy to install tools such as cygwin and many others on Windows platform.

To install Chocolatey, open powershell in administrator mode and run the following command:

iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

To use Chocolatey for installing tools such as vagrant and virtualbox, run the following command in powershell:

cinst vagrant virtual

To install Cygwin, run the following command in powershell:

cinst cyg-get


Link: https://chocolatey.org/

Convert *.jpg to *.ps on Mac OS

Firstly, install homebrew, then run the following command:

# brew install imagemagick

After the imagemagick is installed, run the following command to convert jpg to ps:

# convert picture.jpg picture.ps

DevOps: Application and Device Monitoring Platforms

Bosun: http://bosun.org/
Kamon: http://kamon.io/
New Relic: http://newrelic.com/
AWS Cloud Watch: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
Nagios: https://www.nagios.org/
Splunk: http://www.splunk.com/
Server Density: https://www.serverdensity.com/
Loggly: https://www.loggly.com/
Logrhythm: https://logrhythm.com/
Takipi: https://www.takipi.com/
Sematext SPM: https://www.sematext.com
Sematext Logscene: https://www.sematext.com/logsene/
AppDynamics: https://www.appdynamics.com/

MacOS: Change [HOME] and [END] key to move to the begining or end of a line in a text editor

While writing code on Windows, the [HOME] and [END] key allow me to move to the begining or end of a line, but this is not the default behavior on MacOS while i am doing development at the moment. Since i love this feature and would like to have something similar, after digging i found the following way that works for me.

Download, install and run the Karakiner (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/), In its "Change Key" tab, search for "Use PC style home/end", Now check to enable this feature, and there you have the PC style home/end shorts which allows to move to the begining or end of a line when pressing the [HOME] or [END] key

TortoiseSVN: recursively exclude bin, obj folders and other meta files from committing to SVN server

Suppose you use TortoiseSVN as SVN client and have a large project which contains many sub projects, and you want to exclude committing the "bin", "obj" folders to the SVN server, you can add a global ignore pattern to the root folder of the project by right-clicking the folder and selecting "Tortoise SVN --> properties" and add in a global ignore pattern such as in the following figure (remember to check the "Apply property recursively" if it is the first time to do so).

PluralSight Video Buffering problem

Recently i was having some problem with watching videos from pluralsight, the chrome i am using to watch their online videos stop buffering when continuing from one video to the next (only shows a progress circle in the middle of the black background), after contacting their support, the following workaround was offered, which seems to solve my problem:

"If you are running Chrome 42 or higher you will need to go to the URL [chrome://flags/#enable-npapi] and click “Enable” under Enable NPAPI. Click Relaunch Now at the bottom of the page"

Add or modify Text to the PDF in Adobe Acrobat

To add or edit text to a PDF file using the Adobe Acrobat, select "Tools->Advanced Editing->Touchup Text Control", Now select some text to modify, a rectangle will appear, and one can begin typing text, or modify the font by right -click the selected text and select "Properties".

To add a signature or draw something on PDF, select "Tools->Drawing Markups->Pencil Toos"