git flow release a new version

gitflow how to release a new version

steps can be found here. In particular,

• create a release branch

  $ git checkout -b release-2.1 develop  

• work on the release branch such as bumping up the version

• merge to master and develop branch

• create a tag

  $ git checkout master  $ git merge --no-ff release-2.1  $ git tag -a v2.1   

• push the tag, see here

  $ git push origin v2.1 

excel on mac using letters to indicate columns

https://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=781

excel -> preference -> general -> use r1c1 reference style (uncheck it) 

apple show file extensions

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10845

finder->preference->advanced->show all

7za on mac

7zip

  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip

To zip a file with password:

  - 7za a -tzip -pMY_SECRET -mem=AES256 secure.zip doc.pdf doc1.pdf

And unzip the file:

  - 7za e secure.zip

git diff no color but special characters

Change env LESS
See http://goo.gl/gXrNcT

turn off mailapp automatic attachment preview on mac

http://www.cultofmac.com/218527/turn-off-mailapp-automatic-attachment-preview-os-x-tips/

$ defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

[note, do not use sudo]

disable mac keyboard

  sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext  

  sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext  




found from http://goo.gl/3bQTj

watch of interest

padronwatchco.com

where to download git source pkg

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

books to read

Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology by Dan Gusfield Permalink: http://amzn.com/0521585198 The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland Permalink: http://amzn.com/0963488414 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte Permalink: http://amzn.com/0961392142

a good website teaching you how to make an R package

howtomakeanrpackage.pbworks.com

delete photos on ipad

from http://ipadacademy.com/2011/09/another-way-to-quickly-delete-photos-from-your-ipad-mac-only

Another Way to Quickly Delete Photos from Your iPad (Mac Only)

Written by Andy Brovey

Topics: iPad Tips & Tutorials

A short time ago I replied to questions about removing or deleting photos from your iPad. See this post and the comments on this one. Here's another way to manage the photos on your iPad using a little known application on your Mac. The program is called Image Capture and you can find it in your Applications folder.

1. Start Image Capture
2. Connect you iPad to your Mac
3. Image Capture sees your iPad as a connected camera
4. Click on the first photo you want to delete
5. Select additional photos using Command-Click
6. Select a range (series) of photos by clicking on the first one, then Shift-Click the last one
7. To delete all the photos on your iPad, choose Edit > Select All
8. Look for the red circle with the line through it near the bottom of the window
9. Click the red circle icon and confirm the deletion

httpry to monitor outgoing http traiffic

http://dumpsterventures.com/jason/httpry/

for example:

# httpry -i en0

create function documentation template in R

create function documentation template in R

 prompt(monitor, file = 'monitor.Rd', force.function = TRUE)

sqldf on mac

On mac, this is needed, otherwise it would ask of x11

options(gsubfn.engine = "R")

library(sqldf)

not knowing why now.

random seed in makefile

SEED := $(shell od -An -N2 -i /dev/random | tr -d ' ')

batch word to pdf

http://superuser.com/questions/17612/batch-convert-word-documents-to-pdfs-free

In particular, 

Save this to a file SaveAsPDF.js and run it from the command line using cscript.exe //nologo SaveAsPDF.js SomeFolder\MyDocToConvert.doc:

  var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");  var docPath = WScript.Arguments(0);  docPath = fso.GetAbsolutePathName(docPath);    var pdfPath = docPath.replace(/\.doc[^.]*$/, ".pdf");  var objWord = null;    try  {      WScript.Echo("Saving '" + docPath + "' as '" + pdfPath + "'...");        objWord = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");      objWord.Visible = false;        var objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open(docPath);        var wdFormatPdf = 17;      objDoc.SaveAs(pdfPath, wdFormatPdf);      objDoc.Close();        WScript.Echo("Done.");  }  finally  {      if (objWord != null)      {          objWord.Quit();      }  }