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OS X service to filter selected text through a shell command

By Michael | Published: May 23, 2010

The UNIX shell provides a host of extremely useful utilities for modifying text. This Automator service makes all of them available for filtering text in all OS X applications.

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DIY Twitter image hosting

By Michael | Published: January 7, 2010
Twitter doesn’t yet come with its own inline image support, so we tend to be limited to using image hosting services, and linking to them with short URLs. So, services like Tweetpic host the image, and we direct traffic to them in return. Thinking it’s better to keep things in the family, and take better [...]
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Unit testing and coverage with XCode

By Michael | Published: November 29, 2009
There are several great resources out there on how to incorporate unit testing into XCode projects. It’s all built into XCode now, and it’s fantastic. I just got coverage working too, thanks to a useful article at SuperMegaUltraGroovy on how to use code coverage with XCode. There were a couple of caveats that I thought [...]
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Align comments in Textmate

By Michael | Published: March 27, 2009

A Textmate command script to align comments in a block

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Finder toolbar scripts for better workflow

By Michael | Published: March 11, 2009
I recently found two Finder toolbar scripts which are really going to make my life easier. The first one, Open In TextMate, will open either the current folder, or the selected item(s), in TextMate. The second, Open Terminal Here (and icon modification), will open a Terminal window at the current path.
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Website maintenance with Textmate and FTP/SSH Bundle

By Michael | Published: January 28, 2009
I tend to work on local copies of my websites, which have either corresponding vhost entries in my local Apache configuration, or are simply symlinked to my ~/Sites folder. That way, I can test to make sure everything’s 100% before I make changes live. This has typically been a bit of a messy workflow – [...]
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