So. Here is the theme, should I ever do that again, or if you aren’t a big fan of the default themes.

Adding a new theme to SyntaxHighlighter

If you are use version 2.2.0 of the plugin you can run this patch against it (Add GitHub theme patch). To use the patch just run:

$>patch syntaxhighlighter.php add_github_theme.patch

Or you can simply open it up and duplicate how the default themes are in there.

Grab the GitHub SyntaxHighlighter Theme

GitHub SyntaxHighlighter theme (Gist) (It isn’t 100%, but it looks pretty nice for Ruby code)

Heres how it looks

GitHub Theme

Problem

Use Linux’s “find” command to hunt recursively through the current directory tree and find all matching files. While this is simple enough, I’m an idiot and tend to delete important files when drinking working too much — which we all know sucks. It would be nice to have it take all found files, tar them up and move it to the trash.

Solution

The evil, but oh-so-useful xargs command is your saving grace. While I hate using xargs its damn useful. If you take the output of find and pipe it into tar then pipe THAT into rm you get the job done.

Example

This is just a simple hack I’ve put together which seems to work and is relatively simple. (done as a bash function)

frm(){
	find . -name "$1" | xargs tar rvf "$1.tar" | xargs rm -rfv && mv $1.tar ~/.trash
}

I just needed this because I had to wipe all ./.svn directories so i just typed frm .svn and it created a .svn.tar and moved that to ~/.trash. Good stuff

Firstly, let me just say that compiling PHP has never been this difficult before. It shouldn’t be difficult at all actually. So heres the basic run down: I need SOAP, GD, SimpleXML and a few other miscellaneous extensions to make all my dev apps work properly — this went smoothly on the ppc laptop, and I (stupidly) assumed that the Intel would be even easier. My first couple attempts were splattered with GD errors driving me to the brink of insanity as I scrambled up all the pre-requisites. Finally, I had all dependencies met and the configure script STILL would not quit barfing on me. I gave up and finally just installed PHP without GD support (naturally ruining the one project I’m working on currently). I gave up, until I felt feisty enough to give it another shot.

The configure script was choking on a linking error (GD build test failed. Please check the config.log for details.) and kept telling me to hunt config.log for some answers. It turns out that ./configure was attempting to link with shell variables that were empty.

Looks something like “-L: directory name missing“.

The solution

Hacking my way through the configure file you get to the culprit.

LIBS=" -L$GD_LIB $GD_SHARED_LIBADD $LIBS"

Turns out that echo $GD_LIB is blank and being a major pain in the ass. To fix this, just edit the line to look more like: LIBS=" $GD_SHARED_LIBADD $LIBS". After that, try a make clean, rm config.cache and try to compile again. Hopefully this will save you a couple hours of hating life.

Resources:

• http://www.phpmac.com/articles.php?view=3 — good instructions for getting those GD dependencies.
• http://www.phpmac.com/articles.php?view=159 — more insight from the same site
• http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20041104230209410 — more about GD dependencies, and a little more insight into problems
• http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread670263.html — explains the final solution in more depth

My Configure Script
It might be beefed up in the future, but I’m just relieved to have it compiled & working right now — I’m exhausted

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 \
 --mandir=/usr/share/man \
 --infodir=/usr/share/info \
 --sysconfdir=/etc \
 --enable-cli \
 --enable-soap \
 --with-ldap=/usr \
 --with-xml \
 --with-libxml-dir=/usr/local \
 --with-zlib \
 --with-zlib-dir=/usr \
 --with-openssl \
 --enable-exif \
 --enable-ftp \
 --enable-mbstring \
 --enable-mbregex \
 --enable-dbx \
 --enable-sockets \
 --with-curl=/usr \
 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
 --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config \
 --with-apxs \
 --with-gd \
 --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
 --with-png-dir=/usr \
 --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
 --with-xpm-dir=/usr

Problem
Create a TextMate snippet that will build a label for a given input textbox using Human Cased words from an underscored name attribute.

Solution
TextMate snippets support Perl Regexps which is a beautiful, albeit scary, thing. Start by making the label in direct relation to the input tag’s “name.” The label’s “for” attribute should stay the same as the input’s “name,” but the actual text displayed between the label should be in Human format (ie: Uppercase first letter only, and spaces instead of “_”). Heres the final result:

<label for="$2">${2/([a-z]){1}([a-z0-9]+)|(_)/(?3: :\U$1\L$2)/gi}</label> <input type="${1:text}" name="${2:input}"${TM_XHTML}>
$0

*The line broke early, where the substitution for the “_” to ” ” should be (?3: :{rest of the code here}
There is probably a more elegant solution, but this works for now.

Problem
I know how to _USE_ icon sets and set my icons*. My issue is that I want to take a folder of, say, *.PNG files and make the icon reflect the contents. I did some digging, and the solution is pretty simple — AND elegant.

Solution
There is a relatively unknown program, at least it was to me, called “sips.” To take the generic PNG icon and replace it with a small thumbnail of the actual image you simply run sips -i {image.ext} from the command line. Beautiful!

Example

1. Open a shell
2. cd {folder full of icons here}
3. find . -name "*.{ext}" -exec sips -i '{}' \;
4. Wait…
5. Start at the top of this page with how to change icons

Resources

• http://forums.macosxhints.com/