So I’ve been doing development on my Mac. The main reason is that I love Mac’s font rendering and the monaco font, it makes programming really enjoyable. Plus I love TextMate and I also use Xcode and Interface Builder for iPhone development. Anyways, as a result I have been using git, which is basically recently popular distributed version control system. I bought hosting at Github to store all of my private source code.
Today I received the Crucial 4GBs of DDR3 RAM (2 sticks in Dual Channel) that I ordered cause my MacBook was crawling when I ran all of my development tools that I absolutely needed. Really, I only had like 145 MB left with all of my dev tools running, and I was idling; not actually working on anything. I believe part of the reason it uses much RAM is cause the video is integrated (Geforce 9400M). Anyways, after installing it, my system is silky smooth. I can actually do stuff now :D
So yeah I’ve been using the terminal a lot (I love the Mac terminal by the way, it’s really nice). The default prompt is pretty boring though, it’s just like macbook:blaenk ~ $ or something. I changed it to be a bit more helpful and colorized certain parts to make the distinct parts stand out. I also created a theme for my terminal which kind of resembles my custom TextMate theme as well. Here’s what it looks like right now:
And a screenshot of what bold text looks like, as shown here in the git manual:
If you would like to try out the prompt I’m using, check out this gist:
As for my actual Terminal theme, you can get it here. It’s just an XML file really. Put it somewhere in your file system (Wherever you want, home directory for all I care) and then go to your Terminal.app’s Preferences. In the settings tab, go to the bottom left and click the gear and click Import…, then browse for the .terminal file. It should import the theme, it’s creatively called Blaenk, but you can change that of course.
It’s nothing breath taking, but I figured I’d share it.
Oh man, this design for your website is AWESOME! I love it. Especially the tabs part.
Haha thanks man, I appreciate it. I’ve been working on it for years now, making small changes here and there, but it never really seemed complete, it felt weird haha.
I have that post coming, don’t worry, sorry that I’ve taken too long. Just for starters though, this is a great way to learn XHTML/CSS and even PHP if you’re interested (But the PHP is not necessary), by making small changes to your site’s theme until it looks exactly the way you want it. I think you’ve already begun doing this but with images only so far, and that’s great, that’s how you begin, by realizing that you can actually change the look. Make sure you start out using a theme that you already kinda like though, so that you don’t have to drastically change it.
In the meantime, make sure you have Firebug installed. You can play around with it a bit by bringing it up (Click on the bug on the bottom right) and then on the top left of it click the flashlight (Inspect), then hover your mouse over any part of a website. It will show you the XHTML and the CSS that corresponds. The awesome part is that you can edit the CSS values or add/remove them in real-time, and see the changes. This is what is being used now over Dreamweaver for the most part.