Posted by Mikko Lehtinen on Saturday 25. September 2010 | Tagged as osx, zsh

Terminal is perfect tool for hackers but it can increase anyones productivity.

ZSH is my default shell in Mac now. Read My Extravagant Zsh Prompt or zsh: The last shell you’ll ever need! why you should choose ZSH over OSX’s default Bash.

Tip 1: Use key bindings.

Here are some of my favourites:

Moving around:

• Ctrl + a Jump to the beginning of line
• Ctrl + e Jump to the end of line
• Crtl + left/right Jump word

Note: you must configure Terminal key bindings to make Crtl+arrows work for OSX.

Clearing:

• Ctrl + L Clear the screen
• Ctrl + U Clears the line before the cursor
• Ctrl + K Clear the line after the cursor
• Ctrl + W Delete the word before the cursor

Searching & History:

• Ctrl + r Search history
• Ctrl + j Stop search and edit

Tip 2: use preconfigured environments

Use shell framework such as oh-my-zsh or dotfiles. They give you helpers and preconfigured, easily customized environment which can be shared easily with all your computers. I chose oh-my-zsh and my configuration is available on GitHub.

Tip 3: replace Terminal.app

Replace Terminal.app with improved terminals with added features. Some options are iTerm or Visor, which I’m using.

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Posted by Mikko Lehtinen on Friday 24. September 2010 | Tagged as gae, multitenancy

The 1.3.6 update for App Engine introduced support for multitenancy using namespaces. You might want to read the introduction by Nick Johnson to read what it means. Here is a snippet for function decorator allowing you to run function in given namespace. Code is based on this.

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Posted by Mikko Lehtinen on Friday 24. September 2010 | Tagged as app-engine

I finally moved this blog to Google App Engine. The code is based on Bloggart by Nick Johnson which I converted to use the great Tipfy framework.

The code is available on GitHub.

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