According to the msysgit wiki on GitHub and the related fix this error, Filename too long, comes from a Windows API limitation of file paths having 260 characters or fewer.
To resolve this issue, run the following command from GitBash or the Git CMD prompt (as administrator):
git config --system core.longpaths true |
This will allow file paths of 4096 characters.
I often work with HEX colors and want to apply some alpha to them.
Calculating the exact alpha HEX value is tedious job so here it is: the complete list of every possible opacity value in HEX
100% — FF 99% — FC 98% — FA 97% — F7 96% — F5 95% — F2 94% — F0 93% — ED 92% — EB 91% — E8 90% — E6 89% — E3 88% — E0 87% — DE 86% — DB 85% — D9 84% — D6 83% — D4 82% — D1 81% — CF 80% — CC 79% — C9 78% — C7 77% — C4 76% — C2 75% — BF 74% — BD 73% — BA 72% — B8 71% — B5 70% — B3 69% — B0 68% — AD 67% — AB 66% — A8 65% — A6 64% — A3 63% — A1 62% — 9E 61% — 9C 60% — 99 59% — 96 58% — 94 57% — 91 56% — 8F 55% — 8C 54% — 8A 53% — 87 52% — 85 51% — 82 50% — 80 49% — 7D 48% — 7A 47% — 78 46% — 75 45% — 73 44% — 70 43% — 6E 42% — 6B 41% — 69 40% — 66 39% — 63 38% — 61 37% — 5E 36% — 5C 35% — 59 34% — 57 33% — 54 32% — 52 31% — 4F 30% — 4D 29% — 4A 28% — 47 27% — 45 26% — 42 25% — 40 24% — 3D 23% — 3B 22% — 38 21% — 36 20% — 33 19% — 30 18% — 2E 17% — 2B 16% — 29 15% — 26 14% — 24 13% — 21 12% — 1F 11% — 1C 10% — 1A 9% — 17 8% — 14 7% — 12 6% — 0F 5% — 0D 4% — 0A 3% — 08 2% — 05 1% — 03 0% — 00 |
How to use it:
#000000 – Black with ought opacity
#17000000 – Black with 9% opacity
First launch the Terminal app, located in the Utilities folder under Applications, or just hit Cmd + Space and type “Terminal“.
Type (copy & paste) the command below:
defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock |
Then hit return.
Your Dock will now be new as the day it shipped. You are free to mess it up again 🙂
Just a quick reference on how to make a directory writable by OSX integrated Apache web server.
1. Set the ownership of your desired directory/file to the _www user:
sudo chown -R _www:staff path/to/folder/ |
2. Set the permissions so that the _www can write in the directory/file without giving permissions to everyone else:
sudo chmod -R 755 path/to/folder |
Happy coding 🙂
Since I adopted Fabric as a way to monitor vital app stats such as ‘Time in App per User‘ and it’s Beta distribution platform to distribute test builds, increasing APK’s versionCode numbers became a tedious task.
I decided to simplify the things by letting Gradle to do auto versionCode increments when producing release APK’s
Our implementation of build number increments will consist of a property file named version.properties located in the root folder of our project.
The property file will contain 2 variables, one defining the version name such as “2.3” and one defining the version code such as 15
VERSION_NAME=2.3 VERSION_CODE=19 |
In our app module build.gradle file
we will define a function which takes care of retrieving the a bough mentioned values from the properties file and increment the VERSION_CODE if needed.
/** * Get's value from 'version.properties' file * @param varName the name of the variable which value we wan't to get. * @return the variable value. */ def getVersionPropertiesValue(def varName) { def propertiesFile = file('version.properties') if(!propertiesFile.canRead()) { throw new GradleException("Could not read " + propertiesFile.name) } Properties properties = new Properties(); properties.load(new FileInputStream(propertiesFile)) def propertyValue = properties[varName] if(varName == 'VERSION_CODE') { // If we are building release increment the version code List gradleTasksNames = gradle.startParameter.getTaskNames(); for(String taskName : gradleTasksNames) { if(taskName.contains("Release")) { propertyValue = propertyValue.toInteger() + 1 properties[varName] = propertyValue.toString() properties.store(propertiesFile.newWriter(), null) break } } } return propertyValue } |
In the defaultConfig section of the gradle build script we will call this function to retrieve values for the versionName and versionCode of our app.
android { compileSdkVersion 28 defaultConfig { applicationId "com.example.foo" versionCode Integer.valueOf(getVersionPropertiesValue('VERSION_CODE')) versionName getVersionPropertiesValue('VERSION_NAME') minSdkVersion 14 targetSdkVersion 28 } } |
Now each time a release build is made, the version code will increment automatically. If we want to change the version name we can do so by changing the value of VERSION_NAME property.
