Make sure to choose a defining shortname: when prompted to choose a username for the many internal accounts Infochimps requires, having the same user across all accounts greatly speeds up productivity. Keep is short, and identifiably you. joe might not be enough but jkelly could work. Keep it lowercase and alphanumeric.
At work, the most recognizable feature of your workstation is your network hostname. Take a minute to create one for your new computer. It should be memorable to you and distinguishable as your computer and not another remote machine. Get creative, choose something epic, or ironic, whatever you do, just don't leave is Joe's MacBook Pro. Very UN-pro. Open up Terminal.app and type in your new hostname:
$ sudo scutil --set HostName <awesome_name_here>
I like Tap to click to be activated Turn off Scroll Direction: natural. I don't like the joystick scroll.
Maximize your screen space Position on screen: left Automatically hide and show the dock
Set some pictures for your desktop
I am an emacs user, and the control key is the most important. Let's move it closer. Modifier Keys: Caps Lock -> ^ Control
Shortcuts: Add two shortcuts to Terminal.app (deep in the application menu)
- Show Next Tab CTRL + TBA
- Show Previous Tab CTRL + SHIFT + TAB
Now Terminal moves between tabs just like Chrome and others.
Change Mission control Move left and right space to meta <- and meta ->
I like to see the percentage here
Google Chrome Spotify Hipchat From App Store : Caffeine XQuartz (for things that require X11)
Add in mail accounts
Remove unnecessary icons in finder
Install Xcode
ssh-keygen
Add to github SSH keys
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy
Title <hostname_of_computer>
Install solarized color scheme
git clone [email protected]:tomislav/osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized.git
Double click on each, set one as default. Set font to menlo 18
change default shell
chsh -s /bin/zsh
Install Homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"
Install rbenv & ruby-build
brew install rbenv ruby-build
Install tree wget jsonpp htop s3cmd
brew install tree wget jsonpp htop s3cmd
Install emacs
brew install emacs --cocoa --srgb --with-x
Make it a mac application
brew linkapps
No audible or visual bell
under keyboard, check use option as meta key (for emacs)
mavericks comes with ruby 2.0
our ubuntu machines use 1.9.3-p448; install this too
rbenv install 1.9.3-p448
Set it to be the global version. You can switch back and forth between the two.
rbenv global 1.9.3-p448
Install dotfiles
To full screen an app in mavericks CMD + CTRL + F
git osxeychain helper
gem install bundler
install inconsolata font install steam, skype csshx doesn't seem to work really well with mavericks