Shane Robinson CodeShane

Selenium with Python

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

##Auto-deploy with php and github on an Ubuntu Amazon EC2 box

When ever it says www-data below, it's the user Apache runs under. So if your apache user is called something else, change it to that.

##Install git

sudo aptitude install git-core

	#!/bin/sh
	parse_yaml() {
	local prefix=$2
	local s='[[:space:]]' w='[a-zA-Z0-9_]' fs=$(echo @\|tr @ '\034')
	sed -ne "s\|^\($s\)\($w\)$s:$s\"\(.*\)\"$s\$\|\1$fs\2$fs\3\|p" \
	-e "s\|^\($s\)\($w\)$s:$s\(.*\)$s\$\|\1$fs\2$fs\3\|p" $1 \|
	awk -F$fs '{
	indent = length($1)/2;
	vname[indent] = $2;
	for (i in vname) {if (i > indent) {delete vname[i]}}

	# http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/
	# http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/

	# Boot up a machine with at least 1.5 to 2 GB Ram

	# login
	chmod 600 key.pem
	ssh -i key.pem [email protected]

	# update

	#!/bin/bash
	# from here: http://www.codingsteps.com/install-redis-2-6-on-amazon-ec2-linux-ami-or-centos/
	# and here: https://raw.github.com/gist/257849/9f1e627e0b7dbe68882fa2b7bdb1b2b263522004/redis-server
	###############################################
	# To use:
	# wget https://raw.github.com/gist/2776679/04ca3bbb9f085b192f6aca945120fe12d59f15f9/install-redis.sh
	# chmod 777 install-redis.sh
	# ./install-redis.sh
	###############################################
	echo "*****************************************"

	from time import strftime,gmtime,time
	import urllib2
	import hmac
	import hashlib
	import base64
	import string

	def publishAmazonSnsMsg(Subject,TopicArn,Message,AWSAccessKeyId,privatekey):
	#http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/2008-01-01/SQSDeveloperGuide/
	amzsnshost = 'sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'

	function Value(value) {
	switch (typeof value) {
	case "number": return {N: String(value)}
	case "string": return {S: value}
	}

	if (value) switch (typeof value[0]) {
	case "number": return {NS: value.map(String)}
	case "string": return {SS: value}
	}

	# Create your superuser
	$ mongo
	> use admin
	> db.createUser({user:"someadmin",pwd:"secret", roles:[{role:"root",db:"admin"}]})
	> exit

	# Alias for convenience (optional and at your own risk)
	$ echo 'alias mongo="mongo --port 27017 -u someadmin -p secret --authenticationDatabase admin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
	$ source ~/.bash_profile