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Tutorial: Meteor in Windows using Vagrant

BEFORE YOU CONTINUE:

Now, Meteor runs in any Windows without any line of this tutorial. Just download the Meteor binary! Yay!!
mrt is no longer used with Meteor 1.0

These days some people were discussing at meteor-talk group about running Meteor at Windows and I’ve recommended them using Vagrant. It’s a very developer-friendly piece of software that creates a virtual machine (VM) which let you run any operating system wanted and connect to it without big efforts of configuration (just make the initial installation and you have it working).

Many packages (I've tested) for running Meteor+Vagrant fails because Meteor writes its mongodb file and also other files inside local build folder into a shared folder between the Windows host and the Linux guest, and it simply does not work. So I've put my brain to work and found a solution: do symlinks inside the VM (but do not use ln. Use mount so git can follow it). It’s covered on

Using pg.connect is the way to go in a web environment.

PostgreSQL server can only handle 1 query at a time per conenction. That means if you have 1 global new pg.Client() connected to your backend your entire app is bottleknecked based on how fast postgres can respond to queries. It literally will line everything up, queuing each query. Yeah, it's async and so that's alright...but wouldn't you rather multiply your throughput by 10x? Use pg.connect set the pg.defaults.poolSize to something sane (we do 25-100, not sure the right number yet).

new pg.Client is for when you know what you're doing. When you need a single long lived client for some reason or need to very carefully control the life-cycle. A good example of this is when using LISTEN/NOTIFY. The listening client needs to be around and connected and not shared so it can properly handle NOTIFY messages. Other example would be when opening up a 1-off client to kill some hung stuff or in command line scripts.

So, I was developing a node shell script and wanted to determine the time it took from start, to finish to generate the output of a file. Simple, right? It is, but the problem is that if you want a clean way to do it... you have to develop it, otherwise you'll have a lot of wrapper code surrounding methods and such. So I wrote a small method to simplify it even further.

Benchmark Method:

function benchmark (method) {
  var start = +(new Date);

  method && method(function (callback) {
 var end = +(new Date);

Setting up github and bitbucket on the same computer (Windows)

Guide for Windows

mix3d asked for some help using this guide with windows so here we go. This was tested with Windows 10. Run all commands in Git Bash once it's installed.

Github will be the main account and bitbucket the secondary.

Git for Windows

Download and install Git for Windows
- In the installer, select everything but decide if you want a desktop icon (2nd step)

Prolog

Google Chrome Developers says:

The new WOFF 2.0 Web Font compression format offers a 30% average gain over WOFF 1.0 (up to 50%+ in some cases). WOFF 2.0 is available since Chrome 36 and Opera 23.

Some examples of file size differences: WOFF vs. WOFF2

TTF to WOFF2 converting

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator

	// Fonts mixin
	font-url(file)
	return '../fonts/' + file

	webfont(family, file, hack-chrome-windows = false, weight = 'normal')
	@font-face
	font-family family
	src url(font-url(file + '.eot'))
	src url(font-url(file + '.eot?#iefix')) format('embedded-opentype'),
	url(font-url(file + '.woff')) format('woff'),

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Building a router</title>
	<script>
	// Put John's template engine code here...

	(function () {
	// A hash to store our routes:

	NOTE: Easier way is the X86 way, described on https://www.genymotion.com/help/desktop/faq/#google-play-services

	Download the following ZIPs:

	ARM Translation Installer v1.1 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0ZIO8PME/Genymotion-ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip_links)

	Download the correct GApps for your Android version:
	Google Apps for Android 6.0 (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347835438 - benzo-gapps-M-20151011-signed-chroma-r3.zip)
	Google Apps for Android 5.1 (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=96042739161891406 - gapps-L-4-21-15.zip)
	Google Apps for Android 5.0 (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95784891001614559 - gapps-lp-20141109-signed.zip)

	<?php
	# Fill our vars and run on cli
	# $ php -f db-connect-test.php

	$dbname = 'name';
	$dbuser = 'user';
	$dbpass = 'pass';
	$dbhost = 'host';

	$connect = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die("Unable to Connect to '$dbhost'");

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048