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#!/bin/bash
HOSTS="router"
COUNT=4
for myHost in $HOSTS
do
  count=$(ping -c $COUNT $myHost | grep 'received' | awk -F',' '{ print $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 }')
  echo "Ping count of $count to $myHost at $(date)" >> ~/log/monitor.log
  if [[ $count == '' ]]; then
    echo "Host : connection is down (ping failed) at $(date)" >> ~/log/monitor.log
    reboot

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// regexp for matching a valid email and populating an array with its parts

'[email protected]'.match(/([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*)+\@([a-z0-9-]+)\.([a-z.]{2,})/)
// returns ['[email protected]', 'e.mail-address', 'my-domain', 'co.us']

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'use strict';

//npm install gulp gulp-minify-css gulp-uglify gulp-clean gulp-cleanhtml gulp-jshint gulp-strip-debug gulp-zip --save-dev

var gulp = require('gulp'),
	clean = require('gulp-clean'),
	cleanhtml = require('gulp-cleanhtml'),
	minifycss = require('gulp-minify-css'),
	jshint = require('gulp-jshint'),
	stripdebug = require('gulp-strip-debug'),

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# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5108876/kill-a-postgresql-session-connection
namespace :db do 
  desc "Fix 'database is being accessed by other users'"
  task :terminate => :environment do
    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute <<-SQL
      SELECT 
        pg_terminate_backend(pid) 
      FROM 
        pg_stat_activity 
      WHERE 

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/* repeatString() returns a string which has been repeated a set number of times */ 
function repeatString(str, num) {
    out = '';
    for (var i = 0; i < num; i++) {
        out += str; 
    }
    return out;
}

/*

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(function() {
  var jq = document.createElement('script');
  jq.src = "//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js";
  jq.setAttribute('async', 'true');
  document.head.appendChild(jq);
})();

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#in Terminal
sudo killall VDCAssistant

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# A module that allows us to send Backbone events up the tree of components
ReactTelegraph =
  componentWillMount: ->
    # Make BB events available to the component
    _.extend @, Backbone.Events
  
  componentWillUnmount: ->
    # Remove all Backbone event listeners
    @off null, null, null
  

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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Justin Perry

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:

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This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.