Nish NISH1001

Systems thinking

Intro

how I heard about systems thinking
what it is
how I applied it at Prezi
steal my job!

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Gist

This is a quick tutorial explaining how to get a static website hosted on Heroku.

Why do this?

Heroku hosts apps on the internet, not static websites. To get it to run your static portfolio, personal blog, etc., you need to trick Heroku into thinking your website is a PHP app. This 6-step tutorial will teach you how.

Basic Assumptions

NOTE: This is a question I found on StackOverflow which I’ve archived here, because the answer is so effing phenomenal.

Q: How can I make a chain of function decorators in Python?

If you are not into long explanations, see [Paolo Bergantino’s answer][2].

Web Resources

Course Textbooks

Tim Jones homepage (author of primary textbook, note that book code is only on cdrom with book)
GNU/Linux Application Programming (1st ed.) by Tim Jones (much of first edition of Jones text on Google Books)
Beginning Linux Programming (4th ed.) by Matthew and Stones (alternative text, can download code from this site)
free download of Beginning Linux Programming (4th ed.)

	# Download and Install the Latest Updates for the OS
	apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y

	# Set the Server Timezone to CST
	echo "America/Chicago" > /etc/timezone
	dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata

	# Enable Ubuntu Firewall and allow SSH & MySQL Ports
	ufw enable
	ufw allow 22

	""" Python implementation of the OASIS algorithm.
	Graham Taylor

	Based on Matlab implementation of:
	Chechik, Gal, et al.
	"Large scale online learning of image similarity through ranking."
	The Journal of Machine Learning Research 11 (2010): 1109-1135.
	"""

	from __future__ import division

	"""

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3_algorithm
	http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/cap6635/Fall-97/Short-papers/2.htm

	"""

	from collections import namedtuple, Counter, defaultdict
	from math import log2

	"""
	This module provides a simple WSGI profiler middleware for finding
	bottlenecks in web application. It uses the profile or cProfile
	module to do the profiling and writes the stats to the stream provided

	To use, run `flask_profiler.py` instead of `app.py`

	see: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/0.9/contrib/profiler/
	and: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-xvi-debugging-testing-and-profiling
	"""

	/* Useful celery config.

	app = Celery('tasks',
	broker='redis://localhost:6379',
	backend='redis://localhost:6379')

	app.conf.update(
	CELERY_TASK_RESULT_EXPIRES=3600,
	CELERY_QUEUES=(
	Queue('default', routing_key='tasks.#'),