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Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

you have a local git repo
with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
- your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
- your webpages are executed by apache
apache's home directory is /var/www/

1. Clone your fork:

git clone [email protected]:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

Move your stashes from one repo to another

This was useful for me when we created a new branch for a new major release, but were still working on our current version as well. I cloned our repo again and kept the new project on our new branch, but also wanted to get my stashes there.

Download your stashes

git stash show -p > patch

You'll have to specify your stash and name your file whatevery you want. Do this for as all your stashes, and you'll have patch files in your pwd.

Unit Testing for Craft Plugins

Writing unit tests for your craft plugin has not been straight forward out of the gate but P&T is taking steps to fully integrate unit testing and have already added the basic necessities to do so.

Assumed Directory Structure


@craft = /path/to/site/craft
@craftTests = @craft/app/tests

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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.

Run NodeJS as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

With Node you can write very fast JavaScript programs serverside. It's pretty easy to install Node, code your program, and run it. But > how do you make it run nicely in the background like a true server?

Go to /etc/init/
$ sudo vim yourapp.conf
Paste script.conf
$ sudo start yourapp
And when you wanna kill the process $ sudo stop yourapp

	require 'redis'

	# SADD key, member
	# Adds the specified <i>member</i> to the set stored at <i>key</i>.

	redis = Redis.new
	redis.sadd 'my_set', 'foo' # => true
	redis.sadd 'my_set', 'bar' # => true
	redis.sadd 'my_set', 'bar' # => false
	redis.smembers 'my_set' # => ["foo", "bar"]

	<?php
	/**
	* Just trying out more functional programming in PHP
	* This gist provides some basic utility functions for:
	* + Working with functions
	* + Working with arrays
	*/

	// This function allows creating a new function from two functions passed into it
	function compose(&$f, &$g) {

	// Get binary file using XMLHttpRequest
	function getBinary(file) {
	var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
	xhr.open("GET", file, false);
	xhr.overrideMimeType("text/plain; charset=x-user-defined");
	xhr.send(null);
	return xhr.responseText;
	}

	// Base64 encode binary string