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Markdown version of Seth Godin's ShipIt Journal

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Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

What

A lot of times you are developing a web application on your own laptop or home computer and would like to demo it to the public. Most of those times you are behind a router/firewall and you don't have a public IP address. Instead of configuring routers (often not possible), this solution gives you a public URL that's reverse tunnelled via ssh to your laptop.

Because of the relaxation of the sshd setup, it's best used on a dedicated virtual machine just for this (an Amazon micro instance for example).

Requirements

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'open-uri'

	MARK_FILE = "mark.dat"

	def wait_for_threads(threads)
	print "Waiting for downloads to finish..."
	threads.each { \|t\| t.join }
	puts " ok"
	end

	Video on this Gist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvpLDuRY4ss&feature=c4-overview&list=UUj8_147vA3FQ1quI_CjciIQ

	#Initialize a bare repo on the webserver. This would preferably be outside of your public website dir but if you are on a shared host you may not have that option. I like to make a folder just outside of the live folder called git. So for me it would look like this…

	$ cd /var/www
	$ mkdir git && cd git
	$ git init –-bare

	#Now you need to create a post-receive hook that will check out the latest tree from the Git repo you just setup into the /var/www/html folder where you want your website to be. You can make this whatever folder you want your code to end up in.
	#This will create a file called post-receive in the hooks dir of the git repo.

	function bitRev(N) {
	var r = 0;
	val = 0;

	while(N > 0) {
	val = N&1;
	N >>= 1;

	r += val&1;
	r <<= 1;

	#!/bin/bash

	usage() {
	echo "usage: git switchbranch"
	}

	version() {
	echo "switchbranch v0.0.2"
	}