Dave Bauman baumandm

The idea is to have nginx installed and node installed. I will extend this gist to include how to install those as well, but at the moment, the following assumes you have nginx 0.7.62 and node 0.2.3 installed on a Linux distro (I used Ubuntu).

In a nutshell,

nginx is used to serve static files (css, js, images, etc.)
node serves all the "dynamic" stuff.

So for example, www.foo.com request comes and your css, js, and images get served thru nginx while everything else (the request for say index.html or "/") gets served through node.

nginx listens on port 80.

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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

UI component names

As front-end developers we all know the pain of coming up with meaningful component names for CSS classes. I created this gist as a place to collect terms that are suitable as user interface component names.

Please contribute your own ideas!

Interactive components

button

	// Basic XMPP bot example for HipChat using node.js
	// To use:
	// 1. Set config variables
	// 2. Run `node hipchat_bot.js`
	// 3. Send a message like "!weather 94085" in the room with the bot


	var request = require('request'); // github.com/mikeal/request
	var sys = require('sys');
	var util = require('util');

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	if ARGV.length < 2
	puts "usage: #{$0} databag.json new_encrypted_databag.json [encrypted_data_bag_secret]"
	exit(1)
	end

	databag_file = ARGV[0]
	out_file = ARGV[1]
	if ARGV.length >= 3


	/**
	* Description:
	* simple title case => Simple Title Case
	* Usage:
	* {{some_text \| titleCase}}
	*/
	app.filter('titleCase', function () {
	return function (input) {
	var words = input.split(' ');

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