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require 'net/ftp'

CONTENT_SERVER_DOMAIN_NAME = "one-of-the-ftp-server.thought-sauce.com.hk"
CONTENT_SERVER_FTP_LOGIN = "saucy-ftp-server-login"
CONTENT_SERVER_FTP_PASSWORD = "saucy-ftp-server-password"


# LOGIN and LIST available files at default home directory
Net::FTP.open(CONTENT_SERVER_DOMAIN_NAME, CONTENT_SERVER_FTP_LOGIN, CONTENT_SERVER_FTP_PASSWORD) do |ftp|
  files = ftp.list

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

# checks to see if running 
launchctl list | grep elasticsearch
 
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist
launchctl remove homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch

pkill -f elasticsearch

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Using Solr search engine with Sunspot gem in Rails app

Solr search engine

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

Sunspot

Sunspot - Sunspot is a Ruby library for interaction with the Solr search engine.

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Multiple MySQL Versions with Homebrew

For homebrew version 0.9.5.

brew -v # => Homebrew 0.9.5

Install the current version of mysql.

# Install current mysql version

brew install mysql

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gif-from-tweet

There are so many great GIFs out there and I want to have copies of them. Twitter makes that harder than it should be by converting them to MP4 and not providing access to the source material. To make it easier, I made a bash pipeline that takes a tweet URL and a filename, extracts the MP4 from that tweet and uses ffmpeg to convert back to GIF.

Dependencies

• ffmpeg
  • macOS: brew install ffmpeg
  • Ubuntu/Debian: apt install ffmpeg

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Prelude

I. Preface and Motivation

This guide was written because I don't particularly enjoy deploying Phoenix (or Elixir for that matter) applications. It's not easy. Primarily, I don't have a lot of money to spend on a nice, fancy VPS so compiling my Phoenix apps on my VPS often isn't an option. For that, we have Distillery releases. However, that requires me to either have a separate server for staging to use as a build server, or to keep a particular version of Erlang installed on my VPS, neither of which sound like great options to me and they all have the possibilities of version mismatches with ERTS. In addition to all this, theres a whole lot of configuration which needs to be done to setup a Phoenix app for deployment, and it's hard to remember.

For that reason, I wanted to use Docker so that all of my deployments would be automated and reproducable. In addition, Docker would allow me to have reproducable builds for my releases. I could build my releases on any machine that I wanted in a contai

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iPad Media Queries

iPad Media Queries (All generations - including iPad mini)

Thanks to Apple's work in creating a consistent experience for users, and easy time for developers, all 5 different iPads (iPads 1-5 and iPad mini) can be targeted with just one CSS media query. The next few lines of code should work perfect for a responsive design.

iPad in portrait & landscape

@media only screen 
and (min-device-width : 768px) 
and (max-device-width : 1024px)  { /* STYLES GO HERE */}

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(function addXhrProgressEvent($) {
    var originalXhr = $.ajaxSettings.xhr;
    $.ajaxSetup({
        progress: function() { console.log("standard progress callback"); },
        xhr: function() {
            var req = originalXhr(), that = this;
            if (req) {
                if (typeof req.addEventListener == "function") {
                    req.addEventListener("progress", function(evt) {
                        that.progress(evt);

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import "phoenix_html"
import "bootstrap"
import "jquery"
import "toastr"

// ...

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Install Dependencies

npm install --save jquery popper.js tether [email protected] font-awesome // popper.js for bootstrap 4 dependency

Copy font-awesome fonts to assets/static/fonts folder

cp -r assets/node_modules/font-awesome/fonts to assets/static