Bruno Paz brpaz

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

Configure local wildcard DNS server

Install Dnsmasq: sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
Since Ubuntu's NetworkManager uses dnsmasq, and since that messes things up a little for us, open up /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and comment out (#) the line that reads dns=dnsmasq. Restart NetworkManager afterwards: sudo restart network-manager.
Make sure Dnsmasq listens to local DNS queries by editing /etc/dnsmasq.conf, and adding the line listen-address=127.0.0.1.
Create a new file in /etc/dnsmasq.d (eg. /etc/dnsmasq.d/dev), and add the line address=/dev/127.0.0.1 to have dnsmasq resolve requests for *.dev domains. Restart Dnsmasq: sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart.

source: http://brunodbo.be/blog/2013/04/setting-up-wildcard-apache-virtual-host-wildcard-dns

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

Deploying Hubot on DigitalOcean

By Thomas Darr (@trdarr), with love.

“How has no one yet written a tutorial for deploying Hubot on @digitalocean? cc @beyroutey”

— Miles Grimshaw (@milesgrimshaw), 10 Dec 2013

	import datetime
	import arrow
	from fabric.api import *
	import boto
	from boto.cloudfront import CloudFrontConnection
	import os
	from datetime import date, timedelta
	import gzip
	import shutil

	#!/bin/sh

	# Config
	cfkey=89e495e7941cf9e40e6980d14a16bf023ccd4c91
	[email protected]
	cfhost=example.com
	cfname=local.example.com
	cfid=123456789

	# cfid = DNS Record ID. Available by using the rec_load_all call.

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# jsonenv reads a json object as input and produces
	# escaped shell commands for setting environment vars

	import json
	import pipes
	import sys

	for k, v in json.load(sys.stdin).items():


	hello:
	@echo "Hello! use other targets!"

	deploy:
	git reset --hard -q
	git pull -q
	rm -rf bin/
	php composer.phar install --no-progress --no-dev -o --quiet
	rm -rf app/cache/*

	require 'rake'
	require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
	require 'yaml'
	require 'highline/import'

	properties = YAML.load_file('properties.yaml')

	ENV['SSH_USER'] = ask("Enter ssh user: ") { \|q\| q.echo = true }
	ENV['SSH_PASSWORD'] = ask("Enter ssh password: ") { \|q\| q.echo = false }

	var express = require('express');
	var blahController = require('./example-controller'); //and so on and so forth
	var routes = require('./routes');

	var app = express()

	var controllers = {
	blah: blahController,
	user: userController
	}