merlinmann

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

developit

🐻 valoo

just the bare necessities of state management.

Usage

Hotlink it from https://unpkg.com/valoo.

See Interactive Codepen Demo.

vcarl

I bundled these up into groups and wrote some thoughts about why I ask them!

If these helped you, I'd love to hear about it!! I'm on twitter @vcarl_ or send me an email [email protected]

Onboarding and the workplace

https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-onboarding-workplace/

• How long will it take to deploy my first change? To become productive? To understand the codebase?
• What kind of equipment will I be provided? Will the company pay/reimburse me if I want something specific?

saggiyogesh

• install mongodb on local machine (mongodump & mongorestore) commands are required.
• command dumping

mongodump -h xxx11.mlab.com:11 -u user -p password --authenticationDatabase release-db -d release-db -o /home/dumps

**Options** `-h`: mlab host:port, `-u`: db user, `-p`: db user password, `--authenticationDatabase` `-d`: mlab dbname, `-o`: path to store backupfiles

• restore command, to restore locally

  mongorestore --db dname /home/dumps

Otherwise to restore in mlab, create a new db and replace the options

solace

Use a non-SMTP mail method in Meteor

Requirements:

• lodash (or underscore, you may need to change your _ functions to suit)
• Meteor email package

Meteor.startup(function () {
 var sendEmail = _.bind(Email.send, Email);

stephenparish

Commit Message Conventions

These rules are adopted from the AngularJS commit conventions.

• Goals
• Generating CHANGELOG.md
  • Recognizing unimportant commits
  • Provide more information when browsing the history
• Format of the commit message
• Subject line

nodesocket

/* Flatten das boostrap */
.well, .navbar-inner, .popover, .btn, .tooltip, input, select, textarea, pre, .progress, .modal, .add-on, .alert, .table-bordered, .nav>.active>a, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip-inner, .badge, .label, .img-polaroid {
 	-moz-box-shadow: none !important;
	-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
	box-shadow: none !important;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0px !important;
	-moz-border-radius: 0px !important;
	border-radius: 0px !important;
	border-collapse: collapse !important;
	background-image: none !important;

dankrause

import requests

class HoverException(Exception):
    pass


class HoverAPI(object):
    def __init__(self, username, password):
        params = {"username": username, "password": password}
        r = requests.post("https://www.hover.com/api/login", params=params)

adamgit

#########################
# .gitignore file for Xcode4 and Xcode5 Source projects
#
# Apple bugs, waiting for Apple to fix/respond:
#
#    15564624 - what does the xccheckout file in Xcode5 do? Where's the documentation?
#
# Version 2.6
# For latest version, see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49478/git-ignore-file-for-xcode-projects
#

xandkar

HANDY ONE-LINE SCRIPTS FOR AWK                               30 April 2008
Compiled by Eric Pement - eric [at] pement.org               version 0.27

Latest version of this file (in English) is usually at:
   http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt

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