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Backend Development

• node.js
  • Installation paths: use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo.
  • Node.js HOWTO: Install Node+NPM as user (not root) under Unix OSes
  • Felix's Node.js Guide
  • Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • Node Cellar Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
  • JavaScript Event Loop
• Node.js for PHP programmers

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Frontend Development

Attention: if you attempt to fork this gist, github will think that you are a spammer and you will have to confirm that you are human with them. Apparantly there are too many links in this list. Also I update it rather frequently (see revisions on the left), so it's probably wise to not fork it anyway.

• Guides
  • Hack Design
  • Designer School
  • TheExpressiveWeb
  • Talks To Help You Become A Better Front-End Engineer In 2013
• Web Development Teaching Materials

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# 0. Make sure you have Ruby 1.9.3 installed, and optionally RVM and PostgreSQL

# 0.2 If you are on the Mac, make sure you have a c compiler by installing XCode Command Line Tools or gcc4.2 with homebrew
# https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Custom-GCC-and-cross-compilers

# 0.5 Make sure you have bundler version ~> 1.2 as Rails depends on it
gem install bundler

# 1. Get edge Rails source (master branch)
git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git

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FIXME:
WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.3, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
or
libxml_ruby.bundle: dlsym(0x10fde1900, Init_libxml_ruby): symbol not found 


gem uninstall nokogiri libxml-ruby

brew update
brew uninstall libxml2

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# Capistrano configuration
# 
# require 'new_relic/recipes'         - Newrelic notification about deployment
# require 'capistrano/ext/multistage' - We use 2 deployment environment: staging and production.
# set :deploy_via, :remote_cache      - fetch only latest changes during deployment
# set :normalize_asset_timestamps     - no need to touch (date modification) every assets
# "deploy:web:disable"                - traditional maintenance page (during DB migrations deployment)
# task :restart                       - Unicorn with preload_app should be reloaded by USR2+QUIT signals, not HUP

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# requires root permissions in /usr/bin/

star = String.new
8.times { star += "*" }
Star = "\n#{star * 3}\n"

def newblock string
	puts "\n#{Star}#{string}#{Star}\n"
end

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'yaml'

class Database
  attr_reader :config_file, :settings

  def initialize
    @config_file = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "../../config/database.yml"))

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@mixin background-image-retina($file, $type, $width, $height) {
  background-image: url($file + '.' + $type);

  @media (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
    & {
      background-image: url($file + '@2x.' + $type);
      -webkit-background-size: $width $height;
    }
  }
}

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require 'rubygems'
require 'rmagick'
require 'color_namer'


img = Magick::ImageList.new('photo.jpg')

img.resize_to_fit!(500) # resize the image to have faster quantization
quantized = img.quantize(16) # quantize the photo to reduce number of colors
img.destroy! # prevent memory leaks