yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

craigvantonder

#!/bin/bash

# AWS CLI
apt-get install zip -y;
curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-cli/awscli-bundle.zip" -o "awscli-bundle.zip";
unzip awscli-bundle.zip;
./awscli-bundle/install -i /usr/local/aws -b /usr/local/bin/aws;
aws configure;

#AWS Access Key ID [None]: Obtained when creating user in AWS IAM

brianburridge

The easiest way to load the Mysql Time Zone tables from your Mac OS time zone fields is via this command:

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql

However, on many systems like mine that will fail because some of the time zone information is incompatible with the database schema for the time zone tables.

Therefore, you'll want to load the time zone information into a text file and edit it to only include the time zones you need. (Or, attempt to find the data breaking the import.)

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo > zone_import.sql

adamhjk

<% if @port != 80 -%>
  Listen <%= @port %>
<% end -%>

<VirtualHost *:<%= @port %>>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

  DocumentRoot <%= @document_root %>
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks

searls

some tricky test moments in Jasmine

If you know RSpec, Jasmine is easy! But some common uses of JavaScript may not be as immediately obvious.

Try to use Jasmine (you could use your own setup or just tryjasmine.com) to write some specs that cover cases like these. The links will load up an example.

• jQuery DOM manipulation - change the DOM based on state of the DOM
• jQuery event binding - verify an event was bound
• [More jQuery event binding(http://tryjasmine.com/?gist=1378942) - example from Chris Powers
• conditional stubbing w/ backbone - an object that's isolated from its depended-on backbone model

module pattern.js

(function(){
  window.Game = function(){
    var self = {};
    
    //public methods
    self.play = function(){}
    
    //private methods
    var score = function() {};
    

searls

Setting up Jenkins

1. Download

2. Invoke the .war file (in OS X, double-click it; in *NIX/Windows run java -jar jenkins.war)

3. Visit Jenkins at http://localhost:8080

4. Add some plugin fun:

andyedinborough

(function (window, document, $, undefined) {
    if (!$.Deferred) throw 'jQuery 1.5 is required to use the jQuery.oauth script!';

    function require(name, url) {
        if (window[name] === undefined)
            return $.ajax({ type: 'GET', cache: true, dataType: 'script', url: url });
    }

    $.oauth = function (options) {
        var d = $.Deferred();

wbailey

require 'yaml'
require 'logger'
require 'active_record'

namespace :db do
  def create_database config
    options = {:charset => 'utf8', :collation => 'utf8_unicode_ci'}

    create_db = lambda do |config|
      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection config.merge('database' => nil)

dnagir

# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")