Ivan Rosolen ivanrosolen

How to facilitate a retrospective

The role of Facilitator is fundamental for almost every meeting. The Facilitator ensures that the whole group is empowered to make decisions and that every individual has their voice heard.

During a retrospective, the Facilitator role is crucial. In a retrospective, it is ideal that everyone has at least some degree of participation, and it is the Facilitator that helps the participants with that.

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

Compile PHP MogoDbDriver for php 7

This gist took PHP - Manually Installing the MongoDB PHP Driver, as reference.

First locate your php-config file. To do so, you can trace it with locate php-config. It will be something like this:

/usr/php/7.0.9/exec/bin/php-config

It's the file that has all compiled php settings, and it will be used to tell config command, wich PHP should be compiled for.

Kafka Topics

List existing topics

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --list

Describe a topic

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --topic mytopic

Purge a topic

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --alter --topic mytopic --config retention.ms=1000

... wait a minute ...

#Understanding closures, callbacks and promises

For a code newbie like myself, callbacks, closures and promises are scary JavaScript concepts.

10 months into my full-time dev career, and I would struggle to explain these words to a peer.

So I decided it was time to face my fears, and try to get my head around each concept.

Here are the notes from my initial reading. I'll continue to refine them as my understanding improves.

Guide

Note The extension Imagick is now included in Ondrej's PPA. All you need to do now is $ sudo apt-get install php-imagick, and you're done. I'll keep the guide here because a lot of it is still true for other extensions

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I've installed PHP7 via Ondrej's PPA. He maintains these PPA's on his free time, consider donating

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	set -euo pipefail

	declare -r IFS=$'\n'

	declare -r SPAWNED_LIST=$(mktemp)
	declare -r SPAWNED_LIMIT=20

	task() {

	FROM php:7-fpm

	RUN apt-get update && \
	apt-get install -y \
	zlib1g-dev \
	libfreetype6-dev \
	libjpeg62-turbo-dev \
	libmcrypt-dev \
	libpng12-dev

	<!--
	To dicovery where is delegates convert -list delegate
	Must pass this commands to GS: -dUseCIEColor -sDEVICE=pngalpha
	-->
	<delegate decode="ps:cmyk" stealth="True" command=""gs" -q -dQUIET -dUseCIEColor -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=%u -dGraphicsAlphaBits=%u "-r%s" %s "-sOutputFile=%s" "-f%s" "-f%s""/>

	{
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokai.tmTheme",
	"detect_indentation": true,
	"draw_white_space": "all",
	"font_size": 12,
	"highlight_line": true,
	"highlight_modified_tabs": true,
	"ignored_packages":
	[
	"Vintage"