Joe Hsu jhsu

Finds of the week

April 28, 2012

Three Easy Essays on Distributed Systems

A collection of essays by Ryan Smith organized and summarized by Adam Keys.

CSS3 Scroll effects

git-hub

This script opens a url to the github commit page

Install

add to a folder in $PATH (ie, /usr/local/bin, or if you have ~/bin part of your path). If the current branch is tracking a remote branch that is on github:

git hub # outputs the url to the most recent commit and opens it in default browser (if the commit has been pushed)

git hub -2 # opens the url to the 2nd most recent commit

WNY Ruby March-a-palooza

'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.                         
*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'                     
,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*         ,---/V\  <  RUBY!! )
.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*    ~|__(o.o)
*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`*.,*'^`  UU  UU

Start 7:30pm

Imagine if you are extended multiple job offers from different companies, and you are trying to decide which one you
will accept. Imagine that the way you go about this is that you write down the things that matter to you from most to
least and that you use 3-5 things at the top of that list to decide. Those are your decision drivers. What are they?

-- http://codercofounder.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/the-one-interview-question-i-always-ask/

ctags tips

Install ctags

brew install ctags-exuberant

Index tags

While in the root of the project

	# Hacky random image thumbnailer.
	# by Peter Sobot, April 21, 2012
	# Based heavily on code by Michael Macias
	# (https://gist.github.com/a54cd41137b678935c91)

	require 'rmagick'

	images = Dir.glob(ARGV[0] ? ARGV[0]
	: '-default-input-paths-')
	output_dir = (ARGV[1] ? ARGV[1]

	Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
	>>> Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
	Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 1847, size: 5.4 MiB.
	Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
	Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
	Total sample cache size: 0 B.
	Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
	Default channel map: front-left,front-right
	Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
	Default source name: alsa_input.usb-M-Audio_Producer_USB-00-USB.analog-stereo

	/* for domain: projects.amsapps.com */
	#wrapper2{
	overflow: hidden;
	}

	#sidebar, #main {
	background: #E5EEF5;
	}

	#top-menu {

	(Resque::Failure.count-1).downto(0).each { \|i\| Resque::Failure.requeue(i) }
	Resque::Failure.clear