Jean-Sébastien Ney jney

Enable SPDY for your Erlang website

Google's Strange Loop presentation Making the Web Faster inspired me to enable SPDY on one of my side projects Zin In Sushi. This simple sushi restaurant review site is build in Erlang using Basho's Webmachine in combination with Erlydtl.

Below is a quick writeup of the steps needed.

Assumptions:

Ctor: Lightweight Javascript Constructors with Inheritance

Author: Casey Duncan @iamnotcasey

This Javascript constructor with inheritance pattern is designed as a lightweight alternative to other methods I've seen while still providing a nice abstraction as a 13 line function that can be easily inlined into your code.

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Running Puma on Nginx

I use the latest Puma v1.4.0 from rubygems.

Make sure you have nginx installed with these options:

>/opt/nginx/sbin/nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.0.15

built by gcc 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)

Event Buffering

Eventually platforms outgrow the single-source-tree model and become distributed systems. A common pattern in these distributed systems is distributed composition via event buffering. Here we motivate and describe this event buffering pattern.

The Problem

NOTE I now use the conventions detailed in the SUIT framework

Template Components

Used to provide structural templates.

Pattern

t-template-name

	[Unit]
	Description=Gitlab Resque

	[Service]
	Type=forking
	SyslogIdentifier=gl-resque
	User=gitlab
	PIDFile=/home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/pids/resque_worker.pid
	WorkingDirectory=/home/gitlab/gitlab

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>App Redirection</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<!--
	NOTE: This was a great hack in days gone by, but now both Apple and Google have improved their support for custom
	protocol handlers.

	(require 'popup)
	(require 'pos-tip)
	(require 'popup-kill-ring)
	(require 'auto-complete-config)

	(add-to-list 'ac-dictionary-directories (concat libfiles-dir "/ac-dict"))
	(ac-config-default)
	(setq ac-use-menu-map t)
	(define-key ac-menu-map (kbd "ESC") 'viper-exit-popup-menu)
	(define-key ac-complete-mode-map (kbd "ESC") 'viper-exit-popup-menu)

	@charset "utf-8";
	html, body, body div, span, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, abbr, address, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, samp, small, strong, sub, sup, var, b, i, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video
	{ margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; font-size: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; }


	article, aside, details, figcaption, figure, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section
	{ display: block }


	blockquote, q { quotes: none }