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didip / tornado-nginx-example.conf
Created January 30, 2011 05:19
Nginx config example for Tornado
worker_processes 2;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
use epoll;
}
@kagemusha
kagemusha / gist:1569836
Created January 6, 2012 09:20
Dump Heroku Postgres DB and load locally
Get the Heroku db as detailed here:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pgbackups#exporting_via_a_backup
1. heroku pgbackups:capture
2. heroku pgbackups:url <backup_num> #=>backup_url
- get backup_num with cmd "heroku pgbackups"
3. curl -o latest.dump <backup_url>
Then locally do:
$ pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb latest.dump
@kylefox
kylefox / color.m
Created January 27, 2012 17:45
Generate a random color (UIColor) in Objective-C
/*
Distributed under The MIT License:
http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
@aparrish
aparrish / blend.py
Created February 22, 2012 02:12
weird text blend procedure
import sys
import random
lines = list()
for line in sys.stdin:
line = line.strip()
lines.append(line)
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active May 7, 2025 23:53
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active April 28, 2025 00:02
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active May 5, 2025 13:05
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@debasishg
debasishg / gist:8172796
Last active April 20, 2025 12:45
A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

General Background and Overview

  1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
  2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
  3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
  4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
  5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&amp;rep=rep1&amp;t
@tfrank64
tfrank64 / AppDelegate.swift
Created June 8, 2014 17:32
Swift UITabBar Programmatically
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: NSDictionary?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
var nav1 = UINavigationController()
var first = FirstViewController(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)
nav1.viewControllers = [first]
var second = SecondViewController(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)
var nav2 = UINavigationController()
@dialupdev
dialupdev / Setting up headless Raspberry Pi OS on macOS.md
Last active May 2, 2024 02:21
Setting up headless Raspberry Pi OS on macOS

Download the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite image from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ (2022-04-04 at the time of this writing).

Insert your microSD card. Use Raspberry Pi Imager to burn the image to your microSD card. Make to select "Set username and password" in the config before starting. Name the user pi and select your own password.

Ensure the disk is mounted again, then enable SSH.

$ touch /Volumes/boot/ssh