Nickolas Kenyeres knicklabs

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

Postgres Cheatsheet

This is a collection of the most common commands I run while administering Postgres databases. The variables shown between the open and closed tags, "<" and ">", should be replaced with a name you choose. Postgres has multiple shortcut functions, starting with a forward slash, "". Any SQL command that is not a shortcut, must end with a semicolon, ";". You can use the keyboard UP and DOWN keys to scroll the history of previous commands you've run.

Setup

installation, Ubuntu

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostgreSQL

Remove rbenv and any rubies, gems etc.:

$ rm -rf ~/.rbenv

Uninstall rbenv if installed via Homebrew

$ brew uninstall rbenv

Remove references to rbenv in ~/.bash_profile etc.

Awesome PHP Libraries

A list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries that you should be using:

Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
Symfony2 - A framework comprised of individual components.
Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components.
Symfony2 Components - The components that make Symfony2.
Aura Components - A package of PHP 5.4 components.
Illuminate Components - The components that make the upcoming Laravel 4 framework.

Installation

Install hcl https://github.com/zenhob/hcl
cd MyProject
curl -L https://gist.github.com/raw/3760898/commit-msg.sh > .git/hooks/commit-msg
chmod +x .git/hooks/commit-msg
hcl tasks
Note ProjectID & TaskID
git config hooks.harvesttask "ProjectID TaskID"
Example: git config hooks.harvesttask "2551232 1441578"

	# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
	#
	# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
	# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
	# programs.
	#
	# Once you're done here, go to
	# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
	# to learn SOOOO much more.

	'use strict';

	module.exports = function(grunt) {

	// load all grunt tasks
	require('matchdep').filterDev('grunt-*').forEach(grunt.loadNpmTasks);


	// configurable paths
	var paths = {

	module.exports = function(grunt) {
	grunt.initConfig({
	pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
	concat: {
	options: {
	separator: ';'
	},
	dist: {
	src: [
	'assets/js/_src/modernizr.js',

	task :server do
	server = Process.spawn('jekyll serve --watch')
	compass = Process.spawn('compass watch')

	trap('INT') do
	[server, compass].each { \|pid\| Process.kill(9, pid) rescue Errno::ESRCH }
	exit 0
	end

	[server, compass].each { \|pid\| Process.wait(pid) }