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@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

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 = [email protected]: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:

@caseman
caseman / gist:3428752
Created August 22, 2012 19:49
Ctor: Lightweight Javascript Constructors with Inheritance

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.

@eendeego
eendeego / bindings-cheat-sheet.md
Created November 28, 2012 10:26
Node/V8 bindings cheat sheet
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active June 13, 2025 01:26
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@karmi
karmi / movie-titles.rb
Created January 13, 2013 20:42
Multiple analyzers and query fields in Elasticsearch for auto-completion
require 'tire'
# Tire.configure { logger STDERR, level: 'debug' }
Tire.index('movie-titles') do
delete
create \
settings: {
index: {
analysis: {
@mikeyk
mikeyk / watch_wal-e.py
Created January 16, 2013 20:24
Watch_wal-e script
#! /usr/bin/env python
from boto.ses.connection import SESConnection
import os
import sys
import subprocess
import socket
TMPFILE = '/var/run/postgresql/last-wal-archive-error-file.tmp'
if __name__ == '__main__':

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active June 24, 2025 22:40
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

@mollerse
mollerse / gulpfile-express.js
Last active March 28, 2021 20:07
Gulpfile for livereload + static server
var gulp = require('gulp'),
sass = require('gulp-sass'),
browserify = require('gulp-browserify'),
concat = require('gulp-concat'),
embedlr = require('gulp-embedlr'),
refresh = require('gulp-livereload'),
lrserver = require('tiny-lr')(),
express = require('express'),
livereload = require('connect-livereload')
livereloadport = 35729,