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1. Download the file
2. Find the downloaded file on your computer and rename it so that it ends with the letters ".txt" rather than ".csv"
3. In Excel, click File -> Open, then locate and select the downloaded and renamed file.  An "import" dialog will open.
4. During the import process, designate that the file is "Delimited" with a "Comma", and that the "File Origin" is set to UTF-8.
5. Click "Finish"

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Download VirtualBox

Install ALL versions of Internet Explorer: IE7, IE 8, and IE 9

curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash

Install individual IE VM (7-10)

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#!/bin/sh
 
if git-rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    against=HEAD
else
    # run against initial commit
    against=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
fi
 
for FILE in `git diff-index --check --name-status $against -- | cut -c3-` ; do

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http://thetechblock.com/upgrading-macbook-pro-ssd-superduper/

When I first purchased my MacBook Pro in early 2012 (13” unibody), I purchased it with the base specs. After considering Apple’s upcharge on upgrading individual components, I realized it was significantly cheaper to buy the MBP with a 320GB HD and 4GB RAM and then upgrade everything myself. 128GB SSD and 8GB RAM later (which is much cheaper now than it was then), my laptop was a freaking workhorse. The single biggest upgrade in performance was, by far, the SSD.

At the time, I couldn’t convince myself to spring for the 256GB drive, mostly because the price for the drive was around $450. Needless to say, prices have dropped. A lot. With 50GB of music taking a big chunk of my hard drive space, I was getting tired of having to move media off to external drives.  I decided that it was time to upgrade. Again.

I took a long, hard look at the Optibay, which allows users to install a hard drive into their optical bays. In fact, I actually went so far as

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Create A Bootable macOS USB Drive

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5856?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

1. Download the macOS installer from the Mac App Store and make sure it's in your main Applications folder.

2. Connect a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive. Rename the drive to Untitled. (The command in the next step assumes the drive is named Untitled.)

3. Run command in terminal:

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# You can disable this feature for just Sublime Text 3:
 
defaults write com.sublimetext.3 ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
 
# Alternately, if you want this feature disabled globally, you can enter this:
 
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

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Simple Git Workflow For Continuous Delivery

Workflow guidelines:

• master branch is always production-ready, deployable, 100% green test suite
• New development is done on feature branches, with frequent rebasing onto master
• Clean commit history by preferring to rebase instead of merge (git pull is configured to automatically rebase)

Workflow

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Deploying a Rails 3 App with EC2 + S3 + Ubuntu + Capistrano + Passenger
=======================================================================

EC2 Setup
---------
1 Launch New ec2 instance - ami-1634de7f
2 Create elastic IP [ELASTIC_IP] and associate it with instance
3 go to domain registrar DNS settings, @ and www to ELASTIC_IP
4 set the `:host` in `config/deploy.rb` to ELASTIC_IP

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RSpec.configure do |config|
  # ...snip

  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.start
    GC.disable
  end

  config.after(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean

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Single Session Development

Posted March 06, 2013 02:31 By Veezus Kreist (http://blog.veez.us/)

I've always been a pretty austere guy. I'd rather have less things than more: every time I move I throw out half of what I have. I'm not big into customization, either; if there's a non-ridiculous default, that's what I'm using.

That ethos extends into my work. I use the default Terminal.app on my MacBook, with the built-in Pro theme. I use exactly 12 vim plugins, including my favorite color scheme. My dot files amount to only 300-some lines, including vim options, bash options, git options, and comments.

That's the background for this post on single-session development, the way I've been developing lately. When I say session, I mean shell session. I mean, log into one shell on my laptop, maximize it, and run everything in that one session: no tabs, no screen, and certainly no tmux. Bernerd Schaefer started me down this path in his Laptop-Driven Development; that post has been hanging out in the back of my