Martin Sandström marteinn

In the comments from my last post and on Twitter I noticed a lot of people who had something to say about PHP. The comments were varied but they usally sounded something like this (sorry @ipetepete, I picked yours because it was the shortest).

...the little bits of soul from all of us who've had to work on, and or maintain large PHP applications. – ipetepete

In Pete's defense, he did go on to say that rest of the stack I was using was a "smorgasbord of awesome". Thanks, Pete. I agree!

I would, however, like to take a little time to correct a misperception in the developer community about PHP. I recently got into this same... discussion... with Jeff Atwood, and I seem to be running into it more and more. So here goes. Please bear with me as I cover a little history further on.

Pete, and everybody else, _you're exactly rig

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Sublime to Vim

Use Control+W instead of Alt+Backspace
To unindent a line, use Ctrl+D
To indent a line, use Ctrl+T
Upper-case J joins lines (same as Cmd+J in Sublime Text)
Use :edit! to force a reload of the current file from disk.
To skip to the first non-whitespace character on a line, press ^
yy copies (yanks) a line

Window Commands

Moved

Now located at https://github.com/JeffPaine/beautiful_idiomatic_python.

Why it was moved

Github gists don't support Pull Requests or any notifications, which made it impossible for me to maintain this (surprisingly popular) gist with fixes, respond to comments and so on. In the interest of maintaining the quality of this resource for others, I've moved it to a proper repo. Cheers!

This is no longer a bug. I'm keeping the gist for historical reasons, as it helped to get it fixed. Make sure to read the notes by the end of the post.

How to remove hide the select arrow in Firefox using `-moz-appearance:none;`

TL;DR (or, the fix)

Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;
Set text-indent to 0.01px. This will "push" the text a tiny bit^[1] to the right;

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

	from tastypie.exceptions import NotFound
	from tastypie.resources import ModelResource
	from tastypie.authentication import BasicAuthentication, ApiKeyAuthentication
	from tastypie.models import ApiKey
	from django.contrib.auth.models import User

	__author__ = 'martinsandstrom'


	class ApiTokenResource(ModelResource):

	#!/bin/sh
	# set the configuration variables below, before running the script
	# get the solr nightly build download link from https://builds.apache.org/job/Solr-Artifacts-4.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/solr/package/


	JETTY_URL="http://eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/jetty/stable-9/dist/jetty-distribution-9.0.5.v20130815.tar.gz&r=1"
	JETTY_HOME="/opt/jetty"
	JAVA='/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_09/bin/java'
	JETTY_PORT=8085
	JETTY_HOST=127.0.0.1

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# HubCrypt
	# ========
	#
	# Decrypt a file encrypted using hubencrypt (ok, it's just openssl + rsautl +
	# your SSH keys). It needs the private key that matches your last public key
	# listed at github.com/<user>.keys
	#