Mohit Sethi mohitsethi

How to set up a Windows VM with Vagrant

Create your VM

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Obtain a windows vm from Modern IE.

Win 8 OSX

curl -O -L "https://www.modern.ie/vmdownload?platform=mac&virtPlatform=virtualbox&browserOS=IE10-Win8.1&parts=5&filename=VMBuild_20131127/VirtualBox/IE10_Win8/Mac/IE10.Win8.For.MacVirtualBox.part{1.sfx,2.rar,3.rar,4.rar,5.rar}"

Gerrit vs Github: for code review and codebase management

Sure, Github wins on the UI. Hands down. But, despite my initial annoyance with Gerrit when I first started using it almost a year ago, I am now a convert. Fully. Let me tell you why.

Note: This is an opinionated (on purpose) piece. I assume your preferences are like mine on certain ideas, such as:

Fast-forward submits to the target branch are better than allowing merge commits to the target branch. The reason I personally prefer this is that, even if a non-conflicting merge to the target branch is possible, the fact that the review/pull request is not up to date with the latest on the target branch means feature branch test suite runs in the CI pipeline reporting on the review/PR may not be accurate. Another minor point is that forced merge commits are annoying as fuck (opinion) and clutter up Git log histories unnecessarily and I prefer clean histories.
Atomic/related changes all in one commit is something worth striving for. Having your dev

Auto-enable Local HTTP Caching in Test Kitchen

Note: total experiment and hack, looks nasty, could be awesome:

Setup

Drop the kitchen.local.yml into $HOME/.kitchen/config.yml
Install polipo (with Mac: brew install polipo, with Ubuntu: apt-get install polipo)
Drop polipo-start and polipo-console somewhere useful (perhaps $HOME/bin?)

	#first make sure go, git and mercurial are installed.
	if [[ -z $(which git) ]]; then
	echo "Git must be installed"
	exit 1
	fi

	if [[ -z $(which hg) ]]; then
	echo "mercurial must be installed"
	exit 1
	fi

	Gerrit version 2.8
	Replication plugin extracted from gerrit.war and installed over ssh

	Installation method ->

	a) Relevant configs:

	/var/lib/gerrit/etc/replication.config
	[remote "aricg-compliance"]
	url = git@github.com:somerepo/${name}.git

	# http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
	---
	gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
	benchmark: false
	verbose: true
	update_sources: true
	sources:
	- http://gems.rubyforge.org/
	- http://rubygems.org/
	backtrace: true

	####trying to run kitchen setup
	####.kitchen.yml contents

	---
	driver_plugin: vagrant

	provisioner:
	name: chef_zero

	platforms:

	##################### ElasticSearch Configuration Example #####################

	# This file contains an overview of various configuration settings,
	# targeted at operations staff. Application developers should
	# consult the guide at <http://elasticsearch.org/guide>.
	#
	# The installation procedure is covered at
	# <http://elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup.html>.
	#
	# ElasticSearch comes with reasonable defaults for most settings,

	body {
	font-family: Helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	line-height: 1.6;
	padding-top: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
	background-color: white;
	padding: 30px; }

	body > *:first-child {

	#######################################################################################################################
	# This Gist is some crib notes/tests/practice/whatever for talking to Active Directory via LDAP. The (surprisingly
	# helpful) documentation for Net::LDAP can be found here: http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/Net/LDAP.html
	#######################################################################################################################

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'net/ldap'

	#######################################################################################################################
	# HELPER/UTILITY METHOD