Mohit Sethi mohitsethi

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?)

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

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	echo "."
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	# Converts PDF files to TIFF files suitible for antiquated systems.
	# Usage:
	# $ pdf-to-tiff.sh file1 file2
	#
	# Installation:
	# $ brew install ghostscript
	# $ brew install libtiff
	# $ brew install --fresh --build-from-source imagemagick --with-libtiff
	#

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	apply plugin: "eclipse"
	apply plugin: "maven"
	apply plugin: "findbugs"
	apply plugin: "pmd"

	def defaultEncoding = 'UTF-8'
	[compileJava, compileTestJava].options.encoding = defaultEncoding

	sourceCompatibility = 1.7

	#!/bin/sh

	#
	# backup.sh
	#

	date=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S`
	backup_dir='/path/to/backup/'`hostname`

	mongodump

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# description: Apache Tomcat init script
	# processname: tomcat
	# chkconfig: 234 20 80
	#
	#
	# Copyright (C) 2014 Miglen Evlogiev
	#
	# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

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	# 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
	#######################################################################################################################

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	require 'net/ldap'

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

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

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