Santhosh Veer mskian

Vim Commands

Files

vi filename.txt - Open a file
: - Enter Command Mode
u - Undo changes
ctrl+u - Redo Changes
:q - Quit Vim
:q! - Force quit vim without saving

First Method

Deleting the .git folder may cause problems in our git repository. If we want to delete all of our commits history, but keep the code in its current state, try this:

# Check out to a temporary branch:
git checkout --orphan TEMP_BRANCH

# Add all the files:
git add -A

Building a Simple Web API with Vanilla PHP

This article is inspired by Brad Cypert's blog post: http://www.bradcypert.com/building-a-simple-api-in-php-using-lumen/.

Why should we build a API with Vanilla PHP? Because you can, and it makes fun.

Let's go

Create a directory /src

Upload GPS Tracks to Strava from your Command Line

This short tutorial describes how to upload GPS tracks to Strava using your command line interface / shell. It requires no special tools or any 3rd party code.

1. Generate an API Key

Run the following steps with your user logged in to Strava in your browser!

Strava uses OAuth to authenticate against 3rd party applications. In order to authenticate to your Strava account from your command line, you first have to generate an API key. Therefore go to this page https://strava.github.io/api/v3/oauth/ and create a new API. The settings are as follows:

First Method

Deleting the .git folder may cause problems in our git repository. If we want to delete all of our commits history, but keep the code in its current state, try this:

# Check out to a temporary branch:
git checkout --orphan TEMP_BRANCH

# Add all the files:
git add -A

Github : Signing commits using GPG (Ubuntu/Mac) 🔐

Do you have an Github account ? If not create one.
Install required tools
Latest Git Client
gpg tools

# Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install gpa seahorse
# MacOS with https://brew.sh/

Testing the matrix.org client-server API

Matrix is:

an open standard for decentralised communication, providing simple HTTP APIs and open source reference implementations for securely distributing and persisting JSON over an open federation of servers.

It's pretty fantastic, if you think on the massive problem of fragmentation all across the web. They've created an easy to use API, and you can do a kludgy test using curl from the terminal (*nix, mac, win). See: http://matrix.org/docs/howtos/client-server.html

It's pretty straightforward to do a quick test. I have an account at https://matrix.org / https://vector.im, so I used that to get a token.

	// 🔥 Node 7.6 has async/await! Here is a quick run down on how async/await works

	const axios = require('axios'); // promised based requests - like fetch()

	function getCoffee() {
	return new Promise(resolve => {
	setTimeout(() => resolve('☕'), 2000); // it takes 2 seconds to make coffee
	});
	}

	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
	RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1.html [L]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteRule .*[^/]$ %{REQUEST_URI}/ [L,R=301]

	<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml

	[Desktop Entry]
	Encoding=UTF-8
	Name=Postman
	Exec=postman
	Icon=/home/USERNAME/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
	Terminal=false
	Type=Application
	Categories=Development;