Michael Warkentin mwarkentin

GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

This is a quick guide to OAuth2 support in GitHub for developers. This is still experimental and could change at any moment. This Gist will serve as a living document until it becomes finalized at Develop.GitHub.com.

OAuth2 is a protocol that lets external apps request authorization to private details in your GitHub account without getting your password. All developers need to register their application before getting started.

Web Application Flow

Redirect to this link to request GitHub access:

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	#I usually drop something like this into my virtualenv's postactivate for some
	#quick and handy shortcuts to common Django commands.
	#This way dropping in to do some work on any arbitrary project is as easy as:
	# 1. workon <project name>
	# 2. djr

	cd /path/to/site/root

	#Django command shortcuts
	alias dj='python manage.py'

	import logging
	l = logging.getLogger('django.db.backends')
	l.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
	l.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.19370138645172119</real>
	<key>Green Component</key>
	<real>0.15575926005840302</real>

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Usage
	# ./deploy [staging\|production] <options>
	#
	# Options
	# -m or --maintenance - Put the application into maintenance mode
	# -b or --branch - deploy from a branch other than "master"

	if ['staging', 'production'].include? ARGV[0]

	Ext.override(Ext.form.Field, {
	setFieldLabel : function(text) {
	if (this.rendered) {
	this.el.down('.x-form-label').update(text);
	}
	this.fieldLabel = text;
	}
	});

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'

	#!/bin/bash

	# Usage:
	# $ ./heroku-deploy.sh <app name> <git repo url> <heroku api key>

	APP="$1"
	REPO="$2"
	APIKEY="$3"
	echo "-----> Creating application $APP"
	curl -u ":$APIKEY" -d "app[name]=$APP" -X POST https://api.heroku.com/apps -s > /dev/null

	$ = jQuery

	queues = {}
	running = false

	queue = (name) ->
	name = 'default' if name is true
	queues[name] or= []

	next = (name) ->