postmodern

NAME=project
VERSION=0.0.1

DIRS=etc lib bin sbin share
INSTALL_DIRS=`find $(DIRS) -type d 2>/dev/null`
INSTALL_FILES=`find $(DIRS) -type f 2>/dev/null`
DOC_FILES=*.md *.txt

PKG_DIR=pkg
PKG_NAME=$(NAME)-$(VERSION)

czarneckid

Zero downtime deploys with unicorn + nginx + runit + rvm + chef

Below are the actual files we use in one of our latest production applications at Agora Games to achieve zero downtime deploys with unicorn. You've probably already read the GitHub blog post on Unicorn and would like to try zero downtime deploys for your application. I hope these files and notes help. I am happy to update these files or these notes if there are comments/questions. YMMV (of course).

Other application notes:

• Our application uses MongoDB, so we don't have database migrations to worry about as with MySQL or postgresql. That does not mean that we won't have to worry about issues with the database with indexes being built in MongoDB or what have you.
• We use capistrano for deployment.

Salient points for each file:

philsturgeon

Never Expose DB Results Directly

1. If you rename a field, then your users are fucked. Convert with a hardcoded array structure.
2. Most DB drivers [for PHP] will show integers as numeric strings and false as "0", so you want to typecast them.
3. Unless you're using an ORM with "hidden" functionality, people will see passwords, salts and all sorts of fancy codes. If you add one and forget to put it in your $hidden array then OOPS!

Use the URI sparingly, and correctly

1. Use the query string for paired params instead of /users/id/5/active/true. Your API does not need to be SEO optimised.
2. ?format=xml is stupid, use an Accept: application/xml header. I added this to the CodeIgniter Rest Server once for lazy people, and now people think it's a thing. It's not.

orta

1 (custom, see https://github.com/ckteebe/CustomBadge/blob/master/README)
1 ./LICENSE.md
89 2-clause BSD
2 2-clause BSD licence (Simplified BSD) Licence
5 APACHE
1 APACHE-LICENSE-2.0.txt
6 AVOS Inc. License
1 All rights reserved.
46 Apache
11 Apache 2

vibegui

How to: Allow Node to bind to port 80 without sudo

TL;DR

Only do this if you understand the consequences: all node programs will be able to bind on ports < 1024

sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /usr/local/bin/node

Important: your node location may vary. Use which node to find it, or use it directly in the command:

landonf

#include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h>
#include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h>
#include <dispatch/dispatch.h>

// 5 minutes
#define TIMEOUT (5*60)

bool reset_watchdog (int timeout) {
    io_service_t service = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMasterPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("IOWatchDogTimer"));
    if (service == IO_OBJECT_NULL) {

mattt

@import MobileCoreServices;

static CFStringRef UTTypeForImageData(NSData *data) {
    const unsigned char * bytes = [data bytes];

    if (data.length >= 8) {
        if (bytes[0] == 0x89 && bytes[1] == 0x50 && bytes[2] == 0x4E && bytes[3] == 0x47 && bytes[4] == 0x0D && bytes[5] == 0x0A && bytes[6] == 0x1A && bytes[7] == 0x0A) {
            return kUTTypePNG;
        }
    }

atomotic

save a page to internetarchive wayback from shell

put the function in your .zshrc or .bashrc and then

~  ia-save http://twitter.com/atomotic

https://web.archive.org/web/20140702123925/http://twitter.com/atomotic

philoye

module Rack
  class Heartbeat

    def initialize(app)
      @app = app
    end

    def call(env)
      if env['PATH_INFO'] == "/pulse"
        @messages = []

shreyansb

"""
This module provides a simple WSGI profiler middleware for finding 
bottlenecks in web application. It uses the profile or cProfile 
module to do the profiling and writes the stats to the stream provided

To use, run `flask_profiler.py` instead of `app.py`

see: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/0.9/contrib/profiler/
and: http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-xvi-debugging-testing-and-profiling
"""