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Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Opening and closing an SSH tunnel in a shell script the smart way

I recently had the following problem:

From an unattended shell script (called by Jenkins), run a command-line tool that accesses the MySQL database on another host.
That tool doesn't know that the database is on another host, plus the MySQL port on that host is firewalled and not accessible from other machines.

We didn't want to open the MySQL port to the network, but it's possible to SSH from the Jenkins machine to the MySQL machine. So, basically you would do something like

ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 remotehost

For ETS's SKLL project, we found out the hard way that Travis-CI's support for numpy and scipy is pretty abysmal. There are pre-installed versions of numpy for some versions of Python, but those are seriously out of date, and scipy is not there are at all. The two most popular approaches for working around this are to (1) build everything from scratch, or (2) use apt-get to install more recent (but still out of date) versions of numpy and scipy. Both of these approaches lead to longer build times, and with the second approach, you still don't have the most recent versions of anything. To circumvent these issues, we've switched to using Miniconda (Anaconda's lightweight cousin) to install everything.

A template for installing a simple Python package that relies on numpy and scipy using Miniconda is provided below. Since it's a common s

On a recent project, I ran into an issue with Python Selenium webdriver. There's no easy way to open a new tab, grab whatever you need and return to original window opener.

Here's a couple people who ran into the same complication:

So, after many minutes (read about an hour) of searching, I decided to do find a quick solution to this problem.

	data_uri = open("sample.png", "rb").read().encode("base64").replace("\n", "")
	# HTML Image Element
	img_tag = '<img alt="" src="data:image/png;base64,{0}">'.format(data_uri)
	print img_tag
	# CSS Background Image
	css = 'background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,{0});'.format(data_uri)
	print css

	console.log('Loading a web page');
	var page = require('webpage').create();
	var url = 'http://localhost:1947/';
	page.viewportSize = {
	width: 1024,
	height: 768
	};
	page.open(url, function (status) {
	//Page is loaded!
	var iz, i = 0, queue = {};

	import numpy as np
	from matplotlib import rcParams
	rcParams['text.usetex'] = False
	from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as fc
	from matplotlib.figure import Figure
	import matplotlib.font_manager as fm

	# Function to draw a random function. Yo dawg...
	def rand_func():
	# Some random Fourier coefficients

	/* font from https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font
	* converted to web font in base64 with
	* http://www.fontsquirrel.com
	*/
	@font-face {
	font-family: 'xkcdregular';
	src: url(data:application/x-font-woff;charset=utf-8;base64,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