Raúl Barroso raulb

How to stream the London 2012 Olympics

There have been several HOWTOs posted regarding streaming the 2012 Olympics using HTTP / SOCKS proxies via SSH and other similar methods. None of these actually work using the latest Flash on Mountain Lion (with Firefox, Chrome or Safari). Additionally, the third-party streaming sites don't provide BBC's amazing interface, which lets you quickly skip to individual competitors and events. However, setting up an OpenVPN server does work, with some tweaks. You'll get the exact same UX that people in England receive.

Get a Linode VM in the UK. The 512MB server for $20 works just fine. (If you want to use my referral link, go for it: http://bit.ly/OuzdVe)
Follow the standard OpenVPN installation documentation. (Basically, 'apt-get install openvpn' or 'yum install openvpn' and then follow these docs: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html). For an OS X client, I prefer Viscosity: http://www.thesparklabs

Tales From a Heroku User

Here are some things I have learned along the way.

Last Updated: 2013-02-08

Original Audience: Hack Reactor

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Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

Batch APIs

Common requirements
- Are they atomic?
- What kind of operations are supported?
Existing approaches
- Google storage
  - Multipart/mixed content-type
POST /batch

Switch To Vim For Good

NOTE: This guide has moved to https://github.com/bpierre/switch-to-vim-for-good

This guide is coming from an email I used to send to newcomers to Vim. It is not intended to be a complete guide, it is about how I switched myself.

My decision to switch to Vim has been made a long time ago. Coming from TextMate 1, I wanted to learn an editor that is Open Source (so I don’t lose my time learning a tool that can be killed), cross platform (so I can use it everywhere), and powerful enough (so I won’t regret TextMate). For these reasons, Vim has always been the editor I wanted to learn, but it took me several years before I did it in a way that works for me. I tried to switch progressively, using the Janus Vim distribution for a few months, then got back to using TextMate 2 for a time, waiting for the next attempt… here is what finally worked for me.

Original gist with comments: https://gist.github.com/bpierre/0a0025d348b6001394e0

	/*
	* see the objects linked to each event for an object which "inherits" Backbone.Events
	* prints the DOM elements so you can inspect using chrome developer tools
	*/
	cdb._debugCallbacks = function(o) {
	var callbacks = o._callbacks;
	for(var i in callbacks) {
	var node = callbacks[i];
	console.log(" * ", i);
	var end = node.tail;

	# Download file from URL + Upload to your server + Copy short URL to your clipboard
	# Use it like this:

	# gi http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md2j4a4Eot1rddgbmo1_1280.png

	# And get something like this:

	# tumblr_md2j4a4Eot1rddgbmo1_1280.png 100% 41KB 41.4KB/s 00:00

	# Copied to the clipboard: http://goo.gl/ITEIG

	describe('catalogyBody', function() {

	var chai = require('chai');
	var path = require('path');
	var env = require(path.join(testDir, 'lib', 'environment'));
	var requirejs = env.requirejs(staticDir);
	var sinon = requirejs('js/lib/sinon');
	var fs = require('fs');
	var server;
	var router;

	/*
	Heroku Office Status Monitor

	What it is: Arduino + Ethernet Shield
	What it does: Networked device that provides status monitoring.


	Components:
	- Status site monitor
	HTTP GET to http://outage-lights.herokuapp.com/status to consume current Heroku Platform status.