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Commit Message Conventions

These rules are adopted from the AngularJS commit conventions.

Goals
Generating CHANGELOG.md
- Recognizing unimportant commits
- Provide more information when browsing the history
Format of the commit message
Subject line

Jekyll & Liquid Cheatsheet

A list of the most common functionalities in Jekyll (Liquid). You can use Jekyll with GitHub Pages, just make sure you are using the proper version.

Running

Running a local server for testing purposes:

MySQL

Getting started

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

People

`:bowtie:`	😄 `:smile:`	😆 `:laughing:`
😊 `:blush:`	😃 `:smiley:`	☺️ `:relaxed:`
😏 `:smirk:`	😍 `:heart_eyes:`	😘 `:kissing_heart:`
😚 `:kissing_closed_eyes:`	😳 `:flushed:`	😌 `:relieved:`
😆 `:satisfied:`	😁 `:grin:`	😉 `:wink:`
😜 `:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:`	😝 `:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:`	😀 `:grinning:`
😗 `:kissing:`	😙 `:kissing_smiling_eyes:`	😛 `:stuck_out_tongue:`

Git

Global Settings

Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

Reminder

Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

ETags: a pretty sweet feature of HTTP 1.1

HTTP caching review

HTTP provides two ways for servers to control client-side caching of page components:

freshness may be based on a date or a token whose meaning is app-specific
whether or not the client needs to confirm the cached version is up-to-date with the server

This breaks down as follows:

Cache locally and don't check before using.

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	// # Mocha Guide to Testing
	// Objective is to explain describe(), it(), and before()/etc hooks

	// 1. `describe()` is merely for grouping, which you can nest as deep
	// 2. `it()` is a test case
	// 3. `before()`, `beforeEach()`, `after()`, `afterEach()` are hooks to run
	// before/after first/each it() or describe().
	//
	// Which means, `before()` is run before first it()/describe()