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For me the perfect developer (if there is such a person) has these qualities:

Friendly: is respected and liked by all they work with and are always approachable (even in times of stress)
Humble: has great humilty and is not driven by ego
Calm: doesn't get emotive within discussions (including discussions that are both in their favour and those that aren't)
Understanding: appreciates that business requirements do change regularly and that there are no perfect scenarios; so is able to adapt to problematic situations in the appropriate manner
Agile: recognises when they are potentially moving down a rabbit hole/time sink/yak shave and will successfully re-evaluate the situation and refocus their attention
Patient: appreciates that no dev is born equal and so varying soft/practical skills will be encountered
Experienced: has a wide ranging skill set with relevant practical experience and most importantly realises the fundamentals of simple code design and recognised patt

How to deploy rails in tutum as a production server behing HAproxy on Passenger

docker build -t 'my_image_name:latest' . && tutum image push my_image_name:latest

Upload a file with $.ajax to AWS S3 with a pre-signed url

When you read about how to create and consume a pre-signed url on this guide, everything is really easy. You get your Postman and it works like a charm in the first run.

Then you open your browser, try your usual $.ajax() and send your PUT operation, and you hit the cold iced wall of AWS error message, a simple <Code>SignatureDoesNotMatch</Code> that will steal hours from your productivity.

So here I come to save you and give you a free working example of how to upload a file directly to AWS S3 from your browser. You are wellcome :).

Squash-merging PRs from forks

This example uses PR #2. Replaces all instances of 2 with the ID you're looking to merge (using squash).

git checkout master
git fetch origin pull/2/head:2
git merge --squash 2
git commit
git push

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os/exec"
	"strconv"
	"strings"
	)

	var execCommand = exec.Command

	#! /usr/bin/env ruby

	# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.

	# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
	# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
	#
	# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
	#
	# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created

	#!/bin/bash

	# Variables
	INPUT_VIDEO="./input.mov"
	OVERLAY_VIDEO="./overlay.mov"
	OUTPUT_VIDEO_FILENAME="output.mov"
	OVERLAY_START="0"

	# Delete existing output file if it exists
	if [ -f $OUTPUT_VIDEO_FILENAME ]; then

	/**
	* This Google Sheets script keeps data in the specified column sorted any time
	* the data changes.
	*
	* After much research, there wasn't an easy way to automatically keep a column
	* sorted in Google Sheets, and creating a second sheet to act as a "view" to
	* my primary one in order to achieve that was not an option. Instead, I
	* created a script that watches for when a cell is edited and triggers
	* an auto sort.
	*

	package main

	import (
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
	)

	const (
	DB_USER = "ramesh"