Ricardo Torres rictorres

Setup new Mac with OSX Lion from scratch

These commands are good as of 2011-07-27.

Install xcode 4

App store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12) The download/install takes awhile so start it first. When it finishes downloading you will still need to run it to complete installation.

iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/

Pub/Sub pattern with PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY command

This is a simple chat-like program using pub-sub pattern, backed by PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY command.

Publish

publish message to foo channel from user nickname.

$ python pub.py foo nickname
PUBLISH to channel #foo

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

jquery.scrollLock.js

Useful for when a blocking user experience is needed (in my case, didn't want people unwittingly loosing their place by scrolling while a modal required their attention): $.scrollLock() locks the body in place, preventing scroll until it is unlocked.

// Locks the page if it's currently unlocked
$.scrollLock();

// ...or vice versa

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:`

Nginx FastCGI response buffer sizes

By default when Nginx starts receiving a response from a FastCGI backend (such as PHP-FPM) it will buffer the response in memory before delivering it to the client. Any response larger than the set buffer size is saved to a temporary file on disk.

This process is outlined at the Nginx ngx_http_fastcgi_module page manual page.

Introduction
Determine actual FastCGI response sizes
Setting the buffer size
Verifying results

	<?php

	header('Content-Type: text/cache-manifest');
	header('Cache-Control: no-cache');

	echo "CACHE MANIFEST\n\n";

	$hashes = "";

	$blacklist = array(

	#!/bin/bash

	TABLE_NAME=$1

	# Get id list
	aws dynamodb scan --table-name $TABLE_NAME \| grep ID \| awk '{ print $2 }' > /tmp/truncate.list

	# Delete from id list
	cat /tmp/truncate.list \| xargs -IID aws dynamodb delete-item --table-name $TABLE_NAME --key '{ "id": { "S": "ID" }}'

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

	git branch -m old_branch new_branch # Rename branch locally
	git push origin :old_branch # Delete the old branch
	git push --set-upstream origin new_branch # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote