Sam Houston samhstn

Prelude

I. Preface and Motivation

This guide was written because I don't particularly enjoy deploying Phoenix (or Elixir for that matter) applications. It's not easy. Primarily, I don't have a lot of money to spend on a nice, fancy VPS so compiling my Phoenix apps on my VPS often isn't an option. For that, we have Distillery releases. However, that requires me to either have a separate server for staging to use as a build server, or to keep a particular version of Erlang installed on my VPS, neither of which sound like great options to me and they all have the possibilities of version mismatches with ERTS. In addition to all this, theres a whole lot of configuration which needs to be done to setup a Phoenix app for deployment, and it's hard to remember.

For that reason, I wanted to use Docker so that all of my deployments would be automated and reproducable. In addition, Docker would allow me to have reproducable builds for my releases. I could build my releases on any machine that I wanted in a contai

Remove MySQL completely

Open the Terminal
Use mysqldump to backup your databases
Check for MySQL processes with: ps -ax | grep mysql
Stop and kill any MySQL processes
Analyze MySQL on HomeBrew:
```
brew remove mysql
```

Directory structure for JavaScript/Node Projects

While the following structure is not an absolute requirement or enforced by the tools, it is a recommendation based on what the JavaScript and in particular Node community at large have been following by convention.

Beyond a suggested structure, no tooling recommendations, or sub-module structure is outlined here.

Directories

lib/ is intended for code that can run as-is
src/ is intended for code that needs to be manipulated before it can be used

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	# normal brew nvm shell config lines minus the 2nd one
	# lazy loading the bash completions does not save us meaningful shell startup time, so we won't do it
	export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
	[ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/etc/bash_completion" # This loads nvm bash_completion

	# add our default nvm node (`nvm alias default 10.16.0`) to path without loading nvm
	export PATH="$NVM_DIR/versions/node/v$(<$NVM_DIR/alias/default)/bin:$PATH"
	# alias `nvm` to this one liner lazy load of the normal nvm script
	alias nvm="unalias nvm; [ -s "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" ] && . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"; nvm $@"