samkeen

Random Notes I'll organize later

Troubleshooting

YUM timeout

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://repo.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/latest/main/mirror.list error was
    amazon-ebs: 12: Timeout on http://repo.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/latest/main/mirror.list: (28, 'Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds')

samkeen

First get the Interface mac address, then use that to run the full command

INTERFACE=$(curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/)
SUBNET_ID=$(curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/${INTERFACE}/subnet-id)
VPC_ID=$(curl --silent http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/${INTERFACE}/vpc-id)

echo SUBNET_ID

samkeen

Python Hobby Project

inspired by isitsnowinginpdx

Summary

• run google search: health effects of coffee
• collect result title and summaries of n results
• perform sentiment analysis and based on score, render NO, YES, Maybe?
  • determine if better to do just summary or summary and title
• get score for each result individually, the combine and average

samkeen

Python Dev machine setup

WORK IN PROGRESS

Documenting my specific tweaks here. I feel this doc does a great job of covering the basics of virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper.

brew update
brew install python

samkeen

To install Kivy, you must:

• Download the latest version from http://kivy.org/#download
• Double-click to open it
• Drag the Kivy.app into your Applications folder
• Double click the makesymlinks script.

vi hello.py

samkeen

var express   = require('express')
var directory = require('serve-index')
var logger = require('morgan')
var app = express()

app
  .use(logger())
  // enable direcotry listing
  .use(directory('public', {'icons': true}))
  // serve files

samkeen

# this script started the remote rails app ready to attach a rubymine remote debugging session
# see: http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/remote-debugging.html

PATH_TO_RAILS="/path/to/rails/web/root"

echo "removing existing debug gems and intalling rubymine debug gems"
echo
sudo gem uninstall ruby-debug-base -aIx
sudo gem install ruby-debug-base --pre --no-rdoc --no-ri
sudo gem uninstall ruby-debug-ide -aIx

samkeen

#!/bin/bash
#
# (1) copy to: ~/bin/ssh-host-color 
# (2) set:     alias ssh=~/bin/ssh-host-color
#
# Inspired from http://talkfast.org/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color
# Fork from https://gist.github.com/773849
#

set_term_bgcolor(){

samkeen

[mysqld]
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

###############
## query log  #
###############
# < 5.1.6 format turn on general log and accepts a path
# log = /usr/local/mysql/data/queries.log

# > 5.1.6

samkeen

Examples of superb Data UX on the web

Forcast.io

http://forecast.io/

Weatherspark

http://weatherspark.com/