Mojtaba Kamyabi shotgunner

Linux fun-o-matic

How to have some fun using the terminal.

Install cowsay [0] via : sudo apt-get install cowsay
Install fortune [1] via : sudo apt-get install fortune
Make sure you have Ruby installed via : ruby -v
Install the lolcat [2] via : gem gem install lolcat
Profit!

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

Virtual Hosts on nginx (CSC309)

When hosting our web applications, we often have one public IP address (i.e., an IP address visible to the outside world) using which we want to host multiple web apps. For example, one may wants to host three different web apps respectively for example1.com, example2.com, and example1.com/images on the same machine using a single IP address.

How can we do that? Well, the good news is Internet browsers

Bash Shortcuts

Moving

command	description
ctrl + a	Goto BEGINNING of command line

Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like:

	#urls.py
	from django.conf import settings

	urlpatterns = patterns('',
	url(r'^favicon.ico/$', lambda x: HttpResponseRedirect(settings.STATIC_URL+'ico/favicon.ico')), #google chrome favicon fix
	)

	# base.html
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}ico/favicon.ico">

	Use the natural Vim navigation keys hjkl to navigate the files.
	Press o to open the file in a new buffer or open/close directory.
	Press t to open the file in a new tab.
	Press i to open the file in a new horizontal split.
	Press s to open the file in a new vertical split.
	Press p to go to parent directory.
	Press r to refresh the current directory.
	Press m to launch NERDTree menu inside Vim.

	# Download the jmeter gzipped tarball to a temporary folder:
	wget -O /tmp/jmeter.tgz http://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.9.tgz

	# Extract to /usr/share
	sudo tar -xzvf /tmp/jmeter.tgz -C /usr/share

	# Edit the provided JMeter start script, changing the string '`dirname "$0"`' for '/usr/share/jmeter/bin':
	sudo sed -i 's/`dirname "\$0"`/\/usr\/share\/apache-jmeter-2.9\/bin/g' /usr/share/apache-jmeter-2.9/bin/jmeter

	# Generate the following symlinks:

	function transfer
	if test (count $argv) -eq 0
	echo "No arguments specified. Usage:\necho transfer /tmp/test.md\ncat /tmp/test.md \| transfer test.md"
	return 1
	end

	## get temporarily filename, output is written to this file show progress can be showed
	set tmpfile ( mktemp -t transferXXX )

	## upload stdin or file

	# Assuming an Ubuntu Docker image
	$ docker run -it <image> /bin/bash