Steve Burkett steveburkett

I love ruby, rails, react! Also, love volunteering & helping others. In my spare time, i play ping pong, ultimate frisbee, and windsurf.

steveburkett / gist:1019592

Created June 10, 2011 19:31 — forked from timlinquist/gist:1019588

SAVE THE WORLD REMIX!!!

	namespace :gts do
	desc "get source of lead for client"

	#target output
	#client id 1003, from date 2001-01-01
	# coupon
	# www.google.com 13
	# www.yahoo.com 7
	# quotes
	# www.google.com 7

steveburkett / gist:1027521

Created June 15, 2011 16:47

make a new master branch in git

	#archive the master
	git checkout -b master_archive
	git push origin master_archive

	#delete old master
	git checkout development
	git branch -D master
	git push origin :master #push empty ref up; force deletion

	#branch new master off of development

steveburkett / sql_queries_retention_report

Created August 23, 2011 21:44

SQL queries for the retention report


	Top 10 CPC keywords
	===================
	select client_id, store_id, keyword, visits from g5a_keywords where medium='cpc' group by client_id, store_id, keyword order by client_id, store_id, visits DESC;


	Top 10 Organic Keywords
	======================
	select client_id, store_id, keyword, visits from g5a_keywords where medium='organic' group by client_id, store_id, keyword order by client_id, store_id, visits DESC;

steveburkett / gist:1181807

Created August 30, 2011 19:37

mock example

	it "should lookup by last_updated for abc files" do
	update_time = Time.now
	# create a location to match this update_time here
	file = double("file")
	file.should_receive(:extension).and_return("abc")
	file.should_receive(:last_update).and_return(update_time)
	MyClass.load_file(file).should == Location.find_by_lookup(update_time)
	end

	it "should lookup by extension for all other files" do

steveburkett / gist:1254356

Created September 30, 2011 17:01

team organization idea

	ChrisK (CTO & chief product strategist)
	Coby (VP engineering)
	Support & QA
	hire another junior engineer here
	engineers rotate thru 1 week at a time
	individuals/teams that create bugs should fix them if possible; be shamed; take responsibility
	Mike Bull (PM)
	communication in/out of engineering
	drives scheduling rhythm of active projects & priorities
	works with team leads around the company and in engineering

steveburkett / gist:1288863

Created October 15, 2011 01:46

no test or bad test

	def itoa(val)
	val.to_s
	end

	require 'test/unit'

	class TestItoA < Test::Unit::TestCase
	def bad_test_simple_val
	s = itoa 10
	end

steveburkett / easy_backbone.html

Created November 10, 2011 17:26

easy backbone

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Drink menu</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<button id="add-drink">Add drink</button>
	<ul id="drinks-list">
	</ul>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

steveburkett / gist:1358989

Created November 11, 2011 19:35

	it "should return a formatted string of all the errors (comma-delimited)" do
	@runner.monitor_task { @runner.error "an error happened"}
	DailyErrorNotifier.expects(:send_error_to_pager_duty).once
	@runner.check_for_errors
	end

steveburkett / gist:1379104

Created November 19, 2011 17:35

Memoize. this was fun. learned a lot.

	#adapted from Dave Thomas's screencast on metaprogramming in Ruby

	module Memoize
	def remember(name, &block)

	define_method(name, &block)

	orig = instance_method(name)

	mem = {}

steveburkett / gist:1541266

Created December 30, 2011 20:05

simple progress bar

	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	$(document).ready(function() {
	var running = false;
	if( !running ) {
	$('.meter-wrap').hover(function(){
	var count = 0;
	var running = true;