Chris Stevens stevenscg

##Preview

Simple Dashing widget (and associated job) to display data about tagged emails sent from Mandrill

Created at Homefinder.com

Check out other widgets we've made at https://github.com/Homefinder/dashing-widgets

This is a non-technical reading list for technical people.

How to Program Independent Games
Kill Math (and Don't Kill Math)
Move Fast and Don't Break Things
Launch & The Web Is a Customer Service Medium by Paul Ford
_why at Art & Code
Repetitive Process

This is a list of software you should read like a novel.

Opening and closing an SSH tunnel in a shell script the smart way

I recently had the following problem:

From an unattended shell script (called by Jenkins), run a command-line tool that accesses the MySQL database on another host.
That tool doesn't know that the database is on another host, plus the MySQL port on that host is firewalled and not accessible from other machines.

We didn't want to open the MySQL port to the network, but it's possible to SSH from the Jenkins machine to the MySQL machine. So, basically you would do something like

ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 remotehost

URL schemes for iOS and Android (2/2)

Read the blog at http://fokkezb.nl/2013/09/20/url-schemes-for-ios-and-android-2/

Get EC2 CloudWatch stats and graph them in Dashing.

Graphing Widget

The graphing widget shows graphs using the Rickshaw graphing library. The names of data fields should be (vaguely) familiar if you've used Rickshaw before.

It's recommended that you replace the /assets/javascripts/rickshaw.min.js from your dashboard with the latest from here.

Supported HTML data fields

Music Player

Description

Dashing widget to play music. Awesome, right?!

A bit of a history. When we installed the Github's hubot, one of the things we were really miss was playing songs inside our room (not the whole office). The guys from Github have written play, but we just couldn't setup it (we didn't have Mac Mini at that moment - our CI monitors were backed by Ubuntu). So we started looking for another way out and decided to write Dashing widget and control it via hubot.

	# Save this file as lib/capistrano/tasks/git.cap

	namespace :git do
	desc 'Copy repo to releases'
	task create_release: :'git:update' do
	on roles(:all) do
	with fetch(:git_environmental_variables) do
	within repo_path do
	execute :git, :clone, '-b', fetch(:branch), '--recursive', '.', release_path
	end

	---
	# This has been tested with ansible 1.3 with these commands:
	# ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts isFirstRun=false"
	# ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts isFirstRun=true"
	# ansible-playbook -i hosts ansible_conditionals_examples.yaml --extra-vars="hosts=myhosts"
	# NB: The type of the variable is crucial!

	- name: Ansible Conditionals Examples
	hosts: $hosts
	vars_files:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Example showing use of getopt detection and use of GNU enhanced getopt
	# to handle arguments containing whitespace.
	#
	# Written in 2004 by Hoylen Sue <[email protected]>
	#
	# To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and
	# related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide.
	# This software is distributed without any warranty.