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stevekinney / front-end-curriculum.md
Created August 9, 2015 00:47
Front-end Curriculum Draft

Module 1

  • Semantic markup
  • HTML standards mode and quirks mode
  • HTML fundamentals
    • Classes and IDs
  • CSS fundamentals
    • Selectors
    • Resets and normalizers
    • The box model
@chantastic
chantastic / on-jsx.markdown
Last active May 22, 2026 08:30
JSX, a year in

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

@aamnah
aamnah / jekyll-new-post-advanced
Last active January 19, 2023 13:00
Bash script to create new Jekyll posts
#!/bin/bash
# About: Bash script to create new Jekyll posts
# Author: @AamnahAkram
# URL: https://gist.github.com/aamnah/f89fca7906f66f6f6a12
# Description: This is a more advanced version of the script which can
# - take options
# - has color coded status messages
# - improved code
# - lowercase permalinks
# - usage message
@vitorbritto
vitorbritto / rm_mysql.md
Last active July 17, 2026 19:39
Remove MySQL completely from Mac OSX

Remove MySQL completely

  1. Open the Terminal

  2. Use mysqldump to backup your databases

  3. Check for MySQL processes with: ps -ax | grep mysql

  4. Stop and kill any MySQL processes

  5. Analyze MySQL on HomeBrew:

    brew remove mysql
    
@learncodeacademy
learncodeacademy / flightplan-deploy.md
Last active January 7, 2024 11:58
Deploy Node.js Apps with Flightplan

##Setup your server (this would ideally be done with automated provisioning)

  • add a deploy user with password-less ssh see this gist
  • install forever npm install -g forever

##Install flightplan

  • npm install -g flightplan
  • in your project folder npm install flightplan --save-dev
  • create a flightplan.js file
@cvan
cvan / promisify.js
Last active June 23, 2017 14:02
turn any callback function into a promise-based one
var Promise = require('es6-promise').Promise;
function promisify(func) {
// Already a Promise.
if (func && typeof func.then === 'function') {
return func;
}
return function () {
var args = Array.prototype.slice.apply(arguments);

Deploying Yeoman apps to Heroku

Prerequisites

This assumes you already have a Yeoman app and are ready for publishing

Build for Production

Create production directory & assets

@pibby
pibby / jekyll-bash-new-post
Last active May 16, 2021 23:16
This bash script will setup a new Jekyll blog post in Markdown and open it for editing in Sublime Text 2
#!/bin/bash
# Katie Harron - @pibby
# This bash script will setup a new Jekyll blog post in Markdown and open it for editing in Sublime Text 2
echo "Post Title: "
read title
echo "Post Description: "
read desc
echo "Post Tags: "
read tags
@cespare
cespare / main.go
Created February 20, 2013 03:05
Example of testing Go HTTP servers using httptest.Server.
package main
import (
"log"
"myserver"
"net/http"
)
const addr = "localhost:12345"
@tangrs
tangrs / bin2elf.sh
Last active January 14, 2025 20:03
Convert a memory dump/raw binary image into an ELF file
#!/bin/sh
# Convert a raw binary image into an ELF file suitable for loading into a disassembler
cat > raw$$.ld <<EOF
SECTIONS
{
EOF
echo " . = $3;" >> raw$$.ld