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This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	Good Interview Questions

	"Give Him/Her the opportunity to impress you, and maybe even give you a revelation"

	Ask open-ended questions, see
	---> attitudes about the topic
	---> how s/he thinks
	---> what s/he's been thinking about lately

	Q: Compare Ruby to another language.

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048