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A developer's guide to working remotely

Working from home is hard. It takes some practice to get it right. If somebody said that working from home is all about relaxed schedules, coding in your pajamas and working on your own time, they are not being entirely honest. The pajamas bit is true. The truth is that if you need to work efficiently, you need to have a discipline much like working in an office. But you are making a choice to let the work speak for yourself rather than your physical presence in the office.

Communication

The first thing you need to keep in mind is that it is vitally important to keep the communication channels open. As a team member working from home, the onus is on you to communicate with the team. Also the team should include remote members into meetings and discussions. This means that you would have to keep asynchronous modes of communication like a IRC/Campfire/Hipchat open. Do not be reluctant to get into a call and discuss things when required. If there is a timezone dif

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	log 127.0.0.1 local0
	log 127.0.0.1 local1 notice

	maxconn 4096
	nbproc 1
	pidfile /var/run/haproxy.pid

	user haproxy
	group haproxy

	$:.unshift File.expand_path("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}")
	APP_ROOT = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))
	puts APP_ROOT
	require 'sinatra'

	get '*' do
	rpath=File.join(APP_ROOT,params[:splat][0][1..-1])
	mimetype = `file -Ib #{rpath}`.gsub(/\n/,"")
	puts "serving #{rpath} with mimetype #{mimetype}"
	send_file rpath, :stream=>true, :type=>mimetype, :disposition=>:inline

	module ActiveRecord
	module ApplicationName
	def self.included(base)
	unless base.respond_to? :establish_connection_with_application_name
	base.extend ClassMethods
	base.class_eval do
	class << self
	alias_method_chain :establish_connection, :application_name
	end
	end

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	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Segment Graph</title>
	<style>
	#segmentChart {
	width: 400px;
	height: 100px;
	}
	</style>

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	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Segment Graph</title>
	<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.1.1/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
	<style>
	#segmentChart {
	float: left;
	width: 400px;
	height: 100px;

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	(with-current-buffer
	(url-retrieve-synchronously
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	(goto-char (point-max))
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	end
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