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vcavallo / alien_sandwich_vcavallo.md
Last active December 23, 2015 19:09
Alien Sandwich

items in front of you

jar is an object in front of you. It is tall and from above looks like a circle.

a jar has stuff in it. there can be either peanut butter, which is brown in color, or jelly, which is purple in color. peanut butter jar and jelly jar. a jar has three parts - the inner stuff is one, and the outer stuff is in two pieces: the top and the bottom. you can see the division between the two parts. the bottom is the part that is facing down, the top is facing up.

bag of bread is an object in front of you. it has two parts - an outer container and an inner material. the bag is the container and what is inside in the bread. there are many nearly-identical items that are all bread. they are individually called slices. a slice of bread is an individual item.

knife is another object in front of you. it is the only remaining object. it is silver in color and has the shape of a wide line. there are two ends to it handle and blade. the handle is the thicker end. the blade

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vcavallo / cs
Created September 24, 2013 20:25
CS function for bash profile - `cs ~/directory` does `cd` to ~/directory and then immediately does `ls` there (well, a fancy ls...).
# CS function
function cs () {
cd $1; ls "-lahG"
}
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vcavallo / fork_you.markdown
Last active December 24, 2015 00:09
Forking how-to with descriptions

Forking

essentially like cloning on github's servers - but that's inconsequential, mostly.. also: forks are not automatically up to date (relative to repo you forked)! your fork creates a snapshot of the original repo at the time you fork it.

  • fork on github

  • creates a clone on github servers

  • copy url of that clone

  • git clone [url]

    • clones the content of your fork to your local machine
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vcavallo / github_repo_from_cli.md
Last active January 8, 2017 06:06
Create a GitHub repo from the CLI (plus bash function)

Create GitHub repo without leaving the command line

curl -u 'USER' https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"REPO"}'

Replace USER with your username and REPO with the intended repo name. Include all quotes above.

The do the usual:

git remote add origin [email protected]:USER/REPO.git

git push origin master

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vcavallo / databasecleaner_config.rb
Created April 4, 2014 18:52
database cleaner configuration
# spec_helper.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
# earlier configurations omitted ...
# Set config.use_transactional_fixtures to false
config.use_transactional_fixtures = false
config.before(:suite) do
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
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vcavallo / gist:80f01ad6fb4b90993dfd
Created December 8, 2014 21:37
password protect any site without devise users
class AnyController < ApplicationController
# HTTP authentication should be used for staging to prevent unauthorized outside access to application.
before_filter :authenticate if Rails.env.staging?
private
def authenticate
authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |user,pass|
user == "usernamehere" && pass == "passwordhere"
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vcavallo / 0_reuse_code.js
Last active August 29, 2015 14:16
Here are some things you can do with Gists in GistBox.
// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console
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vcavallo / questions-for-employers.txt
Created September 21, 2015 18:36
this is an archive of a blog post that i had saved to newsblur back when it was posted. it appears the post has since been taken down or moved.
Comments: "stefankendall.com: 10 questions to ask your potential employer"
URL: http://www.stefankendall.com/2013/11/10-questions-to-ask-your-potential.html
The interview is all too often driven by the employer. Can you handle this workload? What are your strengths and weaknesses? How do you feel about this aspect of the business?
But at the end of the interview, you do not know enough to know if you will actually love and enjoy the work. How many developers or designers do you know who have worked at a place for less than a year? Less than 9 months? I bet more than a few.
Here's some questions you should ask before committing a significant portion of your life to a company.
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vcavallo / jira-agile-setup.md
Last active December 10, 2015 18:49
Creating an agile project from a "template" in jira

Setting up a new Agile Scrum project in Jira

  1. create new project
  2. choose "scrum software development"
  3. click 'select' on the next screen to use the default issue type for now
  4. choose a name and project lead
  5. go to 'project administration' (this option is in different places depending on your view)
  6. you should be viewing the summary now. do these:
  7. issue types
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vcavallo / version.rake
Created December 6, 2016 19:49 — forked from muxcmux/version.rake
Manage your rails app version with this rake task
def valid? version
pattern = /^\d+\.\d+\.*\d*(\-(dev|beta|rc\d+))?$/
raise "Tried to set invalid version: #{version}".red unless version =~ pattern
end
def correct_version version
ver, flag = version.split '-'
v = ver.split '.'
(0..2).each do |n|
v[n] = v[n].to_i