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The idea is to have nginx installed and node installed. I will extend this gist to include how to install those as well, but at the moment, the following assumes you have nginx 0.7.62 and node 0.2.3 installed on a Linux distro (I used Ubuntu).

In a nutshell,

nginx is used to serve static files (css, js, images, etc.)
node serves all the "dynamic" stuff.

So for example, www.foo.com request comes and your css, js, and images get served thru nginx while everything else (the request for say index.html or "/") gets served through node.

nginx listens on port 80.

Hot Swapping With Maven, Jetty and IntelliJ

Based on Configuring Jetty, Maven, and Eclipse together with Hot Swap

I've always been a bit jealous when it comes to the Play! framework and the great dev mode they have for hot swapping classes at runtime. Jetty has a configuration setting, scanIntervalSeconds, that mimics this when working with a more traditional WAR, but does so by looking for changes to a file and restarting the server.

Fortunately, Jetty also provides the ability to rapidly test code with hot swapping. No more server restarts. The trick to getting hot swapping to work is to attach a remote debugger to your Jetty process. The following instructions outline how to do this in IntelliJ (tested with IDEA 10.5 CE).

Modify your jetty-maven-plugin to ignore the scan interval

Open your pom and locate the plugins section

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

	#!/bin/sh

	# Converts a mysqldump file into a Sqlite 3 compatible file. It also extracts the MySQL `KEY xxxxx` from the
	# CREATE block and create them in separate commands _after_ all the INSERTs.

	# Awk is choosen because it's fast and portable. You can use gawk, original awk or even the lightning fast mawk.
	# The mysqldump file is traversed only once.

	# Usage: $ ./mysql2sqlite mysqldump-opts db-name \| sqlite3 database.sqlite
	# Example: $ ./mysql2sqlite --no-data -u root -pMySecretPassWord myDbase \| sqlite3 database.sqlite

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	)

	// Converts an ArrayBuffer directly to base64, without any intermediate 'convert to string then
	// use window.btoa' step. According to my tests, this appears to be a faster approach:
	// http://jsperf.com/encoding-xhr-image-data/5

	/*
	MIT LICENSE

	Copyright 2011 Jon Leighton

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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	// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

	// MIT license

	(function() {
	var lastTime = 0;
	var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];

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