stettix

Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette. See also my blog at www.janvsmachine.net.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

ilfuriano

#!/bin/bash

now=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
day_ago=7
db_name="DB_NAME"

base_path="BASE_PATH"
dump_fpath="$base_path/backup_db-$now.sql.gz"

sudo -u postgres pg_dump $db_name | gzip -9 > $dump_fpath

romainl

The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

Generalities first

Suppose you have weird taste and you absolutely want:

• your visual selection to always have a green background and black foreground,
• your active statusline to always have a white background and red foreground,
• your very own deep blue background.

nunomorgadinho

# Install brew
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# Install composer
brew install homebrew/php/composer

### PHPCS
composer global require "squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*"

# Add to your .bash_profile

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

kouk

If you have a huge repository (in size and in history) and want to add a subfolder 
to your project as a submodule you can follow this example to save time and space
using git's shallow clone and shallow checkout feature. It is a bit more complicated
in this example because I assume that you want your submodule to track a non-default
branch, called `mybranch`, instead of the `master` branch. Things could probably get
a lot simpler when using the default branch. After following the commands in these
examples you can use `git submodule update` and `git submodule update --remote` as normal.

Anmo

#!/bin/bash

#First create a repo
mkdir A && cd A && git init && touch a.dev && touch a.prod && git add -A && git commit -m 'init A' && cd ../

#Lets create another repo that will use A as submodule with sparse-checkout
mkdir B && cd B && git init && touch b && git add -A && git commit -m 'init B'

#Now we will clone A as submodule of B and will say that file/dir we only want to use in B
git submodule add ../A/ A && cd A && git config core.sparsecheckout true && echo a.prod >> ../.git/modules/A/info/sparse-checkout && git read-tree -mu HEAD && cd ../ && git add -A && git commit -m 'add A as submodule/sparse-checkout' && cd ../

javiermarinros

    // Simple script that exports a users "Saved For Later" list out of Feedly
    // as a JSON string.
    //
    // This was intended for use in the Google Chrome's "Inspector" tool so your
    // mileage may vary if used in other contexts.
    //
    // Format of JSON is as follows:
    //  [
    //    {
    //      title: "Title",

XVilka

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

nikmartin

Secure sessions are easy, but not very well documented.  
Here's a recipe for secure sessions in Node.js when NginX is used as an SSL proxy:

The desired configuration for using NginX as an SSL proxy is to offload SSL processing 
and to put a hardened web server in front of your Node.js application, like:

[NODE.JS APP] <- HTTP -> [NginX] <- HTTPS -> [PUBLIC INTERNET] <-> [CLIENT]

Edit for express 4.X and >:  Express no longer uses Connect as its middleware framework, it implements its own now.