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romansklenar / crosstab.sql
Last active February 1, 2023 18:46
PostgreSQL "pivot table" example using tablefunc extension
CREATE EXTENSION tablefunc;
CREATE TABLE sales(year int, month int, qty int);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2007, 1, 1000);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2007, 2, 1500);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2007, 7, 500);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2007, 11, 1500);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2007, 12, 2000);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2008, 1, 1000);
INSERT INTO sales VALUES(2009, 5, 2500);
@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active April 25, 2024 13:21
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

@jbenet
jbenet / simple-git-branching-model.md
Last active April 9, 2024 03:31
a simple git branching model

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active April 19, 2024 11:00
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@mbland
mbland / README.md
Created October 1, 2012 14:51 — forked from JanDupal/README.md
Quick'n'dirty Jekyll plugin for sorted cycle

Jekyll sorted_for plugin

Quick'n'dirty Jekyll plugin for sorted cycle.

Install

Copy sorted_for.rb to _plugins/ directory of your Jekyll site.

Usage

@rgreenjr
rgreenjr / postgres_queries_and_commands.sql
Last active April 23, 2024 19:14
Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;
-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@zenkay
zenkay / gist:3237860
Created August 2, 2012 15:19
Installation tips for RVM/Ruby on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Ruby, RVM and Mountain Lion

Key problems

Mountain Lion (10.8) has three main difference compared to Lion (10.7):

  • XCode 4.4 does not install Command Line Tools by default
  • X11 isn't available anymore
  • The installed version of OpenSSL has some bugs

How to work around

@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active April 26, 2024 03:40
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#