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Tom-Davidson / getintotech.md
Last active January 10, 2020 10:33
Get Into Tech Mac Installation

Get Into Tech

Installation code for Sky's Get Into Tech training programme. Anything in a grey box is to copy & paste into a terminal window.

HomeBrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" && brew tap caskroom/cask && brew tap caskroom/versions

ssh key, GitHub and git

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Tom-Davidson / Blog: Web Application Performance, What is 'Fast'.md
Last active November 19, 2015 09:44
Blog: Web Application Performance, What is 'Fast'?
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Web Application Performance, What is 'Fast'?
Tom Davidson (Principal Engineer - Online Service)
2015-10-29 07:10:00 -0700
Perceived performance is a key factor in abandonment rate and in the percentage of those abandonments that are permanent. How should we think about performance, measure it and know that we are fast enough?

Web Application Performance, What is 'Fast'?

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Tom-Davidson / cantos7-virtualbox.sh
Last active August 29, 2015 14:22
CentOS 7 VirtualBox Install
# Work with an up to date base
mkdir /media/cdrom
yum -y update yum*
yum -y update
# if there is a new kernel, reboot
# Add some missing useful packages
yum -y install yum-plugin-priorities epel-release
# Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
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Tom-Davidson / keybase.md
Created October 15, 2014 19:01
keybase.md

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