cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• Just use Postgres
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

krusynth

Recommended Books

A list of useful books to improve your skills

Recommendations from others are noted in (parentheses). The rest are my personal recommendations.

Programming

Building your core

• The Pragmatic Programmer - Hunt & Thomas

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

CristinaSolana

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

ace03uec

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

dmitriy-kiriyenko

apt-get install xvfb
apt-get install firefox

nz

# http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#How_can_I_delete_all_documents_from_my_index.3F
# http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UpdateXmlMessages#Updating_a_Data_Record_via_curl

curl "http://index.websolr.com/solr/a0b1c2d3/update?commit=true" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>'

I'm amused at the traction this little gist is getting on Google! I would be remiss not to point out that six+ years later I'm still helping thousands of companies on a daily basis with their search index management, by providing managed Solr as a service over at Websolr, and hosted Elasticsearch at Bonsai. Check us out if you'd like an expert helping hand at Solr and Elasticsearch hosting, ops and support!