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Simple MySQLDump script

If run daily, will keep daily snapshots for one week, weekly snapshots for one month, and monthly snapshots for one year.

You will need a database user with SELECT privileges for the given database. This example suggests to place the mysql creds in the .my.cnf file - suggest to set the permissions on this file to 600.

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A very basic Apache set-up to host python apps with mod WSGI

This is almost all taken from (https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickConfigurationGuide) - I'm adding something here because I did not realize that I had port 81 blockked on my firewall and lost a bit of time figuring that out (was able to wget the expected url but could not navigate in a browser). Anyway, here are the basic steps. See the link google code link though.

In my case, I have an already running php server where I just want to test out some python web apps and don't particularly care about performance or anything like that. In reality, it might make sense to have a separate instance of apache running for the python apps. But that's beyond the scope of what I'm trying to accomplish today, which is just to get a hello world python app up and running.

1. Install mod_wsgi: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
2. For this installation we will run python apps on a different port, namely port 88. It is not necessary to do

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Git log alias

This short but sweet post shows how to create a simple command to create an alias to a suped-up git log.

It's just a one-liner

$ git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

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Notes on making cygwin work

• See this so answer using mkpasswd for one way to change your default home directory
• You can always add packages after install by re-running setup.

Packages to add

• wget (Web)
• curl (PHP, Net)
• ssh (Net)

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Firewalls

Add rule to open port 3000 for nodejs on line 2001 (which must be before the DROP rule)

First get the line numbers

$ sudo iptables -nL --line-numbers

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Building 64-bit emacs on Windows

Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

This was actually reasonably straightforward....

Installing msys2

I installed msys2 for performing the build. This was pretty straightforward:

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Building production on a mean.js stack application

By mean.js I mean specifically an application based on the meanjs framework hosted here.

For reference, the following posts helped me identify and fix my problem.

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24516497/how-to-deploy-mean-js-node-js-application-to-production-environment
• https://blog.dylants.com/2014/11/19/bundling-production-assets-for-mean-js/

It works mostly like how you would expect. From a vanilla working development environment, the following should work:

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Essentially following this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12514197/convert-a-git-folder-to-a-submodule-retrospectively

Looking at the docs for git filter-branch is useful too:

Creating the submodule

First, create a cloned copy of your directory

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Example of slanted row layout.

Two examples are given - the first only works if the width is fixed, the second is responsive.