jasonrudolph

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

max-mapper

var serialport = require('node-serialport')

var sp = new serialport.SerialPort("/dev/ttyO3", { 
  parser: serialport.parsers.raw,
  baud: 9600
})

sp.on('data', function(chunk) {
  console.log(chunk.toString('hex'), chunk.toString(), chunk)
})

lenary

$ git clone github:lenary/guides.git
Cloning into guides...
remote: Counting objects: 255, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (216/216), done.
remote: Total 255 (delta 111), reused 163 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (255/255), 1.49 MiB | 564 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (111/111), done.

$ cd guides
$ git remote -v

kdzwinel

function getTrilateration(position1, position2, position3) {
    var xa = position1.x;
    var ya = position1.y;
    var xb = position2.x;
    var yb = position2.y;
    var xc = position3.x;
    var yc = position3.y;
    var ra = position1.distance;
    var rb = position2.distance;
    var rc = position3.distance;

defunkt

# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
#   http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/

karlwestin

#telnet into the drone (telnet 192.168.1.1)
#paste the following command:

killall udhcpd; iwconfig ath0 mode managed essid [ssid]; ifconfig ath0 [wanted ip] netmask 255.255.255.0 up;

#ex. killall udhcpd; iwconfig ath0 mode managed essid Roflcopter; ifconfig ath0 192.168.43.201 netmask 255.255.255.0 up;

edib

sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.6 postgresql-server-dev-9.6 postgresql-contrib-9.6 -y
 
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore;'"
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";'"
sudo systemctl stop postgresql
sudo su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_upgrade -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin -B /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin \
-d /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/ -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main/ \
-O "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/postgresql.conf" -o "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf" --link'
 
sudo apt-get remove postgresql-9.3 -y

MarkLodato

#!/bin/sh
#
# git-snapshot.sh - save junk code to a snapshots branch
#
# USAGE: git-snapshot.sh [-m message] [files...]
#
# Run `git add files` and then create a new commit on branch 'snapshot'
# with two parents, the previous snapshot and HEAD.
#
# If -m is given, the 'message' is used as the commit message; otherwise

akitaonrails

# If you're getting this error trying to use ApacheBench on OS X Lion:
#   Benchmarking mwmanning.com (be patient)...apr_socket_recv: Connection reset by peer (54)
#
# You need to download the latest beta version of Apache and rebuild ab. 
# Here's how (assuming you have homebrew installed).

# Install Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew) and then the Perl Regex support
brew install pcre

# Download the latest from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi, then decompress and compile it

panicsteve

Dear soon-to-be-former user,

We've got some fantastic news!  Well, it's great news for us anyway.  You, on 
the other hand, are fucked.

We've just been acquired by:

[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter