dupuy

Markdown and reStructuredText

GitHub supports several lightweight markup languages for documentation; the most popular ones (generally, not just at GitHub) are Markdown and reStructuredText. Markdown is sometimes considered easier to use, and is often preferred when the purpose is simply to generate HTML. On the other hand, reStructuredText is more extensible and powerful, with native support (not just embedded HTML) for tables, as well as things like automatic generation of tables of contents.

nieboe

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
from sys import exit
from getpass import getpass
try:
	import pymysql
except ImportError:
	sys.exit('FATAL: Python package "pymysql" is required - run "pip install pymysql"')

richardcornish

Git notes

Start

1. Install Git
2. Create a GitHub account
3. Open Terminal /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

Configure

FredLoney

import inspect
import logging

HEADER_FMT = "Call stack at %s, line %d in function %s, frames %d to %d of %d:"
"""The log header message formatter."""

STACK_FMT = "%s, line %d in function %s."
"""The log stack message formatter."""

def log_stack(logger=None, limit=None, start=0):

nachocab

# download docx2txt by Sandeep Kumar
wget -O docx2txt.pl http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/home/binp/docx2txt

# make a wrapper 
echo '#!/bin/bash
docx2txt.pl $1 -' > docx2txt
chmod +x docx2txt

# make sure docx2txt.pl and docx2txt are your current PATH. Here's a guide
http://shapeshed.com/using_custom_shell_scripts_on_osx_or_linux/

jbenet

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.

ftrain

;; This is at: https://gist.github.com/8655399

;; So we want a rhyming dictionary in Clojure. Jack Rusher put up
;; this code here:
;; 
;; https://gist.github.com/jackrusher/8640437
;;
;; I'm going to study this code and learn as I go.
;;
;; First I put it in a namespace.

bennylope

---
- name: Deploy new site release
  user: deployer
  hosts: all

  tasks:

    - name: Fetch repo updates
      git: >
        repo=git@github.com:my/repo.git

efrecon

docker run \
  --name {{printf "%q" .Name}} \
    {{- with .HostConfig}}
        {{- if .Privileged}}
  --privileged \
        {{- end}}
        {{- if .AutoRemove}}
  --rm \
        {{- end}}
        {{- if .Runtime}}

craigvantonder

#!/bin/bash

# NB: First install nscd with sudo apt-get install nscd

# run this command to flush dns cache:
sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean restart
# or use:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking force-reload
# Flush nscd dns cache:
sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart