chrismdp

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# call like this on the target server:
# NODENAME='foo' CHEF_ENV='production' RUNLIST='["role[foo]","recipe[bar]"]' CHEFREPO='git@example.com:repo.git' bash <( curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/1026628 )
# You will need to ensure that the ssh key is already set up on the server.

set -e

export CHEF_DIR="${HOME}/chef"
sudo rm -rf $CHEF_DIR
mkdir -p "$CHEF_DIR"

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

jimbojsb

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

baskarp

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Ruby script to create overrides in PagerDuty.
#
# Copyright (c) 2011, PagerDuty, Inc. <info@pagerduty.com>
# All rights reserved.
# 
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
#     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright

fujin

template "/tmp/foo.rb"
  source "foo.rb.erb"
  cookbook "banana"
end

gregorynicholas

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word
"\e\e[C": forward-word
"\e\e[D": backward-word

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

dansimau

Enable git-style colour output in regular diff

Mac OS X

1. Install colordiff using Homebrew:

    brew install colordiff
   

2. Add function to your ~/.bash_profile:

afair

==========================================          ==========================================
             TMUX COMMAND                                        WINDOW (TAB)
==========================================          ==========================================

List    tmux ls                                     List         ^b w
New          new -s <session>                       Create       ^b c
Attach       att -t <session>                       Rename       ^b , <name>
Rename       rename-session -t <old> <new>          Last         ^b l               (lower-L)
Kill         kill-session -t <session>              Close        ^b &

kylefox

# Tell system when Xcode utilities live:
sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

# Set "opendiff" as the default mergetool globally:
git config --global merge.tool opendiff