merlinmann

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

linuxdevops-34

Deploy Rails Application to AWS EC2

Creating AWS EC2 Instance

- login to 'AWS Management Console' (https://aws.amazon.com/console/)
- from 'Services'(in navbar) choose 'EC2'
- from 'Create Instance' section, click on 'Launch Instance'
- then select 'AMI' (Amazon Machine Image), we will be using 'Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS (HVM)' as example
- select 'Instance Type' as per your requirement
- then click 'Next:Configure Instance Details' to continue
  change 'Configure Instance Details' or used as default settings

dteoh

Setting session variables in an RSpec Rails request spec

You are writing a spec with type: :request, i.e. an integration spec instead of a controller spec. Integration specs are wrappers around Rails' ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest class. I usually write controller tests using this instead of type: :controller, mainly because it exercises more of the request and response handling stack. So instead of writing something like get :index to start the request, you would write get books_path or similar.

One of the issues with using type: :request is that you lose the ability to

rabeeaali

// JS code 
function toEnglishNumber(strNum) {
   var ar = '٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩'.split('');
   var en = '0123456789'.split('');
   strNum = strNum.replace(/[٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩]/g, x => en[ar.indexOf(x)]);
   strNum = strNum.replace(/[^\d]/g, '');
   return strNum;
}

$(document).on('keyup', '.arabicNumbers', function(e) {

svinkle

Creating accessible React apps

a11yTOConf 2018 — Notes and Links

The following are my notes and links for my #a11yTOConf 2018 live-coding demo on "Creating accessible React apps". 🙂

Notes

• Google doc with full talk script and action prompts

Browser tabs

• Shopify

thbar

Using minitest to regression-test your Jekyll static site

I recently had to upgrade my blog, which involved changes such as:

• Replacing a sitemap plugin
• Upgrading from jekyll 2.5.3 to 3.8.4
• Upgrading from jekyll-assets 0.7.8 to 3.0.11
• (etc)

The upgrading process was not trivial, and some parts (e.g. RSS, sitemap, or twitter cards tags) are not immediately visible, so I decided to add unit tests on the generated content.

jathak

# csv_to_prolog.py
#
# Takes a CSV from stdin in the following format:
#   <Any>, Time1, Time2, Time3, Time4...
#  counts,     2,     3,     4,     5... (number of spots for each time)
# Person1,   Yes, Maybe,   Yes,    No... (Yes, Maybe, or No for availability)
# Person2,   Yes, Maybe,   Yes,    No...
#
# and outputs Prolog to do assignments.
#

imorrish

#
# ATEM Legato Stream Deck controler
#
# By Ian Morrish
# https://ianmorrish.wordpress.com
#

# Disable display and sleep mode timeouts
function DisableSleepTimeout {
	Write-Host "Disabling display and sleep mode timeouts..."

ckundo

How to: Accessibility Bug Reports

Here's a run-down of steps I've used to capture and report accessibility bugs in software.

Environment

If you're using MacOS, I recommend setting up VMWare Fusion, even if you have separate Windows hardware. It's much easier to switch between environments for quick screen reader debugging with a local VM.

On MacOS

bbonamin

tap "caskroom/cask"

cask "google-chrome"
cask "firefox"

brew "chromedriver"
brew "geckodriver"