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@cpursley
cpursley / postgresql_is_enough.md
Last active May 7, 2026 11:14
Postgres is Enough
@johnloy
johnloy / markdown-for-slide-decks.md
Last active April 30, 2026 20:07
List of markdown presentation tools
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active April 8, 2026 23:11
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@myobie
myobie / mountain-lion-brew-setup.markdown
Created February 18, 2012 20:14
Get Mountain Lion and Homebrew to Be Happy

Get Mountain Lion and Homebrew to Be Happy

1) Install XCode 4.4 into /Applications

Get it from the App Store.

2) Install Command Line Tools

In XCode's Preferences > Downloads you can install command line tools.

@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@defunkt
defunkt / connection_fix.rb
Created November 19, 2009 20:00
MySQL server has gone away fix
# 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/
@bdotdub
bdotdub / redis.markdown
Created November 24, 2010 22:18
Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

@bryanveloso
bryanveloso / brew-services.rb
Created December 8, 2011 09:39 — forked from lwe/brew-services.rb
External script for homebrew to simplify starting services via launchctl, out of the box support for any formula which implements #startup_plist. (This version fixes the deprecation warning raised on Formula.resolve_alias.)
#!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
# brew-services(1) - Easily start and stop formulas via launchctl
# ===============================================================
#
# ## SYNOPSIS
#
# [<sudo>] `brew services` `list`<br>
# [<sudo>] `brew services` `restart` <formula><br>
# [<sudo>] `brew services` `start` <formula> [<plist>]<br>
@ryansmith3136
ryansmith3136 / event_buffering.md
Created February 14, 2012 04:10
event buffering

Event Buffering

Eventually platforms outgrow the single-source-tree model and become distributed systems. A common pattern in these distributed systems is distributed composition via event buffering. Here we motivate and describe this event buffering pattern.

The Problem

@chrismytton
chrismytton / 01-README.md
Created October 29, 2012 20:46
Mutt Gmail config with OS X keychain

Mutt/Gmail/OS X Keychain

Create a new keychain item, enter the Keychain Item Name as mutt, the Account Name as your gmail email address and then enter your password, then add the keychain item.

2-step auth

If you're using Google 2-step auth, you'll need to generate an Application-specific password from your Google Account settings and enter that as the password.