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Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

One of my colleagues shared an article on writing (good) Git commit messages today: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

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Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

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Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette. See also my blog at www.janvsmachine.net.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

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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

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Introduction

• C-a == Ctrl-a
• M-a == Alt-a

General

:q        close
:w        write/saves
:wa[!]    write/save all windows [force]
:wq       write/save and close

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Packages

• lxml - Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
• boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services
• Django - Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
• Fabric - Library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration task.
• PyMongo - Tools for working with MongoDB, and is the recommended way to work with MongoDB from Python.
• Celery - Task queue to distribute work across threads or machines.
• pytz - pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.4 or higher.

Guides

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Libraries

• jQuery - The de-facto library for the modern age. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
• Backbone - Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• AngularJS - Conventions based MVC framework for HTML5 apps.
• Underscore - Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• lawnchair - Key/value store adapter for indexdb, localStorage

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Gems

• Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
• rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
• Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
• Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
• SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
• Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generate, and specs/tests take less than one second.
• [factory_girl](h

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console