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(a gist based on the old toolmantim article on setting up remote repos)

To collaborate in a distributed development process you’ll need to push code to remotely accessible repositories.

This is somewhat of a follow-up to the previous article setting up a new rails app with git.

For the impatient

Set up the new bare repo on the server:

@dexterous
dexterous / original-rant.md
Last active September 23, 2022 01:37 — forked from kaiwren/gist:1283905
Steve Yegge's SOA post

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 really have SREs and they make en

@felixfischer
felixfischer / dotfiles
Created February 19, 2012 20:59
install dotfiles
git clone https://github.com/felixfischer/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
mv -bf ~/dotfiles/* ~/dotfiles/.* ~
rm -rf ~/dotfiles
cd ~
@duncanbeevers
duncanbeevers / sc-dl-min.js
Created March 22, 2012 12:16 — forked from pheuter/sc-dl.js
Bookmarklet that generates download link for a Soundcloud upload
(function(window){var i,$sound,$buttonGroup;var $sounds=$(".sound");var clientId=require("config").get("client_id");var oauthToken=require("lib/connect").getAuthToken();var conversionHelper=require("lib/helpers/conversion-helper");var $downloadButton,size;var params,downloadUrl,onSuccess;for(i=$sounds.length-1;i>=0;i--){$sound=$($sounds[i]);var soundcloudUrl="https://soundcloud.com"+($sound.find(".soundTitle__title").attr("href")||window.location.pathname);params={url:soundcloudUrl,client_id:clientId};onSuccess=function($sound){return function(data){var params={client_id:clientId};downloadUrl=require("lib/url").stringify({query:params},data.stream_url+".mp3");$buttonGroup=$($sound.find(".sound__soundActions .sc-button-group")[0]);size=$buttonGroup.find(".sc-button:first")[0].className.match(/sc-button-((?:small)|(?:medium))/)[1];$downloadButton=$('<a class="sc-button sc-button-download sc-button-icon sc-button-responsive">Download</a>').attr({title:"Download this sound ("+conversionHelper.bytesToMB(data.origi
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 26, 2024 23:26 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active May 14, 2024 18:00
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@jpawlowski
jpawlowski / msys_hetzner-etc_network_interfaces
Created August 12, 2012 12:06
Debian network configuration for Proxmox VE server running on a Hetzner host
# /etc/network/interfaces
#
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# device: eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
# IPv4 bridge
# (connect ONLY your firewall/router KVM instance here, this is the WAN device!)
@ruiwen
ruiwen / fb-angular.js
Last active July 5, 2017 10:40
Wrapping and initialising the Facebook SDK with Angular JS
// Facebook SDK
angular.module('facebook', [])
.directive('fb', ['$FB', function($FB) {
return {
restrict: "E",
replace: true,
template: "<div id='fb-root'></div>",
compile: function(tElem, tAttrs) {
return {
post: function(scope, iElem, iAttrs, controller) {
@bradfeehan
bradfeehan / resize-dock-external-monitor.sh
Last active September 12, 2022 06:17
Programmatically resize Mac OS X Dock based on presence of external monitor
#!/bin/bash
#
# Resizes the Mac OS X Dock based on whether or not an external monitor
# is connected.
#
# This script will need to be ran whenever the display configuration
# changes (that is, whenever a display is connected or disconnected).
# I use Stay[1] to do this.
#
# [1]: http://cordlessdog.com/stay/
@ericchen
ericchen / auto_zoom_markers.js
Created July 5, 2013 09:53
Auto Zoom To Fit All Markers on Google Maps API v3
var LatLngList = new Array (new google.maps.LatLng (52.537,-2.061), new google.maps.LatLng (52.564,-2.017));
// Create a new viewpoint bound
var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds ();
// Go through each...
for (var i = 0, LtLgLen = LatLngList.length; i < LtLgLen; i++) {
// And increase the bounds to take this point
bounds.extend (LatLngList[i]);
}
// Fit these bounds to the map
map.fitBounds (bounds);