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Install MySQL on macOS Sierra

This procedure explains how to install MySQL using Homebrew on macOS Sierra 10.12

Install Homebrew

• Installing Homebrew is effortless, open Terminal and enter :
  $ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
• Note: Homebrew will download and install Command Line Tools for Xcode 8.0 as part of the installation process.

Install MySQL

At this time of writing, Homebrew has MySQL version 5.7.15 as default formulae in its main repository :

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The expected behavior

Our default expected behavior to almost all apps is that the naked domain (like mydomain.com) get redirected to our real app at a subdomain (common to be www.mydomain.com).

We use this as our default and main solution, since Heroku says that it does not support naked domains (like mydomain.com) using DNS A-records. Heroku have a document explaining it's decision and limitations to this model.

How to configure Heroku app?

You should configure canonical host and Heroku custom domains doing:

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Running CouchApps on PouchDB in the browser using service workers

What is this?

A description of how to run an existing CouchApp on PouchDB in the browser using service workers - without any modifications to existing code being necessary! The best thing is that if service workers aren't available, the CouchApp will still run as normal: that is, online.

Demo

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#Understanding closures, callbacks and promises

For a code newbie like myself, callbacks, closures and promises are scary JavaScript concepts.

10 months into my full-time dev career, and I would struggle to explain these words to a peer.

So I decided it was time to face my fears, and try to get my head around each concept.

Here are the notes from my initial reading. I'll continue to refine them as my understanding improves.

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/*
In the node.js intro tutorial (http://nodejs.org/), they show a basic tcp 
server, but for some reason omit a client connecting to it.  I added an 
example at the bottom.

Save the following server in example.js:
*/

var net = require('net');

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'use strict';

// Dependencies
const gcloud = require('google-cloud', {
  projectId: 'sara-bigquery',
  keyfileName: 'keyfile.json'
});
const vision = gcloud.vision();
const fs = require('fs');
const async = require('async');

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# Create a new repository on the command line

echo "# test" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/genemyers/test.git
git push -u origin master

# Push an existing repository from the command line

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Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

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#import <Contacts/Contacts.h>

@implementation ContactsScan

- (void) contactScan
{
    if ([CNContactStore class]) {
        //ios9 or later
        CNEntityType entityType = CNEntityTypeContacts;
        if( [CNContactStore authorizationStatusForEntityType:entityType] == CNAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined)

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curl -s https://api.github.com/orgs/twitter/repos?per_page=200 | ruby -rubygems -e 'require "json"; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| %x[git clone #{repo["ssh_url"]} ]}'