btoone

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

jessedearing

#!/bin/bash
echo "Generating an SSL private key to sign your certificate..."
openssl genrsa -des3 -out myssl.key 1024

echo "Generating a Certificate Signing Request..."
openssl req -new -key myssl.key -out myssl.csr

echo "Removing passphrase from key (for nginx)..."
cp myssl.key myssl.key.org
openssl rsa -in myssl.key.org -out myssl.key

gdamjan

#! /usr/bin/env python2
'''
Register a mDNS/DNS-SD alias name for your computer using the Avahi daemon

This script will register an alternate CNAME alias besides your hostname,
which could be useful for ex. when serving several http virtual hosts to 
your ffriends on the local network and you don't want to make them configure
their /etc/hosts.

Why a CNAME? You could also publish your current address with avahi-publish-address

mickm

#!/bin/bash
#
# Whitelist Pingdom probe-servers in iptables.
#
# Create a chain called "PINGDOM" and jump to it somewhere before
# the final REJECT/DROP, e.g.
#
#     # New chain for Pingdom rules
#     :PINGDOM - [0:0]
#

evertton

#!/bin/bash
 
# Convert a Github Flavored Markdown Syntax file to HTML
#
# The MIT License (MIT)
# Copyright © 2012 Evertton de Lima <e.everttonlima@gmail.com>
# http://evertton.mit-license.org/
# Stylesheet feature by Dan Untenzu <mail@pixelbrackets.de>
#
# Requirements: cURL (sudo apt-get install curl)

fabiofl

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;

karlbunch

#!/bin/bash
#
# long2ip - Bash example to convert integer ip to long
#
# Example: long2ip 201691728
#

long2ip() {
  local ip=$1
  echo $((ip >> 24 & 255))"."$((ip >> 16 & 255))"."$((ip >> 8 & 255 ))"."$((ip & 255))

lttlrck

git branch -m old_branch new_branch         # Rename branch locally    
git push origin :old_branch                 # Delete the old branch    
git push --set-upstream origin new_branch   # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote

christopher-hopper

Resize a Hard Disk for a Virtual Machine

Our Virtual Machines are provisioned using Vagrant from a Linux base box to run using VirutalBox. If the Hard Disk space runs out and you cannot remove files to free-up space, you can resize the Hard Disk using some VirtualBox and Linux commands.

Some assumptions

The following steps assume you've got a set-up like mine, where:

robcowie

Install Apache Spark (OSX)

$ brew install apache-spark

Run the Spark python shell

A python shell with a preconfigured SparkContext (available as sc). It is