maxrimue

Use yarn with Greenkeeper

When using yarn, it will create a yarn.lock lockfile which holds data on your used dependencies. This file also includes hard-typed versions, so should you update your dependencies, the yarn.lock file is basically outdated and needs to be regenerated. While yarn does this automatically, Greenkeeper pull requests that update dependencies as of right now do not do this regeneration, which means you would have to do it manually.

This gist shows you a way how to automatise this step using a Travis CI script.

Prerequisites

• You use Travis CI and have it build Pull Requests (default behaviour)
• You have a yarn.lock file in your repository for Travis CI to automatically install yarn (yarn will be added to their default images soon)

Getting started

andrewgodwin

Small bag / wearing

• Passport (+I-797B)
• Hoodie
• Bluetooth headphones
• Surface
• 3DS/Vita (+games for 3DS)
• Nexus 9
• Kindle

aaugustin

1. Install and register the FreeTDS driver for unixODBC.

    apt-get install tdsodbc
    odbcinst -i -d -f /usr/share/tdsodbc/odbcinst.ini
   

2. (Optional) Test the DSN-less connection with pyodbc.

    apt-get install python-pyodbc
   

>>> import pyodbc

adaugherity

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

require 'base64'

data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

toastdriven

In Memory of Malcolm

Last night, I received the news that Malcolm Tredinnick had passed away. I was at the hotel bar, concluding the first night of sprints at PyCon 2013. It took everything I had not to spontaneously start crying on the spot.

Malcolm was a friend, a mentor, a valued community mentor, a leader and a wonderful human being. He gave freely of himself to so very many people & causes. He made himself available to others, even when he was so busy he could

jacobian

Where people struggle learning Django

Over the last 3 years or so I've helped a bunch of companies, small and large, switch to Django. As part of that, I've done a lot of teaching Django (and Python) to people new to the platform (and language). I'd estimate I've trained something around 200-250 people so far. These aren't people new to programming — indeed, almost all of them are were currently employed as software developers — but they were new to Python, or to Django, or to web development, or all three.

In doing so, I've observed some patterns about what works and what doesn't. Many (most) of the failings have been my own pedagogical failings, but as I've honed my coursework and my skill I'm seeing, time and again, certain ways that Django makes itself difficult to certain groups of users.

This document is my attempt at organizing some notes around what ways different groups struggle. It's not particularly actionable — I'm not making any arguments about what Django should or shouldn't do (at least

utstikkar

We got inspired by the RailsGirls workshops and plan to organise similar workshops in Berlin for women and all sorts of beginners but for Python this time. We need you Python enthusiasts to help us with the coaching!

So if you think you can help coaching Python put your name down here (by forking this gist and adding yourself or leaving your contact details in a comment). No need to be an expert, no matter how much you know about Python programming your knowledge and experience will be useful to a beginner!

Note: if you are also into (or more into) JS then sign up as a JS coach here: https://gist.github.com/2850467

• Amélie Anglade amelie.anglade@gmail.com / @utstikkar
• Benjamin Kampmann / @amasoean

agriffis

# Dynamically load virtualenvwrapper functions to reduce shell startup
# time.
#
# Copyright 2012 Aron Griffis <aron@arongriffis.com>
# Released under the GNU GPL v3
####################################################################### 

# Python virtualenvwrapper loads really slowly, so load it on demand.
if [[ $(type -t workon) != function ]]; then
  virtualenv_funcs=( workon deactivate mkvirtualenv )

carljm

#!/bin/bash
# This hook is run after every virtualenv is activated.

export OLD_GEM_HOME=$GEM_HOME
export GEM_HOME=$VIRTUAL_ENV/gems/
export GEM_PATH=

export PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV/gems/bin:$PATH