purcell

-- Let's say you have a table full of work:

CREATE TABLE tasks (
       id UUID PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
       status TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'pending',
       payload JSON NOT NULL, -- or just have meaningful columns!
       created_at TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

jessfraz

Freezer cgroup FTW

In a terminal start a server.

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

In another terminal set up the cgroups freezer.

AndrewRadev

# Given a long-running process in the terminal:
#
#  - Ctrl+Z to suspend it
#  - Run `keep-track`
#  - Output resumes, when done will show a notification with the time it took for the process to run
#
# Can be customized with an `--icon` to `notify-send`, 
# maybe a sound effect added in the `&&` list.
#
function keep-track() {

Amit-PivotalLabs

BOSH Links: Why and How

Audience: anyone in the BOSH ecosystem, whether you work on something open-source or proprietary

"BOSH Links" is a feature which simplifies how data is shared between BOSH-deployed jobs that need to collaborate with one another (e.g. a web server and its backing database). Like many BOSH things, the whole "BOSH Links" thing can seem counter-intuitive at first, and it may not be clear why things are the way they are. This note hopes to show some of the powerful benefits of BOSH Links, and provide examples and explanations that make things more intuitive.

1. Why?
2. BASIC: A simple problem statement
3. BASIC: Putting the puzzle pieces together
4. ADVANCED: But what about...

halorgium

See our wiki page

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

jeremy2

#
# This file should be in .../cookbooks/database/templates/default/database.yml.erb
#

<%= @environment %>:
  adapter:   <%= @adapter %>
  database:  <%= @database %>
  username:  <%= @username %>
  password:  <%= @password %>
  host:      <%= @host %>

igrigorik

require 'faraday'
require 'net/http'
require 'pp'

# Repos: 
# https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday
# https://github.com/pengwynn/faraday_middleware

# Blog posts: 
# http://adventuresincoding.com/2010/09/writing-modular-http-client-code-with-faraday