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# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html
Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.
When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes. Hell yes. Immediately. But
then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why? Why me? What am I supposed
to say that's interesting? Something about Ruby, perhaps. Maybe the
future of it. The future of something, at least. That sounds
keynote-y.
@defunkt
defunkt / startupriot.markdown
Last active September 15, 2023 18:11
Startup Riot 2009 Keynote

(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath, and I'm one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven't heard of it, has been described as "Facebook for developers." Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we're the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we're small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I've always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing - which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.

@endolith
endolith / Has weird right-to-left characters.txt
Last active June 1, 2024 10:58
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@erichurst
erichurst / database.yml.example mysql2
Created May 9, 2011 02:58
Rails 3 database.yml examples
# MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
#
# Install the MySQL driver:
# gem install mysql2
#
# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
development:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
@olivierlacan
olivierlacan / sublime-text-2-settings.json
Last active January 11, 2024 15:38
Basic Sublime Text 2 settings for Rails development
{
"use_simple_full_screen": false,
// calculates indentation automatically when pressing enter
"auto_indent": true,
// sets the colors used within the text area (default)
// see https://github.com/olivierlacan/monokaim to download
// the customized Monokai I use.
"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Monokaim.tmTheme",
@denmarkin
denmarkin / resque.rake
Created September 20, 2011 11:02
My rake task for clearing Resque queues and stats
# see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5880962/how-to-destroy-jobs-enqueued-by-resque-workers - old version
# see https://github.com/defunkt/resque/issues/49
# see http://redis.io/commands - new commands
namespace :resque do
desc "Clear pending tasks"
task :clear => :environment do
queues = Resque.queues
queues.each do |queue_name|
puts "Clearing #{queue_name}..."
@barmstrong
barmstrong / gist:1323865
Created October 28, 2011 23:50
processing large csv files in ruby
class ZendeskTicketsJob
extend Resque::Plugins::ExponentialBackoff
@queue = :low
FIELDS = ['zendesk_id', 'requester_id', 'assignee_id', 'group', 'subject', 'tags', 'status', 'priority', 'via', 'ticket_type', 'created_at', 'assigned_at', 'solved_at', 'resolution_time', 'satisfaction', 'group_stations', 'assignee_stations', 'reopens', 'replies', 'first_reply_time_in_minutes', 'first_reply_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'first_resolution_time_in_minutes', 'first_resolution_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'full_resolution_time_in_minutes', 'full_resolution_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'agent_wait_time_in_minutes', 'agent_wait_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'requester_wait_time_in_minutes', 'requester_wait_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'reservation_code', 'requires_manual_closing']
def self.perform(url)
`rm /tmp/zendesk_tickets*`
`wget #{url} -O /tmp/zendesk_tickets.csv.zip`
`unzip -p /tmp/zendesk_tickets.csv.zip > /tmp/zendesk_tickets.csv`
@rmhall
rmhall / itunes_match_tips.txt
Created November 22, 2011 21:08
iTunes Match tips
My iTunes Match Track upgrading and process info:
If you have less than 25,000 tracks:
1. First let iTunes Match do its things and find all possible matches in your library and finish uploading any non-matching tracks.
2. Once its done, make a new Smart Playlist (I made a folder for all my Smart iTunes Match Related Playlists)
Name this one: iCloud-Upgradeable
Criteria:
MATCH ALL:
Bit Rate is less than 256kbps
@gudbergur
gudbergur / README.markdown
Created February 19, 2012 23:49
Bootstrap's Typeahead plugin extended (allowing for AJAX functionality) among other things

This is a fork of Bootstrap Typeahead that adds minimal but powerful extensions.

For example, process typeahead list asynchronously and return objects

  # This example does an AJAX lookup and is in CoffeeScript
  $('.typeahead').typeahead(
    # source can be a function
    source: (typeahead, query) ->
 # this function receives the typeahead object and the query string
@ebeigarts
ebeigarts / nginx.conf
Created April 24, 2012 07:05
Mobile detection - iOS, other mobile platforms and desktop
daemon off;
error_log log/error.log crit;
events {
}
http {
uwsgi_temp_path tmp/;
scgi_temp_path tmp/;
proxy_temp_path tmp/;