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isaacsanders / agenda.md
Created January 2, 2013 02:43
An agenda for a recent meeting.

#Council of Chiefs

9:00PM November 3, 2012

Camp Lazarus
4422 Columbus Pike
Delaware, OH 43015

Goal of the Meeting: To make decisions regarding the specifics of Conclave 2013

@errordeveloper
errordeveloper / Unicorn_and_Upstart.md
Last active February 9, 2022 09:21
Upstart config for a Rails app using Unicorn HTTP server

Using Unicorn with Upstart

This configuration works with Upstart on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

The reason why it needs to be done this way (i.e. with the pre-start and post-stop stanzas), is because Upstart is unable to track whever Unicorn master process re-execs itself on hot deploys. One can use it without hot-deploys and run Unicorn in foreground also, it then only needs one exec stanza.

This presumes you are not using RVM, so no voodoo dances.

@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 13, 2024 17:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@jimweirich
jimweirich / soap.txt
Created November 22, 2012 09:17
Results of an Informal Twitter Survey on the State of the Art for Ruby SOAP Clients
Today I ran a quick twitter poll asking: "What is the state of the art
in Ruby SOAP clients".
Savon (http://savonrb.com/) was by far the big winner with 29
recommendations.
Surprisingly Soap4r actually got 6 votes, but most were accompanied by
comments like "the last time I used SOAP". It was also the only entry
that got negative votes (3) with comments like "soap4r is broken and
crap by the way".
@domenic
domenic / promises.md
Last active March 31, 2024 14:07
You're Missing the Point of Promises

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.
@ahoward
ahoward / a.rb
Created August 31, 2012 15:22
don't truncate, return to known good state with specific test seeds
# general support for dumping the post db:seed db to a hash
#
def App.db_names
result =
Mongoid.session(:default).
with(database: :admin).
command({listDatabases:1})
@josephwecker
josephwecker / new_bashrc.sh
Created August 11, 2012 04:36
Replace .bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile, etc. with something much more clean, consistent, and meaningful. Now a repo: https://github.com/josephwecker/bashrc_dispatch
#!/bin/bash
# License: Public Domain.
# Author: Joseph Wecker, 2012
#
# -- DEPRICATED --
# This gist is slow and is missing .bashrc_once
# Use the one in the repo instead! https://github.com/josephwecker/bashrc_dispatch
# (Thanks gioele)
#
# Are you tired of trying to remember what .bashrc does vs .bash_profile vs .profile?
@mattwynne
mattwynne / sketch.rb
Created June 23, 2012 22:22 — forked from lukemelia/sketch.rb
sketch for Matt Wynne
class Organization
def to_param
"42"
end
def saved?
rand > 0.5
end
end
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active May 19, 2024 16:30
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@justinko
justinko / Plea.markdown
Created May 30, 2012 19:40
Am I doing it wrong?

Dear Rubyists,

I just lost a contract because of my code in a Rails project.

The specific code in question is related to a "posting a comment" feature. Here are the details:

In this project, "posting a comment" does not simply entail inserting a row into the database. It involves a procedure to yes, insert a row, but also detect its language, check for spam, send emails, and "share" it to Twitter and Facebook. I believe this algorithm should be encapsulated. I do not believe it belongs in a controller or a model. I do not believe Active Record callbacks should be used.

The "senior developer", whom is the stake holder's right hand man, said this: