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api: bundle exec puma -C config/puma.rb

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import socket
import ssl
import sys
from urlparse import urlparse

'''Crude test client to a HTTP(S) server listening for proxy protocol
connections. Takes a HTTP(S) url as an argument and prints out the raw
response.

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Postgres EXPLAIN Lunch & Learn @ BenchPrep

EXPLAIN Explained video on YouTube

What EXPLAIN doesn't do

• Tell you why a particular index isn't used
• Explain how to rewrite your queries
• Show what other factors make the DB slow
• Tell you how much time the request took outside the DB

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Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

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# NOTICE: to get Nginx+Unicorn best-practices configuration see the gist https://gist.github.com/3052776

  $ cd /usr/src
  $ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz && rm -f ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz

  $ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.30.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz && rm -f ./pcre-8.30.tar.gz

  $ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz

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#!/bin/sh

# Some things taken from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

# Set the colours you can use
black='\033[0;30m'
white='\033[0;37m'
red='\033[0;31m'
green='\033[0;32m'

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Tuesday
8:00 - Convention Registration - Registration
9:15-10:30 - Sheraton Ballroom - Keynote
10:30-11:00 - Exhibit Hall - Break
11:00-11:40 - Ballroom 5 - Saving the World (literally) with Ruby on Rails
11:50-12:30 - Michigan AB - Rack::Attack: Protect your app with this one weird gem!
12:30-1:40 - Exhibit Hall - Lunch
1:40-12:30 - Ballroom 5 - Distributed Request Tracing
2:30-3:10 - Ballroom 5 - Rack-AMQP: Ditch HTTP inside SOA!
3:20-4:00 - Ballroom 1-3 - Advanced aRel: When ActiveRecord Just Isn't Enough

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Benchmark Bundler

Because loading gems can take longer than you think

$ curl -fsSL https://gist.github.com/raw/5022636/benchmark.rb | ruby
............................................................[DONE]

Gem                            Time(sec)     Pct %
--------------------------------------------------

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#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:		redis-server
# Required-Start:	$syslog
# Required-Stop:	$syslog
# Should-Start:		$local_fs
# Should-Stop:		$local_fs
# Default-Start:	2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:		0 1 6
# Short-Description:	redis-server - Persistent key-value db

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start = new Date(2001, 0, 1)
end = new Date()

function randomDate(start, end) {
    return new Date(start.getTime() + Math.random() * (end.getTime() - start.getTime()))
}

//http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950616.html