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@states = {
  AL: "Alabama",
  AK: "Alaska",
  AZ: "Arizona",
  AR: "Arkansas",
  CA: "California",
  CO: "Colorado",
  CT: "Connecticut",
  DE: "Delaware",
  FL: "Florida",

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[DebuggerStepThrough]
public static string FormatWith(this string target, params object[] args)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(target))
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }

    return string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, target, args);
}

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public class JsonNetResult : JsonResult
{
	private readonly static JsonSerializerSettings Settings;
	private readonly static IsoDateTimeConverter _dateTimeConverter;

	static JsonNetResult()
	{
		_dateTimeConverter = new IsoDateTimeConverter();
                // Default for IsoDateTimeConverter is yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss.FFFFFFFK
		_dateTimeConverter.DateTimeFormat = "yyyy'-'MM'-'dd'T'HH':'mm':'ss.FFFK";

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public static List<SelectListItem> ToSelectList(this Dictionary<string, string> items, string defaultItem, bool insertBlankItem = false)
{
	string[] defaultItems = new[] { defaultItem };
	if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(defaultItem))
	{
		defaultItems = defaultItem.Split(',');
	}

	var i = items.Select(pair => new SelectListItem
	{

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Resources

http://onabai.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/installing-couchdb-1-2-in-ubuntu-12-04/
http://depth-first.com/articles/2010/01/28/pubcouch-install-couchdb-on-ubuntu-karmic-from-source/
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/source.html
http://grokbase.com/t/couchdb/user/114m97mzd0/installations-problem-with-couchdb
http://cvee.github.com/blog/2011/11/28/configuring-couchdb-on-ubuntu/

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Procedure for upgrading a standalone MongoDB

• Upgrade applications to use the latest Mongo Driver and then test applications to make sure they work using the latest version of driver with old database version.

• Shutdown Mongod: > db.shutdownServer()

• Verify that the service actually stopped using: $ sudo service mongodb status

• Create a backup copy of all databases $ sudo cp –vrp /media/data/mongodb /media/data/mongodb-backup

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Procedure for Mongodb Logrotate

The default install for Mongodb does not configure log rotation.

In /etc/logrotate.d/mongod

/var/log/mongodb/*.log {
    daily
    rotate 30
    compress

dateext

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// Forked from: http://blog.ashmind.com/2007/09/05/evaluating-javascript-in-watin/
// This helper class adds Eval so that you can obtain the result of a JavaScript
// function. This functionality is not native to WatiN.

/*  
*  Usage: 
*  var browser = new IE();
*  var foo = browser.NativeDocument.Eval<bool>("isFoo()");
*/

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# Find a string that starts with bind-address= and replace anything after the = with 0.0.0.0
# For example, in the my.cnf file, this would replace:

# bind-address  =  127.0.0.1
# with
# bind-address  =  0.0.0.0

sed -i 's/^\(bind\-address\s*=\s*\).*$/\10\.0\.0\.0/' /etc/mysql/my.cnf

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<select id="state" name="state">
  <option value="AL">Alabama</option>
	<option value="AK">Alaska</option>
	<option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
	<option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
	<option value="CA">California</option>
	<option value="CO">Colorado</option>
	<option value="CT">Connecticut</option>
	<option value="DE">Delaware</option>
	<option value="DC">District of Columbia</option>