zeux

A friend recently learned about Proebsting's law and mentioned it to me off hand. I knew about the law's existence but I never really asked myself - do I believe in it?

For people who aren't aware, Proebsting's law states:

Compiler Advances Double Computing Power Every 18 Years

Which is to say, if you upgrade your compiler every 18 years, you would expect on average your code to double in performance on the same hardware.

Let's C about this

Jogan

package  your_package;

import android.animation.AnimatorSet;
import android.animation.ObjectAnimator;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;

ryderdamen

Uploading Files from Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs to Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

I had a bit of trouble trying to configure permissions to upload files from my Google Compute Engine instance to my Google Cloud Storage bucket. The process isn't as intuitive as you think. There are a few permissions issues that need to be configured before this can happen. Here are the steps I took to get things working.

Let's say you want to upload yourfile.txt to a GCS bucket from your virtual machine. You can use the gsutil command line tool that comes installed on all GCE instances.

If you've never used the gcloud or gsutil command line tools on this machine before, you will need to initialize them with a service account.

peterc

require 'stringio'
require 'timeout'

class Object
  def methods_returning(expected, *args, &blk)
    old_stdout = $>
    $> = StringIO.new

    methods.select do |meth|
      Timeout::timeout(1) { dup.public_send(meth, *args, &blk) == expected rescue false } rescue false

christopher-hopper

Resize a Hard Disk for a Virtual Machine

Our Virtual Machines are provisioned using Vagrant from a Linux base box to run using VirutalBox. If the Hard Disk space runs out and you cannot remove files to free-up space, you can resize the Hard Disk using some VirtualBox and Linux commands.

Some assumptions

The following steps assume you've got a set-up like mine, where:

pyk

become active record migration expert (Rails 4.0.2)

workflow:

create model

$ rails g model NameOfModel
    invoke  active_record
    create    db/migrate/YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_create_name_of_models.rb

netpoetica

#!/bin/sh
# RESOURCES:
# Blog - http://www.gnuplotting.org/
# Blog - http://gnuplot-surprising.blogspot.com/
# Colors, Line Types - http://kunak.phsx.ku.edu/~sergei/Gnuplot/line_point_types.html
# Linespoints - http://www.gnuplotting.org/tag/linespoints/
# Gnuplot and ab - http://www.bradlanders.com/2013/04/15/apache-bench-and-gnuplot-youre-probably-doing-it-wrong/

gnuplot << EOF
reset