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Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<template encoding-version="1.2">
    <description></description>
    <groupId>8ce97bbb-0162-1000-233e-5c8cc4c3a93f</groupId>
    <name>DevOps KPI - Change Volume and Lead Time</name>
    <snippet>
        <connections>
            <id>8a0d9e3d-1744-3d97-0000-000000000000</id>
            <parentGroupId>33980602-0d29-3ae1-0000-000000000000</parentGroupId>
            <backPressureDataSizeThreshold>1 GB</backPressureDataSizeThreshold>

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digraph architecture {
  rankdir=LR;

  // Storage - #303F9F (dark blue)
  node[fillcolor="#303F9F" style="filled" fontcolor="white"];
  database[label="DB"]; cache[label="Redis"];
  
  // Client-side Apps - #FFEB3B (yellow)
  node[fillcolor="#FFEB3B" style="filled" fontcolor="black"];
  front_end[label="Front-end App"]; extension[label="Browser Extension"];

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><template encoding-version="1.0"><description>This flow demonstrates use of custom properties in EL with UpdateAttributes processor and the PutFile processor</description><groupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</groupId><name>CustomPropertyDemo</name><snippet><connections><id>748758a2-2eb8-42fe-8fc6-d11d467c1e6c</id><parentGroupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</parentGroupId><backPressureDataSizeThreshold>1 GB</backPressureDataSizeThreshold><backPressureObjectThreshold>10000</backPressureObjectThreshold><destination><groupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</groupId><id>4045eff6-fafc-4979-9138-b63d465c059a</id><type>PROCESSOR</type></destination><flowFileExpiration>0 sec</flowFileExpiration><labelIndex>1</labelIndex><name></name><selectedRelationships>success</selectedRelationships><source><groupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</groupId><id>70bb9f9d-0640-4122-bdc4-ce5e95cd27f6</id><type>PROCESSOR</type></source><zIndex>0</zIndex></

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><template encoding-version="1.0"><description>This flow demonstrates use of custom properties in EL with UpdateAttributes processor and the PutFile processor</description><groupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</groupId><name>CustomPropertyDemo</name><snippet><connections><id>748758a2-2eb8-42fe-8fc6-d11d467c1e6c</id><parentGroupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</parentGroupId><backPressureDataSizeThreshold>1 GB</backPressureDataSizeThreshold><backPressureObjectThreshold>10000</backPressureObjectThreshold><destination><groupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</groupId><id>4045eff6-fafc-4979-9138-b63d465c059a</id><type>PROCESSOR</type></destination><flowFileExpiration>0 sec</flowFileExpiration><labelIndex>1</labelIndex><name></name><selectedRelationships>success</selectedRelationships><source><groupId>53d29129-3b42-40ab-a008-81ebb557b334</groupId><id>70bb9f9d-0640-4122-bdc4-ce5e95cd27f6</id><type>PROCESSOR</type></source><zIndex>0</zIndex></

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An Ansible summary

Jon Warbrick, July 2014, V3.2 (for Ansible 1.7)

Configuration file

intro_configuration.html

First one found from of

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#!/bin/bash

# Simple function to check http response code before downloading a remote file
# Example usage:
# if `validate_url $url >/dev/null`; then dosomething; else echo "does not exist"; fi

function validate_url () {
  if [[ `curl -s --head "$1" | head -n 1 | grep "HTTP/[1-3].[0-9] [23].."` ]]; then echo "true"; fi
}

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http://d.stavrovski.net/blog/post/how-to-install-and-setup-oracle-java-jdk-in-centos-6

# rpm
wget --no-cookies \
--no-check-certificate \
--header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \
"http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u55-b13/jdk-7u55-linux-x64.rpm" \
-O jdk-7-linux-x64.rpm

# ubuntu

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# Description: Boxstarter Script
# Author: Jess Frazelle <jess@linux.com>
# Last Updated: 2017-09-11
#
# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an **elevated** command-prompt:
# start http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/url?<URL-TO-RAW-GIST>
#
# Learn more: http://boxstarter.org/Learn/WebLauncher

#---- TEMPORARY ---

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Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong

I'm a Python programmer and frequently work with the excellent [virtualenv][] tool by Ian Bicking.

Virtualenv is a great tool on the whole but there is one glaring problem: the activate script that virtualenv provides as a convenience to enable its functionality requires you to source it with your shell to invoke it. The activate script sets some environment variables in your current environment and defines for you a deactivate shell function which will (attempt to) help you to undo those changes later.

This pattern is abhorrently wrong and un-unix-y. activate should instead do what ssh-agent does, and launch a sub-shell or sub-command with a modified environment.

Problems