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marick / about_those_lava_lamps.md
Last active June 22, 2022 21:08
About Those Lava Lamps

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

@mitchellh
mitchellh / setup_winrm.txt
Created June 14, 2015 19:31
Packer 0.8 Windows Example on AWS
<powershell>
winrm quickconfig -q
winrm set winrm/config/winrs '@{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="300"}'
winrm set winrm/config '@{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"}'
winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
winrm set winrm/config/service/auth '@{Basic="true"}'
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="WinRM 5985" protocol=TCP dir=in localport=5985 action=allow
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="WinRM 5986" protocol=TCP dir=in localport=5986 action=allow
@P7h
P7h / jdk_download.sh
Last active February 20, 2024 11:29
Script to download JDK / JRE / Java binaries from Oracle website from terminal / shell / command line / command prompt
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### Shell script to download Oracle JDK / JRE / Java binaries from Oracle website using terminal / command / shell prompt using wget.
### You can download all the binaries one-shot by just giving the BASE_URL.
### Script might be useful if you need Oracle JDK on Amazon EC2 env.
### Script is updated for every JDK release.
### Features:-
# 1. Resumes a broken / interrupted [previous] download, if any.
# 2. Renames the file to a proper name with including platform info.
/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2013,2014 Rüdiger Herrmann
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Rüdiger Herrmann - initial API and implementation
* Matt Morrissette - allow to use non-static inner IgnoreConditions
@sukharevd
sukharevd / wildfly-install.sh
Last active October 21, 2023 11:56
Script to install JBoss Wildfly 10.x as service in Linux
#!/bin/bash
#title :wildfly-install.sh
#description :The script to install Wildfly 10.x
#more :http://sukharevd.net/wildfly-8-installation.html
#author :Dmitriy Sukharev
#date :2016-06-18T02:45-0700
#usage :/bin/bash wildfly-install.sh
#tested-version1 :10.0.0.CR3
#tested-distros1 :Ubuntu 15.10; Debian 7,8; CentOS 7; Fedora 22
#tested-version2 :10.0.0.Final
@hgomez
hgomez / oracledownload
Last active October 6, 2021 09:58
Oracle JVM download using curl/wget
# Downloading Oracle JVM without browser
Oracle requires you to accept its licence agreement before downloading its JVM.
It's a pain for those of us who do automation, native packages, Jenkins JVM deployment on slave...
I used Firefox and Firebug to sniff network exchanges.
## HTTP Request :
GET /otn-pub/java/jdk/6u39-b04/jdk-6u39-linux-i586.bin?AuthParam=1359814101_9685f919f8b3113a89574ec4570d47b2 HTTP/1.1
@peterkeen
peterkeen / ward.txt
Created November 29, 2012 16:50
Ward Cunningham on Pair Programming to the pdxruby mailing list
Subject: Re: [pdxruby] Re: Complex return value anti-pattern?
From: Ward Cunningham <ward.cunningham@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:23:26 -0800
Pair programming is often misunderstood.
To understand pairing one must examine the world views of programmers. For
many (perhaps all programmers historically) programming is difficult and re
quires skill and concentration to be successful. For others, and here we fi
nd roots in dynamic languages, programming is easy but requires imagination
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@simme
simme / Install_tmux
Created October 19, 2011 07:55
Install and configure tmux on Mac OS X
# First install tmux
brew install tmux
# For mouse support (for switching panes and windows)
# Only needed if you are using Terminal.app (iTerm has mouse support)
Install http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Then install https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/
# More on mouse support http://floriancrouzat.net/2010/07/run-tmux-with-mouse-support-in-mac-os-x-terminal-app/