Bertg

These are some snips to help you converting video to flash and thumbnails using ruby and paperclip.

Needed: ffmpeg & flvtool, RVideo gem, paperclip 

Converting the video is done using outside of paperclip, as this could take quite a while. Paperclip by default does it's conversions during the request, and the last thing you want is a request hanging for 10minutes while ffmpeg does it's thing. It is advised to do this conversion somewhere in the background using Resque or DelayedJob. (make sure not to run to many conversions at one time on your machine)

Most video thumbnailing solutions out there will create all thumbnails from the video. This solution (on paperclip 2.3.0) however will create one large "temp_thumbnail" once and all consequent thumbnails can use this temporary version.

VideoGeometry will make sure that the target dimensions for ffmpeg are always a multiple of 2 and as close as possible to the desired dimensions without breaking the aspect ratio of the original video.

xxx

if Rails.env.production?
  module OmniAuth
    module Strategy
      def full_host
        uri = URI.parse(request.url)
        uri.path = ''
        uri.query = nil
        uri.port = (uri.scheme == 'https' ? 443 : 80)
        uri.to_s
      end

fguillen

(Several of these git examples have been extracted from the book 'Pragmatic guide to GIT' of Travis Swicegood )

Git tips

Global git user

git config --global user.name "Fernando Guillen"
git config --global user.email "fguillen.mail+spam@gmail.com"

Repository git user

cd /develop/myrepo

terrbear

alias :pputs :puts
def puts(str = "")
  pputs(str)
  $out << "#{str}"
end

STDOUT.instance_eval do
  alias :pputs :puts
  def puts(str = "")
    pputs(str)

thechrisoshow

// Ok, document.ready is jQuery - but you get the gist
$(document).ready(function() {
  setTimeout(function() {
    location.href = location.href;
    }, 10000); 
  // 10000 == 10 seconds
  // Change this if you want a different refresh period
});

karmi

# Install Homebrew
#
mkdir -p /usr/local
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
cd $HOME && mkdir -p homebrew
curl -L https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew
ln -nfs $HOME/homebrew/bin/brew /usr/local/bin/
brew update

lucasfais

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

danielnc

source :rubygems

gem 'bench_press'
gem 'multi_json'
gem 'json'
gem 'yajl-ruby'
gem 'msgpack'
gem 'ruby-protocol-buffers'
gem 'bson'
gem 'bson_ext'

NickMirnov

#resource: http://www.coreseek.cn/products-install/install_on_bsd_linux/
#requirements: 
#    m4 >= 1.4.13
#    autoconf >= 2.65
#    automake >= 1.11
#    libtool >= 2.2.6b 

wget http://www.coreseek.cn/uploads/csft/4.0/coreseek-4.1-beta.tar.gz
tar xzvf coreseek-4.1-beta.tar.gz