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corroded / reddot_ruby_conf_day_one_notes.md
Created May 18, 2012 16:20
Day one notes from RedDot Ruby Conf. All the speakers were great(not to mention their slides), so just a disclaimer that the number of notes != how good the speaker is

#Red Dot Ruby Conf 2012

##Day 1 Summary of Reddot Ruby Conf 2012

###Google: Ilya Grigorik - Building a Faster Web

####Learned a lot of metrics from Google's Ilya Grigorik:

  • Average page size back in Nov 2010: 700KB
  • Average page size today: 1042KB (does that mean pretty much most of the web sites today are unusable for people with slow connections?)
@mrflip
mrflip / maximum_battery_life.md
Created March 19, 2012 08:32
maximum battery life checklist -- use before a long plane flight

Max Battery Life Checklist

Here is a checklist to follow if you want maximum battery life -- for instance if you're about to get on a long plane flight.

10 hour battery life on a non-SSD Macbook Pro 17"

Low power use checklist

With power connected:

@rkmax
rkmax / install-r15b.sh
Created December 14, 2011 20:59 — forked from ramgole/install-r14b04.sh
Script to install Erlang R15B (tested on a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 install)
# You will need to make this file executable (chmod u+x) and run it with sudo
apt-get -y install build-essential m4 libncurses5-dev libssh-dev unixodbc-dev libgmp3-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libglu1-mesa-dev fop xsltproc default-jdk
mkdir -p /src/erlang
cd /src/erlang
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B.tar.gz
tar -xvzf otp_src_R15B.tar.gz
chmod -R 777 otp_src_R15B
cd otp_src_R15B
./configure
make
@bensie
bensie / Gemfile
Created August 10, 2011 20:09
savon ntlm
source "http://rubygems.org"
gem 'httpi', :git => 'git://github.com/bensie/httpi.git', :branch => 'ntlm'
gem 'savon'