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    We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to 
achieve distinction, to lead the parade…. And the great issue of life is to harness the drum 
major instinct. It is a good instinct if you don’t distort it and pervert it.

    Don’t give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for 
being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral 
excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity. 

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$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))

require 'active_support/inflector'

module OpenAuth2
  module Provider
    class Base
      attr_accessor :client_id

      def initialize

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module BackwardIteration
  def self.included(base)
    if base.ancestors.include?(ForwardIteration)
      instance_methods.each do |method|
        base.class_eval do
          alias_method "#{method}_reverse", method

          define_method method do
            unbound = ForwardIteration.instance_method(method)
            unbound.bind(self).call

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module Iteration
  def map
    each[0]
  end

  def to_a
    each.split("")
  end
end

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# Rearrangement of Rails folder structure based on Robert Martins' Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years.
# This structure was meant to say 'I am a web app that does x and y and only incidentally uses Rails'.

# I'm interested in knowing if:
#   1. Is this viable in the long run?
#   2. Can you tell what the app does?

|── Gemfile
├── Gemfile.lock
├── Readme

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# Problem: Divide api into version to provide a consistent experience to developers.

require 'goliath'
require 'active_support/all'

module V01
  class Hello
    def self.call(env)
      [200, {}, {'response' => 'V01'}]
    end

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Ideally this process should be automated via Puppet/Chef, I just haven't gotten around to it.

Upload local SSH keys to server for password less login

Create ssh dir on server

mkdir .ssh

Upload local key from laptop

local> cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh b@B 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

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frontend http
  bind *:8000

  # match http verbs
  acl is_post method POST

  # match api versions
  acl one hdr(Accept) -i application/v0.1
  acl two hdr(Accept) -i application/v0.2

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This is my current Gemfile for River.

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'god' # monitoring of Goliath & Sinatra apps

group :default do
  gem 'yajl-ruby', :require => 'yajl' # fast JSON dumping/parsing
end

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One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.

At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:

• Todo
• Question
• Thought
• Bug
• Feature