natritmeyer

# Copyright (c) 2010, Nathaniel Ritmeyer. All rights reserved.
#
# http://www.natontesting.com
#
# Save this in a file called 'unused.rb' in your 'features/support' directory. Then, to list
# all the unused steps in your project, run the following command:
#
#   cucumber -d -f Cucumber::Formatter::Unused
#
# or...

jcf

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

@file_count = 0
@skip_count = 0
@line_count = 0

def unshift_encoding(path)
  lines = File.open(path).readlines

  if lines.first =~ /encoding: utf-8/

holman

Just install this in your apps like so:

gem 'test-spec-mini', :git => 'git://gist.github.com/1806986.git', :require => 'mini'

piscisaureus

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:

rgreenjr

-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 
ORDER BY query_start desc;

-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query 
FROM pg_stat_activity 
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%' 

adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

phamann

Lesson's learnt building the Guardian

Below is a collection of my favourite responses I gathered from Guardian engineers when asked the question: What have you learnt starting from scratch and building a mobile-first next generation web platform for the Guardian?

Daithi O Crualaoich

• Work with great people.
• Deploy like crazy. This means the team has to control the infrastructure as well as code.
• Design is not a service. Designers have to sit in the team.
• Infrastructure is intrinsically unreliable. Discard and replace is the robust strategy.
• Use your CDN for HTML too.
• Don't always do as you are told.

shageman

#Count the lines of Ruby code in your app
find . -iname "*.rb" -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -l

stkent

Android Studio Shortcuts (Mac)

Notes:

• Two of the most useful shortcuts utilize the Fn (function) keys. It is therefore recommended that you enable the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option [System Preferences > Keyboard].
• Be sure to enable the Mac OS X 10.5+ keymap in Android Studio [Preferences > Keymap].
• A fairly complete shortcut list can be found here.

Useful symbols:

paulirish

/* bling.js */

window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
  this.addEventListener(name, fn);
};

NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;