theothermattm

# attaches to the first running docker container containing the name passed
# in as the first argument to the command
# example: attachto projects
function attachto () {
        echo "Attaching to first running docker container with name: $1 You might need to press ctrl+c to start entering commands..."
        docker attach $( docker ps | grep $1 | head -n 1 |  cut -d' ' -f1)
}

theothermattm

# sync everything excluding things in .gitignore
# delete anything on target not in source
# include dotfiles and symlinks, also use compression
rsync -azP --delete --filter=":- .gitignore" . my-target-host:/my/target/directory

theothermattm

Follow ups:

• stand up webpage test internally: https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/private-instances
  • docker image?
  • convert AMI to an VMware image?
  • need windows machines for agents
• sign up for thewebahead.net podcast - @jensimmons
• responsive design podcast - ethan marcotte and karen mcgrane
• mailtoself.com
• hipmunk.com - for travel

theothermattm

# from https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3742#issuecomment-225939382

openssl x509 -inform der -in /Path/to/the.crt -out /Path/to/the/file.pem

theothermattm

rsync -azP --delete --filter=":- .gitignore" . targethost:/targetdirectory

theothermattm

Tom Chi - Learning Through Prototyping

()[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuqgrvUPc5g]

• Better to reason with experience/data than guesses
  • Find the quickest path to experience
  • Doing is the best kind of thinking.
• Smart people will always have good defenses of their guesses
• "Am I hearing a guess, or am I hearing direct experience?"
• We want experience

theothermattm

-- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1690404/how-to-drop-all-user-tables

BEGIN
   FOR cur_rec IN (SELECT object_name, object_type
                     FROM user_objects
                    WHERE object_type IN
                             ('TABLE',
                              'VIEW',
                              'PACKAGE',
                              'PROCEDURE',

theothermattm

# original source based on: https://github.com/fabiohbarbosa/docker-healthcheck-oracle/blob/master/assets/healthcheck.sh

CHECK=$(${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/sqlplus -s ${HEALTHCHECK_USER}/${HEALTHCHECK_PASSWORD}@localhost/${HEALTHCHECK_SERVICE_NAME} as sysdba <<END
  --set pagesize 0 feedback off verify off heading off echo off;
  -- the simplest type of health check
  --select count(*) from dual;
  -- this will check if a 
  SELECT count(*) FROM V\$INSTANCE where INSTANCE_NAME = 'xe' and DATABASE_STATUS = 'ACTIVE';
  exit;
END

theothermattm

Some of the greatest info I've seen on creating a healthy engineering courtesy of Spotify:

Spotify Engineering Culture Part 1

TODO make notes on this one

Spotify Engineering Culture Part 2

• 0:50 - "We aim to make mistakes faster than anyone else" - Fail Fast and Improve Fast.
• 1:30 - "Fail Friendly Environment" - Encourage sharing of failures so everyone can learn from them. Some teams have "Fail walls" showing off their failures.

theothermattm

How to set CA certs in node

(I always forget this!)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29283040/how-to-add-custom-certificate-authority-ca-to-nodejs

export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=[your CA certificate file path]