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Thing of the week!

Start meetings or pairing by seeing how folks are doing, feelings-wise

Everybody's got stuff goin' on outside of work. That effects what we've got goin' on inside of work, whether you want it to or not.

Take a moment as you being a meeting or start pairing to check in with folks and see how they're doing.

Notice who you're inviting to stuff and how you invite them.

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Combating bias and promoting inclusion in the workplace is something we can all agree needs to happen. The question, then, is how?

The way I see it, there are two directions from which change can come: from the top, or from the bottom. Changes from the top come in the form of new HR policies, training, or declarations for more diversity and inclusion work (all of which Pivotal is already doing). Changes from the bottom are a change in culture and a realization that every interaction matters.

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Change the URL for rubygems_1.3.7_ur in ~/.rvm/config/db to http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/src/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz

and/or download http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/src/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz into ~/.rvm/archives

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This is an example of using RVM's Project .rvmrc file 
to have it automatically bootstrap your environment, including bundler.
This could be further expanded to do anything you require :)

The important thing to remember is that the purpose of these files is
to allow you to very easily have your 'project context' (aka 'environment')
loaded automatically for you when you enter the project in the shell (cd).

You can generate the .rvmrc file below by running:

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Rails CMS alternatives
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  Note: project activity was checked on 11/26/09 for most of these projects, and the "last update" field has not been kept up to date since then.
  
Active projects:
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adva-cms
  repo: http://github.com/svenfuchs/adva_cms/
  site: http://adva-cms.org/
  Last update: 11/24/09

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#!/bin/bash -xe

EBS_DEVICE='/dev/sdh'
INSTANCE_ID=$1
AKI=${2:-'aki-5f15f636'}
ARI=${3:-'ari-0915f660'}
ARCH=${4:-'i386'}
SIZE=${5:-10}
AZ=${6:-'us-east-1d'}
NAME=${7:-"ami-from-$INSTANCE_ID"}

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require 'rubygems'
require 'test/unit'
require 'mongo'


def rating(query)
  collection_size = query.collection.count
  return 100 if collection_size <= 1
  explanation = query.explain
  return   0 if collection_size >  1 and explanation['startKey'].empty? 

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# This script copies all .gem files for all versions of a gem from gems.github.com to gemcutter.org.
# For all versions of a gem, it does a gem fetch, repackages the gem with the non-namespaced name,
# and does a gem push.  You must have permission to push the gem, so your gemcutter key must be
# set in ~/.gemrc

require 'rubygems'
require 'yaml'
require 'fileutils'

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# Execute a block +number+ times. Block should be a predicate (return true/false)
#
# Use procs/lambdas to define callbacks:
#   :success => ...
#   :retry   => ...
#   :failure => ...
def do_over(number, options = {}, &block)
  options = {
    :success  => lambda { puts "SUCCESS" },
    :retry    => lambda { puts "RETRY" },

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class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  require 'digest/md5'

  validates_presence_of :email, :password
  
  def self.authenticate(email, password)
    User.find_by_email_and_password(email, Digest::MD5.hexdigest(password))
  end

  def password=(password)