yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

cb372

Category theory jargon cheat sheet

A primer/refresher on the category theory concepts that most commonly crop up in conversations about Scala or FP. (Because it's embarassing when I forget this stuff!)

I'll be assuming Scalaz imports in code samples, and some of the code may be pseudo-Scala.

Functor

A functor is something that supports map.

hanshasselberg

Convert to new ruby 1.9 Hashsyntax:

Convert :symbol => value to label: value:

find lib spec -type f -exec sed -i '' -E 's/:([_a-z]+)(\ *)=>/\1:/g' {} \;

Convert "string" => value to label: value:

shripadk

How to setup Heroku Hostname SSL with GoDaddy SSL Certificate and Zerigo DNS
Heroku recently added an exciting new 'Hostname SSL' option.  This option offers the broad compatibility of IP-based SSL, but at 1/5 the price ($20 / month at the time of this writing).  
 
The following tutorial explains how to use Heroku's new 'Hostname SSL' option on your Heroku project.  Before we begin, let's list what we're using here:

    * Heroku Hostname SSL
    * GoDaddy Standard SSL Certificate
    * Zerigo DNS

njvitto

#Deploy and rollback on Heroku in staging and production
task :deploy_staging => ['deploy:set_staging_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']
task :deploy_production => ['deploy:set_production_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag']

namespace :deploy do
  PRODUCTION_APP = 'YOUR_PRODUCTION_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU'
  STAGING_APP = 'YOUR_STAGING_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU'

  task :staging_migrations => [:set_staging_app, :push, :off, :migrate, :restart, :on, :tag]
  task :staging_rollback => [:set_staging_app, :off, :push_previous, :restart, :on]