cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

wlib

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Daniel Ethridge

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

ziadoz

Awesome PHP

Awesome PHP has been relocated permanently to its own Github repository. No further updates will made to this gist.

Please open an issue for any new suggestions.

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

kgodard

NOTE: DO AVERY LABEL IMPORT STUFF IN FIREFOX -- I DON'T THINK THE AVERY SITE IS COMPATIBLE WITH CHROME

Steps described in this document:

• Edit and sort your labels file in Google Docs (not in Excel)
• Download your data as a .csv file
• Import your edited .csv file into the Avery label maker site (not using Excel)
• Print labels

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1. Edit and Sort label data in Google Docs

mogsdad

Google Apps Script Spreadsheet Utilities and Custom Functions#

These utilities are grouped into related files, for simpler copy & paste to your scripts.

ConvertA1.gs

A couple of helper functions to convert to & from A1 notation.

cellA1ToIndex( string cellA1, number index )

ungoldman

Deploy your own PaaS!

Setting up Dokku with DigitalOcean and Namecheap

..or how I made my own heroku in a few hours for $3.98.

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This write-up is several years out of date! You probably shouldn't use it.