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ismasan / purge.vcl
Created January 27, 2011 18:30
Varnish VCL example for purging wildcard URLs
# This goes in vcl_recv
# It gives you:
# curl -X PURGE http://some.example.com/.*
# curl -X PURGE http://some.example.com/blog/.*
# curl -X PURGE http://some.example.com/blog/2011/bar.html
# curl -X PURGE http://another.example.com/.*
#
if (req.request == "PURGE") {
# Wildcard, per-domain purging
purge("req.http.host == " req.http.host " && req.url ~ " req.url "$");
@jterrace
jterrace / gist:1823320
Created February 14, 2012 03:42
Automatically log in user after django-registration activation
from registration.signals import user_activated
from django.contrib.auth import login, authenticate
def login_on_activation(sender, user, request, **kwargs):
"""Logs in the user after activation"""
user.backend = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend'
login(request, user)
# Registers the function with the django-registration user_activated signal
user_activated.connect(login_on_activation)
@oodavid
oodavid / README.md
Created March 26, 2012 17:05
Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active May 14, 2024 18:00
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

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:

@eaton
eaton / gist:3768758
Created September 23, 2012 03:40 — forked from saetia/gist:1623487
Clean Install – Mountain Lion OS X 10.8
@devgeeks
devgeeks / s3-phonegap-upload.js
Created November 27, 2012 19:47
S3 direct upload
var options = new FileUploadOptions();
options.fileKey="fileupload";
var time = new Date().getTime();
var userId = getUserId(); // In my case, Parse.User.current().id;
var fileName = userId+"-"+time+".jpg";
options.fileName = fileName;
options.mimeType ="image/jpeg";
options.chunkedMode = false;
var uri = encodeURI("https://BUCKET_NAME.s3.amazonaws.com/");

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

@steveklabnik
steveklabnik / rails4gems.md
Last active December 19, 2015 13:19
Gems that may not be rails 4 compatible

Gems that need help with Rails 4

  • cucumber-rails
  • simple_form - has a 3.0.0.rc but it depends on rails 4.0.0.rc1
  • delayed_job_active_record - has a v4.0.0.beta3 so likely ready to release soon
  • spork-rails - has no indication of even a beta for rails 4
  • authlogic: binarylogic/authlogic#368
  • activeadmin/activeadmin#1963
@mparker17
mparker17 / 2013-07-13 1000 - Drupalicon's fables.md
Last active December 19, 2015 17:49
Notes from DrupalCamp Toronto 2013

2013-07-13 10:00 Andrew Berry Keynote

The Feature and It's Reflection: If you always chase what's hot in the Drupal community, you'll leave your own work behind and end up with nothing.

Ticket Soup: An effective project manage enables positive collaboration by identifying actionable units of work…

The Client in the User's Skin: Don't let your client pretend to be the user. Don't let the user in user stories be "I" or "me"…

The QA Tester and the other Devs: Testers ensure we have to acknowledge reality: QA is our best guard against software decay and run, even when it feels like it impedes progress towards our goes. We had better heed their device.