vcarl

I bundled these up into groups and wrote some thoughts about why I ask them!

If these helped you, I'd love to hear about it!! I'm on twitter @vcarl_ or send me an email carl.vitullo@gmail.com

Onboarding and the workplace

https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-onboarding-workplace/

• How long will it take to deploy my first change? To become productive? To understand the codebase?
• What kind of equipment will I be provided? Will the company pay/reimburse me if I want something specific?

cromwellryan

$> git merge --ff-only fancy-feature-branch
Updating 020fbbd..0d154e9
Fast-forward
 README.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

jandudulski

# based on http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection.html

module Auth
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do
    helpers do
      def session
        env['rack.session']
      end

dustinfarris

machine:
  node:
    version: 0.10.28
dependencies:
  pre:
    - npm install -g bower
  override:
    - npm i
    - bower i
deployment:

shageman

#Sort the Ruby files in your project by LOC
find . -iname "*.rb" -type f -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -rn

tristanoneil

For AppStore apps:

defaults write com.getharvest.harvestxapp TimeFormat hours_minutes
defaults write com.getharvest.harvestxapp TimeFormat decimal
defaults write com.getharvest.harvestxapp TimeFormat server

For apps downloaded directly from GetHarvest:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.getharvest.harvestx.plist TimeFormat hours_minutes
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.getharvest.harvestx.plist TimeFormat decimal

mutewinter

# Sweet Gif Creation from .mov
#
# Adapted from https://gist.github.com/SlexAxton/4989674
gifify() {
  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
    GIF="${1%.*}.gif"
    if [[ $2 == '--bad' ]]; then
      ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $GIF
    else
      ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

dabrahams

# -*- mode: conf; -*-
# 
# NOTE: Settings generally support python interpolation. This means
# values can contain python format strings which refer to other values
# in the same section, or values in a special DEFAULT section. This
# allows you for example to use common settings for multiple accounts:
#
# [Repository Gmail1]
# trashfolder: %(gmailtrashfolder)s
#

jimweirich

Given(:stack) { a_stack_with_one_item }
When { stack.pop }
Then { stack.empty? }