Nestor G Pestelos Jr ngpestelos

Setting up Ruby, Rails, Nginx, Passenger, PostgreSQL 9 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for Windows Azure

Last updated: 12/31/2013

Fix the locale issue

Edit /etc/default/locale as sudo.
Append LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" at the end of the file, save and quit.
sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Install the necessary packages to install rbenv and build Ruby

Open Conference Expectations

For conferences, it's extremely important that attendees get top-quality content from industry experts. As a highly compelling format of educating others based on experience and research, conferences stand to be one the best sources of refined knowledge available. Still, it's important for a successful event to have a few guidelines to ensure quality content from the best and most appropriate speakers. Below is a set of guidelines for conference organizers that ensure quality content for attendees and the community.

What We, As Speakers, Expect from Conferences

Video recordings: Organizers should prioritize recording all talks and sessions. A conference that only teaches the ~300 people in the room has constrained value and is not worthwhile to a speaker who wants to benefit the community. When recorded, video will be available online under a permissive license (CC-BY-*) within six months of the event.
Travel reimbursement: Conferences will reimburse travel

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

	#!/bin/bash
	# File: deis-backup.sh
	# Author: Ian Blenke
	# License: Apache License, Version 2.0
	#
	# Note: This script is meant to be run under CoreOS "toolbox", as it uses the /media mount and talks locally to etcd to obtain Deis ceph credentials.

	# Error out whenever something returns a non-zero errno
	set -eo pipefail

	# Use 'docker.io' if using the official packages on Ubuntu 14.04+

	alias dip="docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}'"
	drm() { docker rm ; }
	dri() { docker rmi ; }
	alias dkd="docker run -d -P"
	alias dki="docker run -t -i -P"
	alias docker_rmi_all='docker rmi $(docker images\|tail -n +2\|awk '\''{print $1":"$2}'\'')'

	#####

	# How Clearance / Hoptoad does it
	module Clearance
	class << self
	attr_accessor :configuration
	end

	def self.configure
	self.configuration \|\|= Configuration.new
	yield(configuration)
	end

	#!/bin/bash
	# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.

	GHBU_BACKUP_DIR=${GHBU_BACKUP_DIR-"github-backups"} # where to place the backup files
	GHBU_ORG=${GHBU_ORG-"<CHANGE-ME>"} # the GitHub organization whose repos will be backed up
	GHBU_UNAME=${GHBU_UNAME-"<CHANGE-ME>"} # the username of a GitHub account (to use with the GitHub API)
	GHBU_PASSWD=${GHBU_PASSWD-"<CHANGE-ME>"} # the password for that account
	GHBU_GITHOST=${GHBU_GITHOST-"<CHANGE-ME>.github.com"} # the GitHub hostname (see notes)
	GHBU_PRUNE_OLD=${GHBU_PRUNE_OLD-true} # when `true`, old backups will be deleted
	GHBU_PRUNE_AFTER_N_DAYS=${GHBU_PRUNE_AFTER_N_DAYS-3} # the min age (in days) of backup files to delete

	var sys = require('sys'), http = require('http'), twitter = require('./twitter'), couch = require("./node-couch");

	Array.prototype.each = function(fn) {
	for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
	var item = this[i];
	fn.call(null, item);
	}
	return this;
	};