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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

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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

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

	# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html

	Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.

	When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes. Hell yes. Immediately. But
	then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why? Why me? What am I supposed
	to say that's interesting? Something about Ruby, perhaps. Maybe the
	future of it. The future of something, at least. That sounds
	keynote-y.

	=== Epic Snow Leopard Upgrayyyyd Guide ===

	Son, you’re now living in the land of 64-bit systems.

	That means that some of your 32-bit shit is now broken.

	Not all is lost.

	== Fixing MySQL weirdness

	-module(port_scanner).
	-export([scan/3]).

	scan(Addr, Start, End) ->
	Services = parse_services(),
	scan(Addr, Start, End, Services).

	%% Internal functions
	scan(Host, Start, End, Services) ->
	[Data \|\| Data <-

	var sys = require("sys"), http = require('http'), encode = require('./encoding');

	function createAuthorization(username, password) {
	return "Basic " + encode.base64(username + ":" + password);
	}

	Object.prototype.filter = function(fn) {
	var result = {};
	for (var name in this) {
	if (this.hasOwnProperty(name)) {

	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;
	};

	#!/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