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@Faheetah
Faheetah / Dockerfile
Last active October 19, 2022 15:22
Docker patterns/anti-patterns
### Generic Dockerfile demonstrating good practices
### Imports
# Bad-ish, we do not need Ubuntu for this, nor do we want latest if we are using in a build system, predictable is better
FROM ubuntu:latest
# Better, using a small image since our app has no dependency on Ubuntu
FROM alpine:3.3
@robinwl
robinwl / generate_index.cron
Last active January 19, 2021 20:04
cowsay webserver index
*/5 * * * * www-data /usr/local/bin/generate_index.sh
@floer32
floer32 / tupperware.py
Last active September 26, 2022 12:13
recursively convert nested dicts to nested namedtuples, giving you something like immutable object literals
from UserDict import IterableUserDict
import collections
__author__ = 'github.com/hangtwenty'
def tupperware(mapping):
""" Convert mappings to 'tupperwares' recursively.
@rduplain
rduplain / README.md
Created October 17, 2011 20:04
Connect to MSSQL using FreeTDS / ODBC in Python.

Goal: Connect to MSSQL using FreeTDS / ODBC in Python.

Host: Ubuntu 11.10 x86_64

Install:

sudo apt-get install freetds-dev freetds-bin unixodbc-dev tdsodbc
pip install pyodbc sqlalchemy

In /etc/odbcinst.ini:

@Folcon
Folcon / clipboard-utils.clj
Created August 24, 2011 11:50
Just a quick clipboard slip/slurp I put together because I didn't find anything similar, don't know if it's useful for anyone but found it invaluable when getting large strings being returned from the repl and sticking the result in an editor for more car
(defn get-clipboard []
(.getSystemClipboard (java.awt.Toolkit/getDefaultToolkit)))
(defn slurp-clipboard []
(try
(.getTransferData (.getContents (get-clipboard) nil) (java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor/stringFlavor))
(catch java.lang.NullPointerException e nil)))
(defn spit-clipboard [text]
(.setContents (get-clipboard) (java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection. text) nil))