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This command, when run in a MySQL compatible database like MariaDB will return a list of all the tables, in descending order of tables size in megabyes.

How to do application level scale to zero with Gunicorn

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thought experiments for CO2 based opimised routing

SCION internet python pseudo code sample

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Tea, Arduino and Dynamic Demand

I'm trying to learn to use clojure to parse a wordpress XML and generate markdown files for each one.

tracesbacks when using perun for the first time

Interesting MS sustainability tech roles, without the sign in guff

Get an idea of the timezone distribution in a slack workspace

The Open Green Web

How do I pass keywords in to this query() function in python?

A rough sketch for how mjml and django-mail-builder would work

How big are all the tables in the 'public' schema in postgres

how should I mock and patch this?

puzzling over something simple in Vue

Is there a nice way to do this in python?

why do I keep getting old and busted pip and setuptools versions?

Y U NO SEE TABLEZ IN DATABASE

Messing around and using AWS Lambda wrong. These are the settings I got working in the end. I'm tired, and almost definitely using Whitenoise wrong

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I'm giving a talk later this week at a Dat Meetup, so I figured I'd dump this here, get some feedback then put together a deck for Thursday, once I've had a chance to think it over.

A few functions I've used for importing photos that were previously in a huge mess of nested folders

reviewing the polarbear book

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Getting pointers on updating a deploy role for ansible

Why would `mysql_root_password` not be defined here? As far as I can tell, I'm following the ansible var discovery rules

see also - http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

UK govcamp slackin notes

I don't know how I managed to wipe out the ability to select text in this map, but I have. Try clicking a country, then highlighting the "Policies and Interventions" text. Line 130 in d3_map.js seems to be the culprit. Gold star to anyone who can help get to the bottom of this.

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A properly jank-o script for uploading a static site to greenqloud. Used to get my company site online

this is probably out of date

why wouldn't the file specificed by `creates` be created when the command runs successfully?

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It turns out sending notifications to slack trivial to do. This pleases me

How do I avoid long lines like this in an ansible inventory, for inventory specific values?

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Can you travel on Deutsche Bahn trains without needing to print the tickets on paper?

How to use s3cmd with Greenqloud instead of AWS

strange wordpress routing behaviour

A list of things we need to get another instance of the amee platform up online

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virtual environments with python and fish

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Good arcade sticks for Street Fighter

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this is hopefully an idiot simple example for fish shell. I'm trying to use this script (https://gist.github.com/burke/5066634) to get boxen, rbenv, and fish playing nicely with each other. I'm approaching the point where I can no longer be arsed with all of this.

Example of generating CSV files from python

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Hackney cycling brief

Pattern for getting ands setting variables across environments with Drupal and PHP. Trying to reconcile with a twelve factor approach, and Drupal's insistence on storing things in a database at any given opportunity.

How to get a spreadsheet/csv friendly list of 'yes' RSVPs using meetup.com

What fields do we REALLY need then?

This is a companion gist for an issue I raised on the cloudfoundry-vagrant repo, created by @andreacampi.

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I'm really struggling with running a simple test asyncronously with should.js, and node-redis.

Tying together sendgrid and kissmetrics

Doing something absurdly simple in Jade that surely shouldn't take more than 3 minutes, based on reading jade docs here - http://naltatis.github.com/jade-syntax-docs/

automated trolling with twillio

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Working hello world example for rspec and sinatra now

patch devise to be better, Chrir

A reformatted gist of the "Potential solution to bar chart values" post for flot

Looking for more people to code Ruby in a funded, established, sciencey environmental startup in London

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My friend, Cyndi at Worn Again set this supply chain based challenge for the London Green Hackathon.

How can I see which exception was raised in the rescue block in this method?

Why would bundler keep asking me to install a gem that's already installed?

Using webmock and VCR together

does this work for you? It bloody well doesn't for me

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attributes_not_being_assigned

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Rake example for making a migration script

example selenium php script

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A support gist for an issue raised on github

Headshift PHP test

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topfunky's latest changes to the peepopen plugin

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I can't work our why this simple sql query is returning false.

php files keep being downloaded like binaries. Why would this be?

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The last commit here, eb5251 has the diff between the default textmate html grammar, and the updated one to allow folding text on php arrays. If you work with Drupal, it's a life saver

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This a quick script adapted from a friend to expedite the process of downloaidng mp3 mixtape files on pages

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