If you want your developers and stuff to be happy please AVOID webex !

Webex is bad service

It has bad International connection. It doesn’t run on linux or unix and can’t be run in a browser. The IOS application is bad and doesn’t integrate with the links. The integration with the website and the calendars is bad. The website is slow and buggy and you can’t see the meeting on which you are invited. It is the worst of the software out there.

Zoom – It is like the webex. They look and feel the same one idea better, because it has client which can run in linux

Good one

https://www.bluejeans.com/ – works perfectly!

http://appear.in – free and great!

One can send a bunch of key => values to zabbix with the zabbix-trapper items.

Using this nice article  as a base I have packed everthing in a class so that you can use it:

Example usage:

values = {
  total_ram: 0,
  wrong_data_center: 0,
  linode_hosts: 0,
  missing_from_zabbix: 0,
  missing_from_graylog: 0,
}

zabbix_sender = ZabbixSender.new(Figaro['zabbix_server'])
zabbix_sender.message('super_druper_hostname', values)

require 'json'

class ZabbixSender

  def initialize zabbix_host
    @zabbix_host = zabbix_host
  end

  def message hostname, values
    values_with_host = with_host(hostname, values)

    params = {
      "request" => "sender data",
      "data" => values_with_host,
    }

    body = JSON.generate params
    data_length = body.bytesize
    data_header = "ZBXD\1".encode("ascii") + \
    [data_length].pack("i") + \
    "\x00\x00\x00\x00"
    data_to_send = data_header + body

    send data_to_send
  end

  private

  def with_host hostname, hash
    values = []

    hash.each_pair do |key, value|
      values << {
        key: key,
        value: value,
        host: hostname,
      }
    end
    values
  end

  def send data_to_send
    socket = TCPSocket.new(@zabbix_host, 10051)
    socket.write data_to_send.to_s
    response_header = socket.recv(5)
    if not response_header == "ZBXD\1"
      puts "response: #{response_header}"
      raise 'Got invalid response'
    end

    response_data_header = socket.recv(8)
    response_length = response_data_header[0,4].unpack("i")[0]
    response_raw = socket.recv(response_length)
    socket.close
    response = JSON.load(response_raw)
  end

end

learn programming

challenges

• https://www.hackerrank.com/contests
• https://codefights.com/challenge/mMdsrajm7T9H87Noc/main
• https://www.codingame.com/
• http://exercism.io/languages
• http://rubyquiz.com/

mentoring

• https://www.codementor.io/tips/6543378221/a-slightly-slimmed-down-version-of-the-official-select2-ajax-example-on-how-to-have-an-ajax-powered-autocomplete-dropdown

Optimizations

• javascript
  • https://github.com/Kikobeats/js-mythbusters
• ruby
  • https://www.rubytapas.com/

Algorithms

• https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-learner-friendly-resources-for-learning-about-algorithms
• https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/learning-paths-data-science-business-analytics-business-intelligence-big-data/
• http://bigocheatsheet.com/
• bulgaria
  • http://cs.maycamp.com/?page_id=83
• линейна алгребра
  • http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html
• курсове
  • http://videolectures.net/mit6046jf05_introduction_algorithms/

Функционално програмиране

• https://github.com/hristozov/fpkn1617

Academies

• https://www.codecademy.com/
• http://exercism.io/
• http://www.codingdojo.com/
• https://egghead.io/
• https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x-0

Online help

• https://www.codementor.io/experts

Conferences

• ruby
  • http://rubyc.eu/

quizes

• https://projecteuler.net/

The world is going crazy. The mysql manual for 5.7.3 is not working.

Here is how to remove the password…

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I notice that a lot of people are writing tons of ifs instead of use the case operator.

The case operator is much more readable. It can do more work than the ifs. And it should be faster by definition. Unfortunately in ruby it is faster only in > 2.x

With case you compare objects and match multiple values.

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https://github.com/karldray/quantum

Valid container names are: [a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]
as pointed here

And probably the valid container names are

hostnameComponentRegexp = match(`(?:[a-z0-9]|[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])`)


as pointed
here

in ‘staging’ file

---
vault_file: 'vault_staging'

in ‘production’ file

---
vault_file: 'vault_production'

in the tasks

- include_vars: "group_vars/{{ vault_file }}"