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PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active November 21, 2024 13:44
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

@Chaser324
Chaser324 / GitHub-Forking.md
Last active November 14, 2024 08:32
GitHub Standard Fork & Pull Request Workflow

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

@bminer
bminer / express_sessions_socket.io.js
Created September 13, 2011 02:51
Accessing/Manipulating Session Data in Socket.IO (Express + Sessions + Socket.IO)
var express = require('express');
var RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(express);
express.socketio = require('socket.io');
var app = express.createServer();
app.configure(function() {
app.use(express.cookieParser() );
app.sessionStore = new express.session.MemoryStore(); //Not recommended for production use
app.use(express.session({
/* by Dmitry A. Soshnikov */
var object = (function () {
// private
var _x = 10;
// also private
function _privateFunc() {
return _x;