- Github - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo
- Heroku - Infrastructure-as-a-service; recently bought by Salesforce
- Pivotal Labs - Recently started hiring developers in Tokyo; nice Mori Tower office
- Google - Consistently ranked best place in Japan to work; nice Mori Tower office
- Amazon - I THINK they now hire some developers
- Microsoft - English-friendly with chances to speak Japanese; apparently have some interesting projects; nice Shinagawa office
- Kaizen Platform - Pretty awesome company developing A/B testint as a service / analytics services; I think most people there speak English; has an office in San Francisco
- [Treasure Data](https://www.treasureda
CloudFlare is an awesome reverse cache proxy and CDN that provides DNS, free HTTPS (TLS) support, best-in-class performance settings (gzip, SDCH, HTTP/2, sane Cache-Control
and E-Tag
headers, etc.), minification, etc.
- Make sure you have registered a domain name.
- Sign up for CloudFlare and create an account for your domain.
- In your domain registrar's admin panel, point the nameservers to CloudFlare's (refer to this awesome list of links for instructions for various registrars).
- From the CloudFlare settings for that domain, enable HTTPS/SSL and set up a Page Rule to force HTTPS redirects. (If you want to get fancy, you can also enable automatic minification for text-based assets [HTML/CSS/JS/SVG/etc.], which is a pretty cool feature if you don't want already have a build step for minification.)
- If you
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// add to Preferences > Key Bindings - User | |
// see http://stackoverflow.com/a/26619524 for context | |
{ "keys": ["tab"], "command": "expand_abbreviation_by_tab", | |
"context": [ | |
{ | |
"operand": "source.js", | |
"operator": "equal", | |
"match_all": true, | |
"key": "selector" |
(by @andrestaltz)
If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# MIT © Sindre Sorhus - sindresorhus.com | |
# git hook to run a command after `git pull` if a specified file was changed | |
# Run `chmod +x post-merge` to make it executable then put it into `.git/hooks/`. | |
changed_files="$(git diff-tree -r --name-only --no-commit-id ORIG_HEAD HEAD)" | |
check_run() { | |
echo "$changed_files" | grep --quiet "$1" && eval "$2" |
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//Based on http://www.samliew.com/icval/ | |
function validateNRIC(str) { | |
if (str.length != 9) | |
return false; | |
str = str.toUpperCase(); | |
var i, | |
icArray = []; | |
for(i = 0; i < 9; i++) { |
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import random | |
for i in range(0, 100): | |
if not i % 15: | |
random.seed(1178741599) | |
print [i+1, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"][random.randint(0,3)] |