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aaronmccall / README.md
Created January 4, 2012 00:54
Convention-based nginx+django dev environment bootstrapping for Mac OS

Conventions

dev_env.sh

  • Groks nginx installed via MacPorts or Homebrew (/opt/local or /usr/local)
  • Follows the Ubuntu sites-available/sites-enabled convention

runserver.sh

  • Expects top-level project folders to exist in ~/Sites
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aaronmccall / most_used_commands.txt
Created December 31, 2011 19:43
My most popular shell commands
history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r
95 node
82 git
37 ./manage.py
35 ls
35 cd
25 pip
22 jshint
18 brew
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aaronmccall / zippy.html
Created November 12, 2011 02:39
One approach to reducing data over the wire...
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Zippy Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="zippy.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
console.profile();
var kv_str = 'foo,bar,baz|1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9',
zippy_list = string_to_zippy(kv_str, true),
zippy_json = JSON.stringify(zippy_list);
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aaronmccall / set-timeout-incrementer.js
Created October 14, 2011 04:05
// How to create a setTimeout-based incrementer that is self-calling
(function() {
var i = 0;
function incrementer(undefined) {
if (i !== undefined && i < 10) {
i++;
console.log('i is %s', i);
setTimeout(incrementer, 500);
}
}
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aaronmccall / placeholder.js
Created January 4, 2011 22:45
shim for browsers that don't support the html5 placeholder attribute
setup_placeholders = (function() {
$.support.placeholder = false;
test = document.createElement('input');
if('placeholder' in test) {
$.support.placeholder = true;
return function() {}
} else {
return function(){