zmaril

I want to write software that helps kill people.

Please, before you call the police and get my github account put on lockdown, allow me a moment to explain. What I really want to do is work on projects that advance the human condition and improve people's lives. I've been in a mad dash to learn how to program for the past four or five years exactly because I realized how much good I could do for the world with a computer.

jareware

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

malarkey

When times get tough and people get nasty, you’ll need more than a killer smile. You’ll need a killer contract.

Used by 1000s of designers and developers Clarify what’s expected on both sides Helps build great relationships between you and your clients Plain and simple, no legal jargon Customisable to suit your business Used on countless web projects since 2008

…………………………

imathis

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rintaun

<?php
/**
 * Converts any valid PHP callable into a Closure. Requires PHP 5.4.0+.
 *
 * The ramifications of this are many, but basically it means that any function
 * or method can be converted into a Closure, bound to another scope, and
 * executed easily. Works properly even with private methods.
 *
 * - On success, returns a Closure corresponding to the provided callable.
 * - If the parameter is not callable, issues an E_USER_WARNING and returns a

jasonrudolph

# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r

splaspood

cfg.parser () {
    fixed_file=$(cat $1 | sed 's/ = /=/g')  # fix ' = ' to be '='
    IFS=$'\n' && ini=( $fixed_file )              # convert to line-array
    ini=( ${ini[*]//;*/} )                   # remove comments
    ini=( ${ini[*]/#[/\}$'\n'cfg.section.} ) # set section prefix
    ini=( ${ini[*]/%]/ \(} )                 # convert text2function (1)
    ini=( ${ini[*]/=/=\( } )                 # convert item to array
    ini=( ${ini[*]/%/ \)} )                  # close array parenthesis
    ini=( ${ini[*]/%\( \)/\(\) \{} )         # convert text2function (2)
    ini=( ${ini[*]/%\} \)/\}} )              # remove extra parenthesis

jjarmoc

#Handy functions for .bashrc loading.
#
# $ atoi 192.168.1.1
# 3232235777
# $ itoa 3232235777
# 192.168.1.1


function atoi
{

haschek

/*

SCSS Color Methods for Accessibility
================================================================================

Adjust given colors to ensure that those color combination provide sufficient
contrast.

@version 0.1
@link http://eye48.com/go/scsscontrast

matthewmccullough

for t in `git tag`
do
    git push origin :$t
    git tag -d $t
done