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# Bulk convert shapefiles to geojson using ogr2ogr
# For more information, see http://ben.balter.com/2013/06/26/how-to-convert-shapefiles-to-geojson-for-use-on-github/

# Note: Assumes you're in a folder with one or more zip files containing shape files
# and Outputs as geojson with the crs:84 SRS (for use on GitHub or elsewhere)

#geojson conversion
function shp2geojson() {
  ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -t_srs crs:84 "$1.geojson" "$1.shp"
}

benbalter

Here's an example of how to embed a Gist on GitHub Pages:

{% gist 5555251 %}

All you need to do is copy and paste the Gist's ID from the URL (here 5555251), and add it to a gist tag surrounded by {% and %}.

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<?php

//absolute path to wp-load.php, or relative to this script
//e.g., ../wp-core/wp-load.php
include( 'trunk/wp-load.php' ); 

//grab the WPDB database object, using WP's database
//more info: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb
global $wpdb;

benbalter

Let's say your Jekyll site's directory structure looks like:

|-- _config.yml
|-- _drafts/
|   |-- a-draft-post.md
|-- _layouts/
|   |-- default.html
|-- _posts/
| |-- 2013-05-10-a-published-post

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<?php

$lines = explode( "\n", file_get_contents( 'input.csv' ) );
$headers = str_getcsv( array_shift( $lines ) );
$data = array();
foreach ( $lines as $line ) {

	$row = array();

	foreach ( str_getcsv( $line ) as $key => $field )

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org="whitehouse"
for repo in $(curl -v -s "https://api.github.com/orgs/$org/repos?per_page=100&type=sources" 2>&1 | grep '"full_name": "*"' | cut -d':' -f2 | sed s'/,$//' | sed s'/"//g' ); do
  filename=$(echo "$repo" | cut -d'/' -f2)
  echo "Downloading $repo..."
  curl -o "$filename.zip" -L "https://github.com/$repo/archive/master.zip"
done

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# regex to match government emails. Should detect:
# foo.gov, foo.mil
# foo.gov.uk, foo.mil.uk
# foo.fed.us
# foo.govt.nz, foo.gc.ca, foo.guv.ro, gub.uy
# note: foo.gouvt, foo.gc, foo.fed.uk, etc. will technically pass, but they are invalid domains
regex = /(\.g[ou]{1,2}(v|b|vt)|\.mil|\.gc|\.fed)(\.[a-z]{2})?$/i

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If your post looked something like:

# Awesome Blog Post

Here is an example post to show how to use the new `excerpt` tag.

The excerpt tag provides a quick and easy way to tease a post by exposing only the first paragraph such as on a blog index page.

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-- List of app store apps to install, if not installed
-- Name must exactly match name as it appears on the "Purchased" tab of the App Store
set myApps to {"Chroma for Hue", "Pushbullet", "Thessa", "TweeDeck by Twitter", "Calca", "Gif Brewery", "Twitter"}

-- via http://stackoverflow.com/a/3469708
on FileExists(theFile) -- (String) as Boolean
	tell application "System Events"
		if exists file theFile then
			return true
		else

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mkdir target-repo
cd target-repo
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com...
git remote add upstream git@github.com....
git fetch upstream
git pull upstream master
git push origin master

Alternative: