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#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, os, subprocess

launch = True
blocker = ""

apps = ["Vox", "VLC"]

ps = subprocess.Popen("/bin/ps -x", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'active_record'

configure do
  
  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
    :adapter => 'sqlite3',
    :database => 'asides.sqlite3')
  

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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script> 
<script>!window.jQuery && document.write(unescape('%3Cscript src="/public/scripts/libs/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"%3E%3C/script%3E'))</script>

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/*
 * Set LED brightness by serial write
 * An Arduino experiment
 * by Brian Morton
 */
 
int ledPin = 9;
int brightness = 0;

void setup() {

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4 iPhone libraries to make your first iPhone app experience better

I've dabbled in countless iPhone examples, demo apps, and personal hacks. I've watched almost every WWDC session and iTunes U video about iOS. I constantly download apps from the App Store when I hear they do something cool or if they visually impress me. I feed off the libraries listed in others' legal sections listing out their licenses and attributing credit where credit is due.

And now I'm working on my first official, commercially-backed app. And it's not easy. Luckily, I've got somewhere to start. Plenty of people have solved the problems I've encountered. I can't even begin to thank them enough, but this is my attempt to give them the credit they deserve and spread the word on some great open source projects.

ASIHTTPRequest from All-Seeing Interactive

I've found that communicating with an API in an iPhone app requires a bit more than Apple provides in its base frameworks. ASIHTTPRequest fills that gap and provides a wrapper

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require 'net/http'
module Net
  class HTTP
    def self.enable_debug!
      raise "You don't want to do this in anything but development mode!" unless Rails.env == 'development'
      class << self
        alias_method :__new__, :new
        def new(*args, &blk)
          instance = __new__(*args, &blk)
          instance.set_debug_output($stderr)

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module ApiPageHelper
  PAGINATE_OPTIONS = {
    :default_page_size => 10
  }
  PAGINATE_PARAMS = [ "page", "offset", "size" ]
  def paginate(coll, options = {})
    options = PAGINATE_OPTIONS.merge(options)
    if params[:page]
      page = params[:page].to_i
      size = (params[:size] || options[:default_page_size]).to_i

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// as NSObject
RKObjectMapping* mapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[TestMappable class]]; 
[mapping mapKeyPath:@"numbers" toAttribute:@"orderedSet"]; 
TestMappable* object = [[[TestMappable alloc] init] autorelease]; 

id<RKParser> parser = [[RKParserRegistry sharedRegistry] parserForMIMEType:@"application/json"]; 
id data = [parser objectFromString:@"{\"numbers\":[1, 2, 3]}" error:nil]; 

RKObjectMappingOperation* operation = [[RKObjectMappingOperation alloc] initWithSourceObject:data destinationObject:object mapping:mapping]; 
BOOL success = [operation performMapping:nil]; 

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# needs the "hashie" gem in Gemfile
require 'erb'

module Movies
  class Application < Rails::Application

    # read from "settings.yml" and optional "settings.local.yml"
    settings = ERB.new(IO.read(File.expand_path('../settings.yml', __FILE__))).result
    mash = Hashie::Mash.new(YAML::load(settings)[Rails.env.to_s])
    

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Install ruby-debug19 with ruby 1.9.3

Download the following gems from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=8883

• linecache19-0.5.13.gem

• ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem

  gem install ~/Downloads/linecache19-0.5.13.gem

You need to point to the directory with the Ruby header files (specifically method.h) and pass it with the gem install command. Should look something like: