adelevie

count = PFQuery.queryWithClassName("Noun").countObjects
query = PFQuery.queryWithClassName("Noun")
query.limit = 1
query.skip = rand(count) # for the non-Rubyists, this just finds a random int between 0 and `count`
query.findObjects.first

kamens

function KnowledgeMapInitGlobals() {

    window.KnowledgeMapGlobals = {

        colors: {
            blue: "#0080C9",
            green: "#8EBE4F",
            red: "#E35D04",
            gray: "#FFFFFF"
        },

mattbornski

Goal: To take this: https://graph.facebook.com/105464892820215 And derive this: America/Los Angeles From which we can then derive UTC-0800 or UTC-0700, as appropriate under the daylight madness scheme in effect on the date of interest.

It seems oddly hard to figure out what timezone a given point in space is located in. Looking around, there are only a few APIs which provide this information (http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm#timezone and http://www.worldweatheronline.com/time-zone-api.aspx), and only a few datasets which seem to contain it; most of them are in serious GIS formats, and expect you to query them in some manual fashion using a proprietary GIS tool.

I'm not really interested in that; I want a piece of code I can just ask "what timezone is this in" and get an answer, without installing some huge piece of software I don't have a license to or worrying about rate limits from somebody's API. So I'm going to take a shapefile I found here (http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/) and see if we can

dblock

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