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dandrews / qr_codify.py
Created March 6, 2013 19:55 — forked from zacharyvoase/qr_codify.py
import sys
import subprocess
import tempfile
import urllib
text = sys.stdin.read()
chart_url_template = ('http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?'
'cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl={data}&chld=H|0')
chart_url = chart_url_template.format(data=urllib.quote(text))
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dandrews / heroku-htaccess.md
Created May 13, 2013 05:08 — forked from bbrewer97202/heroku-htaccess.md

Create an .htaccess file in the webroot:

AuthUserFile /app/www/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Access"
Require valid-user

Create a .htpasswd file:

htpasswd -c /app/www/.htpasswd [username]

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dandrews / gist:5581242
Created May 15, 2013 02:22 — forked from anonymous/gist:5573439
'''
odds of winning: .5776398
odds of losing: .4223602
odds of winning game after winning 1: 23/34 .67647059
odds of winning game after winning 2: 15/23 .65217391
odds of winning game after winning 3: 9/15 .60000000
odds of winning game after winning 4: 7/9 .77777778
odds of winning game after winning 5: 3/7 .42857143
odds of winning game after winning 6: 2/3 .66666667
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dandrews / gist:5581244
Created May 15, 2013 02:22 — forked from anonymous/gist:5573416
import urllib2
url='http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/2012.shtml'
q=urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
current = None
previous = [0,0]
streak=['type', 0]
allstreak=[]
a=q.rsplit('ATL (')
for b in a:
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dandrews / urbanspoon_reservations.rb
Created August 5, 2013 15:56 — forked from diogomonica/urbanspoon_reservations.rb
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
FIRST_NAME = 'FIRST_NAME'
LAST_NAME = 'LAST_NAME'
PHONE = 'PHONE'
EMAIL = 'EMAIL@provider.com'
PARTY_SIZE = 2
SCHEDULE_RANGE = { :start_time => '19:00', :end_time => '20:30' }
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dandrews / hashtagify.py
Created September 19, 2013 15:38 — forked from shlomibabluki/hashtagify.py
# coding=UTF-8
from __future__ import division
import nltk
from collections import Counter
# This is a simple tool for adding automatic hashtags into an article title
# Created by Shlomi Babluki
# Sep, 2013
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dandrews / init.el
Created October 22, 2013 14:39 — forked from mig/init.el
;; emacs configuration
(push "/usr/local/bin" exec-path)
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d")
(setq make-backup-files nil)
(setq auto-save-default nil)
(setq-default tab-width 2)
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
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dandrews / gist:7990122
Created December 16, 2013 16:44 — forked from masonforest/gist:4048732

Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.

Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.

  1. Get an OAuth Token from GitHub

First you will need to get an OAuth Token from GitHub using your own username and "note"

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dandrews / inline_svg_helper.rb
Created February 4, 2014 00:20 — forked from tomeara/inline_svg_helper.rb
# Put this method in your helper file to render inline SVG
def inline_svg(path)
file = File.open("app/assets/images/#{path}", "rb")
raw file.read
end
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dandrews / Inline SVG on Rails.md
Created February 4, 2014 00:32 — forked from adamjmurray/Inline SVG on Rails.md

I wanted to use inline SVG in a rails app. Two steps were needed to enable this:

  1. Set content type to application/xhtml+xml. I enabled this globally by adding this to application_controller.rb

     before_filter{ response.content_type = 'application/xhtml+xml' }

  2. Indicate we're using XHTML in the <html> tag. I enabled this globally in application.html.erb: