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danielpcox / wp_downloader.rb
Created January 17, 2012 22:57
Quick-and-dirty script to download and stitch together the Washington Post, sans Sports.
#!/home/danielpcox/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/bin/ruby
# ############# The Washington Post Downloader #############
#
# Downloads and merges the day's Epaper into three sections. Ignores the Sports section.
# (requires pdftk, wget, and the nokogiri gem)
require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'
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danielpcox / Gemfile
Created February 12, 2012 23:08
A minimal Sinatra app deployable to Heroku.
source :rubygems
gem "sinatra"
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danielpcox / neo4j_shell.sh
Created March 4, 2012 11:13
Runs the neo4j shell
#!/bin/sh
# Set this to your own project directory
PROJECT_DIR=/Users/jim/neo/development/neo4j-tutorial
LIB_DIR=$PROJECT_DIR/lib
java -cp $LIB_DIR/neo4j-jmx.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-community.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-server.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-cypher.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-kernel.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-shell.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-graph-algo.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-lucene-index.jar:$LIB_DIR/lucene-core.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-graph-matching.jar:$LIB_DIR/neo4j-server-static-web.jar:$LIB_DIR/scala-library.jar:$LIB_DIR/geronimo-jta_1.1_spec.jar org.neo4j.shell.StartClient -path $1
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danielpcox / SandboxApp.java
Created May 2, 2012 12:20
Neo4j java-rest-binding bug
public class SandboxApp
{
private static Node node1;
private static RelationshipType relType = DynamicRelationshipType.withName("BEHOLD");
public static void main( String[] args ) throws ParseException, JSONException
{
RestAPI restAPI = new RestAPI("http://localhost:7474/db/data");
node1 = restAPI.createNode(map());
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danielpcox / WITS_TEST.xml
Created May 2, 2012 19:56
Failing Transformation
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="events.xsl"?>
<!-- Or if I remove the namespace attributes on IncidentList, it works. -->
<IncidentList xmlns="http://wits.nctc.gov" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://wits.nctc.gov WITS.XSD">
<Incident>
<ICN>200458431</ICN>
<Subject>10 civilians killed, at least 45 wounded by suspected GAM in Peureulak, Indonesia</Subject>
<Summary>On 1 January 2004, in Peureulak, Aceh Province, Indonesia, a bomb exploded at a concert, killing ten civilians, wounding 45 others, and causing major damage to the stage area. Many of the victims were Indonesian teenagers. Police blamed the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), although the GAM denied responsibility. No other group claimed responsibility.</Summary>
<IncidentDate>01/01/2004</IncidentDate>
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danielpcox / printy.rb
Created May 16, 2012 12:04
Helpful little server for debugging. Spits out everything about an HTTP request made to it.
require 'sinatra'
require 'awesome_print'
get %r{.*} do
puts_env
end
post %r{.*} do
puts_env
end
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danielpcox / readFileAsString.java
Created June 14, 2012 14:16
A little Java snippet for reading a file into a string.
private static String readFileAsString(String filePath)
throws java.io.IOException{
StringBuffer fileData = new StringBuffer(1000);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new FileReader(filePath));
char[] buf = new char[1024];
int numRead=0;
while((numRead=reader.read(buf)) != -1){
String readData = String.valueOf(buf, 0, numRead);
fileData.append(readData);
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danielpcox / gist:2989641
Created June 25, 2012 16:37
Git Presentation

Git Crash Course

Git is a source code management system.

Third Level

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danielpcox / rails_engine.md
Last active December 11, 2015 17:48
Creating a new Rails Engine "blorgh" with RSpec and YARD

Creating a new Rails Engine "blorgh" w/ RSpec + YARD

I did all of the following with Rails 3.2.12 and Bundler 1.3.0 acquired with

$> gem install --version '3.2.12' rails
$> gem install --version '1.3.0' bundler

Start by using Rails' Engine generator with a few options.

$&gt; rails plugin new blorgh --full --dummy-path=spec/dummy \
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danielpcox / merge-remote.sh
Last active December 16, 2015 01:59
Merge the root of a given branch from repository A into a subdirectory of a given branch in the current repository, preserving yet rewriting the history so that it looks as if A had always been developed inside that subdirectory. It also rewrites the tags to point to the new commits, appending the subdirectory name to the tag names to avoid conf…
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# USAGE: merge-remote.sh <subdirectory-name> <new-local-branch-name> <remote-branch-name> <remote-repository-url>
#
# <new-local-branch> will be created it it does not already exist
SUBDIR_NAME=$1
LOCAL_BRANCH=$2
REMOTE_BRANCH=$3
REMOTE_URL=$4