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@codiez
codiez / itunes_notifications.py
Created December 20, 2009 20:14
Listen for distributed notifications from iTunes of the current song
'''
This python script listens for distributed notifications from iTunes of new songs playing,
works alot better then constantly polling.
'''
import Foundation
from AppKit import *
from PyObjCTools import AppHelper
class GetSongs(NSObject):
def getMySongs_(self, song):
@mikeyk
mikeyk / redis_session_backend.py
Created April 8, 2011 18:01
A redis backend for Django Sessions, tested on Django 1.3+
from django.contrib.sessions.backends.base import SessionBase, CreateError
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
import redis
class SessionStore(SessionBase):
""" Redis store for sessions"""
def __init__(self, session_key=None):
self.redis = redis.Redis(
@kennethreitz
kennethreitz / 0_urllib2.py
Created May 16, 2011 00:17
urllib2 vs requests
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2
gh_url = 'https://api.github.com'
req = urllib2.Request(gh_url)
password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
#! /usr/bin/env python
import fileinput
import argparse
from operator import itemgetter
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--target-mb', action = 'store', dest = 'target_mb', default = 61000, type = int)
parser.add_argument('vmtouch_output_file', action = 'store', nargs = '+')
args = parser.parse_args()
@jaysonrowe
jaysonrowe / FizzBuzz.js
Created January 11, 2012 01:39
FizzBuzz JavaScript solution
for (var i=1; i <= 20; i++)
{
if (i % 15 == 0)
console.log("FizzBuzz");
else if (i % 3 == 0)
console.log("Fizz");
else if (i % 5 == 0)
console.log("Buzz");
else
console.log(i);
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@alotaiba
alotaiba / google_speech2text.md
Created February 3, 2012 13:20
Google Speech To Text API

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

@oodavid
oodavid / README.md
Created March 26, 2012 17:05
Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

@ruckus
ruckus / gist:2293434
Created April 3, 2012 16:36
Basic setup of WAL-E for continuous archiving and recovery

WAL-E needs to be installed on all machines, masters and slaves.

How to install WAL-E

Only one machine, the master, writes WAL segments via continuous archiving. The configuration for the master postgresql.conf is:

archive_mode = on
archive_command = 'envdir /etc/wal-e.d/env wal-e wal-push %p'
archive_timeout = 60
@jlong
jlong / uri.js
Created April 20, 2012 13:29
URI Parsing with Javascript
var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";
parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port; // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search; // => "?search=test"
parser.hash; // => "#hash"
parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"