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@kmile
kmile / xml_parser.rb
Created February 15, 2011 12:53
A small nokogiri xml reader DSL.
# A small DSL for helping parsing documents using Nokogiri::XML::Reader. The
# XML Reader is a good way to move a cursor through a (large) XML document fast,
# but is not as cumbersome as writing a full SAX document handler. Read about
# it here: http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/Reader.html
#
# Just pass the reader in this parser and specificy the nodes that you are interested
# in in a block. You can just parse every node or only look inside certain nodes.
#
# A small example:
#
@garyharan
garyharan / _mixins.scss
Created May 5, 2011 15:46
Useful scss mixins (rounded corners, gradients, text-field, button)
@mixin box-shadow($top, $left, $blur, $color, $inset: false) {
@if $inset {
-webkit-box-shadow:inset $top $left $blur $color;
-moz-box-shadow:inset $top $left $blur $color;
box-shadow:inset $top $left $blur $color;
} @else {
-webkit-box-shadow: $top $left $blur $color;
-moz-box-shadow: $top $left $blur $color;
box-shadow: $top $left $blur $color;
}
@stefl
stefl / gist:1062414
Created July 3, 2011 17:45
How to get Padrino, Compass and Heroku working without checking in the resulting css to the git repo
# Enables support for Compass, a stylesheet authoring framework based on SASS.
# See http://compass-style.org/ for more details.
# Store Compass/SASS files (by default) within 'app/stylesheets'
module CompassInitializer
def self.registered(app)
require 'sass/plugin/rack'
Compass.configuration do |config|
config.project_path = Padrino.root
@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

@innotekservices
innotekservices / jquery.spin.js
Created October 16, 2011 02:39
jQuery Plugin for Spin.js
/*
You can now create a spinner using any of the variants below:
$("#el").spin(); // Produces default Spinner using the text color of #el.
$("#el").spin("small"); // Produces a 'small' Spinner using the text color of #el.
$("#el").spin("large", "white"); // Produces a 'large' Spinner in white (or any valid CSS color).
$("#el").spin({ ... }); // Produces a Spinner using your custom settings.
$("#el").spin(false); // Kills the spinner.
@dustMason
dustMason / scorekeeper.rb
Created November 22, 2011 12:51
ScoreKeeper.rb : A quick command-line app written in Ruby for keeping score during Gin Rummy games. Run `ruby scorekeeper.rb` to start the game.
module ScoreKeeper
class Player
attr_accessor :name, :scores
def initialize(name)
@name = name
@scores = []
end
def <<(points)
@scores << points
@coreyhaines
coreyhaines / .rspec
Last active April 11, 2024 00:19
Active Record Spec Helper - Loading just active record
--colour
-I app
@jonathanmoore
jonathanmoore / gist:2640302
Created May 8, 2012 23:17
Get the share counts from various APIs

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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@yocontra
yocontra / EventEmitter.coffee
Created May 20, 2012 19:57
Tiny browser/node EventEmitter implementation in coffeescript
class EventEmitter
constructor: ->
@events = {}
emit: (event, args...) ->
return false unless @events[event]
listener args... for listener in @events[event]
return true
addListener: (event, listener) ->
@pirj
pirj / 001_create_account.rb
Created July 4, 2012 08:30
Padrino authentication
migration 1, :create_accounts do
up do
create_table :accounts do
column :id, Integer, :serial => true
column :name, String
column :surname, String
column :email, String
column :crypted_password, String, :length => 64
column :role, String
end