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yorkxin / avoid-jquery-when-possible.md
Created July 7, 2012 13:04
Avoid jQuery When Possible

Avoid jQuery When Possible

jQuery does good jobs when you're dealing with browser compatibility. But we're living in an age that fewer and fewer people use old-school browsers such as IE <= 7. With the growing of DOM APIs in modern browsers (including IE 8), most functions that jQuery provides are built-in natively.

When targeting only modern browsers, it is better to avoid using jQuery's backward-compatible features. Instead, use the native DOM API, which will make your web page run much faster than you might think (native C / C++ implementaion v.s. JavaScript).

If you're making a web page for iOS (e.g. UIWebView), you should use native DOM APIs because mobile Safari is not that old-school web browser; it supports lots of native DOM APIs.

If you're making a Chrome Extension, you should always use native APIs, not only because Chrome has almost the latest DOM APIs available, but this can also avoid performance issue and unnecessary memory occupation (each jQuery-driven extension needs a separate

@ionrock
ionrock / lockfile.py
Created June 29, 2012 04:14
A file locking example
"""
A file lock implementation that tries to avoid platform specific
issues. It is inspired by a whole bunch of different implementations
listed below.
- https://bitbucket.org/jaraco/yg.lockfile/src/6c448dcbf6e5/yg/lockfile/__init__.py
- http://svn.zope.org/zc.lockfile/trunk/src/zc/lockfile/__init__.py?rev=121133&view=markup
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489861/locking-a-file-in-python
- http://www.evanfosmark.com/2009/01/cross-platform-file-locking-support-in-python/
- http://packages.python.org/lockfile/lockfile.html
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active May 7, 2024 02:33
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@winhamwr
winhamwr / awesome_task.py
Created May 17, 2012 16:02
Celery base task that adds some niceties for longish-running or singleton jobs.
"""
Celery base task aimed at longish-running jobs that return a result.
``AwesomeResultTask`` adds thundering herd avoidance, result caching, progress
reporting, error fallback and JSON encoding of results.
"""
from __future__ import division
import logging
import simplejson
@thoas
thoas / puller.py
Created January 10, 2012 15:04
Migration script from MySQL to PostgreSQL via SQLAlchemy
#!/usr/bin/env python
import getopt
import sys
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, MetaData, Table
from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql.base import TINYINT
from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.exc import ProgrammingError
@rolo
rolo / gist:1481128
Created December 15, 2011 13:44
Install Postgres 9.1, PostGIS and create PostGIS template on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
#!/bin/bash
#
# Install Postgres 9.1, PostGIS and create PostGIS template on a clean Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot box
# http://wildfish.com
# add the ubuntu gis ppa
sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
@ryanpitts
ryanpitts / gist:1304725
Created October 21, 2011 19:34
GROUP BY and Select MAX from each group in Django, 2 queries
'''
given a Model with:
category = models.CharField(max_length=32, choices=CATEGORY_CHOICES)
pubdate = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.now)
<other fields>
Fetch the item from each category with the latest pubdate.
'''
@trongthanh
trongthanh / gist:1196596
Created September 6, 2011 04:37
Emulate slow Internet connection speed on localhost with netem (Ubuntu)
#Refer: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem#Delaying_only_some_traffic
#Refer: http://www.bomisofmab.com/blog/?p=100
#Refer: http://drija.com/linux/41983/simulating-a-low-bandwidth-high-latency-network-connection-on-linux/
#Setup the rate control and delay
sudo tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: htb default 12
sudo tc class add dev lo parent 1:1 classid 1:12 htb rate 56kbps ceil 128kbps
sudo tc qdisc add dev lo parent 1:12 netem delay 200ms
#Remove the rate control/delay
sudo tc qdisc del dev lo root
@dstufft
dstufft / gist:997475
Created May 29, 2011 04:48
Configuration Files for Nginx + Gunicorn + Supervisord
We couldn’t find that file to show.
@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(