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elliotcm / bin_travel-advice-pagewatch-disable
Last active January 22, 2016 14:47
Tool to set "autosend" flag for pagewatch in govdelivery.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require_relative "../lib/travel_advice_pagewatch_adjuster"
TravelAdvicePagewatchAdjuster.set_pagewatch_autosend(false)
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elliotcm / gist:6560960
Last active December 23, 2015 01:29
Recommended films for @georgebrock available on Netflix Sverige (according to this list http://netflixswedencompletelist.blogspot.co.uk/).

Weeell there's only two "good" sniper films and you've watched Shooter, the other is Enemy at the Gates unfortunately not on Netflix SE.

You seem to have been watching a lot of action films so here's something else:

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elliotcm / pvavpva_scheduler.rb
Created June 2, 2012 16:51
PvAvPvA film scheduler
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_support/core_ext/numeric'
require 'hirb'; extend Hirb::Console
INTERMISSION = 10.minutes
def print_times_for(films, start_time)
last_end_time = start_time - INTERMISSION
run = films.map do |film|
start_time = last_end_time + INTERMISSION
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elliotcm / gist:2568455
Created May 1, 2012 14:45
Fetch some clock videos
(0..23).each do |hour|
(0..59).step(5) do |minute|
hour = hour.to_s.rjust(2, '0')
minute = minute.to_s.rjust(2, '0')
system "wget -c http://176.9.156.38/big_#{hour}-#{minute}.mp4"
end
end
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elliotcm / gist:2378385
Created April 13, 2012 17:05
Woolwich Wednesday shortlist
Singin' in the Rain
The Empire Strikes Back
Léon
Independence Day
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Long Good Friday
Starship Troopers
Saving Private Ryan
Battle Royale
Blade Runner
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elliotcm / gist:2215878
Created March 27, 2012 13:30
Responsive test bookmarklet
javascript:document.write('%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Chtml%3E%3Chead%3E%3Cmeta%20charset=%22utf-8%22%3E%3Ctitle%3EResponsive%20Design%20Testing%3C/title%3E%3Cstyle%3Ebody%20%7B%20margin:%2020px;%20font-family:%20sans-serif;%20overflow-x:%20scroll;%20%7D.wrapper%20%7B%20width:%206000px;%20%7D.frame%20%7B%20float:%20left;%20%7Dh2%20%7B%20margin:%200%200%205px%200;%20%7Diframe%20%7B%20margin:%200%2020px%2020px%200;%20border:%201px%20solid%20%23666;%20%7D%3C/style%3E%3C/head%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cdiv%20class=%22wrapper%22%3E%3Cdiv%20class=%22frame%22%3E%3Ch2%3E240%3Cspan%3E%20x%20320%3C/span%3E%20%3Csmall%3E(mobile)%3C/small%3E%3C/h2%3E%3Ciframe%20src=%22'%20+%20window.location%20+%20'%22%20sandbox=%22allow-same-origin%20allow-forms%22%20seamless%20width=%22240%22%20height=%22320%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class=%22frame%22%3E%3Ch2%3E320%3Cspan%3E%20x%20480%3C/span%3E%20%3Csmall%3E(mobile)%3C/small%3E%3C/h2%3E%3Ciframe%20src=%22'%20+%20window.location%20+%20'%22%20sandbox=%22allow-same-origin%20allow-forms%22%20s
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elliotcm / gist:2043168
Created March 15, 2012 09:29
Example for preventing double-enhancing of elements
var addressButtons = $('button').filter('.address:not(.enhanced)').addClass('enhanced');
// Do some things with addressButtons
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elliotcm / application_helper.rb
Created January 17, 2012 10:03
The latest weapon in my war against floats.
module ApplicationHelper
def without_spaces(&block)
capture(&block).gsub(/>\s+</, '><').html_safe
end
end
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elliotcm / fetch_bugle.rb
Created December 24, 2011 12:08
A script for archiving all of The Bugle from the Times's hosting.
require 'open-uri'
open('http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/rss/thebuglemp3.rss').each_line do |line|
next unless line =~ /(http.*?\.mp3)/
system "wget #{$1}"
end
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elliotcm / application.rb
Created September 4, 2011 17:32
Insert this into your application.rb Application class to get spans instead of divs in form errors. Rails 3.1.0 version.
# Fuck you and your fucking divs
ActionView::Base.field_error_proc = Proc.new do |html_tag, instance|
include ActionView::Helpers::OutputSafetyHelper
raw %(<span class="field-with-errors">#{html_tag}</span>)
end