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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

cmdoptesc

// Express CORS middleware.. so much easier than trying to get Restify to work

var allowCrossDomain = function(req, res, next) {
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,PUT,POST,DELETE');
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'X-Requested-With, Accept, Origin, Referer, User-Agent, Content-Type, Authorization');
 
  // intercept OPTIONS method
  if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
    res.send(200);

rgs

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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sebble

#!/bin/bash

USER=${1:-sebble}

STARS=$(curl -sI https://api.github.com/users/$USER/starred?per_page=1|egrep '^Link'|egrep -o 'page=[0-9]+'|tail -1|cut -c6-)
PAGES=$((658/100+1))

echo You have $STARS starred repositories.
echo

joshbuchea

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

francoisromain

#!/bin/bash

# source: https://gist.github.com/francoisromain/58cabf43c2977e48ef0804848dee46c3
# and another script to delete the directories created by this script
# project-delete.sh: https://gist.github.com/francoisromain/e28069c18ebe8f3244f8e4bf2af6b2cb

# Call this file with `bash ./project-create.sh project-name`
# - project-name is mandatory

# This will creates 4 directories and a git `post-receive` hook.

othmanoss

{
  "Afghan": "أفغاني",
  "Albanian": "ألباني",
  "Algerian": "جزائري",
  "American": "أمريكي",
  "Andorran": "أندوري",
  "Angolan": "أنغولي",
  "Antiguans": "انتيغوا",
  "Argentinean": "أرجنتيني",
  "Armenian": "أرميني",

LayZeeDK

baiwfg2

The initial source comes from sdcuike/issueBlog#4

http://greenteapress.com/wp/

https://papers.nips.cc

https://github.com/PacktPublishing free to download books code by Packet

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books Very immense