premek

# Put this function to your .bashrc file.
# Usage: mv oldfilename
# If you call mv without the second parameter it will prompt you to edit the filename on command line.
# Original mv is called when it's called with more than one argument.
# It's useful when you want to change just a few letters in a long name.
#
# Also see:
# - imv from renameutils
# - Ctrl-W Ctrl-Y Ctrl-Y (cut last word, paste, paste)

gruber

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder

use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
use open  IO  => ":utf8",		# UTF8 by default
		  ":std";				# Apply to STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR

alunny

#!/bin/bash
while true
do
    curl http://eztv.it | grep "href=\"\/ep\/.*\/masterchef"

    if [ $? -ne 0 ]
    then
        echo "not found at `date`"
        sleep 30
    else

bensheldon

Optimizing Rails Static Assets on Heroku Cedar

Serving Rails static assets is hard, especially on Heroku Cedar where Heroku forces Rails to serve static assets itself (which isn't particularly performant nor worth your dyno-dollar)---this is different than Heroku Bamboo which used Varnish and is no more. To make the best of the situation, I highly recomend:

1. Using the Heroku-Deflater gem which will selectively gzips assets (it gzips text-based files; and excludes images or binary files, which can actually be bigger when gzipped)

2. Configure your production environment to set cache-control headers and get out of denial about how static assets are being served on Heroku Cedar

3. Use AWS Cloudfront (or a CDN of your choosing) to serve the assets. Cloudfront is great because you can use the same Distribution

pvh

A Beastiary of Badassery
-

SQLisms
--
WITH
arrays and unnest
window functions
JSON
row types

danparsons

How to stream the London 2012 Olympics

There have been several HOWTOs posted regarding streaming the 2012 Olympics using HTTP / SOCKS proxies via SSH and other similar methods. None of these actually work using the latest Flash on Mountain Lion (with Firefox, Chrome or Safari). Additionally, the third-party streaming sites don't provide BBC's amazing interface, which lets you quickly skip to individual competitors and events. However, setting up an OpenVPN server does work, with some tweaks. You'll get the exact same UX that people in England receive.

• Get a Linode VM in the UK. The 512MB server for $20 works just fine. (If you want to use my referral link, go for it: http://bit.ly/OuzdVe)

• Follow the standard OpenVPN installation documentation. (Basically, 'apt-get install openvpn' or 'yum install openvpn' and then follow these docs: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html). For an OS X client, I prefer Viscosity: http://www.thesparklabs

evanbeard

class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController
  
  respond_to :json
  def create

    user = User.new(params[:user])
    if user.save
      render :json=> user.as_json(:auth_token=>user.authentication_token, :email=>user.email), :status=>201
      return
    else

jlong

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"

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

davatron5000

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 5,676
• Octopress 2,696
• Middleman 685
• NestaCMS 664
• Statis 509
• Nanoc 355