ahmed-musallam

How to compress PDF using ghostscript

As a developer, it bothers me when someone sends me a large pdf file compared to the number of pages. Recently, I recieved a 12MB scanned document for just one letter-sized page... so I got to googlin, like I usually do, and found ghostscript!

to learn more abot ghostscript (gs): https://www.ghostscript.com/

What we are interested in, is the gs command line tool, which provides many options for manipulating PDF, but we are interested in compressign those large PDF's into small yet legible documents.

credit goes to this answer on askubuntu forum: https://askubuntu.com/questions/3382/reduce-filesize-of-a-scanned-pdf/3387#3387?newreg=bceddef8bc334e5b88bbfd17a6e7c4f9

sirodoht

How to migrate Django from SQLite to PostgreSQL

Dump existing data:

python3 manage.py dumpdata > datadump.json

Change settings.py to Postgres backend.

Make sure you can connect on PostgreSQL. Then:

paceaux

Tiny rules for how to name stuff

CSS

How to name CSS classes

Stateful Class names

Is it a state that is only one of two conditions? (i.e. a boolean)

alekseykulikov

Recently CSS has got a lot of negativity. But I would like to defend it and show, that with good naming convention CSS works pretty well.

My 3 developers team has just developed React.js application with 7668 lines of CSS (and just 2 !important). During one year of development we had 0 issues with CSS. No refactoring typos, no style leaks, no performance problems, possibly, it is the most stable part of our application.

Here are main principles we use to write CSS for modern (IE11+) browsers:

• SUIT CSS naming conventions + SUIT CSS design principles;
• PostCSS + CSSNext. Future CSS syntax like variables, nesting, and autoprefixer are good enough;
• Flexbox is awesome. No need for grid framework;
• Normalize.css, base styles and variables are solid foundation for all components;

hmbilal

Then in your controller, inject $polling and start polling like this.

General use

$polling.startPolling({name_of_this_polling}, {url_to_fetch_data_from}, {time_in_milli_seconds}, {callback});

Example,

$polling.startPolling('fetchNotifications', 'http://localserver.local/fetch/notifications', 10000, $scope.processData);

Yawning

// To the extent possible under law, the Yawning Angel has waived all copyright
// and related or neighboring rights to orhttp_example, using the creative
// commons "cc0" public domain dedication. See LICENSE or
// <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> for full details.

package main

import (
	// Things needed by the actual interface.
	"golang.org/x/net/proxy"

mpasternacki

FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

indraniel

/*
   This is a go program to download pictures from a tumblr blog page.

   To Build:

       go build -o tumblr-download tumblr-download.go

   To Run:

       # download the photos on the first page of tumblr blog

sevcsik

They say that one of the pros of NodeJS is that you use the same language on the back-end and the front-end, so it's easy to share code between them. This sounds great in theory, but in practice the synchronous dependency handling in NodeJS works completely different than any client-side frameworks (which are asynchronous).

Usually that means that you end up copy-pasting your code between your NodeJS sources and your client-side sources, or you use some tool like Browserify, which is brilliant, but they add an extra step in the build process and most likely will conflict with the dependency handling of the framework of your choice (like AnularJS DI). I couldn't look in the mirror if I would call that code sharing.

Fortunately, with a couple of lines of boilerplate code, you can write a module which works in NodeJS and AngularJS as well without any modification.

No globals in the front-end, and dependencies will work. The isNode and isAngular va

kevin-smets

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