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@Delaire
Delaire / CoreTools.cs
Last active June 17, 2025 08:49
UWP, C# - Retrieve the redirect url using HttpClient from the Headers of the Response - [HttpClient,C#]
public static class CoreTools
{
public static async Task<string> GetRedirectedUrl(string url)
{
//this allows you to set the settings so that we can get the redirect url
var handler = new HttpClientHandler()
{
AllowAutoRedirect = false
};
string redirectedUrl = null;
@davidfowl
davidfowl / HostedService.cs
Created July 17, 2017 09:31
A base class that allows writing a long running background task in ASP.NET Core 2.0
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
namespace WebApplication24
{
public abstract class HostedService : IHostedService
@codediodeio
codediodeio / index.js
Created June 28, 2017 15:54
Firebase Cloud Functions image thumbnail generator using Sharp for 4x faster resizing
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const gcs = require('@google-cloud/storage')();
const sharp = require('sharp')
const _ = require('lodash');
const path = require('path');
const os = require('os');
exports.generateThumbnail = functions.storage.object('uploads/{imageId}').onChange(event => {
const object = event.data; // The Storage object.
@jokertarot
jokertarot / clfontpng.cc
Created November 21, 2013 15:43
How to render color emoji font with FreeType 2.5
// = Requirements: freetype 2.5, libpng, libicu, libz, libzip2
// = How to compile:
// % export CXXFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags freetype2 libpng`
// % export LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs freetype2 libpng`
// % clang++ -o clfontpng -static $(CXXFLAGS) clfontpng.cc $(LDFLAGS) \
// -licuuc -lz -lbz2
#include <cassert>
#include <cctype>
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>
@btmills
btmills / insert_pool.js
Last active July 22, 2019 00:52
Use a connection pool to rapidly insert a large number of records into a RethinkDB database.
var r = require('rethinkdb');
// How many connections in the pool?
// 2547 will fail with "(libuv) Failed to create kqueue (24)"
var CONNECTIONS = 2546;
// Insert this many rows
var COUNT = 10000;
// Database to use for the test
var DB = 'test'
// Table to use for the test
@karmi
karmi / movie-titles.rb
Created January 13, 2013 20:42
Multiple analyzers and query fields in Elasticsearch for auto-completion
require 'tire'
# Tire.configure { logger STDERR, level: 'debug' }
Tire.index('movie-titles') do
delete
create \
settings: {
index: {
analysis: {