vanpelt

#Tools Engineer

CrowdFlower is funded, growing, and, frankly, where the action is at in San Francisco. As our client base continues to grow, we need you to make sure their projects go smoothly.

Skills that are a must

Startup: You're able to learn quickly, design creative solutions, and work independently.

People: As a tools engineer you’ll work with lots of people—both technical and non-technical.

tomash

# Returns a randomly generated sentence of lorem ipsum text.
# The first word is capitalized, and the sentence ends in either a period or
# question mark. Commas are added at random.
def sentence
  # Determine the number of comma-separated sections and number of words in
  # each section for this sentence.
  sections = []
  1.upto(rand(5)+1) do
    sections << (WORDS.sort_by{rand}.slice(0...(rand(9)+3)).join(" "))

peterc

# Basic Ruby code to read and write ".webloc" files (as used on OS X)
# Reads both "old" Safari style and newer plist style
# Writes "old" style only
# Works on Ruby 1.9.2 and 1.8.7

require 'plist'

class Webloc
  attr_accessor :url

raphael

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruote'
require 'flexmock'
require 'spec'

# Workitem fields validation
# This participant validates the fields of the current workitem 
# Especially useful to validate the initial workitem
# An input definition may include the following:
#   - name: Input name, compulsory

heisters

set nocompatible          " We're running Vim, not Vi!
set hidden
set title
set list
set listchars=tab:»·,trail:·
"set ai sw=2 sts=2 et
set t_Co=256              " lots of colors
set incsearch
syntax on
set scrolloff=2           " make it scroll before I hit the edge

coffeeaddict

Setup

This is my ruote / ruote-kit setup in non Rails project

A Project Module

I tend to have a Project Module for my non-web projects; so that instead of calling Rails.logger I call Project.logger (Where Project would be the actual name, Such as Fubar or SameOld) same goes for ruote. It mostly ends-up in Project.engine where the code would look something like this:

rsms

Life is purposeless. And it is beautiful that it is purposeless

It is very difficult, particularly for the Western mind, to understand that life is purposeless. And it is beautiful that it is purposeless. If it is purposeful then the whole thing becomes absurd – then who will decide the purpose? Then some God has to be conceived who decides the purpose, and then human beings become just puppets; then no freedom is possible. And if there is some purpose then life becomes businesslike, it cannot be ecstatic.

The West has been thinking in terms of purpose, but the East has been thinking in terms of purposelessness. The East says life is not a business, it is a play. And a play has no purpose really, it is nonpurposeful. Or you can say play is its own purpose, to play is enough. Life is not reaching towards some goal, life itself is the goal. It is not evolving towards some ultimate; this very moment, here and now, life is ultimate.

Life as it is, is accepted in the East. It is not moving towards some end, b

caruccio

$ FILE=/some/path/to/file.txt

###################################
### Remove matching suffix pattern
###################################

$ echo ${FILE%.*}          # remove ext 
/some/path/to/file

$ FILE=/some/path/to/file.txt.jpg.gpg    # note various file exts

henrik

1. Your class can be no longer than 100 lines of code.
2. Your methods can be no longer than five lines of code.
3. You can pass no more than four parameters and you can’t just make it one big hash.
4. When a call comes into your Rails controller, you can only instantiate one object to do whatever it is that needs to be done. And your view can only know about one instance variable.

You can break these rules if you can talk your pair into agreeing with you.

eddiemoore

//Based on http://www.samliew.com/icval/
function validateNRIC(str) {
    if (str.length != 9) 
        return false;

    str = str.toUpperCase();

    var i, 
        icArray = [];
    for(i = 0; i < 9; i++) {