blaix

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

1. Select a particular experience to pursue.
2. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achievement unlocked!)
3. Reflect on that experience. Really soak it in. Maybe a blog post would be in order?
4. Return to Step 1, this time selecting a new experience.

This gist is a fork of the gist from this blog post.

caseyjustus

function median(values) {

    values.sort( function(a,b) {return a - b;} );

    var half = Math.floor(values.length/2);

    if(values.length % 2)
        return values[half];
    else
        return (values[half-1] + values[half]) / 2.0;

jxson

Synopsis

At the top of the file there should be a short introduction and/ or overview that explains what the project is. This description should match descriptions added for package managers (Gemspec, package.json, etc.)

Code Example

Show what the library does as concisely as possible, developers should be able to figure out how your project solves their problem by looking at the code example. Make sure the API you are showing off is obvious, and that your code is short and concise.

Motivation

bradmontgomery

Web Scraping Workshop

Using Requests and Beautiful Soup, with the most recent Beautiful Soup 4 docs.

Getting Started

Install our tools (preferably in a new virtualenv):

pip install beautifulsoup4

jwebcat

wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
# --no-check-cerftificate was necessary for me to have wget not puke about https
curl -LJO https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1

eLindemann

/**
 * "Google Now" Card
 */
body {
	background: #e1e1e1;
	min-height: 100%;
	margin: auto;
}
ul.gNow {
	width: 450px;

seanbuscay

cd repository
git checkout --orphan orphan_name
git rm -rf .
rm '.gitignore'
echo "#Title of Readme" > README.md
git add README.md
git commit -a -m "Initial Commit"
git push origin orphan_name

kerimdzhanov

/**
 * Get a random floating point number between `min` and `max`.
 * 
 * @param {number} min - min number
 * @param {number} max - max number
 * @return {number} a random floating point number
 */
function getRandomFloat(min, max) {
  return Math.random() * (max - min) + min;
}

gitaarik

Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of usecases of submodules:

• Separate big codebases into multiple repositories.

myusuf3

To remove a submodule you need to:

• Delete the relevant section from the .gitmodules file.
• Stage the .gitmodules changes git add .gitmodules
• Delete the relevant section from .git/config.
• Run git rm --cached path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
• Run rm -rf .git/modules/path_to_submodule (no trailing slash).
• Commit git commit -m "Removed submodule "
• Delete the now untracked submodule files rm -rf path_to_submodule