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dummy-api

All our techniques are being tested and documented in the repository called dummy-api.

• Set up gruntfile structure
• JSHint / code formatting documentation
• JSHint gruntfile
• Set up documentation with docco
• docco gruntfile
• License template system built

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Build tools -- Make vs Grunt (vs Ant or other options)

We need to make a decision about build tools.

• Make: venerable, but crusty. Dependency model doesn't work for a lot of things (you just have a list of commands). Not effectively cross platform -- Windows users in particular don't work well with make. Bit of a pain to set up but doesn't create additional dependencies. Everyone knows how to do easy stuff, but hard stuff can get really hard and ugly.
• Grunt: the tool of choice for node projects. We're a node project. Cross platform. Pulls in lots of dependencies if you install it locally. Easy to set up the grunt files badly.
• Pure JS scripts -- requires a little more scaffolding to set up; Grunt has that built in. Why bother? (See article below for one person's take on why he bothered.)
• Jake: it's basically trying to do a make-like design but using javascript. Some good ideas, but like make, complex stuff requires a PhD to pull off.
• Ant or Maven or

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import os.path

def dumpVars(r):
    apivars = [(k, type(getattr(r, k))) for k in dir(r) if not k.startswith('_') and not callable(getattr(r, k))]
    values = [(k[0], getattr(r, k[0])) for k in apivars]
    return values
    
print dumpVars(os.path)

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# This is a small program that tests conversion to and from different formats
# and makes sure that numbers that undergo conversion don't lose precision.

import math

# truncates a number to the given number of digits after the decimal
def truncate(x, digits):
    p = math.pow(10, digits)
    return int(x * p)/p

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#! /bin/bash

# Provisioning script for a mongo-backed go server on a vagrant box

echo "install basic requirements"
apt-get --quiet -y update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --quiet -y upgrade
apt-get --quiet -y install build-essential mercurial git curl libssl-dev pkg-config tree mongodb bison make gcc binutils

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# this is extra bash stuff to make things easier to manage

shopt -s histappend
HISTFILESIZE=2000
HISTSIZE=1000

export TERM=xterm-256color
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad

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#################################################################
# Here's a bunch of stuff to do prompts that are sensitive to git and svn

WHT='\e[22;37m'
TEAL='\e[22;36m'
BLK='\e[22;30m'
RED='\e[22;31m'
GRN='\e[22;32m'
YEL='\e[22;33m'
BLU='\e[22;34m'

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type Data struct {
	Data []struct {
		Data struct {
			Stimulus   string `json:"stimulus,omitempty"`
			Template   string `json:"template,omitempty"`
			Type       string `json:"type,omitempty"`
			Validation struct {
				ScoringType   string `json:"scoring_type,omitempty"`
				ValidResponse struct {
					Score int      `json:"score,omitempty"`

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// SanitizeHTML strips html tags, replace common entities
func SanitizeHTML(s string) string {

	output := ""

	// Shortcut strings with no tags in them
	if !strings.ContainsAny(s, "<>") {
		output = s
	} else {

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// This file isn't really needed but I'm not ready to delete it yet.

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto"
	"crypto/rsa"
	"crypto/sha256"
	"encoding/base64"