TaoK

Function Invoke-ElevatedCommand {
	<#
		.DESCRIPTION
			Invokes the provided script block in a new elevated (Administrator) powershell process, 
			while retaining access to the pipeline (pipe in and out). Please note, "Write-Host" output
			will be LOST - only the object pipeline and errors are handled. In general, prefer 
			"Write-Output" over "Write-Host" unless UI output is the only possible use of the information.
			Also see Community Extensions "Invoke-Elevated"/"su"

		.EXAMPLE

jonathanmoore

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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hvoecking

// Traverses an arbitrary struct and translates all stings it encounters
//
// I haven't seen an example for reflection traversing an arbitrary struct, so
// I want to share this with you. If you encounter any bugs or want to see
// another example please comment.
//
// The MIT License (MIT)
//
// Copyright (c) 2014 Heye Vöcking
//

michaljemala

package main

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"crypto/x509"
	"flag"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

rodneyrehm

some tools for diagrams in software documentation

Diagrams For Documentation

Obvious Choices

• Graphviz
• Pandoc

ASCII

xpando

function unzip($path,$to) {
    $7z = "$env:TEMP\7z"
    if (!(test-path $7z) -or !(test-path "$7z\7za.exe")) { 
        if (!(test-path $7z)) { md $7z | out-null }
        push-location $7z
        try {
            write-host "Downloading 7zip" -foregroundcolor cyan
            $wc = new-object system.net.webClient
            $wc.headers.add('user-agent', [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.PSUserAgent]::FireFox)
            $wc.downloadFile("http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/sevenzip/7-Zip/9.20/7za920.zip","$7z\7z.zip")

RhysC

<Query Kind="Program">
  <NuGetReference>Newtonsoft.Json</NuGetReference>
  <NuGetReference>Rx-Main</NuGetReference>
  <NuGetReference>StackExchange.Redis</NuGetReference>
  <Namespace>System.Reactive.Linq</Namespace>
  <Namespace>System.Reactive.Disposables</Namespace>
  <Namespace>StackExchange.Redis</Namespace>
</Query>

void Main()

dwilkie

Install the unattended-upgrades package

$ sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades 

Edit the periodic configuration

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic

MichaelPote

#
# Himawari-8 Downloader
#
#
#
# This script will scrape the latest image from the Himawari-8 satellite, recombining the tiled image,
# converting it to a JPG which is saved in My Pictures\Himawari\ and then set as the desktop background.
#
# http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/himawari8-image.htm
#

maoueh

rm -rf /var/lib/cloud/instance && rm -rf /var/lib/cloud/instances/* && rm -rf /var/lib/cloud/sem/*
cloud-init init && cloud-init modules --mode config && cloud-init modules --mode final