justincbagley

How to convert markdown to PDF:

This post reviews several methods for converting a Markdown (.md) formatted file to PDF, from UNIX or Linux machines.

Using Pandoc:

$ pandoc How_I_got_svg-resizer_working_on_Mac_OSX.md -s -o test1.pdf

baweaver

Ruby Book List

Learning Ruby

You're taking your first steps into Ruby

The Well Grounded Rubyist

A good introduction to programming in general. Easy on newer programmers.

primaryobjects

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * function TreeNode(val) {
 *     this.val = val;
 *     this.left = this.right = null;
 * }
 */
/**
 * @param {TreeNode} root
 * @param {number} key

avinash-oza

Booting Debian from a RAM disk

This guide is adapted from http://reboot.pro/topic/14547-linux-load-your-root-partition-to-ram-and-boot-it/

What you need:

• lots of RAM
• Debian based distribution or any that supports booting from initramfs
• mkinitramfs or a tool to build a new initramfs
• some linux knowledge
• no need to create an image
• no need for Grub4Dos

moreati

Preperation

Create 3 top-level directories. Create a file and a directory in each.

$ mkdir r rx x
$ touch {r,rx,x}/file
$ mkdir {r,rx,x}/dir

widnyana

# Set pid of nginx master process here
pid=8192

# generate gdb commands from the process's memory mappings using awk
cat /proc/$pid/maps | awk '$6 !~ "^/" {split ($1,addrs,"-"); print "dump memory mem_" addrs[1] " 0x" addrs[1] " 0x" addrs[2] ;}END{print "quit"}' > gdb-commands

# use gdb with the -x option to dump these memory regions to mem_* files
gdb -p $pid -x gdb-commands

# look for some (any) nginx.conf text

jonatack

require 'benchmark/ips'

Benchmark.ips do |x|

  Property = Struct.new(:name, :original_name)

  PROPERTIES = [
    Property.new("Clo",   "Chloe"     ),
    Property.new("Jon",   "Jonathan"  ),
    Property.new("Kris",  "Kristin"   ),

ishu3101

Transfer a gist to a GitHub repository

clone the gist

git clone https://gist.github.com/ishu3101/6fb35afd237e42ef25f9

rename the directory

mv 6fb35afd237e42ef25f9 ConvertTo-Markdown

change the working directory to the newly renamed directory

cd ConvertTo-Markdown

a-know

Description

Get and Show cell's value from Google Spreadsheet Widget for Dashing.

Dependency

• gem 'google-api-client'
• gem 'google_drive'

Installation

dashing install e0ad37c2e137d2da0916

ammaaim

require 'yaml'

$db_file = 'filename.yaml'

def load_data
  text = File.read 'db.yaml'
  return YAML.load text
end

def store_data hash