StephanHoyer

Icons have been part of applications since ages. Also most websites rely on icons. There were several ways to use them. First we used plain files then image sprites to reduce requests. Nowadays everyone uses icon fonts like font-awesome or glyphicons.

They are infinetly scaleable and styleable with css. The downside is they use pseudo elements for displaying. This is not only difficult to handle but also non-optimal for accessibilty.

A famous CSS-Tricks post brings SVG icons into play. The are also scalable and they behave like normal images. But we also want to have a sprite to not load any images seperatly and kill our servers and our sites performance. The proposed version is to create sprites with grunt or gulp using the symbol-trick. It's basically add every icon to a hidden sprite-image and give every icon an id-property.

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" style="display: none;">
  
  <symbol id="beaker" viewBox="214.7 0 182.6 792">

jonashaag

Howto use ListFields in Django's admin

Problem

Consider this blog post model:

models.py

:

andymccurdy

import pprint
import os
import sys
import threading
import time
import traceback

_crier = None
def init_crier(temp_dir='/tmp'):
    "Initialzies Crier, ensuring it's only created once in the process"

tdoris

Does Haskell make promises it can't keep?

or The big problem with wrapping numeric types

When coding financial calculations, it's common to have a variety of numeric values such as Quantity, Price, Amount and so on. In quant finance, these usually refer to the Price observed in the market, a Quantity of shares. A Quantity of shares all traded at a given Price in a given currency will give you an Amount of that currency (the total value of the trade).

It's simple and fun exercise to write the functions you'd need to perform all the correct ways of combining Price, Quantity and Amount. There are a couple of things that don't work as you might expect (e.g., multiplication is ok but you need to think about division semantics.).

Many Haskell tutorials encourage the coder to wrap Double and Int in newtypes like this, so the compiler can help by detecting incorrect combinations of the different types, and so the code documents itself better. e.g.

nicolashery

Elasticsearch: updating the mappings and settings of an existing index

Note: This was written using elasticsearch 0.9.

Elasticsearch will automatically create an index (with basic settings and mappings) for you if you post a first document:

$ curl -X POST 'http://localhost:9200/thegame/weapons/1' -d \
'{
  "_id": 1,

alotaiba

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

kachayev

Channels Are Not Enough

... or Why Pipelining Is Not That Easy

Golang Concurrency Patterns for brave and smart.

By @kachayev

Intro

ruckus

** Find commmonly accessed tables and their use of indexes:

SELECT relname,seq_tup_read,idx_tup_fetch,cast(idx_tup_fetch AS numeric) / (idx_tup_fetch + seq_tup_read) AS idx_tup_pct FROM pg_stat_user_tables WHERE (idx_tup_fetch + seq_tup_read)>0 ORDER BY idx_tup_pct;

Returns output like:

       relname        | seq_tup_read | idx_tup_fetch |      idx_tup_pct       
----------------------+--------------+---------------+------------------------
 schema_migrations    |          817 |             0 | 0.00000000000000000000
 user_device_photos   |          349 |             0 | 0.00000000000000000000

lucasfais

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt

kastnerkyle

raise ValueError("DEPRECATED/FROZEN - see https://github.com/kastnerkyle/tools for the latest")

# License: BSD 3-clause
# Authors: Kyle Kastner
# Harvest, Cheaptrick, D4C, WORLD routines based on MATLAB code from M. Morise
# http://ml.cs.yamanashi.ac.jp/world/english/
# MGC code based on r9y9 (Ryuichi Yamamoto) MelGeneralizedCepstrums.jl
# Pieces also adapted from SPTK
from __future__ import division
import numpy as np