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Nutrox / gist:780784
Created January 15, 2011 08:36
PHP - JSONObject class.
class JSONObject extends stdClass {
// Accepts an array, object, or JSON encoded string.
public function __construct( $o=null ) {
if( $o === null ) {
return;
}
if( is_string( $o ) ) {
$o = json_decode( $o );
}
<?php
$data = (object)array(
"html" => "<foo bar=\"baz\"/> &amp;",
"arabic" => "العربية al-ʿarabiyyah, IPA: [æl ʕɑrɑˈbijjɐ], or عربي ʿarabī",
"hebrew" => "עִבְרִית, Ivrit",
"chinese" => "汉语/漢語 Hanyu; 华语/華語 Huáyǔ; 中文 Zhōngwén",
"korean" => "한국어/조선말",
"japanese" => "日本語 Nihongo",
"umlauts" => "äüöãáàß",
@g3d
g3d / gist:2709563
Last active February 7, 2024 15:21 — forked from saetia/gist:1623487
Clean Install – OS X 10.11 El Capitan
@evadne
evadne / gist:4544569
Last active August 14, 2023 05:04
Todd Laney’s enhancements to Sticky Headers + UICollectionViewFlowLayout
//
// StickyHeaderLayout.h
// Wombat
//
// Created by Todd Laney on 1/9/13.
// Copyright (c) 2013 ToddLa. All rights reserved.
//
// Modified from http://blog.radi.ws/post/32905838158/sticky-headers-for-uicollectionview-using THANKS!
//
@madis
madis / gist:4650014
Created January 27, 2013 19:40
Testing CORS OPTIONS request with curl
curl \
--verbose \
--request OPTIONS \
http://localhost:3001/api/configuration/visitor \
--header 'Origin: http://localhost:9292' \
--header 'Access-Control-Request-Headers: Origin, Accept, Content-Type' \
--header 'Access-Control-Request-Method: GET'
# http://nils-blum-oeste.net/cors-api-with-oauth2-authentication-using-rails-and-angularjs/#.UQJeLkp4ZyE
@jonathantneal
jonathantneal / facebook.php
Last active December 8, 2020 12:07
Getting social media feeds as JSON in PHP
<?php
/* Getting a JSON Facebook Feed
==========================================================================
1. Sign in as a developer at https://developers.facebook.com/
2. Click "Create New App" at https://developers.facebook.com/apps
3. Under Apps Settings, find the App ID and App Secret
@lukaswhite
lukaswhite / ClearBeanstalkdQueueCommand.php
Last active March 20, 2023 08:11
Clear a Beanstalkd Queue in Laravel
<?php
use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
class ClearBeanstalkdQueueCommand extends Command {
/**
@mattt
mattt / UTTypeForImageData.m
Created March 27, 2014 23:19
A quick function for determining an image's file type by its first couple of bytes
@import MobileCoreServices;
static CFStringRef UTTypeForImageData(NSData *data) {
const unsigned char * bytes = [data bytes];
if (data.length >= 8) {
if (bytes[0] == 0x89 && bytes[1] == 0x50 && bytes[2] == 0x4E && bytes[3] == 0x47 && bytes[4] == 0x0D && bytes[5] == 0x0A && bytes[6] == 0x1A && bytes[7] == 0x0A) {
return kUTTypePNG;
}
}

A number of tech news outlets, including WIRED, GigaOm, and MIT Technology Review, have recently started writing about Multipeer Connectivity ("one weird trick that the NSA hates"). Since the NSHipster article on the subject has been linked to in a lot of this coverage, I wanted to share some additional thoughts on the matter:

Multipeer Connectivity(http://nshipster.com/multipeer-connectivity/) represents a significant shift in the opposite direction of how we conventionally think about mobile applications. Nearly every app on your phone operates in a client-server model, with the device making requests to remote cloud services to send and receive messages, photos, and videos. The [

@dschneider
dschneider / convert_utf8_to_utf8mb4
Created May 7, 2014 14:44
How to easily convert utf8 tables to utf8mb4 in MySQL 5.5
# For each database:
ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
# For each table:
ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
# For each column:
ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE column_name column_name VARCHAR(191) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
# (Don’t blindly copy-paste this! The exact statement depends on the column type, maximum length, and other properties. The above line is just an example for a `VARCHAR` column.)