kennym

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Convert blogger (blogspot) posts to jekyll posts
#
# Basic Usage
# -----------
#
#   ./blogger_to_jekyll.rb feed_url
#
#  where `feed_url` can have the following format:

clintel

Fenced code blocks inside ordered and unordered lists

1. This is a numbered list.

2. I'm going to include a fenced code block as part of this bullet:

   Code
   More Code
   

defnull

mkdir heroku
cd heroku/
virtualenv --no-site-packages env
source env/bin/activate
pip install bottle gevent
pip freeze > requirements.txt

cat >app.py <<EOF
import bottle
import os

davidnunez

pm list packages -f

sweenzor

import logging
import logging.handlers

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address = '/dev/log')

formatter = logging.Formatter('%(module)s.%(funcName)s: %(message)s')

btoone

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

schlamar

import os
import sys
import traceback
from functools import wraps
from multiprocessing import Process, Queue


def processify(func):
    '''Decorator to run a function as a process.
    Be sure that every argument and the return value

suhailshergill

(defadvice gist-region (around su/advice/gist/gist-region/around/dirty-hack
                               a c pre)
  "Dirty hack to prevent gist-region from choking on buffers which contain
     `%' character"
  (save-window-excursion
    (let* ((delete-old-versions t)
           (dummy "foo")
           (beg (ad-get-arg 0))
           (end (ad-get-arg 1))
           (min-beg-end (min beg end))

gsomoza

#!/bin/bash
#Set colour prompt using the name, platform or instance id and avzone

if [ ! -f "/opt/aws/AWS-INSTID" ]; then
        curl -s --fail http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id > /opt/aws/AWS-INSTID
fi
export INSTID=`cat /opt/aws/AWS-INSTID`

if [ ! -f "/opt/aws/AWS-AVZONE" ]; then
        curl -s --fail http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone > /opt/aws/AWS-AVZONE

Hupotronic

VP8 vs H.264 - Which One is Better?

So I was reading Hacker News and decided to read the comments in the thread about H.265 being approved. Pretty close to the top was this comment about VP9, Google's future video format. I have some words of my own about it and other future formats at the bottom of this post, but what jumped out from the comment to me was this part:

Many have already implemented VP8 (which is also slightly better than h.264 at this point)

The comparison linked to back up that statement is faulty for several reasons, such as not providing the source material used (hell, he doesn't even name the source material), exact encoding settings used (no, some random profiles are not enough), not providing the resulting encodes, only providing a