agaviria

# comments example for .dat or .ledger files
@smallexample
; This is a single line comment,
# and this,
% and this,
| and this,
* and this.

# If you have a deeply nested tree of accounts, 
# it may be convenient to define an alias, for example:

dylanvee

# This snippet does everything I've ever wanted out of imagemagick. 
# Equivalent to cropping to min(width, height) by min(width, height) and resizing to N x N. 
# See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#cut
# If you're writing this in bash or zsh, don't forget to escape the ^ with a backslash
convert -resize 256x256^ -extent 256x256 in.png out.png

francisbyrne

#!/bin/sh
# 
# chmodr.sh
#
# author: Francis Byrne
# date: 2011/02/12
#
# Generic Script for recursively setting permissions for directories and files
# to defined or default permissions using chmod.
#

nikcub

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)

plasticbrain

<?php
$mime_types = array(
	'.3dm' => 'x-world/x-3dmf',
	'.3dmf' => 'x-world/x-3dmf',
	'.a' => 'application/octet-stream',
	'.aab' => 'application/x-authorware-bin',
	'.aam' => 'application/x-authorware-map',
	'.aas' => 'application/x-authorware-seg',
	'.abc' => 'text/vnd.abc',
	'.acgi' => 'text/html',

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

ryankearney

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
// Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Proprietary. Copyright 2012.
// Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive alerts.
var SYS_URL='/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do';
// var image_url='http://servicealerts.comcast.net:8080/images/mt';
var image_url='http://xfinity.comcast.net/constantguard/BotAssistance/notice/images';
var headertext1='<strong>Comcast Courtesy Notice</strong>';
var textline1='You have reached 90% of your <b>monthly data usage allowance</b>.';
var textline2='Please sign in for more information and to remove this alert.';
var acknowledgebutton='<a href=\"#\" onClick="document.location.href=\''+SYS_URL+'?dispatch=redirect&redirectName=login&paramName=bmUid\'" title="Sign in to acknowledge" style="color: #FFFFFF;"><img alt="Sign in to acknowledge" src="'+image_url+'/mt_signin.png"/></a>';

caruccio

$ FILE=/some/path/to/file.txt

###################################
### Remove matching suffix pattern
###################################

$ echo ${FILE%.*}          # remove ext 
/some/path/to/file

$ FILE=/some/path/to/file.txt.jpg.gpg    # note various file exts

adamloving

0-mail.com
0815.ru
0clickemail.com
0wnd.net
0wnd.org
10minutemail.com
20minutemail.com
2prong.com
30minutemail.com
3d-painting.com

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application: