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[Async's][async] [2012 International Show n' Tell][event]

Thursday 8th November, 2012

☞ [Full info on the Async website][event]
✈ Sign up to attend [on the event's Lanyrd page][event-lanyrd].

Speakers gist

Would you like to speak on the night? you’ll have five minutes on the night to tell us about something… a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else about JavaScript, related tech (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc), or the wider world of web.

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var fs = require('fs'), path = require('path');

// Load all exported objects into a single module.
fs.readdirSync(__dirname).forEach(function (filename) {
  var fullpath = path.join(__dirname, filename), resource,
      module;
  
  if (fullpath !== __filename && 'js' === fullpath.split('.').pop() && '.' !== fullpath[0]) {
    module = require(fullpath);
    exports[filename.split('.')[0]] = module;

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// Cross browser, backward compatible solution
(function( window, Date ) {
// feature testing
var raf = window.mozRequestAnimationFrame    ||
          window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
          window.msRequestAnimationFrame     ||
          window.oRequestAnimationFrame;

window.animLoop = function( render, element ) {
  var running, lastFrame = +new Date;

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jj.createCreature("ufo", function (creature) {
    "use strict";

    var captured = {},
        positionFactor = 0.005,
        $ = jj.jQuery,
        SEARCH = 1,
        CHASE = 2,
        CAPTURE = 3,
        RETURN = 4,

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echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

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window._gzip = (function()
{
  var _matchCount = function(s, word)
  {
    var n = 0, wordLen = word.length, p = -wordLen;
    
    while((p = s.indexOf(word, p + wordLen)) > -1)
      ++n;
      
    return n;  

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http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=107931 - painting; portrait
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=109011 - Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=107901 - print; portrait
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=126567 - medal
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=55342 - Metal spectacles with small thick oval lenses, as suggested
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=107052 - Newton's furnace, 1696-1727.
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=126565 - Royal Society Medal
http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grabimg.php?kv=122835 - Engraving: The paternal house of Sir Isaac Newton ... born 2

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PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>

SELECT ?name, ?depiction, ?thumbnail, ?influences, ?abstract

WHERE {
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Isaac_Newton> rdfs:label ?name;
    foaf:depiction ?depiction ;
    <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/thumbnail> ?thumbnail;
    <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/abstract> ?abstract.

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PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>

SELECT ?name, ?description, ?depiction, ?thumbnail, ?scientificName
FROM <http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Black_Grouse.rdf> {
?species a <http://purl.org/ontology/wo/Species>;
    rdfs:label ?name;
    dcterms:description ?description;
    foaf:depiction ?depiction;