| # extracted from http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip | |
| # under public domain terms | |
| country_bounding_boxes = { | |
| 'AF': ('Afghanistan', (60.5284298033, 29.318572496, 75.1580277851, 38.4862816432)), | |
| 'AO': ('Angola', (11.6400960629, -17.9306364885, 24.0799052263, -4.43802336998)), | |
| 'AL': ('Albania', (19.3044861183, 39.624997667, 21.0200403175, 42.6882473822)), | |
| 'AE': ('United Arab Emirates', (51.5795186705, 22.4969475367, 56.3968473651, 26.055464179)), | |
| 'AR': ('Argentina', (-73.4154357571, -55.25, -53.628348965, -21.8323104794)), | |
| 'AM': ('Armenia', (43.5827458026, 38.7412014837, 46.5057198423, 41.2481285671)), |
Convert SVG to canvas on-the-fly.
This article from MDN explains the process: Drawing DOM object into a canvas. This works for any DOM object, not just SVG. Not sure if this is well supported by older browsers. Works on Chrome, Firefox and IE 10 for me. The bar chart is a fork of this block by Mike Bostock: Canvas Bar Chart.
⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi
Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.
I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.
This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso
| // ---- | |
| // Sass (v3.4.21) | |
| // Compass (v1.0.3) | |
| // ---- | |
| // Sass modifiers mixin by Sarah Dayan | |
| // Generate All Your Utility Classes with Sass Maps: frontstuff.io/generate-all-your-utility-classes-with-sass-maps | |
| // http://frontstuff.io | |
| // https://github.com/sarahdayan |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Usage | |
| # | |
| # Call the script with the directory you want to watch as an argument. e.g.: | |
| # watchdir.sh /app/foo/ | |
| # | |
| # | |
| # Description: | |
| # Uses inotifywait to look for new files in a directory and process them: |
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # script: watchdo | |
| # author: Mike Smullin <mike@smullindesign.com> | |
| # modified: Jared Blalock <mb@molotovbliss.com> | |
| # possible use for monitoring .less changes to compile to .css | |
| # license: GPLv3 | |
| # description: | |
| # watches the given path for changes | |
| # and executes a given command when changes occur | |
| # usage: |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| ############ | |
| # Usage | |
| # Pass a path to watch, a file filter, and a command to run when those files are updated | |
| # | |
| # Example: | |
| # watch.sh "node_modules/everest-*/src/templates" "*.handlebars" "ynpm compile-templates" | |
| ############ |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Shell script that watches a file and executes a command if the file changes. | |
| # Matt Taylor | |
| # http://blog.matthewjosephtaylor.com | |
| # License: This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. | |
| # Thanks to code/tips from some helpful souls on irc.freenode.net ##unix | |
| # All errors are of course my own. :) | |