wkjagt

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

nicokoch

#!/usr/bin/env python2
import os
import getpass
import urllib2
from StringIO import StringIO
import time
import datetime
import argparse
import praw
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

ssudharsan

# put the cookbook path in solo.rb file.
echo 'cookbook_path ["/opt/aws/opsworks/current/site-cookbooks"]' > solo.rb

# create json file incase if you want use the attributes from opsworks.
opsworks-agent-cli get_json > attributes.json

#run chef-solo
/opt/aws/opsworks/current/bin/chef-solo -c solo.rb -o cookbook_name::default -j attributes.json

molaschi

This is a short article on how we integrate stash and slack in openmind

First of all i assume you have:

• a working stash installation
• a repository you to notify slack on pushes
• stash user with administration priviledges
• full access to the server (linux) where stash is installed on
• a team configured on slack
• slack user with administration priviledges

ibussieres

echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 postgresql-server-dev-9.3 postgresql-contrib-9.3 -y
 
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore;'"
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";'"
sudo su - postgres -c "service postgresql stop"
sudo su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin -B /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/ -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/ -O "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf" -o "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf"'
 

pkuczynski

#!/bin/sh
parse_yaml() {
   local prefix=$2
   local s='[[:space:]]*' w='[a-zA-Z0-9_]*' fs=$(echo @|tr @ '\034')
   sed -ne "s|^\($s\)\($w\)$s:$s\"\(.*\)\"$s\$|\1$fs\2$fs\3|p" \
        -e "s|^\($s\)\($w\)$s:$s\(.*\)$s\$|\1$fs\2$fs\3|p"  $1 |
   awk -F$fs '{
      indent = length($1)/2;
      vname[indent] = $2;
      for (i in vname) {if (i > indent) {delete vname[i]}}

danriti

#!/bin/bash

# Set the ROOM_ID & AUTH_TOKEN variables below.
# Further instructions at https://www.hipchat.com/docs/apiv2/auth

ROOM_ID=XXX
AUTH_TOKEN=XXX
MESSAGE="Hello world!"

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

cspanring

Installing GDAL in a Python virtual environment

Get gdal development libraries:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

Create and activate a virtual environment:

nicerobot

Objective-C on Linux

Just run:

curl -ks https://gist.github.com/nicerobot/5652802/raw/install.sh | bash -

glenrobertson

"""
Modified from: https://gist.github.com/967274

CHANGES:
* Serialize pk in feature.id and remove from feature.properties
* Added default date format and time format for encoder
* Allow geometryfield option, which doesn't have to be a field, e.g. a @property


USAGE: