olivierlacan

• http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html
• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/25/MonogamousTDD.html
• http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/test-induced-design-damage.html
• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/01/Design-Damage.html
• http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/slow-database-test-fallacy.html
• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/30/When-tdd-does-not-work.html
• https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/tdd-straw-men-and-rhetoric
• http://articles.coreyhaines.com/posts/active-record-spec-helper/
• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

jonmagic

module Gollum
  module HTML
    # Extract all tags into the tagmap and replace with placeholders.
    #
    # Returns the placeholder'd String data.
    class ExtractWikiLinksFilter < ::HTML::Pipeline::TextFilter
      def call
        result[:wiki_links] = {}

        return @text if context[:format] == :asciidoc

rgs

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)

sunny

# encoding: UTF-8
#
#     $ rake checkout new_branch_name
#
# Via https://gist.github.com/jonlemmon/4076864
#
# 1. Roll back any migrations on your current branch which do not exist on the
#    other branch
# 2. Discard any changes to the db/schema.rb file
# 3. Check out the other branch

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:

jakearchibald

Snow in canvas land

Other people's code is awful, and your own code from months previous counts as someone else's. With this and the festive spirit in mind, I dug up a canvas snow demo I made two years ago to see how bad my code really was.

Turns out the performance landscape has changed quite a bit, but after applying a couple of workarounds, best practices, and memory management, I got the demo running smoother than it ever did.

Ugh, I can't believe I just wrote "performance landscape". Anyway...

How does the demo work?

mirisuzanne

//  New fontface naming conventions & API

//  File Structure
//
//  - fonts_dir/ [config setting]
//    - simple.eot
//    - simple.svg
//    - simple.ttf
//    - simple.woff
//    - folder/

hoverlover

client = Savon::Client.new do
  # This can be a URL also
  wsdl.document = "/Path/to/your.wsdl"

  # These are optional, only if your WSDL sucks :)
  wsdl.endpoint = "https://your_endpoint"
  wsdl.namespace = "http://your_namespace"

  certs = Akami::WSSE::Certs.new :cert_file => "/path/to/cert.crt", :private_key_file => "/path/to/private/key.pem", :private_key_password => "password"
  wsse.sign_with = Akami::WSSE::Signature.new certs

theamnesic

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Sunnytize
Plugin URI:
Description: A better file name sanitizer
Version: 1.0
Author: Sunny Ripert
Author URI: http://sunfox.org
*/

stol

#####
##### Easily enable clearType on windows.
#####

*** WHAT IT DOES ***

It asks the user to install an activex control, signed by microsoft.

This activex control allows cleartype options to be set using javascript.