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jacobian / unicorn.py
Created October 6, 2009 22:39
Simple preforking echo server in Python.
"""
Simple preforking echo server in Python.
Python port of http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix.
"""
import os
import sys
import socket
@jacobian
jacobian / unicorn-socketserver.py
Created October 7, 2009 13:45
A simple preforking echo server using SocketServer.
"""
Simple forking echo server built with Python's SocketServer library. A more
Pythonic version of http://gist.github.com/203520, which itself was inspired
by http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix.
"""
import os
import SocketServer
class EchoHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler):
@tessro
tessro / redis-server
Created December 16, 2009 14:20
A CentOS initscript for Redis
#!/bin/sh
#
# redis - this script starts and stops the redis-server daemon
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: Redis is a persistent key-value database
# processname: redis-server
# config: /etc/redis/redis.conf
# config: /etc/sysconfig/redis
# pidfile: /var/run/redis.pid
@remy
remy / gist:350433
Created March 31, 2010 14:58
Storage polyfill
if (typeof window.localStorage == 'undefined' || typeof window.sessionStorage == 'undefined') (function () {
var Storage = function (type) {
function createCookie(name, value, days) {
var date, expires;
if (days) {
date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
@paulirish
paulirish / gist:366184
Created April 14, 2010 18:59
html5 geolocation with fallback.
// geo-location shim
// currentely only serves lat/long
// depends on jQuery
// doublecheck the ClientLocation results because it may returning null results
;(function(geolocation){
if (geolocation) return;
@cms
cms / getStyle.js
Created April 17, 2010 00:48
Get computed styles
function getStyle(el, styleProp) {
var value, defaultView = el.ownerDocument.defaultView;
// W3C standard way:
if (defaultView && defaultView.getComputedStyle) {
// sanitize property name to css notation (hypen separated words eg. font-Size)
styleProp = styleProp.replace(/([A-Z])/g, "-$1").toLowerCase();
return defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
} else if (el.currentStyle) { // IE
// sanitize property name to camelCase
styleProp = styleProp.replace(/\-(\w)/g, function(str, letter) {
@jeremyBanks
jeremyBanks / expanded.md
Created June 22, 2010 05:10
one-line self-executing c header and expanded explanation
//

Since we don't want this visible in C, we put it in a comment.

&>/dev/null

Unfortunately // is interpreted as an invalid shell command and produces an error message, so we need to redirect that to /dev/null to get rid of it.

;x="${0%.*}"
import time
class Retry(object):
default_exceptions = (Exception)
def __init__(self, tries, exceptions=None, delay=0):
"""
Decorator for retrying function if exception occurs
tries -- num tries
exceptions -- exceptions to catch
import lxml.etree
def pprint(elem):
print lxml.etree.tostring(elem, pretty_print=True)
class Bind(object):
def __init__(self, path, converter=None, first=False):
'''
path -- xpath to select elements
converter -- run result through converter
first -- return only first element instead of a list of elements
import bisect
class NFA(object):
EPSILON = object()
ANY = object()
def __init__(self, start_state):
self.transitions = {}
self.final_states = set()
self._start_state = start_state