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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Input: Selected Text or Nothing
# Output: Replace Selected Text

require 'tempfile'

def unindent(text)
  lines = text.split(/\n/)
  level = lines.map{|l| l[/^\s*/].size}.min

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// suggested shell cmd line to run this:
//
//   mongo --shell example2.js
// 
// Note: the { out : … } parameter is for mongodb 1.8+

db.things.insert( { _id : 1, tags : ['dog', 'cat'] } );
db.things.insert( { _id : 2, tags : ['cat'] } );
db.things.insert( { _id : 3, tags : ['mouse', 'cat', 'dog'] } );
db.things.insert( { _id : 4, tags : []  } );

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<!-- Add the following lines to theme's html code right before </head> -->
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://static.tumblr.com/fpifyru/VCxlv9xwi/writecapture.js"></script>
<script src="http://static.tumblr.com/fpifyru/AKFlv9zdu/embedgist.js"></script>

<!--
  Usage: just add <div class="gist">[gist URL]</div>
  Example: <div class="gist">https://gist.github.com/1395926</div>
-->

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.gist-highlight {
    border-left: 3ex solid #eee;
    position: relative;
}

.gist-highlight pre {
    counter-reset: linenumbers;
}

.gist-highlight pre div:before {

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$(document).ready(function() {
    var prefix = "https://gist.github.com/";
    $('a[href^="' + prefix + '"]').each(function(i) {
        var $anchor = $(this),
            $el = $("<p></p>");
        $anchor.replaceWith($el);
        writeCapture.html($el, '<script src="'+$anchor.text()+'.js"></scr' + 'ipt>');
        $anchor.remove();
    }); 
});

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#!/usr/bin/ruby
=begin
Usage: rtftomarkdown.rb FILENAME.rtf

Uses textutil, available on Mac only (installed by default)
Outputs to STDOUT

Notes:

Links are replaced with Markdown references (duplicate links combined).

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Solving an algorithm for a friend to be able to tell his emacs what window he wants to replace his current window when he closes it.

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Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

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