tomcritchlow

import cgi
import os

from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app
from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.api import memcache
from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

olivierlacan

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Installation

alexle

# sms.py
# Sends sms message to any cell phone using gmail smtp gateway
# Written by Alex Le

import smtplib

# Use sms gateway provided by mobile carrier:
# at&t:     number@mms.att.net
# t-mobile: number@tmomail.net
# verizon:  number@vtext.com

pamelafox

// Includes functions for exporting active sheet or all sheets as JSON object (also Python object syntax compatible).
// Tweak the makePrettyJSON_ function to customize what kind of JSON to export.

var FORMAT_ONELINE   = 'One-line';
var FORMAT_MULTILINE = 'Multi-line';
var FORMAT_PRETTY    = 'Pretty';

var LANGUAGE_JS      = 'JavaScript';
var LANGUAGE_PYTHON  = 'Python';

lrvick

// convert 0..255 R,G,B values to binary string
RGBToBin = function(r,g,b){
    var bin = r << 16 | g << 8 | b;
    return (function(h){
        return new Array(25-h.length).join("0")+h
    })(bin.toString(2))
}

// convert 0..255 R,G,B values to a hexidecimal color string
RGBToHex = function(r,g,b){

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

robinsloan

require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"

# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted

# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"

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:

michielvaneerd

var Artist = Backbone.Model.extend();

var Artists = Backbone.Collection.extend({
  model : Artist,
  url : "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?type=artist",
  sync : function(method, collection, options) {
    // By setting the dataType to "jsonp", jQuery creates a function
    // and adds it as a callback parameter to the request, e.g.:
    // [url]&callback=jQuery19104472605645155031_1373700330157&q=bananarama
    // If you want another name for the callback, also specify the