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xwmx / postsql.sql
Created October 18, 2013 21:11 — forked from tobyhede/postsql.sql
-- PostgreSQL 9.2 beta (for the new JSON datatype)
-- You can actually use an earlier version and a TEXT type too
-- PL/V8 http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/wiki/PLV8
-- Inspired by
-- http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archives/249-Using-PLV8-to-index-JSON.html
-- http://ssql-pgaustin.herokuapp.com/#1
-- JSON Types need to be mapped into corresponding PG types
--
# A small DSL for helping parsing documents using Nokogiri::XML::Reader. The
# XML Reader is a good way to move a cursor through a (large) XML document fast,
# but is not as cumbersome as writing a full SAX document handler. Read about
# it here: http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/Reader.html
#
# Just pass the reader in this parser and specificy the nodes that you are interested
# in in a block. You can just parse every node or only look inside certain nodes.
#
# A small example:
#

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples, not handy-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

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Last active October 1, 2015 13:08 — forked from endolith/Has weird right-to-left characters.txt
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xwmx / topic.rb
Created June 27, 2011 00:18 — forked from xdite/topic.rb
before_update :update_ranking
def self.calculate_ranking(score, created_at)
order = Math.log10(([score.abs,1].max))
if score > 0
sign = 1
elsif score < 0
sign = -1
def tip(msg); puts; puts msg; puts "-"*100; end
#
# 30 Ruby 1.9 Tips, Tricks & Features:
# http://www.igvita.com/2011/02/03/new-ruby-19-features-tips-tricks/
#
tip "Upgrading to Ruby 1.9 is simple: rvm install 1.9.2 && rvm --default 1.9.2"
tip "Ruby 1.9 supports named captures in regular expressions!"
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- ruby -*-
require 'rubygems'
require 'daemon-spawn'
RAILS_ROOT = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..'))
class DelayedJobWorker < DaemonSpawn::Base
def start(args)
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= args.first || 'development'
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xwmx / url_dsl.rb
Created December 14, 2009 20:01 — forked from defunkt/url_dsl.rb
require 'open-uri'
# url dsl -- the ultimate url dsl!
#
# You just can't beat this:
#
# $ irb -r url_dsl
# >> include URLDSL
# => Object
# >> http://github.com/defunkt.json
module HTML
class StathamSanitizer < WhiteListSanitizer
protected
def tokenize(text, options)
super.map do |token|
if token.is_a?(HTML::Tag) && options[:parent].include?(token.name)
token.to_s.gsub(/</, "&lt;")
else
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xwmx / info
Created November 22, 2009 19:23 — forked from mikeal/large_doc.json
http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/695
http://gist.github.com/239890