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@dustin
dustin / zen_stories.org
Created January 27, 2011 08:08
101 Zen Stories in org-mode

A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”

@rkh
rkh / chat.rb
Created December 14, 2011 12:55
Simple Chat Application using the Sinatra Streaming API
# coding: utf-8
require 'sinatra'
set server: 'thin', connections: []
get '/' do
halt erb(:login) unless params[:user]
erb :chat, locals: { user: params[:user].gsub(/\W/, '') }
end
get '/stream', provides: 'text/event-stream' do
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@coreyhaines
coreyhaines / .rspec
Last active April 11, 2024 00:19
Active Record Spec Helper - Loading just active record
--colour
-I app
@jfarmer
jfarmer / 01-truthy-and-falsey-ruby.md
Last active April 16, 2024 03:40
True and False vs. "Truthy" and "Falsey" (or "Falsy") in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

true and false vs. "truthy" and "falsey" (or "falsy") in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

Many programming languages, including Ruby, have native boolean (true and false) data types. In Ruby they're called true and false. In Python, for example, they're written as True and False. But oftentimes we want to use a non-boolean value (integers, strings, arrays, etc.) in a boolean context (if statement, &&, ||, etc.).

This outlines how this works in Ruby, with some basic examples from Python and JavaScript, too. The idea is much more general than any of these specific languages, though. It's really a question of how the people designing a programming language wants booleans and conditionals to work.

If you want to use or share this material, please see the license file, below.

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@emboss
emboss / gist:2791400
Created May 26, 2012 00:25
Simple TLS server with client renegotiation disabled
require 'openssl'
require 'socket'
KEY = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new <<-_end_of_pem_
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIICXgIBAAKBgQDLwsSw1ECnPtT+PkOgHhcGA71nwC2/nL85VBGnRqDxOqjVh7Cx
aKPERYHsk4BPCkE3brtThPWc9kjHEQQ7uf9Y1rbCz0layNqHyywQEVLFmp1cpIt/
Q3geLv8ZD9pihowKJDyMDiN6ArYUmZczvW4976MU3+l54E6lF/JfFEU5hwIDAQAB
AoGBAKSl/MQarye1yOysqX6P8fDFQt68VvtXkNmlSiKOGuzyho0M+UVSFcs6k1L0
maDE25AMZUiGzuWHyaU55d7RXDgeskDMakD1v6ZejYtxJkSXbETOTLDwUWTn618T
@bdon
bdon / gist:2886527
Created June 7, 2012 04:21
simple fulltext search with postgres + sequel
if params[:query].present?
# not doing :* prefix matching right now.
# Preprocess the string into what TSvector wants. spaces -> ?
# Then only letters, numbers, underscores and qmarks are left.
query = params[:query].gsub(/\s+/, '?').gsub(/[^\w\?]/, '')
@results = @results.select { [ts_headline('english', :text, to_tsquery('english', query), 'MaxFragments=2').as(headline), id, title, happened_at]}
@results = @results.filter("ts_text @@ to_tsquery('english', ?::text)", query)
end
@mitfik
mitfik / gist:3169039
Created July 24, 2012 09:22
Helper for S3 direct upload file
def s3_form_tag(options = {})
bucket = options[:bucket]
access_key_id = options[:access_key_id]
secret_access_key = options[:secret_access_key]
key = options[:key] || ''
content_type = options[:content_type] || '' # Defaults to binary/octet-stream if blank
redirect = options[:redirect] || '/'
acl = options[:acl] || 'public-read'
expiration_date = options[:expiration_date].strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z') if options[:expiration_date]
max_filesize = options[:max_filesize] || 671088640 # 5 gb
@nikcub
nikcub / google-serp.user.js
Created September 14, 2012 07:21
rewrite google search result page to link directly to search result url
// Google SERP URL rewrite
//
// User script will rewrite search engine results page for Google and place real
// links to results rather than links that proxy back via google.
//
// So you go straight to the page when you click and you can copy/paste the link
//
// Install:
// 1. Download to desktop/wherever
// 2. Open Chrome extensions page (Window -> Extensions) or URL chrome://extensions
2.0.0-p0