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<?php
// Handy function for 2600 meeting websites

/**
 * Return a unix timestamp for next "first Friday of the month", e.g.
 * either the first Friday of the current month or if that date has already passed
 * the first friday of the next month
 * @return int unix timestamp
 */
function getNextFirstFriday() {

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<?php
// How to lock a table using PEAR's DB_DataObject in a semi-OO way,
// note this still relies on the DB-dependant LOCK/UNLOCK syntax,
// change for the relevent RDBMS

// Lock
// You can also specify other options such as READ and the priority below
// see RDBMS docs, in this case MySQL
$object->getDatabaseConnection()->query('LOCK TABLES ' . $object->tableName() . ' WRITE');
// Unlock

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/*
Close a jQuery.UI modal dialog when the background overlay is clicked on,
ala most standard modal javascript overlays.
*/

$('.ui-widget-overlay').click(function() {
    // Where #dialog below should be a selector for the dialog you want to close
    $('#dialog').dialog('close');
});

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from django.core import serializers
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.utils import simplejson
from django.db.models import Model

def jsonify(fn, *args, **kwargs):
    """ Decorator that serializes the output of a function, most likely
    a view, as JSON, and returns the JSON in a HttpResponse.
    Inspired by Pylon's jsonify controller decorator.
    """

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#!/bin/bash
# Replace <local_user> with your local username, <remote_user> with your username on <remote_host> etc.
# You'll need an SSH, <private_key>, setup with the remote host to not prompt for a password
# (either passphraseless or with ssh-agent running)
ssh -i /home/<local_user>/.ssh/<private_key> <remote_user>@<remote_host> "export DISPLAY=:0 && gnome-screensaver-command --lock"
gnome-screensaver-command --lock

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<target name="wordpress.upgrade">
  <property name="tmp" value="/tmp" />
  <property name="src" value="${tmp}/wordpress" />
  <delete dir="${src}" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="true" />
  <exec dir="${tmp}" command="curl -s http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz | tar -xz" />

  <delete dir="wp-admin" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="true" />
  <delete dir="wp-includes" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="true" />

  <move file="wp-config.php" tofile="wp-config.php.bak" overwrite="true"/>

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#!/usr/bin/env python

from sys import argv
from pprint import pprint
try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json

pprint(json.load(file(argv[1])))

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
# Remember to change your apt priorities so that the gnome3 PPA takes
# precedence over Canonical
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome3-session
sudo apt-get remove unity
sudo vim /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop
# change --session=ubuntu for --session=gnome
sudo shutdown -r now

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"""Sometimes you just want to load your session based on a GET value,
without having an entire middleware installed to do it everytime, e.g.
just do it quickly in a view.
"""
def test_view(request):
    # Assuming session key sent as 'sessionid' value in querystring
    request.session = request.session.__class__(session_key=request.GET['sessionid'])

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# Show current git branch or SVN subfolder in prompt.
GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
GRAY="\[\033[1;30m\]"
LIGHT_BLUE="\[\033[1;34m\]"
LIGHT_GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
COLOR_OFF="\[\e[0m\]"
LAST_GIT_DIR="!"
function prompt_func() {
  PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '