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DATABASE_URL=postgres://USERNAME:[email protected]/DATABASE
MEMCACHE_SERVERS=127.0.0.1:11211

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.development.local

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class DynamicFieldsMixin(object):
    """
    A serializer mixin that takes an additional `fields` argument that controls
    which fields should be displayed.

    Usage::

        class MySerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer, DynamicFieldsMixin):
            class Meta:
                model = MyModel

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from uuid import UUID

def validate_uuid4(uuid_string):

    """
    Validate that a UUID string is in
    fact a valid uuid4.

    Happily, the uuid module does the actual
    checking for us.

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Goal: Connect to MSSQL using FreeTDS / ODBC in Python.

Host: Ubuntu 11.10 x86_64

Install:

sudo apt-get install freetds-dev freetds-bin unixodbc-dev tdsodbc
pip install pyodbc sqlalchemy

In /etc/odbcinst.ini:

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A quick overview of the node.js streams interface with basic examples.

This is based on @brycebaril's presentation, Node.js Streams2 Demystified

Overview

Streams are a first-class construct in Node.js for handling data.

Think of them as as lazy evaluation applied to data.

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//To run Q.js examples:

    // 1. Open a new browser tab in Chrome and turn on developer toolbar.
    // 2. Copy/Paste this gist in the console (opened from any http site) and hit enter to run the snippets.
    
// Based on the inspiration from samples @ https://github.com/kriskowal/q  

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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# First:
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom | while read f; do  sudo rm /usr/local/${f}; done
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

# To recap, the best way (I've found) to completely uninstall node + npm is to do the following:

#go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo rm -rf node*

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#!/bin/bash

TODAY=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
LIST=$(cat lunch.txt | perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'print uri_escape($_)')

curl -s \
  -d "list=$LIST" \
  -d "format=plain" \
  -d "rnd=date.$TODAY" \
  "https://www.random.org/lists/?mode=advanced"

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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

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from django.conf import settings

from tastypie.throttle import CacheDBThrottle


class SmartCacheDBThrottle(CacheDBThrottle):
    """
    Custom throttling class to address bug in Tastypie that manifests
    when trying to run tests or do any kind of development with a Resource
    that has some kind of throttling configured. Tastypie is not smart