=Bill.Barnhill BillBarnhill

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution

Step 1, create Service in Automator:

Step 2, set Service for files:

Step 3: insert bash script (see below)
Step 4, save:

When I started erlang, I had a hard time thinking of ideas for projects to improve my skills. Now I have way too many ideas to possibly implement Myself. Since I actually want these projects to exist so I can use them (everlasting glory coming secondary to some handy tools) I have written them up here. Feel free to try them out. I'm open to questions and suggestions.

swagger for erlang

swagger is a JSON spec for REST APIs. Once you have written a spec in swagger, it can generate documentation (demo) and REST handlers.

An erlang swagger library should take swagger specs and generate cowboy_rest handlers for them.

Difficulty: low

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!

\

Debugging Erlang Applications In Real Time

Reid Draper @reiddraper

We'll be using a tool called redbug, which is an abstraction and safety layer of Erlang's built-in dbg tracing facilities. You can follow along at home:

	defmodule MyStream do
	def mutate(enum, user_acc, user) do
	step = fn val, _acc -> {:suspend, val} end
	next = &Enumerable.reduce(enum, &1, step)
	&do_mutate([], user_acc, user, next, &1, &2)
	end

	defp do_mutate(values, user_acc, user, next, {:suspend, acc}, fun) do
	{:suspended, acc, &do_mutate(values, user_acc, user, next, &1, fun)}
	end

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>API Example</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	var accessToken = "<your agent's client access token>";
	var baseUrl = "https://api.api.ai/v1/";
	$(document).ready(function() {
	$("#input").keypress(function(event) {

	(require '[clojure.core.async :as a])

	(def xform (comp (map inc)
	(filter even?)
	(dedupe)
	(flatmap range)
	(partition-all 3)
	(partition-by #(< (apply + %) 7))
	(flatmap flatten)
	(random-sample 1.0)

	import rx.Observable;
	import rx.subjects.PublishSubject;
	import rx.subjects.SerializedSubject;
	import rx.subjects.Subject;

	/**
	* Simple pass-thru event bus with error handling and reconnect.
	*/
	public class EventBus {

	package com.example.models;

	import android.database.ContentObserver;
	import android.database.Cursor;
	import android.os.Handler;
	import android.os.Looper;

	import java.io.Closeable;
	import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;