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alexbowe / nltk-intro.py

Created March 21, 2011 12:59

Demonstration of extracting key phrases with NLTK in Python

	import nltk

	text = """The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital
	computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain
	or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha...which is
	to demean oneself."""

	# Used when tokenizing words
	sentence_re = r'''(?x) # set flag to allow verbose regexps
	([A-Z])(\.[A-Z])+\.? # abbreviations, e.g. U.S.A.

nateps / gist:1172490

Created August 26, 2011 01:38

Hide the address bar in a fullscreen iPhone or Android web app

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<meta charset=utf-8>
	<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
	<meta name=apple-mobile-web-app-capable content=yes>
	<meta name=apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style content=black>
	<title>Test fullscreen</title>
	<style>
	html, body {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;

pokstad / rediswebpy.py

Created September 7, 2011 23:02

Redis session store backend for web.py

	import redis
	import web

	SESSION = 'SESSION:'

	class RedisStore(web.session.Store):

	"""Store for saving a session in redis:
	import rediswebpy
	session = web.session.Session(app, rediswebpy.RedisStore(), initializer={'count': 0})

carlopires / redis_session_store.py

Created December 9, 2011 15:22

Werkzeug Redis Session Store

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	"""
	Created on 09/11/2011
	@author: Carlo Pires <[email protected]>
	"""
	import tnetstring
	from werkzeug.contrib.sessions import SessionStore

	SESSION_TIMEOUT = 606024*7 # 7 weeks in seconds

cwholt / Autocomplete.js

Created February 17, 2012 16:39

node.js + redis prefix trie (autocomplete)

	module.exports = function(redisClient,prefix) {
	var Autocomplete = {};

	Autocomplete.prefix = prefix;
	Autocomplete.terminal = "+";

	Autocomplete.add = function(word, next) {
	function add(letters, key, last, x) {
	var letter = last ? Autocomplete.terminal : letters[x];
	var score = last ? 0 : letter.charCodeAt(0);

pheuter / sc-dl.js

Created March 5, 2012 20:44

Bookmarklet that generates download link for a Soundcloud upload

	(function(d) {
	var dl = d.createElement('a');
	dl.innerText = 'Download MP3';
	dl.href = "http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/"+d.querySelector('#main-content-inner img[class=waveform]').src.match(/\.com\/(.+)\_/)[1];
	dl.download = d.querySelector('em').innerText+".mp3";
	d.querySelector('.primary').appendChild(dl);
	dl.style.marginLeft = '10px';
	dl.style.color = 'red';
	dl.style.fontWeight = 700;
	})(document);

jlong / uri.js

Created April 20, 2012 13:29

URI Parsing with Javascript

	var parser = document.createElement('a');
	parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

	parser.protocol; // => "http:"
	parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
	parser.port; // => "3000"
	parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
	parser.search; // => "?search=test"
	parser.hash; // => "#hash"
	parser.host; // => "example.com:3000"

baali / dlAttachments.py

Created May 8, 2012 08:32

Python script to download all gmail attachments.

	# Something in lines of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348630/how-can-i-download-all-emails-with-attachments-from-gmail
	# Make sure you have IMAP enabled in your gmail settings.
	# Right now it won't download same file name twice even if their contents are different.

	import email
	import getpass, imaplib
	import os
	import sys

	detach_dir = '.'

rochacbruno / haversine.py

Created June 6, 2012 17:43

Calculate distance between latitude longitude pairs with Python

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# Haversine formula example in Python
	# Author: Wayne Dyck

	import math

	def distance(origin, destination):
	lat1, lon1 = origin
	lat2, lon2 = destination

dstroot / install_postgresql.sh

Created June 13, 2012 00:26

Install PostgreSQL on Amazon AMI