adamwiggins

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

gcman105

" .vimrc
" Author: Gary Cheeseman <[email protected]>
" http://gary.cheeseman.me.uk
"
" vim: foldmethod=marker
"
" The line below allows me to update the Gist with the command :Gist
" GistID: 5821422

"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

charettes

from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import models


class QuerySetClassManager(models.Manager):
    """
    A mixin that refers to it's queryset_class attribute to create it.
    """
    queryset_class = models.query.QuerySet

jphalip

# Author: Julien Phalip
# License: BSD
# Description: Change the current directory to the path of the given Python package.
 
function goto {
    cd `python -c "import pkgutil; print(pkgutil.get_loader('$1').filename)"`
}
 
function _top_level_packages {
    python -c "import pkgutil; print('\n'.join([name for loader, name, ispkg in sorted(pkgutil.iter_modules()) if ispkg]))"

elena

"10 ways to make university IT assignments more relevant to industry."

 1) Change the assignment several times while students are working on it.

 2) Assign 5 new members to the team 2 days before the assignment is
due, claiming extra resources are needed. The students are told that
'mythical man month' does not apply in this case because of awesome
management skills.

 3) Have the best programmer in the team designated 'programmer'. Then

qwcode

A basic structure for Pypa project docs

why a consistent structure? in large part for making the "Python Packaging User Guide" more effective when linking and less redundant

All the projects should use the default RTD theme to match the User Guide.

Introduction

IQAndreas

# Caesar cipher encoding
echo "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" | tr '[A-Z]' '[X-ZA-W]'
# output: QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD

# Caesar cipher decoding
echo "QEB NRFZH YOLTK CLU GRJMP LSBO QEB IXWV ALD" | tr '[X-ZA-W]' '[A-Z]'
# output: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG


# Can also be adjusted to ROT13 instead

jaydenseric

Video conversion with FFmpeg

Install

On mac:

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the binary and place it in /usr/local/bin.

Command basics

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

mickn

# Paths {{{
set folder            = ~/Mail                # mailbox location
set alias_file        = ~/.mutt/alias          # where to store aliases
set header_cache      = ~/.mutt/cache/headers  # where to store headers
set message_cachedir  = ~/.mutt/cache/bodies   # where to store bodies
set certificate_file  = ~/.mutt/cerficates     # where to store certs
set mailcap_path      = ~/.mutt/mailcap        # entries for filetypes
set tmpdir            = ~/.mutt/temp           # where to keep temp files
set signature         = ~/.mutt/sig            # my signature file