harlantwood

# Committing changes to a repo via the Github API is not entirely trivial.
# The five-step process is outlined here:
#   http://developer.github.com/v3/git/
#
# Matt Swanson wrote a blog post translating the above steps into actual API calls:
#   http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/07/23/digging-around-the-github-api-take-2.html
# 
# I was not able to find sample code for actually doing this in Ruby, 
# either via the HTTP API or any of the gems that wrap the API.
# So in the hopes it will help others, here is a simple function to 

SpOOnman

package eu.spoonman.specs.rest

import groovyx.net.http.ContentType
import groovyx.net.http.Method
import eu.spoonman.connectors.RestConnector
import spock.lang.Specification
import spock.lang.Shared
import spock.lang.Stepwise

@Stepwise

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

lastguest

function JSON_to_URLEncoded(element,key,list){
  var list = list || [];
  if(typeof(element)=='object'){
    for (var idx in element)
      JSON_to_URLEncoded(element[idx],key?key+'['+idx+']':idx,list);
  } else {
    list.push(key+'='+encodeURIComponent(element));
  }
  return list.join('&');
}