Using the graph to control unique id generation

Introduction

This gist was prompted by Nigel Small’s tweet of a query to generate a unique id for a node (and is posted here with his agreement). It inspired me to think about how it could be used in a full example, unrestricted by Twitter’s 140 characters. I have also looked at how we could generate different sets of unique ids for different labels.

Auto-incrementing #Neo4j counter MERGE (x:Counter {name:'foo'}) ON CREATE SET x.count = 0 ON MATCH SET x.count = x.count + 1 RETURN x.count
— Nigel Small (@technige) December 16, 2013

utek / Exclude_tables.md

Last active June 6, 2024 08:11

Define ignored tables in alembic.ini

Add this in your ini file:

[alembic:exclude]
tables = spatial_ref_sys

In env.py:

    import re

willurd / web-servers.md

Last active July 17, 2026 18:54

Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

nikcub / README.md

Created October 4, 2012 13:06

Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

In August 2007 a hacker found a way to expose the PHP source code on facebook.com. He retrieved two files and then emailed them to me, and I wrote about the issue:

http://techcrunch.com/2007/08/11/facebook-source-code-leaked/

It became a big deal:

http://www.techmeme.com/070812/p1#a070812p1

The two files are index.php (the homepage) and search.php (the search page)