This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
| // Long Polling (Recommened Technique - Creates An Open Connection To Server ∴ Fast) | |
| (function poll(){ | |
| $.ajax({ url: "server", success: function(data){ | |
| //Update your dashboard gauge | |
| salesGauge.setValue(data.value); | |
| }, dataType: "json", complete: poll, timeout: 30000 }); | |
| })(); |
| # | |
| # Sources: | |
| # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7704624/how-can-i-use-gzip-compression-for-css-and-js-files-on-my-websites | |
| # http://codex.wordpress.org/Output_Compression | |
| # http://www.perun.net/2009/06/06/wordpress-websites-beschleuinigen-4-ein-zwischenergebnis/#comment-61086 | |
| # http://www.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-book-1/performance-optimization-for-websites-part-2-of-2/ | |
| # http://gtmetrix.com/configure-entity-tags-etags.html | |
| # http://de.slideshare.net/walterebert/die-htaccessrichtignutzenwchh2014 | |
| # http://de.slideshare.net/walterebert/mehr-performance-fr-wordpress | |
| # https://andreashecht-blog.de/4183/ |
| -- Lua 5.1+ base64 v3.0 (c) 2009 by Alex Kloss <[email protected]> | |
| -- licensed under the terms of the LGPL2 | |
| -- character table string | |
| local b='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/' | |
| -- encoding | |
| function enc(data) | |
| return ((data:gsub('.', function(x) | |
| local r,b='',x:byte() |
| class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController | |
| respond_to :json | |
| def create | |
| user = User.new(params[:user]) | |
| if user.save | |
| render :json=> user.as_json(:auth_token=>user.authentication_token, :email=>user.email), :status=>201 | |
| return | |
| else |
| // Two ways to serve transparent GIF | |
| var buf = new Buffer([ | |
| 0x47, 0x49, 0x46, 0x38, 0x39, 0x61, 0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, | |
| 0x80, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2c, | |
| 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, | |
| 0x02, 0x44, 0x01, 0x00, 0x3b]); | |
| res.send(buf, { 'Content-Type': 'image/gif' }, 200); |
| /* | |
| * object.watch polyfill | |
| * | |
| * 2012-04-03 | |
| * | |
| * By Eli Grey, http://eligrey.com | |
| * Public Domain. | |
| * NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. | |
| */ |