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  <picker>
    <code>00000001</code>
    <created-at type="datetime">2012-02-24T19:57:17Z</created-at>
    <dob type="date" nil="true"></dob>
    <first-name>andy</first-name>
    <id type="integer">12</id>
    <last-name>smith</last-name>
    <mail-address nil="true"></mail-address>
    <mail-city nil="true"></mail-city>
    <mail-state nil="true"></mail-state>

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# this is really useful for collecting record counts into discrete buckets for visualization
(1..6).collect {|n| Query.where(['created_at > ?',Date.today-n.months]).where(['created_at < ?',Date.today-(n-1).months]).count}

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# Model:
#
# class Example < ActiveRecord::Base
# end
#
# Controller:
#
# class ExamplesController < ActionController::Base
#   def index
#     @examples = Example.filtered_scope(params[:filter])

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// GCD
#define async_main(aBlock) dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), aBlock)
#define async_global(aBlock) dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), aBlock)

// UIKit
#define Alert(aTitle,aMessage) [[[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:aTitle message:aMessage delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"OK",nil] autorelease] show]
#define NetworkAlert Alert(@"Network error",@"Please check your network connection.")

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CSV.open("users.csv","wb") {|csv| User.all.each {|user| csv << [user.email, "#{user.first_name} #{user.last_name}"]}}

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// if you don't know why this doesn't compile, find another job
int tBrains = 9;
if( tBrains<10 ) {
  int tZombies = 1;
}
tZombies += tBrains;

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/* say you have a process driven by the main thread, such as
 * a UI control, and you want the process to execute on a
 * background thread, but once it's done, you want to update
 * some UI element. that must happen on the main thread, so
 * here's an example of how you might do that
 */

- (IBAction)buttonClicked
{
  dispatch_async(backgroundProcessingQueue, ^{

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NSArray* set1 = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"one",@"two",@"three",nil];
NSArray* set2 = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"two",@"three",@"four",nil];

NSMutableArray* set3 = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:MIN(set1.count,set2.count)];

for (NSString* element in set1) {
  if( [set2 containsObject:element] ) {
    [set3 addObject:element];
  }
}