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mislav / pagination.md
Created October 12, 2010 17:20
"Pagination 101" by Faruk Ateş

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

@lucasfais
lucasfais / gist:1207002
Created September 9, 2011 18:46
Sublime Text 2 - Useful Shortcuts

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T go to file
⌘⌃P go to project
⌘R go to methods
⌃G go to line
⌘KB toggle side bar
⌘⇧P command prompt
@paulirish
paulirish / rAF.js
Last active November 11, 2024 03:20
requestAnimationFrame polyfill
// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating
// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel
// MIT license
(function() {
var lastTime = 0;
var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];
@Irio
Irio / gist:1974023
Created March 4, 2012 17:33
Setup PostgreSQL on Fedora 16
# install server
[youruser@host]$ sudo yum install postgresql-server
# set password
[youruser@host]$ sudo passwd postgres
# create cluster
[youruser@host]$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql/
[youruser@host]$ sudo chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/
[youruser@host]$ su postgres
@paulmillr
paulmillr / active.md
Last active November 8, 2024 13:04
Most active GitHub users (by contributions). http://twitter.com/paulmillr

Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The list would not be updated for now. Don't write comments.

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Wed, 21 Sep 2022 till Thu, 21 Sep 2023.

Because of GitHub search limitations, only 1000 first users according to amount of followers are included. If you are not in the list you don't have enough followers. See raw data and source code. Algorithm in pseudocode:

githubUsers
@jaymcgavren
jaymcgavren / heroku.md
Created May 25, 2012 05:47
A Code TV screencast on getting started with Heroku

Description

Heroku is a simple way to publish your Rails app, and a powerful platform that will allow it to scale. In this episode, Jay McGavren gets you started with your first Heroku app.

Set up your Rails app

Isolate your gem environment

  • You WANT Rails to fail locally if a gem isn't in your Gemfile
@angus-c
angus-c / advice.js
Created June 3, 2012 20:12
an advice functional mixin
//usage
withAdvice.call(targetObject);
//mixin augments target object with around, before and after methods
//method is the base method, advice is the augmenting function
withAdvice: function() {
['before', 'after', 'around'].forEach(function(m) {
this[m] = function(method, advice) {
if (typeof this[method] == 'function') {
return this[method] = fn[m](this[method], advice);
@andreyvit
andreyvit / tmux.md
Created June 13, 2012 03:41
tmux cheatsheet

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

@ahmdrefat
ahmdrefat / scraper.rb
Created June 13, 2012 19:21
Script to scrape front pages images of newspapers form http://kiosko.net/
require "fileutils"
require "open-uri"
require "RMagick"
class Scraper
def self.get_issues
# the dates the issues to scrape
year = 2010
@numeroteca
numeroteca / kiosko-newspaper-names
Created June 22, 2012 05:41
Script by rporres (https://metacpan.org/author/RPORRES) for getting Newspaper names and countries from Kiosko.net
#to use it write "$ ./parse_kiosko.pl <lang>" where 'lang' is the language: en, es or fr
#it will output a csv. see example at http://brownbag.me:9001/p/pageonex-kiosko-newspaper-names
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::TreeBuilder 5 -weak;