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alecperkins / gist:943636

Created April 27, 2011 02:47

Translate mobile Safari touch events to mouse events

	// from http://ross.posterous.com/2008/08/19/iphone-touch-events-in-javascript

	function touchHandler(event)
	{
	var touches = event.changedTouches,
	first = touches[0],
	type = "";
	switch(event.type)
	{
	case "touchstart": type = "mousedown"; break;

alecperkins / style.css

Created July 13, 2011 22:02

Basic variable-length args for a Sass mixin

	div.foo-section h2, div.bar-section h2 { height: 20px; padding-left: 30px; background-position: left top; }

	div.foo-section h2.my { background-image: url("images/my.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.very { background-image: url("images/very.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.excellent { background-image: url("images/excellent.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.mother { background-image: url("images/mother.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.just { background-image: url("images/just.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.sent { background-image: url("images/sent.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.us { background-image: url("images/us.png"); }
	div.foo-section h2.nine { background-image: url("images/nine.png"); }

alecperkins / app.coffee

Created July 15, 2011 20:01

3-player ROCKPAPERSCISSORSLIZARDSPOCK, a Pad Hacker test

	choices = [
	{ name: 'rock', beats: ['scissors', 'lizard'] }
	{ name: 'paper', beats: ['rock', 'spock'] }
	{ name: 'scissors', beats: ['paper', 'lizard'] }
	{ name: 'lizard', beats: ['paper', 'spock'] }
	{ name: 'spock', beats: ['rock', 'scissors'] }
	]

	tbody = $('tbody')
	thead = $('thead')

alecperkins / _normalize.sass

Created October 15, 2011 22:49

Sass version of normalize.css

	// generated using `sass-convert normalize.css`

	/*! normalize.css 2011-08-12T17:28 UTC · http://github.com/necolas/normalize.css

	/* =============================================================================
	* HTML5 display definitions
	* ==========================================================================

	/*
	* Corrects block display not defined in IE6/7/8/9 & FF3

alecperkins / templates.coffee

Created October 21, 2011 15:40

Backbone template…template

	###
	## Partials

	Included in templates using CoffeeScript's string interpolation:

	partial = "<partial>content {{ foo }}</partial>"

	template = """
	<template>
	<stuff>#{ partial }</stuff>

alecperkins / gist:1326811

Created October 31, 2011 03:00 — forked from johnthedebs/gist:315777

	"""

	This fabric file makes setting up and deploying a django application much
	easier, but it does make a few assumptions. Namely that you're using Git,
	Apache and mod_wsgi and your using Debian or Ubuntu. Also you should have
	Django installed on your local machine and SSH installed on both the local
	machine and any servers you want to deploy to.

	_note that I've used the name project_name throughout this example. Replace
	this with whatever your project is called._

alecperkins / gist:1364430

Created November 14, 2011 16:56

Simulated ForeignKeys from MongoEngine Document to Django Models

	# Using the `@property` decorator allows the MongoEngine Document object to have
	# properties that reference Models, and be got/set like normal foreign keys.
	# This same pattern can work the other way and allow Models interface with
	# Documents.

	class Foo(mongoengine.Document):
	# The `id` of the property is stored in the Document.
	user_id = mongoengine.IntField()

	# Setters and getters to interface with the SQL DB and set Users to the

alecperkins / gist:1725637

Created February 2, 2012 20:40

Script usability functions

	import sys

	def yellow(*args):
	some_string = ' '.join([str(arg) for arg in args])
	return '\033[93m%s\033[0m' % (some_string,)

	def green(*args):
	some_string = ' '.join([str(arg) for arg in args])
	return '\033[92m%s\033[0m' % (some_string,)

alecperkins / gist:2083178

Created March 18, 2012 22:30

Dump content from posterous

	"""
	# Dump your data from Posterous.

	Requires:

	* Posterous username and password
	* An API Token from http://posterous.com/api
	* Posterous site id also from http://posterous.com/api
	* The Python libraries requests and python-dateutil

alecperkins / gist:2251600

Created March 30, 2012 13:35

Retina images with CSS background-image

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<style>
	div.image, div.image1x {
	width: 1024px;
	height: 768px;
	background: url(image_1x.jpg) no-repeat;
	-webkit-background-size: cover;
	}

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