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alexyoung / gist:53931

Created January 28, 2009 12:44

	hp = Helipad.new("lonnon@example.com", "password")
	source = File.read("cake_recipe.txt")
	response = hp.create(:title => "Cake",
	:tags => "recipe",
	:source => source)

	puts "Recipe saved" if response.saved?

alexyoung / Ico.js

Created January 31, 2009 11:27

	Ico.Base = Class.create({
	/* Returns a suitable set of labels for given data points on the Y axis */
	labelStep: function(data) {
	var min = data.min(),
	max = data.max(),
	range = max - min,
	step = 0;

	if (range < 2) {
	step = 0.1;

alexyoung / tumblr_sharethis.js

Created February 14, 2009 11:44

	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=lolz"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"></script>
	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
	$$('.ShareThis').each(function(element) {
	element.innerHTML = '<a class="stbutton stico_default" title="ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc." href="javascript:void(0)"><span class="stbuttontext">ShareThis</span></a>';
	var title = element.previous('h2').down('a').innerHTML;
	var url = element.previous('h2').down('a').href;

	var shareObject = SHARETHIS.addEntry({

alexyoung / tube.rb

Created March 11, 2009 09:36

	require 'net/http'
	require 'cgi'
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'xmlsimple'

	class TubeUpdates
	API_URL = 'http://api.tubeupdates.com/?method=%s&lines=%s&format=%s'

	def initialize(stations, options = {})
	@stations = stations

alexyoung / widget_example.js

Created March 11, 2009 10:15

	var listDataSource = {
	_rowData: [],

	// The List calls this method to find out how many rows should be in the list.
	numberOfRows: function() {
	return this._rowData.length;
	},

	// The List calls this method once for every row
	prepareRow: function(rowElement, rowIndex, templateElements) {

alexyoung / scrape_example.rb

Created March 24, 2009 10:53

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'hpricot'
	require 'open-uri'
	require 'cgi'

	class PlayScrape
	URL = "http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=%s&page=search&pa=search&go.x=0&go.y=0"

	def initialize
	end

alexyoung / post_example.rb

Created March 25, 2009 09:51

	require 'net/http'
	require 'uri'

	data = 'email=test@example.com&password=your_password'
	url = URI.parse('http://helipadapp.com/authenticate')
	headers = {
	'Content-Type'=> 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
	}

	http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host)

alexyoung / post_get_example.rb

Created March 25, 2009 10:03

	require 'net/http'
	require 'uri'

	data = 'email=test@example.com&password=your_password'
	url = URI.parse('http://helipadapp.com/authenticate')
	headers = {
	'Content-Type'=> 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
	}

	http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host)

alexyoung / openlayers_1.html

Created April 1, 2009 09:51

	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
	<title>OpenLayers Example</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="theme/default/style.css" type="text/css" />
	<script src="http://www.openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	var map;
	function init() {
	map = new OpenLayers.Map('map');
	var ol_wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS('OpenLayers WMS', 'http://labs.metacarta.com/wms/vmap0?', {layers: 'basic'});

alexyoung / openlayers_2.html

Created April 1, 2009 09:57

	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
	<title>OpenLayers Example</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="theme/default/style.css" type="text/css" />
	<script src="http://www.openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	var map, popup, ol_wms;
	function init() {
	function mousedown(evt) {
	if (popup == null) {

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