Alexander Rutz animaux

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution

Getting Started

I recently made my first map with MapBox's new WebGL+JavaScript API. There aren't many examples of how to do this yet, even on MapBox's API page, so I'll document my own experience here.

The Van Gogh Map

My map is made of several textures taken from Van Gogh paintings. The long-term goal is to allow a user to select which artworks they want to take textures from, but for now there is just one setting.

Why are we changing maps?

Git-workflow vs feature branching

When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.

If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.

I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc

Sans jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

	<?php

	// You run it with php-cli
	// i.e. php-cli import.php

	// I usually run in on the server via ssh.
	// I also usually put my scripts into manifest (to protect them from http access)

	// This scripts imports data from a csv...

	<?php

	/**
	* Custom Datasource Skeleton
	*
	* A bare-bones example of a custom datasource for use with Symphony 2.3
	*
	* @author: Ian Young
	* @email: [email protected]
	* @date: 12.01.2014

	// the location we want to GeoCode
	var location = 'London';

	// we are using MapQuest's Nominatim service
	var geocode = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/search?format=json&q=' + location;

	// use jQuery to call the API and get the JSON results
	$.getJSON(geocode, function(data) {
	// get lat + lon from first match
	var latlng = [data[0].lat, data[0].lon]

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
	<xsl:template match="/">

	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><</xsl:text>!DOCTYPE html<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">></xsl:text>

	<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
	<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html lang="en" class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html lang="en" class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"> <![endif]-->

	var arr = ['a','b','c'];


	// 1. LOOKING AHEAD
	// -----------------------------
	for (var i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
	var next = arr[ (i+1) % arr.length ]; // <= THE MAGIC
	console.log(arr[i], "->", next);
	}

	launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
	killall SystemUIServer