boxfoot

/*
* Apex doesn't expose dependent picklist info directly, but it's possible to expose.
* Approach:
*  * Schema.PicklistEntry doesn't expose validFor tokens, but they are there, and can be accessed by serializing to JSON
*    (and then for convenience, deserializing back into an Apex POJO)
*  * validFor tokens are converted from base64 representations (e.g. gAAA) to binary (100000000000000000000)
*    each character corresponds to 6 bits, determined by normal base64 encoding rules.
*  * The binary bits correspond to controlling values that are active - e.g. in the example above, this dependent option
*    is available for the first controlling field only.
* 

max-mapper

Note: this rough draft has turned into https://github.com/maxogden/art-of-node#art-of-node

go to https://github.com/maxogden/art-of-node#art-of-node to view the newer versions of this document

Introduction to Node.js

Table of contents

• Understanding node
• Core modules

danparsons

How to stream the London 2012 Olympics

There have been several HOWTOs posted regarding streaming the 2012 Olympics using HTTP / SOCKS proxies via SSH and other similar methods. None of these actually work using the latest Flash on Mountain Lion (with Firefox, Chrome or Safari). Additionally, the third-party streaming sites don't provide BBC's amazing interface, which lets you quickly skip to individual competitors and events. However, setting up an OpenVPN server does work, with some tweaks. You'll get the exact same UX that people in England receive.

• Get a Linode VM in the UK. The 512MB server for $20 works just fine. (If you want to use my referral link, go for it: http://bit.ly/OuzdVe)

• Follow the standard OpenVPN installation documentation. (Basically, 'apt-get install openvpn' or 'yum install openvpn' and then follow these docs: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html). For an OS X client, I prefer Viscosity: http://www.thesparklabs

thesharp

Quick virtualenv fix on Mountain Lion

Overview

It appears that Apple somehow broke Python in Mountain Lion, so even with the latest Command Line Tools and Xcode 4.4 virtualenv won't properly work. During virtual environment creation it will try to install easy_install inside /Library hierarchy. So let's give it a quick workaround. Let's install custom python into your $HOME-directory using pythonbrew!

Installing proper Command Line Tools

Without the Apple Mac Developer account you won't even see the proper download link for the latest CL Tools and the old one won't work on ML. So here's the link: http://goo.gl/iBTXh. It points towards the Apple website so don't worry.

statico

How to use a PS3 controller on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

1. Open Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Bluetooth and disable Bluetooth on Mac as well as any other nearby Macs or devices which will try to pair with and confuse the controller.

2. Reset PS3 controller by inserting paperclip into pinhole near L2 button.

3. Connect PS3 controller to Mac with USB cable.

4. Enable Bluetooth.

wolever

Below are some issues we encountered during our first real deployment of gevent. It is being used on one host to communicate over ethernet (ie, using raw ethernet packets) with approximately 700 PIC32 microprocessors, and it is used for communication between all of the services we have built (approximately 15 unique services running on two hosts).

• The majority of the issues we faced were caused by a particular service which communicates with a child process over stdin/stdout. Not all of the issues were gevent specific (for example, when the child wasn't properly selecting on stdout, the kernel was silently dropping data when its internal buffer filled up, even though fwrite reported that the data had been written).
• We are using gevent-0.13.7 with libevent-2.0.x. I would like to be using gevent-1.0, but it was causing some issues (I don't recall exactly what they were) on OS X, so we rolled back to 0.13.7.
• libevent-1.4.13-stable (packages with Debian stable 6.0.4) would, under moderate l

bhang

#!/bin/bash

# node.js using PPA (for statsd)
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm

# Install git to get statsd
sudo apt-get install git

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

froots

if (typeof (AC) === "undefined") {
    AC = {}
}
AC.ImageReplacer = Class.create({
    _defaultOptions: {
        listenToSwapView: true,
        filenameRegex: /(.*)(\.[a-z]{3}($|#.*|\?.*))/i,
        filenameInsert: "_☃x",
        ignoreCheck: /(^http:\/\/movies\.apple\.com\/|\/105\/|\/global\/elements\/quicktime\/|_(([2-9]|[1-9][0-9]+)x|nohires)(\.[a-z]{3})($|#.*|\?.*))/i,
        attribute: "data-hires",

henrik

Install ImageMagick for image conversion:

brew install imagemagick

Install tesseract for OCR:

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Or install without --all-languages and install them manually as needed.