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Books

General Fiction and Non-Fiction

1. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty (Radiolab?)
2. An Economist Gets Lunch
3. Exit Voice and Loyalty - A O Hischman
4. The Rook - Kevin O'Malley. Dad recommends.
5. 14 Minutes - Alberto Salazar (distance runner. NYorker article)
6. Monkey Love - by Robert S. on Radiolab

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Ben Jacobs

Web and Mobile Developer

815 West Princeton Ave / Fresno, CA 93705
(559) 286 - 5662
[email protected]

Summary

• A web and mobile developer comfortable working in a variety of platforms such as PHP, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, Objective-C, Delphi, SQL, MongoDB, Joomla Framework, and Symfony Framework

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# http://www.goodreads.com/book/title.xml?author=Roberto+Bola%C3%B1o&key=Iz76TB8T47u8g4T90VKg&title=Savage+Detectives&format=json

body = urllib.urlencode({ 'author' : 'Karen Russel', 'title' : 'Swamplandia', 'format' : 'json' })
response, content = client.request('%s/book/title.xml' % url,
                                    'GET', body, headers)


body = urllib.urlencode({'name': 'read', 'book_id': 8584686})
headers = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
response, content = client.request('%s/shelf/add_to_shelf.xml' % url,

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import oauth2 as oauth
import urlparse

url = 'http://www.goodreads.com'
request_token_url = '%s/oauth/request_token/' % url
authorize_url = '%s/oauth/authorize/' % url
access_token_url = '%s/oauth/access_token/' % url

consumer = oauth.Consumer(key='Your-GoodReads-Key',
                          secret='Your-GoodReads-Secret')

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf8 -*-

import oauth2 as oauth
import urlparse
import os
import urllib
import sys
import json
from pprint import pprint

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http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/doctrine.html#saving-related-entities

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<?php
foreach ($_FILES as $file) {
  switch($file['error']) {
		case UPLOAD_ERR_INI_SIZE:
			error_log("The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini. : " . $file['name']);
			break;

		case UPLOAD_ERR_FORM_SIZE:
 			error_log("The uploaded file exceeds the MAX_FILE_SIZE directive that was specified in the HTML form. " . $file['name']);

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/*
I'm converting an existing web-app to angular. We made extensive use of the
Google Visualization library in the past. It's a powerful, although
complicated API, so I was anxious to get it wrapped up in angular. This
populates a table with data returned from a custome service 'Account'
*/

'use strict';

/* Directives */

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<h2>{{ transaction.Title || "Transactions" }}</h2>

<label for="selectedYear">View transactions from: </label>
<select name="selectedYear" ng-model="selectedYear">
	<option ng-repeat="year in years">{{year}}</option>
</select>

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<h1>Alert</h1>
<p>Bootstrap JS</p>
<div class="alert fade in">
  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
  <strong>Holy guacamole!</strong> Best check yo self, you're not looking too good.
</div>

<p></p><a ng-click="alert=true">Open Alert (AngularJS)</a></p>
<div class="alert fade" ng-class="{in:alert}">
  <button type="button" class="close" ng-click="alert=false">×</button>