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# bootstrap button helpers, iconified
# known to work with gem "bootstrap-sass", ">= 2.3.0.0"

  def iconified_link_to(icon, body, url, html_options = {})
    # not a button, see below
    link_to url, html_options do
      "#{content_tag(:i, nil, :class => icon.to_s )}  #{body}".html_safe
    end
  end
  

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class LocShortener
  @@shortening_file = 'shortening.yaml'
  @@shortenings = {}
  yamlstr = File.read(@@shortening_file)
  YAML.load(yamlstr).each {|k,v| @@shortenings[Regexp.new(k,Regexp::IGNORECASE)] = v}
  
  class << self
  
    def shortenings
      @@shortenings

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#!/bin/bash

unload() {
	kextstat | grep "org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sudo kextunload -b org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB
	kextstat | grep "org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sudo kextunload -b org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt
	kextstat | grep "org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sudo kextunload -b org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp
	kextstat | grep "org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sudo kextunload -b org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv
}

load() {

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Requirements

• bootstrap with typeahead
• jquery

Explanation

This will use bootstrap with typeahead to create an autocomplete search.

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# very simple csv to xml convert, targeted for ruby 2.0 + 
# depends on activesupport 4 gem which add #to_xml method to hash and array

require 'csv'

require "active_support/core_ext"

if ARGV.length < 1 || ARGV[0] == "-h"
  puts "usage : ruby csv2xml.rb myfile.csv > myfile.xml"

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""dbf2csv.py
   DRAFT 4/14/2015 PS Bills, ICER
   example python code to read DBF and write to standard CSV.  
   Requires dbfread python package installed ( http://dbfread.readthedocs.org )
   and Python 2.7 or greater
   
   Example usage :   
        python dbconvert.py MYFILE.DBF 

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#!/usr/bin/env python                                                           
import numpy
import sys
import timeit

try:
    import numpy.core._dotblas
    print( 'FAST BLAS')
except ImportError:
    print( 'slow blas')

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#!/bin/bash

# examine all files names in current directory and emit a 'mv' command to rename
# if the filename has non alphanumeric in it, other than dot or underscore

# first loop  all files, could use find for this, since loop isn'te recursive

for f in *.*; do 
  # if filename has bad chars 
  if [[ $f =~ [^a-zA-Z0-9_\.] ]]; then

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# fix names
# toy program that looks for non-windows-friendly file names on an OS X system and emits "mv" commands to rename them.  
# checks that files are uniquely named.  Does not check for length of file path
# run the mv commands to make the changes
# TEST before using; no guarantees; in Public domain

import re
import os, sys
# 
# illegal chars

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import urllib2
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET


def getforecast(zipcode):
    """gets current forecast from wunderground"""
    url='http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/ForecastXML/index.xml?query={}'
    forecastxml = urllib2.urlopen(url.format(zipcode)).read()