aeurielesn

<?php
#source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2934563/how-to-decode-unicode-escape-sequences-like-u00ed-to-proper-utf-8-encoded-char

function replace_unicode_escape_sequence($match) {
    return mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*', $match[1]), 'UTF-8', 'UCS-2BE');
}

function unicode_decode($str) {
    return preg_replace_callback('/\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i', 'replace_unicode_escape_sequence', $str);
}

oodavid

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

stof

fos_js_routing:
    routes_to_expose:
        - "^api_.*" # expose all routes with a name starting with api_

Ocramius

<?php

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;

/**
 * @ORM\Entity()
 * @ORM\Table(name="user")
 */
class User

ralphcrisostomo

/** 
Problem:

You have a javascript array that likely has some duplicate values and you would like a count of those values.
Solution:

Try this schnippet out.
*/

tawfekov

<?php
include '../vendor/autoload.php';
$classLoader = new \Doctrine\Common\ClassLoader('Entities', __DIR__);
$classLoader->register();

$classLoader = new \Doctrine\Common\ClassLoader('Proxies', __DIR__);
$classLoader->register();

// config
$config = new \Doctrine\ORM\Configuration();

jareware

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

jalbertbowden

/**
 * Position icons into circle (SO)
 * http://stackoverflow.com/q/12813573/1397351 
 */
.circle-container {
	position: relative;
	width: 24em;
	height: 24em;
	padding: 2.8em; /*= 2em * 1.4 (2em = half the width of an img, 1.4 = sqrt(2))*/
	border: dashed 1px;

ebruning

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5082738/ios-calling-app-delegate-method-from-viewcontroller
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4399611/force-iphone-app-to-restart-programmatically


// call delegate method
MainClass *appDelegate = (MainClass *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
[appDelegate.viewController resetAppToFirstController];

- (void)resetAppToFirstController
{

cferdinandi

/**
 * Stop an iframe or HTML5 <video> from playing
 * @param  {Element} element The element that contains the video
 */
var stopVideo = function ( element ) {
	var iframe = element.querySelector( 'iframe');
	var video = element.querySelector( 'video' );
	if ( iframe ) {
		var iframeSrc = iframe.src;
		iframe.src = iframeSrc;