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cburgmer / gist:862398

Created March 9, 2011 15:32

Extracting a file with Solr & Tika for indexing using Python

	import json
	import os
	import urllib2

	from poster.encode import multipart_encode
	from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers

	# Register poster to urllib2
	register_openers()

cburgmer / validator-steps.py

Created April 17, 2011 13:52

Using Selenium to validate XHTML markup using lettuce

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import re
	from lettuce import world, step, before
	from lettuce_webdriver.util import find_field
	from lettuce_webdriver import webdriver # We need this to register "I visit..."
	from nose.tools import assert_true
	from selenium import webdriver
	from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile

	@before.all

cburgmer / example.py

Created June 1, 2011 17:59

Using proper timezone information with SuRF

	from datetime import datetime
	# Get the UTC tzinfo object, alternatively use the solution from http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#tzinfo-objects
	from pytz import utc

	my_article = Article()
	# Save timestamp "now" as UTC
	my_article.dc_created = datetime.now(utc)
	my_article.save()

cburgmer / gist:1121011

Created August 2, 2011 19:39

Here is a quick snippet how to test if overflow is happening in a DOM element, shamelessly taken from http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/.

	// Check if overflow happens for a given jquery element
	function check_overflow(element) {
	var element_clone = element.clone();

	element.after(element_clone.hide().css({
	'position': 'absolute',
	'width': 'auto',
	'overflow': 'visible',
	'max-width': 'inherit'
	}));

cburgmer / Area.java

Created October 4, 2011 17:36

OOPExercise3

	public class Area extends Measurement {
	public Area(int value) {
	super(value);
	}
	}

cburgmer / SpecRunner.html

Created April 3, 2012 19:37

Using Gradle & ANT to get JUnit XML results (e.g. from Jasmine) in HTML

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Jasmine Spec Runner</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../lib/jasmine-1.1.0/jasmine.css">
	<script type="text/javascript" src="../lib/jasmine-1.1.0/jasmine.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="../lib/jasmine.junit_reporter.js"></script>
	</head>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	jasmine.getEnv().addReporter(new jasmine.JUnitXmlReporter('../../build/reports/jasmine/', false)); // don't consolidate so that JUnitReport can pick up the XML

cburgmer / wiki2text.py

Created April 18, 2012 21:07

Mediawiki markup to text converter that operates on dumps

	import sys
	import logging

	from lxml import etree

	# Install from https://github.com/erikrose/pijnu & https://github.com/erikrose/mediawiki-parser
	from pijnu.library.error import IncompleteParse
	from preprocessor import make_parser as make_preprocessor_parser
	from text import make_parser

cburgmer / htmlparser.js

Created June 5, 2012 20:46

John Resig's JavasScript HTML parser with bug fixes for parsing <script> & <style>

	/*
	* HTML Parser By John Resig (ejohn.org)
	* Original code by Erik Arvidsson, Mozilla Public License
	* http://erik.eae.net/simplehtmlparser/simplehtmlparser.js
	*
	* // Use like so:
	* HTMLParser(htmlString, {
	* start: function(tag, attrs, unary) {},
	* end: function(tag) {},
	* chars: function(text) {},

cburgmer / example.html

Created June 20, 2012 21:37

Minimal example for rasterizeHTML.js

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>rasterizeHTML.js example</title>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/htmlparser.js"></script> <!-- Needed for Chrome & Safari to work around buggy XMLSerializer -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/cssParser.js"></script> <!-- Needed to embed backgroundImages -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/URI.js"></script> <!-- Needed to calculate paths when embedding stuff -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="rasterizeHTML.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>

cburgmer / binaryfile.js

Created July 4, 2012 20:36

Reading a binary file through AJAX

	// See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/XMLHttpRequest/Sending_and_Receiving_Binary_Data
	var readBinaryFile = function (url) {
	var content, newContent = "";

	$.ajax({
	dataType: 'text',
	mimeType: 'text/plain; charset=x-user-defined',
	url: url,
	async: false,
	cache: false,

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