Chris Essig csessig86

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Tabletop.js is a fantastic, open-source JavaScript library that lets developers easily integrate data from Google Spreadsheets into their online projects. I've used it, even contributed a minor feature, and love it for prototyping. Non-programmers love being able to update a project via Google Spreadsheets' hyper-intuitive interface.

That said, I'm extraordinarily wary of using Tabletop in production. Instead, at the Wall Street Journal, we use a bit of middleware to "prune" our Google Spreadsheets-based data and then cache it on our own servers. A few brief reasons:

Short-Term Reliability. With Tabletop, your project depends on Google not to rate-limit access to your spreadsheet. Google rate-limits access to their Spreadsheet API, though the thresholds aren't clear. If you're building an app you care about, you don't want to be i

Building GDAL 1.9.x with ESRI FileGDB support on OS X Lion

Download the SDK from ESRI's website http://resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/file-gdb-api
Extract the SDK, and put the contents of the directory in a known location, I used ~/local/filegdb. Here's an example path to one of the files: ~/local/filegdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.dylib
I use ~/local/filegdb so it can stay isolated in it's own place. You can put it anywhere, but the next few steps might be different.
Go into the directory containing the FileGDB SDK, e.g. ~/local/filegdb
ESRI built these dylib's using @rpath's, so to avoid needing to mess with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, I updated the @rpath's using install_name_tool. There might be a more elegant way to handle this. If so, comments are welcome!
Here are the commands I used to patch the dylibs, this is not required if you want to use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH yourself:

Learning python/django

In my quest to learn how to use python within the django framework, the most difficult thing was the development environment, and getting to the point where I could ~~play~~ learn, practice and experiment. Here are some steps that I took to get to that point.

I’ll add to this as I can, but mostly I’m using it as a handy resource that I can access while continuing to learn.

SETUP DJANGO PROJECT IN MY MAC OS DEV ENV

Cribbed from my notes and this blog post.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
	content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

	<script src="jquery-1.7.2.min.js" ></script>
	<script src="handlebars-1.0.0.beta.6.js" ></script>
	<script src="underscore-min.js" ></script>
	<script src="backbone-min.js" ></script>

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	var geojson = L.geoJson(data, {

	// style for all vector layers (color, opacity, etc.) (optional)
	getStyle: function (feature) {
	return feature.properties && feature.properties.style;
	},

	// function for creating layers for GeoJSON point features (optional)
	pointToLayer: function (feature, latlng) {
	return L.marker(latlng, {

	# We will be using the Python library Beautiful Soup
	# To scrape the information
	import urllib2
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	import re

	# Note: This arrest log is available at:
	# http://chrisessig.com/arrestlog.PDF
	# It was taken from the Waterloo Police Department's website:
	# http://www.waterloopolice.com/images/arrestlog.PDF

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import csv, json
	from collections import defaultdict
	r = csv.reader(open("data.csv"))
	headers = r.next()
	countries = headers[1:]
	out_rows = []
	for row in r:
	area = row[0]
	out_row = [area]

	$(function() {
	var t = $('#thetable tbody').eq(0);
	var r = t.find('tr');
	var cols= r.length;
	var rows= r.eq(0).find('td').length;
	var cell, next, tem, i = 0;
	var tb= $('<tbody></tbody>');

	while(i<rows){
	cell= 0;