Dan Schanler danvideo

Politics, celebrity gossip, business headlines, tech punditry, odd news, and user-generated content.

These are the chew toys that have made me sad and tired and cynical.

Each, in its own way, contributes to the imperative that we constantly expand our portfolio of shallow but strongly-held opinions about nearly everything. Then we're supposed to post something about it. Somewhere.

From businesses we've never heard of, to countries we've never visited, to infants who've had the random misfortune to be born into a family that's on TV -- it's all grist for obvious jokes and shortsighted commentary that, for at least a few minutes, helps both the maker and the consumer feel a little less bored, a little less vulnerable, and a little less disconnected. For a minute, anyway, it makes us feel more alive. Does me, anyway.

Date

Year

%Y - Year with century (can be negative, 4 digits at least) -0001, 0000, 1995, 2009, 14292, etc.

%C - year / 100 (round down. 20 in 2009)
%y - year % 100 (00..99)

	=Navigating=
	visit('/projects')
	visit(post_comments_path(post))

	=Clicking links and buttons=
	click_link('id-of-link')
	click_link('Link Text')
	click_button('Save')
	click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
	click('Button Value')

	require 'time'

	class LogfileParser

	# Regexp to match the timestamps in the apache common log format
	TIME_REGEXP = /\[\d{2}\/\w{3}\/\d{4}\:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s.{5}\]/

	def initialize path, starting_at
	raise ArgumentError unless File.exists?( path )

	# This method finds related articles using Jaccard index (optimized for PostgreSQL).
	# More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index

	class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

	def related(limit=10)
	Article.find_by_sql(%Q{
	SELECT
	a.*,
	( SELECT array_agg(t.name) FROM taggings tg, tags t

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'spreadsheet'

	# Begin Test
	print "Spreadsheet Test\n"

	# Create the rows to be inserted
	row_1 = ['A1', 'B1']
	row_2 = ['A2', 'B2']

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE <YOUR_URL_HERE>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

	With Python

	cat big.json \| python -mjson.tool > ~/Desktop/big_tidy.json

	With Ruby (Keeps the order of the keys in ruby 1.9.x)

	cat big.json \| ruby -e 'require "json"; puts JSON.pretty_generate(JSON.parse(STDIN.read)) ' > big_tidy.json

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	#
	# @Name TTFB Measurer
	# @Author Rasmus Christiansen
	# @Description
	#
	# Measures the "true" loading time of a website.
	# Saves data output to an .out-file
	# Saves additional .conn and .ttfb files for easy plotting

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'apache_log_regex'
	require 'date'

	format = '%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"'
	parser = ApacheLogRegex.new(format)

	File.readlines('/path/to/access-log').collect do \|line\|