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davepeck / yaml2json.py

Created March 3, 2011 00:18

My dumb script to convert yaml files to json files. Use stdin/stdout.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import sys
	import yaml
	import json

	# Assumed we want to use stdin and stdout
	print json.dumps(yaml.load(sys.stdin.read()), indent=4)

davepeck / mass_assignment_sucks.rb

Created February 17, 2011 21:33

Shove this in your Rails 3 config/initializers/ to raise exceptions on bad mass assignment attempts

	unless Rails.env.production?
	module ActiveModel
	class IllegalMassAssignment < StandardError
	end

	module MassAssignmentSecurity
	module Sanitizer
	def warn!(invalid_keys)
	raise ActiveModel::IllegalMassAssignment, "You attempted to mass-assign: #{invalid_keys.join(', ')}"
	end

davepeck / using_libarchive.m

Created February 1, 2011 17:20

How to use libarchive to unextract on iOS

	/* call processNextArchiveEntry in some kind of loop! */
	- (int)processNextArchiveEntry:(struct archive *)archive
	{
	struct archive_entry *entry = NULL;
	int result = ARCHIVE_OK;

	result = archive_read_next_header(archive, &entry);

	if (result == ARCHIVE_OK)
	{

davepeck / extractors.py

Created January 22, 2011 00:45

A scrapy link extractor that uses BeautifulSoup

	import re

	from scrapy.link import Link
	from urlparse import urljoin
	from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

	class SoupLinkExtractor(object):
	def __init__(self, args, *kwargs):
	super(SoupLinkExtractor, self).__init__()
	allow_re = kwargs.get('allow', None)

davepeck / what.md

Created January 15, 2011 02:27

Neato

Foo bar biz bazz!

davepeck / git-confusion.md

Created April 29, 2010 01:43

What is git trying to tell me?

I don't understand Git.

Why am I told I'm ahead of origin/master by 1 commit?

Why does it go away after what appears to be a no-op git push?

Here's an example interaction with git:

dave@machine ~/dev/project > git status

davepeck / pomodoro_growl.sh

Created February 12, 2010 02:18

	#!/bin/sh

	## script POMODORO for OSX! ##
	# #
	# requires the GNU gdate command to format dates #
	# it's available through macports, in the coreutils package #
	# this script also requires Growl to display notifications #
	# #
	# Times are coded as follows: #
	# @ long break : 30 minutes #

davepeck / yubnub.sh

Created August 31, 2009 00:05

On OSX, invoke yubnub directly from the command line. (I alias this file to 'y' so, for example, 'y gim dave peck')

	#!/bin/bash
	open "http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=$(echo -n "$*")"

davepeck / BinaryDataScanner.h

Created April 27, 2009 04:35

Two simple Objective-C classes that make it crazy easy to read data from sequential binary files.

	//
	// BinaryDataScanner.m
	//
	// Copyright 2009 Dave Peck <davepeck [at] davepeck [dot] org>. All rights reserved.
	// http://davepeck.org/
	//
	// This class makes it quite a bit easier to read sequential binary files in Objective-C.
	//
	// This code is released under the BSD license. If you use it in your product, please
	// let me know and, if possible, please put me in your credits.

davepeck / FlickDynamics.h

Created April 24, 2009 00:26

Objective-C code that mimics the flick-to-scroll behavior found in iPhone scrolling views. This code is independent of coordinate system, animation rate, and the specific UI context you're working with -- perfect especially for getting good scrolling beha

	//
	// FlickDynamics.h
	// (c) 2009 Dave Peck <davepeck [at] davepeck [dot] org>
	// http://davepeck.org/
	//
	// This code is released under the BSD license. If you use my code in your product,
	// please put my name somewhere in the credits and let me know about it!
	//
	// This code mimics the scroll/flick dynamics of the iPhone UIScrollView.
	// What's cool about this code is that it is entirely independent of any iPhone

Dave Peck davepeck

I don't understand Git.