Daniel Miller dealingwith

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dealingwith / hack

Created September 25, 2010 23:06

	//force redraw for FF hot topic scrolling issue
	//longer-term solution here is rework the markup towards more sanity
	Collecta.Client.do_hot_topics_redraw = true;
	$("#hot_topics").scroll(function(){
	console.log("scroll");
	//don't be doing this every scroll event,
	//that's just a waste of good CPU
	if (Collecta.Client.do_hot_topics_redraw === true) {
	setTimeout(function() {
	console.log("doing redraw");

dealingwith / gist:883958

Created March 23, 2011 20:57

example sass

	.goal_container {
	background: #fff;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	padding: 0 0 10px 0;
	border: 1px solid $main_border;
	width: 375px;
	@include box-shadow(rgba(0,0,0,0.1), -2px, 2px, 4px);
	@include border-radius;

	&:hover {

dealingwith / gist:883967

Created March 23, 2011 21:01

example backbone

	Todoblin.Views.Stage = Backbone.View.extend({
	initialize: function() {
	var self = this;
	this.completedTasks = 0;
	_.bindAll(this, "render", "fetchGoals", "fetchRewards", "fetchPoints", "pointsUpdate");
	this.render();
	$("#goals").bind("points.update", function() {
	self.completedTasks ++;
	if(self.completedTasks % 3 == 0) {
	new Todoblin.Views.Notice();

dealingwith / gist:978655

Created May 18, 2011 14:17

	WARNING: Could not read configuration. Using defaults (and options).
	No such file or directory - /Users/danielmiller/Documents/workspace/djdc/2010/_config.yml
	Auto-regenerating enabled: /Users/danielmiller/Documents/workspace/djdc/2010 -> /Users/danielmiller/Documents/workspace/djdc/2010/_site
	[2011-05-17 22:44:25] regeneration: 119 files changed
	/Users/danielmiller/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p302/gems/home_run-1.0.2/lib/date/format.rb:663: [BUG] Segmentation fault
	ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-darwin10.3.0]

	-- control frame ----------
	c:0030 p:---- s:0241 b:0241 l:000240 d:000240 CFUNC :_ragel_parse
	c:0029 p:0017 s:0237 b:0237 l:000236 d:000236 METHOD /Users/danielmiller/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p302/gems/home_run-1.0.2/lib/date/format.rb:663

dealingwith / gist:1032122

Created June 17, 2011 19:31

dealingwith / gist:1066514

Created July 6, 2011 03:43

"this code is overly clever"

	// some shows have multiple times seperated by commas
	// if there is no comma, split just returns an array with the single value in it
	// this code is overly clever
	todays_showtimes = todays_showtimes[0].split(",");

dealingwith / gist:1085413

Created July 15, 2011 19:49

dealingwith / gist:3890461

Created October 15, 2012 02:00


	// be able to sort show list
	$("#showlist_list").sortable();


	// reapply zebra striping to show list after resorting
	$("#showlist_list").bind("sortupdate", function(event, ui) {
	// construct order array
	var sort_array = [];
	$("#showlist_list li").each(function(){

dealingwith / gist:5455201

Created April 24, 2013 20:15

	modelLoadedCount: 0,

	incrementAndCheckModelLoadedCount: function() {
	this.modelLoadedCount++;
	// do this better than hardcoding the count.
	// maybe store models in an object or array and do a count?
	// i don't like that idea any better than this at the moment
	if (this.modelLoadedCount === 2) {
	this.allModelsLoaded();
	}

dealingwith / gist:5681859

Created May 30, 2013 22:44

Undo the tweaked out Rdio designer's recent updates as best as I could