I once (c. 2010) built a terribly architected, horribly inefficent solution to create playlists which smoothly transition between extremely different artists.
Here's what it did when I asked it to go from Cradle of Filth to Regis Philbin. It took a long and winding road, but we got there!
I later tweaked some of the logic, and tried less extreme endpoints, and got slightly more reasonable results.
The following list of artists was determined to be a smooth transition from Cradle of Filth to Regis Philbin by a side project in April 2010. At the time, I noted,
!!! it took the long way around at one point...
| {% capture canonical %}{% if page.canonical %}{{ page.canonical }}{% else %}{{ site.url }}{% if site.permalink contains '.html' %}{{ page.url }}{% else %}{{ page.url | remove:'index.html' }}{% endif %}{% endif %}{% endcapture %} |
| desc "Begin a new draft in #{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}" | |
| task :new_draft, :title do |t, args| | |
| title = args.title || get_stdin("Enter a title for the draft: ") | |
| raise "### You haven't set anything up yet. First run `rake install` to set up an Octopress theme." unless File.directory?(source_dir) | |
| mkdir_p "#{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}" | |
| filename = "#{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}/#{title.to_url}.#{new_post_ext}" | |
| if File.exist?(filename) | |
| abort("rake aborted!") if ask("#{filename} already exists. Do you want to overwrite?", ['y', 'n']) == 'n' | |
| end | |
| puts "Creating new draft: #{filename}" |
| drafts_dir = "_drafts" # directory for blog draft files | |
| desc "post drafts" | |
| task :post_drafts do | |
| Dir.foreach("#{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}") do |item| | |
| itemDate = /(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})-.*.markdown/.match(item) | |
| next unless itemDate | |
| system "mv #{source_dir}/#{drafts_dir}/#{item} #{source_dir}/#{posts_dir}" if Date.strptime(itemDate[1],'%Y-%m-%d') <= Date.today | |
| end | |
| end |
| desc "pull" | |
| task :pull do | |
| system 'git pull bitbucket source' | |
| system 'cd _deploy && git pull origin master' | |
| system 'cd ..' | |
| end |
| // I described the thought processes (SOLID violations, which to fix, how and why) | |
| // in my post at http://thedevstop.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/roy-osheroves-solid-katastring-calculator-redux/ | |
| // Note that I did this in LINQPad and so instead of NUnit tests, I dumped failures | |
| // If I was to do this again, I'd either do it in VS with a test runner. | |
| void Main() | |
| { | |
| var parser = new IntsFromCommaSeparatedString(); | |
| var none = parser.Parse("").ToArray(); |
| //FightCode can only understand your robot | |
| //if its class is called Robot | |
| var Robot = function(robot) {}; | |
| var target = null; | |
| var intelAge = 0; | |
| function log1(value, caption) | |
| { |
| // Assuming you have an HttpContext named httpContext | |
| var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(httpContext.Request.RequestContext, RouteTable.Routes); | |
| var url = urlHelper.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName"); | |
| // Or you can get really explicit and include the scheme and host | |
| url = urlHelper.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName", null, httpContext.Request.Url.Scheme, httpContext.Request.Url.Host); |