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ear1grey / gist:1372741

Created November 17, 2011 08:59

Example UoP

	switch ($_GET['filter']) {
	case 0:
	// do stuff;
	break;
	case "none":
	// do otherStuff;
	break;
	}
	// case 0: triggers even when $_GET['filter'] evaluates to "none"

ear1grey / gp_imp_mod.php

Created April 24, 2012 10:28

Mod to G+ Importer Plugin

	if (isset($item->url)) {
	$post_content .= "\n\n<a href='".$item->url."'>Comment on Google+</a>";
	}

ear1grey / weekly_date.js

Created August 3, 2012 16:26

A tiny utility for creating a json array of dates 1 week apart

	/*

	A tiny utility for creating a json array of dates.
	I need this for creating year-long timetables where after an initial start
	we have a few weeks off for christmas, then easter, and these weeks differ
	each year, so the 'switches' make it easy to include weeks (signified by a 1)
	or exclude weeks (a 0)

	Note that monts start at 0 not 1 :-)

ear1grey / shrinky.js

Created August 8, 2012 11:21

Shrink text of a particular class relative to how far scrolled a page is.

	(function shrinky() {

	var q = document.querySelectorAll(".shrink");

	window.addEventListener(
	"scroll",
	function scroll () {
	var i, z = 100-(Math.min(window.pageYOffset,100)/2);
	for(i=0; i<q.length; i++) {
	q[i].style.fontSize = z+"%";

ear1grey / 2012_soc_units.json

Created September 27, 2012 19:34

soc.port.ac.uk unit codes in json

	{
	"U21277-12YR": {
	"ucode" : "U22344",
	"name" : "Web Research",
	"scode" : "WebRes"
	},
	"U22344-12YR": {
	"ucode" : "U22344",
	"name" : "Business Systems Analysis & Design",
	"scode" : "BUSAD"

ear1grey / teapot.pov

Created January 27, 2013 11:10

The Utah Teapot, with height adjusted to look like the real physical teapot.

	// This scene of the utah teapot requires no additional files. It creates a
	// picture of an elongated teapot (so that the original physical teapots
	// dimensions are honoured, and places this crockery in a plain white
	// environment.
	//
	// Utah Teapot using Bezier patches was adapted by Alexander Enzmann from
	// the original model by Martin Newell.
	// Scene created by Rich Boakes - http://boakes.org/teapot

	#declare Flat_Enough = 0.00001;

ear1grey / gist:5343332

Last active December 15, 2015 23:49 — forked from anonymous/gist:5340810

This is a slight restructuring which removes one of the HTTP calls (the null one) and moves the callback code within the addItem function, forming a closure.

	function createObject() {
	var request_type;
	var browser = navigator.appName;
	if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
	request_type = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
	}
	else{
	request_type = new XMLHttpRequest();
	}
	return request_type;

ear1grey / Dumb CSS Speed Test

Created October 15, 2013 14:45

I thought it would be interesting to see how fast (or not) some CSS selectors really are. Perhaps a framework for capturing this data and visualising it in some way (by browser / version maybe) would be useful. I tried two different ways of setting the stylesheet, one in a loop, and the other using a timeout to ensure that the UI gets a chance t…

	<!doctype html>
	<title>Dumb CSS Speed Test</title>
	<style id="x">
	</style>
	<nav>
	<ul>
	<li>1
	<ul>
	<li class="q">1</li>
	<li class="q">2</li>

ear1grey / Scope Example 1

Created October 24, 2013 12:29

A scope example for sharing...

	//varscope
	var x1 = 3;
	for (var y1=x1;y1>0; y1--) {
	var x1 = y1;
	console.log(x1);
	console.log(y1);
	}
	console.log(x1);
	console.log(y1);

ear1grey / scrape_students.js

Created February 22, 2014 22:44

Scrape the list of students on a unit from the staff portal at Uni of Portsmouth, as JSON.

	(function() {
	var i, y, result = [], x = document.querySelectorAll("input[type=checkbox]");
	for (i in x) {
	y = x[i].defaultValue;
	if (y) {
	var r = {}
	r.orig = y;
	r.email = y.split(",")[0].trim();
	r.name = y.split(",")[1].trim();
	r.jupiter = r.email.substr(2).replace('@myport.ac.uk', '');

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