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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

How to change your commit messages in Git?

At some point you’ll find yourself in a situation where you need edit a commit message. That commit might already be pushed or not, be the most recent or burried below 10 other commits, but fear not, git has your back 🙂.

Not pushed + most recent commit:

git commit --amend

This will open your $EDITOR and let you change the message. Continue with your usual git push origin master.

Full socket.io client and server example

Last updated: 2021-02-21, tested with socket.io v3.1.1

This is the simplest implementation you will find for a client/server WebSockets architecture using socket.io.

To see a full explanation, read my answer on SO here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24232050/778272.

If you're looking for examples using frameworks, check these links:

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	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	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.

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	// convert 0..255 R,G,B values to binary string
	RGBToBin = function(r,g,b){
	var bin = r << 16 \| g << 8 \| b;
	return (function(h){
	return new Array(25-h.length).join("0")+h
	})(bin.toString(2))
	}

	// convert 0..255 R,G,B values to a hexidecimal color string
	RGBToHex = function(r,g,b){

	# The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit.
	# If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown.
	# Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object
	# and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
	git describe

	# With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the closest tagname without any suffix:
	git describe --abbrev=0

	# other examples

	//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105034/how-to-create-a-guid-uuid-in-javascript
	Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 15) + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 15);