Jamie Dubs jamiew

American computer programmer

jamiew / vhx-megaplaya.html

Created September 14, 2011 03:18

Example of embedding VHX megaplaya and playing Vimeo videos

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Videos</title>

	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://vhx.tv/javascripts/jquery.swfobject-1.1.1.js"></script>

	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
	html, body { height: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; }

jamiew / connection_fix.rb

Created August 23, 2011 16:52 — forked from defunkt/connection_fix.rb

MySQL server has gone away fix

	# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
	# their MySQL connection.
	#
	# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
	# lost. Because, really. why not?
	#
	# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
	#
	# From:
	# http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/

jamiew / build-failed

Created July 31, 2011 21:48

A CI Joe build-failed hook that includes the test results in the email notification.

	# .git/hooks/build-failed
	echo -e "http://cijoe-server:4567\n\n" \| cat - .git/builds/last \| mail -s 'CI: Build failed!' [email protected]

jamiew / google_twunter_lol

Created July 28, 2011 20:34

All the dirty words from Google's "what do you love" project: http://www.wdyl.com/

jamiew / tumblr-photo-ripper.rb

Created July 13, 2011 17:46

Download all the images from a Tumblr blog

	# Usage:
	# [sudo] gem install mechanize
	# ruby tumblr-photo-ripper.rb

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'mechanize'

	# Your Tumblr subdomain, e.g. "jamiew" for "jamiew.tumblr.com"
	site = "doctorwho"

jamiew / devise_http_rememberable.rb

Created May 19, 2011 22:39

Monkeypatch Devise to support saving sessions via HTTP auth (e.g. via bookmarklets or browser addons)

	# config/initializers/devise_http_rememberable.rb

	# Monkeypatch Devise so HTTP authentication sets remember_user_token cookie
	# ABR: Always Be Remembering
	module Devise
	module Strategies
	class Authenticatable < Base
	def remember_me?
	# Devise's implementation of this is:
	# valid_params? && Devise::TRUE_VALUES.include?(params_auth_hash[:remember_me])

jamiew / eventmachine url expansion tests.rb

Created May 13, 2011 05:53

Noodling with different ways of expanding short URLs in bulk

jamiew / ghettovision.sh

Created May 8, 2011 07:01

Poor recreation of Pummelvision-style video animation

	#!/bin/sh

	# video, adjust for input filenames & output format+filename
	ffmpeg -r 6 -b 1800 -i "image%04d.jpg" -f webm test1800.webm

	# animated GIF
	convert -verbose -delay 20 -loop 0 -density 200 *.jpg output.gif

jamiew / capistrano_memcached_tasks.rb

Created May 6, 2011 16:11

Some handy Capistrano tasks for handling memcached. Assumes memcached runs locally on your app servers, YMMV

	# This goes in config/deploy.rb
	namespace :memcached do
	desc "Flush memcached"
	task :flush, :roles => [:app] do
	run("cd #{current_release} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} /usr/bin/rake memcached:flush")
	end

	desc "Flush memcached if there are any pending migrations (hook this before db:migrate)"
	task :flush_if_pending_migrations, :roles => [:app] do
	output = capture("cd #{current_release} && RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} /usr/bin/rake db:pending_migration_count"

jamiew / devise_http_rememberable.rb

Created May 2, 2011 00:27

Monkeypatch Devise so HTTP authentication sets remember_user_token cookie

	# config/initializers/devise_http_rememberable.rb
	# ABR: Always Be Remembering
	module Devise
	module Strategies
	class Authenticatable < Base
	def remember_me?
	# Devise's implementation of this is:
	# valid_params? && Devise::TRUE_VALUES.include?(params_auth_hash[:remember_me])
	# which only works for param authentication, not http authentication
	true