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jdpaton / gist:1185359

Created September 1, 2011 03:24

NPM & HTTPS & Local caching Proxy

	npm ERR! registry error parsing json
	npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
	npm ERR! <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
	npm ERR! <html><head>
	npm ERR! <title>Proxy error: 400 Couldn't parse URL.</title>
	npm ERR! </head><body>
	npm ERR! <h1>400 Couldn't parse URL</h1>
	npm ERR! <p>The following error occurred while trying to access <strong>https://registry.npmjs.org/request</strong>:<br><br>
	npm ERR! <strong>400 Couldn't parse URL</strong></p>
	npm ERR! <hr>Generated Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:22:34 PDT by Polipo on <em>Manitoba:8123</em>.

jdpaton / gist:2210886

Created March 27, 2012 00:09

Generate a random lowercase string with at least one number

python -c "import random; x = [random.choice('23456789') for x in range(1)] + [ random.choice('abcdefghjkmnpqrstwxyz') for x in range(3)]; random.shuffle(x); print ''.join(x)"

jdpaton / humans.txt

Created September 29, 2012 07:58 — forked from ryanflorence/static_server.js

Node.JS + Foundation CSS static file web server. Put it in your path to fire up servers in any directory, takes an optional port argument.

	/* Foundation was made by ZURB, an interaction design and design strategy firm in Campbell, CA */
	/* zurb.com */
	/* humanstxt.org */

	/* SITE */
	Standards: HTML5, CSS3
	Components: jQuery, Orbit, Reveal
	Software: Coda, Textmate, Git

jdpaton / fork.c

Created October 25, 2012 18:40

Fork x number of child processes which have a set lifetime

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>

	static int expiry = 30;

	int main(int argc, char *argv[]){

	int k = *argv[1];
	int i=0;

jdpaton / corvette.sh

Created October 26, 2012 07:24

Encrypted file using image steganography

	#!/bin/bash

	# Author: [email protected]

	# COMMANDS

	# create: Args: <path to image file> <path to plain file>
	# Encrypts a file using the GPG utility, then zips it up and embeds
	# it into the image file

jdpaton / n4watcher.js

Created November 27, 2012 08:31

Nexus 4 watcher ... email alerts version

	var email = require('emailjs');
	var cheerio = require('cheerio');
	var request = require('request');

	var url8GB = 'https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_8gb';
	var url16GB = 'https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16gb';

	var defaultState = 'UNKNOWN';
	var trackingState8GB = defaultState;
	var trackingState16GB = defaultState;

jdpaton / go-server-result

Created February 27, 2013 08:31

use res.write(buf) instead: http://techblog.safaribooksonline.com/2013/02/22/go-as-an-alternative-to-node-js-for-very-fast-servers/

	± for i in {1..10}; do ./wrk http://localhost:8000 -c 100 \| grep Requests \| awk '{print $2}';done \| awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
	5329.22

jdpaton / app.js

Created May 22, 2013 06:56

Simply return any custom HTTP code by supplying the url param ?code=302

	var url = require('url');
	var http = require('http');
	var querystring = require('querystring');

	// Example usage: curl -I http://localhost:1337/?code=500
	http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	var purl = url.parse(req.url).query;
	var qs = querystring.parse(purl);

	var status_code = qs.code \|\| 200;

jdpaton / git-split-subfolder.sh

Created August 27, 2013 20:49

This script splits a subfolder of an existing git repo into its own separate repo. It will preserve all tags by default, and any branches specified with '-b'. Usage example: ./git-split-subfolder.sh -p git://repo.com/foo -services -s mysubfolder -b "branch1 branch2 branch3" The new repo 'mysubfolder' will be in the $CWD.

	#!/bin/bash
	set -e

	usage() {
	cat << EOF
	usage: $0 [options]

	This script splits an existing folder inside of a git repo into its own
	separate git repo, optionally preserving all existing tags and branches from the
	parent repo.

jdpaton / git-clone-or-update.sh

Last active December 21, 2015 23:38

Clones or updates and checks out the appropriate branch while checking for existence of either.

	#!/bin/bash
	TARGET_DIR=${1:-"./new-repo"}
	BRANCH=${2:-"master"}
	REPO=${3:-"git://repo/name.git"}

	if [ -e "${TARGET_DIR}" ]
	then
	pushd $TARGET_DIR
	git fetch
	exists=$(git show-branch $BRANCH > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?)

Jamie jdpaton