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jim / match_markup.rb
Created October 1, 2008 16:24
blog post: http://autonomousmachine.com/2008/10/1/simple-rspec-markup-matcher
module Spec
module Matchers
module Markup
class MatchMarkup
def initialize(expected)
@expected = expected
end
def matches?(target)
@target = target
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jim / gist:14116
Created October 1, 2008 16:45
blog post: http://autonomousmachine.com/2008/10/1/simple-rspec-markup-matcher
it "should wrap with a div" do
input = <<-HTML
<p>
In order to attain the greatest possible clearness,
let us return to our example of the railway carriage supposed
to be travelling uniformly.
</p>
HTML
output = <<-HTML
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jim / gist:17437
Created October 17, 2008 15:08
$("div#featured_navigation a").click(function () {
$(this).effect("highlight", { color: "#a7d6ee" }, 500);
var id = '#' + $(this).attr('id').replace('_nav', '');
if (!$(id).is(':visible')) {
$(".boxclass:visible").fadeOut(1000, function(){$(id).fadeIn(1000)})
}
});
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jim / official_usps_abbreviations.rb
Created November 26, 2008 15:42
From http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html
# includes some technically sovereign countries that are on the official USPS list
# as well as territories
ABBREVIATIONS = {
"Alabama" => "AL",
"Alaska" => "AK",
"American Samoa" => "AS",
"Arizona" => "AZ",
"Arkansas" => "AR",
"California" => "CA",
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jim / txt_twitter
Created November 30, 2008 17:30
define('TWITTER_USERNAME', 'testfacer'); // your twitter username
define('TWITTER_PASSWORD', 'testfacer'); // your twitter password
// post to twitter for these sections
// separate more than one with just a comma: 'articles,about,etc'
define('TWITTER_SECTIONS', 'articles');
// setup a callback so we're notified when an article is edited
if (@txpinterface == 'admin') {
global $txpcfg;
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jim / auto_expire.php
Created November 30, 2008 17:48
<?php
// setup your database connection
define('MYSQL_HOST', 'localhost');
define('MYSQL_USERNAME', 'root');
define('MYSQL_PASSWORD', '');
define('MYSQL_DB', 'textpattern');
// connect to the db
$link = mysql_connect(MYSQL_HOST, MYSQL_USERNAME, MYSQL_PASSWORD) or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
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jim / gist:136131
Created June 25, 2009 20:11
$(function() {
if($.cookie('state') == 'hidden') {
$('a.hide').hide();
$('div.toBeHidden').hide();
} else {
$('a.show').hide();
}
$('a.hide').click(function() {
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jim / gist:474211
Created July 13, 2010 17:33
# see http://www.aeonscope.net/2010/02/22/managing-multiple-heroku-accounts/
# INTRODUCTION
# This script echos the active Heroku credentials (useful when switching between multiple Heroku accounts
# and remembering which one is active).
# USAGE
# ruby credentials.rb
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jim / rmem.sh
Created August 11, 2010 18:21
export RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS=1000000 export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_INCREMENT=1000000 export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR=1 export RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=1000000000 export RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN=500000; "$@"
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jim / dribble_example.html
Created November 8, 2010 18:55
Rough example for calling Dribbble API with JavaScript
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>untitled</title>
<meta name="generator" content="TextMate http://macromates.com/">
<meta name="author" content="Jim Benton">
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>