John Hobbs jmhobbs

Polyglot programmer from the midwest. Keeper of the parrots.

jmhobbs / ios5_notify.sh

Created October 12, 2011 16:51 — forked from jerodsanto/ios5_notify.sh

Siri, tell me when iOS 5 is available. Nothing? Fine. Bash, you do it.

	#!/bin/bash
	:(){ echo "Checking for iOS 5: `date`"; curl -s -L http://phobos.apple.com/version \| grep Restore \| grep iPhone \| grep 5.0 > /dev/null && say "I O S 5 IS NOW AVAILABLE. GO GET YOUR DOWNLOAD ON, KID" \|\| echo "Nothing yet..." && sleep 30 && :; };:

jmhobbs / twitter.php

Created October 6, 2011 16:03

Kohana 3 - OAuth & Twitter Example


	<?php

	class Controller_Twitter extends Controller {

	public function action_index () {

	// Load a consumer from config file.
	$consumer = OAuth_Consumer::factory( Kohana::config( 'oauth.twitter' ) );

jmhobbs / screen-cam-cap.sh

Created September 28, 2011 17:04

Capture screen and webcam input with ffmpeg

	#! /bin/bash
	unlink screen.mpg
	unlink camera.mpg
	echo "Starting Desktop Grab"
	ffmpeg -f x11grab -s `xdpyinfo \| grep 'dimensions:'\|awk '{print $2}'` -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq screen.mpg > /dev/null 2>&1 &
	echo "Starting Camera Grab"
	ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -sameq camera.mpg > /dev/null 2>&1 &
	read -p "Press any key to stop recording."
	ps aux \| grep ffmpeg \| awk '{print $2}' \| xargs kill

jmhobbs / find_files.php

Created September 15, 2011 14:18

Use PHP to recursively enumerate files in a directory.

	<?php

	/*
	Given a path, this function will enumerate the files on that path.

	This tree:

	test
	├── 1.txt
	├── a

jmhobbs / chunker.py

Created August 31, 2011 18:48 — forked from squarepegsys/chunker.py

Get Python list in chunks

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import unittest

	from itertools import cycle

	## get a list in chunks
	## if we run out of items in the list, start again from the beginning

	class Chunker(object):

jmhobbs / particles.html

Created August 12, 2011 21:46

Simple JavaScript Particles

	<html>
	<head>
	</head>
	<body>
	<canvas id="base" width="500" height="500" style="border: 1px solid #444; background: #000;"></canvas>
	<script>
	var elem = document.getElementById( 'base' );
	var context = elem.getContext( '2d' );

	var Sprite = function () {

jmhobbs / pptpd.sh

Created May 1, 2011 14:33

Ubuntu 11.04 AWS EC2 PPTPD Installer

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# This script will install and configure a PPTPD server on your Ubuntu box.
	# I use this for a micro instance on Amazon EC2 as a quick, cheap (free!) VPN
	#
	# This script was tested with Natty Narwahl 11.04, ami-06ad526f
	#
	# Usage:
	# wget https://gist.github.com/raw/950539/pptpd.sh

jmhobbs / daemon.py

Created April 13, 2011 05:09

Cooked version of Python daemon base script.

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# Origin: http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python/
	# Cooked up a bit by @jmhobbs

	import sys, os, time, errno, atexit
	from signal import SIGTERM

	class Daemon:
	"""

jmhobbs / readers.py

Created March 3, 2011 21:13

	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	# Copyright (c) 2010 John Hobbs
	#
	# http://github.com/jmhobbs/googlecode-irc-bot
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

jmhobbs / readers.py

Created March 3, 2011 20:25

	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	# Copyright (c) 2010 John Hobbs
	#
	# http://github.com/jmhobbs/googlecode-irc-bot
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell