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josephmosby / gist:d9ee7216d1ef88cee259

Created October 10, 2015 05:20

	var request = require('request');
	var fs = require('fs');
	var moment = require('moment');
	var htmlToText = require('html-to-text');


	var SerialPort = require('serialport').SerialPort,
	serialPort = new SerialPort('/dev/ttyAMA0', {
	baudrate: 19200
	}),

josephmosby / gist:2de6cc44d30147ee5c89

Created July 12, 2015 22:55

kinds of sorting for exact matches

	sorted(queryset.filter(id__in=collection_list), key=lambda s: s.headline.lower().startswith(kwargs['query']))
	# this way will do a sort of the queryset based on whether it starts with the search term

	sorted(self.model.objects.filter(id__in=collection_list), key=lambda s: kwargs['query'] in s.headline.lower(), reverse=True)
	# this way will do a sort of the queryset based on whether it's an exact match

josephmosby / format_date.js

Created April 28, 2015 15:14

JS Format an ISO8601 date as Django date string representation

	var format_date = function(date) {
	var month_names = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
	"July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
	js_date = new Date(date);
	formatted_date = month_names[js_date.getMonth()] + ' ' + js_date.getDate() + ', ' + js_date.getFullYear()
	+ ', ' + js_date.getUTCHours() + ':' + js_date.getUTCMinutes();

	if(js_date.getHours() < 12) {
	formatted_date += " a.m.";
	} else {

josephmosby / finding_variables.md

Last active August 29, 2015 14:20

Finding mysterious Django variables in templates

In a Django template file...

{% if last_updated %}Last Updated: {{ last_updated }}{% endif %}
{% endblock %}

Wait, where is last updated set?

$ grep -R "last_updated" .        	// where "." is the Django project directory

stuff

josephmosby / mongo-django.py

Created March 25, 2015 15:03

Architecture for declaring a global MongoDB MongoClient in Django

	#project/project/__init__.py
	import project.settings
	import pymongo

	THE_MONGO_CLIENT = pymongo.MongoClient(settings.MONGO_HOST, settings.MONGO_PORT)

	#project/project/settings.py
	INSTALLED_APPS += 'utils'

	MONGO_HOST = 'localhost' #default

josephmosby / indexAll.js

Created March 20, 2015 19:43

Index everything in a MongoDB collection

	db.system.js.save(
	{
	_id: "indexAll",
	value: function() {
	colls = db.getCollectionNames();
	for (var i = 0; i < colls.length; i++) {
	if (colls[i] != "system.indexes") {
	db[colls[i]].createIndex( {"$**":"text"}, {name: "TextIndex"});
	}
	}

josephmosby / ocheck.js

Created February 23, 2015 20:17

Low-grade check for equality between two JavaScript objects

	Object.prototype.equals = function(object) {
	if (Object.keys(this).length != Object.keys(object).length) {
	return false;
	}

	for (var i = 0; i < Object.keys(this).length; i++) {
	if (this[Object.keys(this)[i]] != object[Object.keys(object)[i]]) {
	return false;
	}
	}

josephmosby / embed.html

Created December 16, 2014 14:35

An embed for a friendly holiday e-card

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>
	</head>
	<body>
	<iframe width="800" height="600" src="EMBED CODE HURR" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
	</body>
	</html>

josephmosby / working_video.html

Created December 10, 2014 18:51

A snippet of code to launch a hosted MP4 video that will auto play in all browsers, including IE8.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<!-- use Modernizr and Video.js for cross browser compatibility -->
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/modernizr/2.8.3/modernizr.min.js"></script>
	<link href="//vjs.zencdn.net/4.11/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
	</head>
	<body>
	<!-- for Video.js, the ID and class attributes are needed.

josephmosby / tpls.php

Last active August 29, 2015 14:10

TPLS

	/* FOR LE TEMPLATE.PHP
	/* THIS CODE CALLS A CUSTOM PAGE.TPL FILE IF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC CONTENT TYPE
	function plstwo_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
	if (isset($vars['node']->type)) {
	$vars['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'page__' . $vars['node']->type;
	}
	}

	/* --------------- */

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