jphastings’s gists

jphastings / WhereOnTheWeb.rb

Created April 21, 2009 01:29

A ruby-processing tool that lets you visualize where on the planet your network traffic is coming from.

	# Soooooo. Its hacky, and I'm sure there are improvements (shout if you have any) but...
	# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #
	# - - - Where On The Web - - -
	# A ruby-processing tool that lets you visualize where your network traffic is coming from.
	#
	# My thanks to jashkenas for his excellence - not only in releasing ruby-processing
	# but also for his rapid help in the forums when Java and Ruby fell out.
	#
	# Code as art,
	# JP - jphastings.tumblr.com

jphastings / dlc-firstrun.rb

Created May 5, 2009 14:01

	# gem install jphastings-dlc
	require 'dlc'
	s = DLC::Settings.new
	s.name = "Your Name"
	s.url = "http://yourdomain.com"
	s.email = "[email protected]"

	# Now you can make a dlc:
	package = DLC::Package.new
	package.name = "My package" # Suggested, but not required

jphastings / tumblrtweet.js

Created May 20, 2009 20:01

	// Lets javascript add twitter links to @reply style text items in any selected html elements
	// Requires MooTools' selectors
	function tumblrTweets(selector) {
	$$(selector).each(function(t) {
	t.set('html',t.get('html').replace(/@([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/,"<a href=\"http://twitter.com/$1\">$1</a>"));
	});
	}

jphastings / rougly.rb

Created May 22, 2009 18:48

A small Time class extension that gives a fuzzy time string output

	class Time
	# Gives a 'fuzzy' output of the distance to the time stored.
	#
	# eg. 'in 28 minutes' or '23 hours ago'
	def roughly
	diff = self.to_i - Time.now.to_i
	ago = diff < 0
	diff = diff.abs
	case diff
	when 0

jphastings / eta.rb

Created May 22, 2009 18:51

An ETA class to allow intuitive access to an estimated time of arrival

	# Thanks Ellie and Robert! http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/187604
	# Allows relative times, most frequently used in times of arrival etc.
	class ETA < Time
	# Takes a number of seconds until the event
	def self.new(seconds)
	raise "ETA requires a number of seconds" if not seconds.is_a?(Numeric)
	at Time.now + seconds
	end

	# Requires http://gist.github.com/116290

jphastings / percentage.rb

Created May 22, 2009 20:18

Allows a percentage to be used as a float, but shown as a percentage (to variable decimal places)

	# Cheers Andrew http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/187508

	require 'delegate'

	# Allows percentages to be inspected and stringified in human
	# form "33.3%", but kept in a float format for mathmatics
	class Percentage < DelegateClass(Float)
	def to_s(decimalplaces = 0)
	(((self * 10(decimalplaces+2)).round)/10decimalplaces).to_s+"%"
	end

jphastings / count.rb

Created June 7, 2009 19:47

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'plw'

	### Program
	if ARGV[0].nil? or not File.exists? ARGV[0]
	$stderr.puts "Usage: #{$0} filename.plw\n You must specify a PLW file to parse"
	Process.exit
	end

	$stdout.sync = true

jphastings / options

Created July 10, 2009 17:03

	# This options file will have your get_iplayer (linuxcentre.net) running smoothly on mac os x, outputting iTunes friendly m4v files (provided you install the binaries as explained below)
	# Usually found in ~/.get_iplayer/options
	# Download and install the binaries as described on his site, but be sure to install them to /usr/local/bin (and make sure they're executable)
	# $ chmod +x ffmpeg
	# $ sudo mv ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
	# and similar for flvstreamer. lame will install there by default and mplayer is explained below (for itv downloads)

	rtmpdump /usr/local/bin/flvstreamer
	lame /usr/local/bin/lame
	fileprefix <name> - <episode> - <pid>

jphastings / geo_tumblr.html

Created August 31, 2009 14:31

	<!-- This is a quick rundown of how I got geotagging working in Tumblr via javascript and some hacking. Its in use at http://jpinjapan.tumblr.com - I hope tumblr builds it into their site soon! -->

	<!-- This has to go somewhere at the top of your page, inside your <head>, as javascript -->
	<!-- It prepares the regular expression that finds the geo: tags inside your various tags -->
	var geore = new RegExp(/^geo:(-?\d+\.\d+);(-?\d+\.\d+)$/)

	<!-- You must alter every <div> containing a post to look like this: -->
	<div class="post text" id="post-{PostID}">
	<!-- This is so that the javascript can find the posts it needs to. Its a hack around my unfamiliarity with jQuery really. -->

jphastings / Resolvable Podcasting.xml

Created November 16, 2009 16:29

An idea I had for describing composited audio such that copyrighted tracks can be resolved and an identical copyright conforming rendition can be created.

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!-- Please read the blog entry for a description as to what this is: http://jphastings.tumblr.com/post/246130623 -->
	<playlist simulatneous="true"> <!-- Or way informing that this playlist needs to be interpreted according to this article -->
	<chapters> <!-- A new element entirely. The Hospital Podcast is a good example of chapter use in Podcasts. -->
	<chapter> <!-- NB. There are other ways to define chapters -->
	<cueTime relativeTo="id_of_element">±3142</cueTime> <!-- Milliseconds in from beginning (+) or back from the end (-) of the track referenced -->
	<name>Name of Chapter</name>
	<image>http://path.to/image</image> <!-- Individual chapters might have the album art of the song etc -->
	</chapter>
	</chapters>

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