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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

YARD CHEATSHEET http://yardoc.org

May 2020 - updated fork: https://gist.github.com/phansch/db18a595d2f5f1ef16646af72fe1fb0e

cribbed from http://pastebin.com/xgzeAmBn

Templates to remind you of the options and formatting for the different types of objects you might want to document using YARD.

Modules

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'eventmachine'
	require 'em-http' # gem install em-http-request
	require 'yajl' # gem install yajl-ruby

	class String
	def bold
	"\033[1m#{self}\033[0m"
	end
	end

	# Add this line to your config/application.rb to enable
	# initialization of Ripple, after the other framework railties
	require 'ripple/railtie'

	# To use the Riak cache store, place this line inside the
	# Application class
	config.cache_store = :riak_store

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Convert command line
	#
	#gm convert -font helvetica -fill white -pointsize 20 -draw "text 500,600 'WALLPAPERZ ARE GOOD'" test.jpg output.jpg
	#
	#convert -background transparent -fill white -gravity center -size 1024x200 -font Helvetica -pointsize 20 #caption:"I'm a wallpaper, you know what to do" test.jpg +swap -gravity south -composite output.jpg
	#
	# Mogrify command line
	#

	<html>
	<body>
	GET squawk:<br />
	{{ squawk_get }}<br /><br />


	POST squawk:<br />
	{{ squawk_post }}<br /><br />

	module Sinatra
	module Mount

	def mount(app, route="/#{app.name.downcase}")
	%w{get post put delete patch options}.each do \|method\|
	self.send method.to_sym, "#{route}*" do
	app.call(
	env.merge!(
	'SCRIPT_NAME' => route.split('/').last,
	'PATH_INFO' => params.delete('splat').join('/')

	require 'rack'

	class RackApp
	def self.call(env)
	[200, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, ['derp']]
	end
	end

	# For a full list of options, see
	# http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/webrick/rdoc/WEBrick.html