Khurshid Alam khurshid-alam

PHP Endpoint for Github Webhook URLs

If you love deploying websites using Github, but for some reason want to use your own server, this script might be exactly what you need.

Put github.php somewhere on your PHP-enabled web server, and make it accessible for the outside world. Let's say for now the script lives on http://example.com/github.php

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

The hottest repositories created in the last week.
The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
Issue trends by language.
Clojure projects defying convention.

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

The Solution

As it turns out, there are several open-source tools that allow for conversion between file types. Pandoc is one of them, and it's powerful. In fact, pandoc's website says "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife." But, although pandoc can convert from markdown into .docx, it doesn't work in the other direction.

This is a quick script to convert notes from Tomboy to Evernote.

Usage

pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir export/
python tomboy-export.py <tomboy-dir>

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# rtm2evernote.py
	#
	# Convert Remember the Milk tasks to Evernote notes, using approximately
	# the the Evernote setup recommended in "The Secret Weapon":
	#
	# http://www.thesecretweapon.org/the-secret-weapon-manifesto/setting-up-the-secret-weapon
	#
	# requires Python >= 2.7 (for ElementTree.iter())

	import os
	import sys
	import struct
	from collections import namedtuple

	from ctypes import\
	CDLL,\
	CFUNCTYPE,\
	c_int,\
	c_char_p,\

	#!/bin/sh

	USERNAME=`whoami`

	NUM=`ps -ef \| grep ssh-agent \| grep -v grep \| grep $USERNAME \| wc -l`
	if [ $NUM -eq 1 ]; then
	ST=`ps -ef \| grep ssh-agent \| grep -v grep \| grep $USERNAME`
	AGENT_PID=$(echo $ST \| awk '{print $2;}')
	SOCKFILE=$(ls -l /tmp/ssh-/agent.[0-9] \| grep $USERNAME \| sed -e 's/^.\(\/tmp\/ssh-.\)/\1/')
	echo "echo SOCKFILE=$SOCKFILE;"