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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.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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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

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

	#!/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())

	<?php
	/**
	* Does a cURL request against a URL and returns only the Headers.
	* If redirections occur, all Headers are returned for each Hop.
	*
	* By default, if not false, returned value is an array of arrays.
	* If $associative is true, each set of Headers will be decoded into an associative array.
	* If $only_last is true, regardless of the sets of Headers returned, only the last is kept.
	*
	* <code>

	Use folowing steps to repackage dep package:

	1: Extract deb package
	# dpkg-deb -x <package.deb> <dir>

	2: Extract control-information from a package
	# dpkg-deb -e <package.deb> <dir/DEBIAN>

	3. After completed to make changes to the package, repack the deb
	# dpkg-deb -b <dir> <new-package.deb>

	#!/bin/bash
	# bash generate random alphanumeric string
	#

	# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and
	NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom \| tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' \| fold -w 32 \| head -n 1)

	# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
	cat /dev/urandom \| tr -dc 'a-z0-9' \| fold -w 32 \| head -n 1

	<?php

	function url2png_v6($url, $args) {

	# Get your apikey from http://url2png.com/plans
	$URL2PNG_APIKEY = "PXXXX";
	$URL2PNG_SECRET = "SXXXX";

	# urlencode request target
	$options['url'] = urlencode($url);

	<?php

	#Requires PHP 5.3.0

	define("CONSUMER_KEY", "consumer_key");
	define("CONSUMER_SECRET", "consumer_secret");
	define("OAUTH_TOKEN", "access_token");
	define("OAUTH_SECRET", "access_secret");

	function oauth_gen($method, $url, $iparams, &$headers) {