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epicserve / Django Enviroment Setup on Mac OSX 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard).markdown
Created February 22, 2010 15:29
Django Enviroment Setup on Mac OSX 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard)

Django Enviroment Setup on Mac OSX 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard)

Install Homebrew

sudo mkdir /usr/local
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
curl -L http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local
brew install git
cd /usr/local
git init
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@attilaolah
attilaolah / imgcmp.py
Created February 29, 2012 11:30
Fast image comparison with Python
import math
import Image
import Levenshtein
class BWImageCompare(object):
"""Compares two images (b/w)."""
_pixel = 255
@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active April 19, 2025 17:31 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@onyxraven
onyxraven / rds.sh
Last active June 21, 2022 13:42 — forked from douglasjarquin/gist:2208690
Amazon RDS Performance Tuning Settings
#XLarge DBInstanceClassMemory = 15892177440 = 14.8GB
#/32 = 496630545 = 473MB
#/64 = 248315272 = 236MB
#/128 = 124157636 = 118MB
#/256 = 62078818 = 59MB
#/512 = 31039409 = 29MB
#/12582880 = 1263 #default same divisor as max_connections = 4041.6MB = 4237924762
#/25165760 = 623 # half of max_connections = 1993.6MB
#/50331520 = 315 # quarter of max_connections = 1008MB = 1056964608
#*(3/4) #default innodb pool size = 11922309120
@qnoid
qnoid / gist:4052818
Created November 10, 2012 22:45
Mockups on user identity

Mockups on user identity

[A video of an iOS implementation is available][8].

User identity

[The idea of a user identity][7] is a simple one with a goal to eliminate the requirement of a user entering a password. Any other requirement, including storing, transmitting and hashing should stay the same.

Introduction

As soon as a software is installed that supports user identities, a user is presented with a screen to identify.

@chrix2
chrix2 / pkcs7.py
Created November 29, 2012 19:40
Padding PKCS7 on python
import binascii
import StringIO
class PKCS7Encoder(object):
def __init__(self, k=16):
self.k = k
## @param text The padded text for which the padding is to be removed.
# @exception ValueError Raised when the input padding is missing or corrupt.
def decode(self, text):
@crmccreary
crmccreary / AESCipher.py
Created May 20, 2013 02:17
Encryption using pycrypto, AES, and PKCS5 padding
from Crypto.Cipher import AES
from Crypto import Random
BS = 16
pad = lambda s: s + (BS - len(s) % BS) * chr(BS - len(s) % BS)
unpad = lambda s : s[0:-ord(s[-1])]
class AESCipher:
def __init__( self, key ):
"""
@steventroughtonsmith
steventroughtonsmith / gist:6763213
Created September 30, 2013 12:39
Non-opaque application windows in iOS 7, with optional blur. Shows the user's wallpaper under the app, with Parallax if supported.
typedef enum _UIBackgroundStyle {
UIBackgroundStyleDefault,
UIBackgroundStyleTransparent,
UIBackgroundStyleLightBlur,
UIBackgroundStyleDarkBlur,
UIBackgroundStyleDarkTranslucent
} UIBackgroundStyle;
@interface UIApplication (UIBackgroundStyle)
-(void)_setBackgroundStyle:(UIBackgroundStyle)style;