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Rails naming conventions

General Ruby conventions

Class names are CamelCase.

Methods and variables are snake_case.

Methods with a ? suffix will return a boolean.

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brew install ffmpeg \
  --with-dcadec \
  --with-faac \
  --with-fdk-aac \
  --with-ffplay \
  --with-fontconfig \
  --with-freetype \
  --with-frei0r \
  --with-libass \
  --with-libbluray \

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1. install

brew install tor
brew install privoxy

2. copy and modify config file

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Google Query String Parameters

Google Search

Query:

http://...

| URL Parameter | Accepted Values | Description |

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1. Select a web site.

use wget to mirror www.mit.edu

the directory hierarchy of the site.

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Web Components Resources

Specs / standardization

W3C Introduction to Web Components - explainer/overview of the technologies

• Custom Elements
• HTML Imports
• Shadow DOM
• CSS Scoping Module

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#Creating a 'Share on Google+' URL with this Dubious Clusterhack

Disclaimer: This is a ridiculous set of hacks. I had fun messing about with this and wanted to share it, but I wouldn't recommend using it for anything important. It may stop working at any time.
tl;dr: Google doesn't support sharing arbitrary URLs via a simple share link, but you can work around it by doing a redirect via Google, like so: https://plus.google.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2Fsearch%3FbtnI%3D1%26q%3Dshowstudio%26sourceid%3Dnavclient

Most social sites let you share a link by visiting a special URL, for example:

Twitter. http://twitter.com/home?status=http://showstudio.com
Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://showstudio.com

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Google Apps Script Document Utilities

• getAllLinks.js

• getAllLinks(element) - returns array of all UrlLinks in Document

• findAndReplaceLinks(searchPattern,replacement) - changes all matching links in Document

• changeCase.js - Document add-in, provides case-change operations in the add-in Menu.

• onOpen - installs "Change Case" menu

• _changeCase - worker function to locate selected text and change text case. Case conversion is managed via callback to a function that accepts a string as a parameter and returns the converted string.

• helper functions for five cases

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Google-Fu

Google Search doesn't give you a lot of query flexibility. The tradeoff of course is that you get to search the entire web in milliseconds.

• MIT has a great cheatsheet of search operators.
• Dan Russell, a search scientist at Google, maintains the Search Research blog, which is full of interesting challenges and tips about changes to Google's search functionality.
• If you don't like memorizing the keywords, Google has a useful-enough advanced search interface.

Quickie Google cheatsheet

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# some common and useful google search tips
# for ref: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
###### tips #####
define hello >> to looking for definition of hello
###### Content Search & Operator ########
"hello world" >> to search for exact match of hello world
hello + world >> to search for hello and word eg: hello to my world
hello -world >> to search for hello, exclude word eg: hello to my house
hello * world >> to search fuzzy for hello *** world
~hello >> to search similar for hello eg: hi, hey