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mcotton / gist:3170324

Created July 24, 2012 14:43

Installing VMWare tools on ubuntu

> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> mkdir tmp
> sudo mount /dev/cdrom tmp
> mkdir vmware
> cd vmware
> cp -R ../tmp/ .
> cd tmp

> sudo tar xzvf VMWareTools.tar.gz

mcotton / gist:3492905

Created August 27, 2012 22:25

Build Node.js versions for MBA

	git checkout v0.8.8

	export CC=/Applications/Developer/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang
	export CXX=/Applications/Developer/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang++
	sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Developer/Xcode.app

	./configure
	make
	sudo make install
	node -v

mcotton / gist:3805146

Created September 29, 2012 20:43

GAE outputting JSON

	from usermodels import *
	from django.utils import simplejson

	class JSONByIDHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
	def get(self, resource=''):
	if resource == '':
	self.error(404)

	try:
	p = Picture.get_by_id(int(resource))

mcotton / gist:4128368

Created November 21, 2012 22:51

YUI Notes

	itemAppView creates itemViews for each itemModel in itemModelList

	itemView has events for elements inside of view

mcotton / gist:4149150

Created November 26, 2012 16:26

EEN time functions

	// Usage: this._epoch_DateToStr(new Date()/1000)


	_padTo2Digits: function (num) {
	return (((num < 10) ? '0' : '') + num);
	},

	_epoch_DateToStr: function (epoch_time) {
	var yy, mm, dd, hr, mn, sc, ms, timecode, jstime;
	jstime = new Date(epoch_time*1000);

mcotton / git shortcuts

Last active December 10, 2015 13:18

	$ git status -s\|awk '{ print $2 }'\|xargs git add


	To reset
	$ git status -s\|awk '{ print $2 }'\|xargs git reset HEAD

mcotton / gist:4734816

Last active December 12, 2015 07:09

Backbone.js overload Model.get

	Camera = Backbone.Model.extend({
	// helper method to map functions to attributes
	get: function (attr) {
	if (typeof this[attr] == 'function') {
	return this[attr]();
	}

	return Backbone.Model.prototype.get.call(this, attr);
	},

mcotton / gist:4741793

Last active December 12, 2015 08:08

Example of using status codes with jQuery ajax

	$.ajax('/g/aaa/create_account', {
	type: 'POST',
	contentType: 'application/json',
	data: obj,
	dataType: 'json',
	success: win,
	failure: fail,
	statusCode: {
	400: function() {
	fail('<p>Something went wrong with your request. Please try again</p>')

mcotton / backbone.views.js

Last active December 14, 2015 00:38

render a modal form as a view, track changes throughout tabs, save changes

	EditUserProfileView = Backbone.View.extend({
	events: {
	"click #userSettingsModal_save": "save_changes",
	"change .settings": "changed_settings"
	},

	tmp_settings: {},

	template: _.template($('#editUserProfile-template').html()),

mcotton / gist:5059936

Last active December 14, 2015 08:48

Queue