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mcroydon / hello_cassandra.js
Created May 11, 2010 18:42
// A simple Cassandra node.js "Hello World"
// Assumes Cassandra 0.6.1 on localhost with the default schema.
//
// You'll also want to load some data:
//
// $ cassandra-cli --host localhost --port 9160
// Connected to: "Test Cluster" on localhost/9160
// Welcome to cassandra CLI.
//
// Type 'help' or '?' for help. Type 'quit' or 'exit' to quit.
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mcroydon / keyseq.py
Created May 19, 2010 15:30 — forked from chl/keyseq.py
# chl, 2010-04-27
# http://blog.tech.stylefeeder.com/2008/05/27/generating-primary-keys/
import math
NUM = "0123456789"
LOWER = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
UPPER = LOWER.upper()
ALPHANUM = NUM + LOWER + UPPER
ASCII_94 = [chr(33 + x) for x in xrange(94)]
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mcroydon / consistent_vote_counts_in_cassandra-example_data.txt
Created May 31, 2010 03:31 — forked from mrflip/consistent_vote_counts_in_cassandra-example_data.txt
votes CF
"back in black" => { 201005211200 => '1', 201005201159 => '1', 201005201157 => '1', 201005011900 => '1', 201004190600 => '1' },
"black album" => { 201005021800 => '1', 201005010600 => '1' },
"black star" => { 201005011000 => '1' }
cached_counts CF
"back in black" => { 'cached_count' => 2, 'counted_until' => 201005011931 },
"black album" => { 'cached_count' => 1, 'counted_until' => 201005010600 }
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mcroydon / iphone_apps.rst
Created June 6, 2010 16:10 — forked from toastdriven/iphone_apps.rst
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mcroydon / gopher.js
Created July 22, 2010 05:37
// gopher.js - a minimal gopher implementation using node.js
// Released under the 3 clause BSD license by Matt Croydon <[email protected]> (http://postneo.com)
var net = require('net');
net.createServer(function (socket) {
socket.setEncoding("ascii");
socket.on("data", function (data) {
if (data === '\r\n') {
console.log('Serving index.');
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mcroydon / WIP_base.html
Created July 30, 2010 21:18 — forked from toastdriven/WIP_base.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Whisper Blog</title>
</head>
<body>
<section>
<header><a href='/'>My Whisper Blog</a></header>
{{error}}
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mcroydon / README.rst
Created August 11, 2010 17:24

finger_server.js

An extremely minimal implementation of the `Finger protocol`_ using node.js.

To run (Finger uses port 79 which requires sudo):

sudo node finger_server.js
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mcroydon / add_streaming_twitter_to_example.diff
Created August 25, 2010 13:43
diff --git a/example/server.js b/example/server.js
index 167fc43..db758a2 100644
--- a/example/server.js
+++ b/example/server.js
@@ -61,4 +61,16 @@ io.on('connection', function(client){
client.on('disconnect', function(){
client.broadcast({ announcement: client.sessionId + ' disconnected' });
});
-});
\ No newline at end of file
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mcroydon / reader.pref
Created September 16, 2010 01:49
#User preferences for Reader Booklet
#Thu Sep 16 01:05:28 GMT 2010
FONT_SIZE=17
LINE_SPACING=3
DICTIONARY=The New Oxford American Dictionary
JUSTIFICATION=full
HORIZONTAL_MARGIN=40
LAST_BOOK_READ=/mnt/us/documents/Kindle_Users_Guide.azw
FONT_FAMILY=serif
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mcroydon / download_tiffs.py
Created December 10, 2010 20:23
# Download all current FAA sectional GeoTIFFs (zipped)
import urllib, os, csv
from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring
FAA_CHART_URL = 'http://aeronav.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=aeronav/applications/VFR/chartlist_sect'
BASE_CONTENT_URL = 'http://aeronav.faa.gov/'
DOWNLOAD_DIR = 'download'
data = urllib.urlopen(FAA_CHART_URL).read()