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mikepfirrmann / numbers_and_words.txt

Created May 4, 2021 14:24

Input to WayBetter developer interview coding exercise

	the Dorian used 0.00039800 know. 0.04128765358980413 want I to 0.00092700 Gray
	0.00008100 I you What 0.00079500 what you want. want do 0.00001000
	turning round. exclaimed 0.00063700 I dont know 0.00053500 0.00074800
	he dont 0.00005400 mean Basil you 0.00086500 what know 0.00080200
	be 0.00070700 I that 0.00028500 0.00022700 some Dorianor day. shall
	am 0.00067400 Well vain. to 0.00005500 I for punished be 0.00008200
	me 0.00005500 owe 0.00050800 I You you. taught only 0.00032800 to
	Harry at said lastmore 0.00097100 0.00097900 Basil he 0.00006900 than
	0.00089000 0.00047200 moments. great deal I 0.00078500 to a owe few
	0.00064200 green the garden 0.00060700 flickering for 0.00014600 a

mikepfirrmann / attribute-access-test.rb

Created March 13, 2013 15:33

Demonstration of accessing a namespaced attribute of an SVG nested within HTML using Nokogiri.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'nokogiri'

	puts "Using Nokogiri version: #{Nokogiri::VERSION}"

	# HTML5 document with inline SVG.
	html = <<-HTML
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>

mikepfirrmann / pretty-exception.rb

Created October 2, 2012 16:24

Print a prettier stack trace for Ruby exceptions

	def colorize(text, color_code)
	"\e[#{color_code}m#{text}\e[0m"
	end

	begin
	# Here be dangerous things.
	rescue => e
	print "\r" << (' ' * 50) << "\n"
	stacktrace = e.backtrace.map do \|call\|
	if parts = call.match(/^(?<file>.+):(?<line>\d+):in `(?<code>.*)'$/)

mikepfirrmann / cgm-to-svg.rb

Created September 26, 2012 19:06

Convert all CGM files in a directory to SVG files using Uniconvertor.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Run this from a directory containing *.cgm files to create SVG copies.

	Dir.glob('*.cgm').each do \|file\|
	cmd = "uniconvertor '#{file}' '#{File.basename(file, '.cgm')}.svg'"
	puts cmd
	system cmd
	end

mikepfirrmann / install-uniconvertor.sh

Created September 26, 2012 19:05

Install Uniconvertor from source

	#!/bin/bash

	# http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1865589 says to do this
	sudo apt-get install build-essential python-all-dev liblcms1-dev libjpeg62-dev libpaps-dev

	# Uniconvertor packages do not seem to install properly on Ubuntu 12.04, so
	# I installed from source.

	svn co https://sk1.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sk1/trunk/sk1libs /tmp/sk1libs
	sudo python /tmp/sk1libs/setup.py install

mikepfirrmann / pretty-exception.py

Created September 24, 2012 15:23

Print a prettier stack trace for Python exceptions

	try:
	# put whatever code here
	except:
	import traceback, StringIO, re, os

	def colorize(text, color):
	control_sequence_introducer = "\x1B["
	return "{0}{1}m{2}{0}0m".format(control_sequence_introducer, color, text)

	exception_output = StringIO.StringIO()