Michael Pratt mpratt

Slimdown

This project has moved to github.com/jbroadway/slimdown

A very basic regex-based Markdown parser. Supports the following elements (and can be extended via Slimdown::add_rule()):

Headers
Links
Bold

Breaking into Web Development

I work as an analyst contractor, these days my roles are often a mixture of development and management. I have been asked by a countless number of people what they need to do to get the jobs I’m offered – and it’s simpler than most expect. The market for talented developers in the United Kingdom (and in many talent-lite communities around the world) is such that anyone who merely knows what they are doing has a very good chance of getting a job. Even a job contracting (which ordinarily has senior-level requirements).

To become a web developer with a good salary and employment expectations you need skills. Below I’ll provide a plan to get you towards the top of the largest market: PHP Web Development. Advanced knowledge of everything on this list would immediately make you one of the best, so just strive to have an exposure if not a comprehensive understanding (though the *starred points are essential). To learn these technologies you should use several in combination on on

	The regex patterns in this gist are intended to match any URLs,
	including "mailto:[email protected]", "x-whatever://foo", etc. For a
	pattern that attempts only to match web URLs (http, https), see:
	https://gist.github.com/gruber/8891611


	# Single-line version of pattern:

	(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}\|[a-z0-9%])\|www\d{0,3}[.]\|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+\|\(([^\s()<>]+\|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+\|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))\)\|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

	{
	"text": "RT @PostGradProblem: In preparation for the NFL lockout, I will be spending twice as much time analyzing my fantasy baseball team during ...",
	"truncated": true,
	"in_reply_to_user_id": null,
	"in_reply_to_status_id": null,
	"favorited": false,
	"source": "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for iPhone</a>",
	"in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
	"in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
	"id_str": "54691802283900928",

	<?php

	/**
	* Fibonacci:
	*============================================================================
	* Class for computing fibonacci numbers using functional programming in PHP
	* Uses the formula at: http://jburrows.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/fibonacci/
	*/

	class fibonacci {

	<?php

	// Originally by Andrew Moore
	// Src: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4795385/how-do-you-use-bcrypt-for-hashing-passwords-in-php/6337021#6337021
	//
	// Heavily modified by Robert Kosek, from data at php.net/crypt

	class Bcrypt {
	private $rounds;
	private $prefix;

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	<?php

	define('PASSWORD_SHA256', '$5$');
	define('PASSWORD_SHA512', '$6$');
	define('PASSWORD_BCRYPT', '$2y$');
	define('PASSWORD_SCRYPT', '$7$'); // made up here

	$password_algos = array();

	function password_register_algo($prefix, Callable $create, Callable $validate) {

	/**
	* Create a web friendly URL slug from a string.
	*
	* Requires XRegExp (http://xregexp.com) with unicode add-ons for UTF-8 support.
	*
	* Although supported, transliteration is discouraged because
	* 1) most web browsers support UTF-8 characters in URLs
	* 2) transliteration causes a loss of information
	*
	* @author Sean Murphy <[email protected]>