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mvark / YahooWeatherViaYQL&JSONP

Last active June 29, 2016 14:44

Get Weather information for a WOEID using YQL, jQuery

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Weather Forecast using YQL</title>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script>
	//Developer notes - http://mvark.blogspot.in/2013/03/how-to-find-weather-information-for.html

	//use YQL Console to build query - http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
	function getWeather(woeid, unit) {

mvark / gist:5357137

Last active December 16, 2015 01:39

Show book titles in Amazon ads by keyword

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Show book titles in Amazon ads by keyword</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<div id="amz"></div>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script>
	$(document).ready(function () {

mvark / gist:5373959

Last active December 16, 2015 03:59

JS snippet shows how to get local time for a location based on its latitude and longitude using World Weather Online's Time Zone API -http://www.worldweatheronline.com/time-zone-api.aspx


	function time(lat, long) {
	//replace the value for the key parameter with your own
	var url = "http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v1/tz.ashx?q=" + lat + "," + long + "&format=json&key={key}&callback=tfunc";
	//reference to jQuery library is required prior to using this function
	$.getScript(url, function (response) { });
	}

	window.tfunc = function (response) {
	var time = "";

mvark / gist:7040359

Last active December 25, 2015 21:09

Sample shows how to highlight a Province within a Country (India) with Google GeoChart. Notes: http://mvark.blogspot.in/2013/10/how-to-highlight-province-within.html

	<html>
	<head>
	<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.google.com/jsapi'></script>
	<script type='text/javascript'>
	//Based on this original sample - http://jsfiddle.net/asgallant/wwDyU/1/

	function drawChartIN () {
	var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
	data.addColumn('string', 'INState');

mvark / GetWordsFromExcelAndHighlight

Created February 15, 2014 18:00

	Option Explicit
	'References:
	'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19071173/ms-word-macro-how-to-adapt-so-it-get-data-from-my-excel-file
	'http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/32187-convert-variant-array-string-array.html

	Dim TargetList() As String


	Public Sub GetWordsFromExcelAndHighlight()
	Dim lngIndex As Long

mvark / PSDownloadFiles

Last active August 29, 2015 13:57

PowerShell script to download a list of files that have a predictable number pattern

	# PowerShell script to download a list of files that have a predictable number pattern
	for ($i=1; $i -le 10; $i++)
	{
	$startTime = (Get-Date)
	# Download files that have the naming format File1.txt, File2.txt etc..
	(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile("http://example/file$i.txt","C:\temp\file$i.txt")
	$endTime = (Get-Date)
	# Echo Time taken
	"Time taken to download file$i : $(($endTime-$startTime).totalseconds) seconds"
	}

mvark / Lazy-Developer-CAPTCHATextExtractor

Created May 8, 2014 04:43

Lazy-Developer-CAPTCHA Text Extractor Bookmarklet. More details: http://mvark.blogspot.in/2014/05/lazy-developer-captcha-text-extractor.html

javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.getElementById(%22txtInput%22).value%3Ddocument.getElementById(%22txtCaptcha%22).value%7D)()

mvark / StoreMinMaxTempIntoAzureTable.ps1

Created May 14, 2014 13:56

This PowerShell script to save min, max temperature fetched from Yahoo Weather API using YQL & store it in Windows Azure Table

	Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Azure\.NET SDK\v2.1\ref\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.dll"

	$refs = @("C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.5\System.Data.Services.Client.dll")

	$code = @"

	using System;
	using System.Data.Services.Common;

	[DataServiceEntity]

mvark / GoogleMobilizerBookmarklet.js

Created June 3, 2014 16:30

	javascript:(function() {

	a = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

	for (i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

	a[i].href = 'http://www.google.com/gwt/x?noimg=1&btnGo=Go&source=wax&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&u=' + encodeURIComponent(a[i].href);

	a[i].style.backgroundColor = '#f0f0f0';

mvark / TransformJSONFieldNamesForFullCalendar.js

Last active June 5, 2018 21:30

Transform JSON field names in feed to match FullCalendar jQuery plugin's Event format

	$(document).ready(function() {
	$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
	defaultDate: '2014-11-13',
	editable: true,
	eventLimit: true, // allow "more" link when too many events
	events: function (start, end, timezone, callback) {
	$.ajax({
	url: "http://example.azure-mobile.net/tables/event?$filter=eventdate gt '" + start.toISOString() + "' and eventdate lt '" + end.toISOString() + "'",
	dataType: 'json',
	beforeSend: setHeader,

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