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@selenamarie
selenamarie / a_better_opml.py
Last active December 11, 2015 09:59
This grabs URLs associated with the people you follow on Twitter and then tries to scrape RSS feeds from the URLs. You have to get OAUTH creds from dev.twitter.com/apps to do this, and then register the script so that you get the access_token + access_token_secret. Rev 2 actually produces valid OPML. ;)
#!/usr/bin/env python
import tweepy
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as parser
import urllib
import sys
import argparse
import ConfigParser
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active February 27, 2025 10:00
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@TheHippo
TheHippo / nginx.conf
Created December 12, 2012 18:22
Upstart config for running Nginx.
description "nginx http daemon"
author "Philipp Klose"
start on (filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo)
stop on runlevel [!2345]
env DAEMON=/opt/nginx/sbin/nginx
env PID=/opt/nginx/logs/nginx.pid
expect fork
@rubiii
rubiii / how_it_works.md
Created December 2, 2012 11:14
MacVim-Formatter for RSpec
$ rspec --format MacVimFormatter --color spec
@funny-falcon
funny-falcon / changes.md
Last active August 15, 2024 15:13
Performace patch for ruby-1.9.3-p327

Changes:

  • this version includes backport of Greg Price's patch for speedup startup http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7158 .

    ruby-core prefers his way to do thing, so that I abandon cached-lp and sorted-lf patches of mine.

  • this version integrates 'array as queue' patch, which improves performance when push/shift pattern is heavily used on Array.

    This patch is accepted into trunk for Ruby 2.0 and last possible bug is found by Yui Naruse. It is used in production* for a couple of months without issues even with this bug.

@dinnouti
dinnouti / _form.html.erb
Created October 15, 2012 22:59
Typeahead / Autocomplete with Twitter Bootstrap, Rails, simple_form
<%= f.input :nome, :collection => get_schools_name, :include_blank => false, :input_html => {:rel => 'autocomplete', :data_default => @school.nome} %>
@sxua
sxua / 0-readme.md
Created October 13, 2012 16:14 — forked from burke/0-readme.md
ruby-1.9.3-p286 cumulative performance patch.

Patch for ruby 1.9.3-p327 is here: https://gist.github.com/4063779

Patched ruby 1.9.3-p286 for 30% faster rails boot

Overview

This script installs a patched version of ruby 1.9.3-p286 with boot-time performance improvements (#66 and #68), and runtime performance improvements (#83 and #84). It also includes the new backported GC from ruby-trunk.

Many thanks to funny-falcon for the performance patches.

@zacstewart
zacstewart / anonymous_user.rb
Created October 2, 2012 17:35
Rails Soft Sign-Up
class AnonymousUser < User
attr_accessible *ACCESSIBLE_ATTRS, :type, :token, as: :registrant
def register(params)
params = params.merge(type: 'User', token: nil)
self.update_attributes(params, as: :registrant)
end
end
@joho
joho / deploy.rb
Created September 13, 2012 01:30
How to serve emergency "signed out" views from page cache without affecting signed in users in rails.
set :path_to_repo, "/path_to_repo/"
set :running_app_user, "appusername"
namespace :webscale do
desc "Cache a signed out version of the path. Usage: cap webscale:signed_out_cache_page -s path_to_cache=/films/on_netflix"
task :signed_out_cache, roles: :app do
cache_base_path = "#{path_to_repo}/public/signed_out"
cached_destination_path = "#{cache_base_path}#{path_to_cache}.html"
working_path = "#{cached_destination_path}.tmp"
@gravis
gravis / collector_transaction.rb
Created August 6, 2012 08:06
A secure event tracking system for online betting in France
# Copyright © 2010-2011 Tech-Angels. All Rights Reserved.
# CollectorTransaction will be created each time the Collector needs
# to trace an activity.
#
# Attributes:
# * id [integer, primary, not null] - primary key
# * before_tr [binary] - associated model serialized before transaction
# * created_at [datetime] - creation time
# * model_id [integer] - belongs_to Model (polymorphic)