Pete Yandell notahat

Software engineer/architect, based in Melbourne, Australia.

notahat / gist:8981

Created September 5, 2008 15:41

	% ruby --version
	ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [i686-darwin9.0.0]

	% sudo gem install rails --version 2.1.1
	Password:
	Successfully installed activesupport-2.1.1
	Successfully installed activerecord-2.1.1
	Successfully installed actionpack-2.1.1
	Successfully installed actionmailer-2.1.1
	Successfully installed activeresource-2.1.1

notahat / machinist_teaser.rb

Created October 6, 2008 03:37

	# This is a teaser for a plugin I'm working on to provide an alternative
	# to ActiveRecord fixtures.
	#
	# It's similar to ThoughtBot's Factory Girl, but I think the syntax is
	# a lot nicer.
	#
	# The models below are the canonical Rails blog examples, i.e. a Post
	# has_may Comments.
	#
	# I'm using the very cool Faker gem to make up values for fields.

notahat / invalid.html

Created October 9, 2008 05:21

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Table Test</title>

	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
	table { table-layout: fixed; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; }
	td { padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #888888; }

notahat / gist:15708

Created October 9, 2008 06:10

	Why is http://gist.github.com/15704 invalid HTML?

	The width of each column is specified as 50%. Section 10.2 of the CSS2 spec tells us:

	The percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated box's containing block.

	The containing block in this case is the table. So let's say the table is, for example, 500px wide.
	That means each column is 250px wide, but...

	Section 17.6.2 tells us that the row width is:

notahat / gist:39132

Created December 22, 2008 21:33 — forked from xaviershay/gist:39075

	value = "Don T Alias"
	first_name, last_name = value.reverse.split(' ', 2).reverse.collect(&:reverse)
	first_name = first_name.to_s
	last_name = last_name.to_s

	# Refactored to take into account Xavier's pathological aversion to case statements:
	words = value.split(' ')
	first_name, last_name = if words.size == 0
	['', '']
	elsif words.size == 1

notahat / gist:46746

Created January 14, 2009 02:35

	~$ sudo gem install lachlanhardy-gitjour
	Successfully installed lachlanhardy-gitjour-8.1.0
	1 gem installed
	Installing ri documentation for lachlanhardy-gitjour-8.1.0...
	Installing RDoc documentation for lachlanhardy-gitjour-8.1.0...
	Could not find main page README.txt
	Could not find main page README.txt
	Could not find main page README.txt
	Could not find main page README.txt

notahat / gist:59083

Created February 5, 2009 23:07

	The Ruby daemons gem, as used by daemontools, does this to restart daemons:

	@group.stop_all
	sleep 1
	@group.start_all

	The stop_all method does not wait for the daemon to exit before returning.

	Anyone see the huge glaring problem here? grumble

notahat / gist:86627

Created March 27, 2009 09:56

	My traceroute [v0.75]
	maxwell.local (0.0.0.0) Fri Mar 27 20:56:20 2009
	Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
	Packets Pings
	Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
	1. 192.168.1.254 0.0% 70 1.9 2.9 1.8 12.4 2.1
	2. loop0.lns10.mel4.internode.on.ne 0.0% 70 12.0 8.8 7.3 14.7 1.6
	3. vl13.cor3.mel4.internode.on.net 0.0% 70 7.8 9.1 7.5 16.3 1.8
	4. pos8-0.bdr1.syd7.internode.on.ne 0.0% 70 179.6 185.3 177.6 327.6 24.7
	5. pos5-0.bdr1.sjc2.internode.on.ne 0.0% 70 180.2 179.4 177.3 205.0 3.8

notahat / gist:111436

Created May 14, 2009 02:40

	#include <avr/interrupt.h>

	union TimerCounter {
	struct {
	unsigned int interval_count_lo, interval_count_hi;
	unsigned char overflow_countdown;
	};
	unsigned long interval_count;
	};

notahat / test_array_in_chunks.rb

Created May 21, 2009 11:10 — forked from joho/test_array_in_chunks.rb

	require 'test/unit'
	require 'enumerator'

	class Array
	def in_chunks_of(size_of_chunks)
	enum_slice(size_of_chunks).to_a
	end
	end

	class TestArrayInChunks < Test::Unit::TestCase