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@nichtich
nichtich / README.md
Last active April 30, 2026 08:13 — forked from oodavid/README.md
How to automatically deploy from GitHub

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

  • you have an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc.)
  • you have a local git repo
  • and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
    • your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
    • your webpages are executed by Apache
  • the Apache user is named www-data (may be apache on other systems)
@haochi
haochi / messages.js
Created January 10, 2013 05:54
Simple reddit messages search. Idea from /r/SomebodyMakeThis, http://redd.it/169agn.
(function ($) {
search(prompt("Enter Search Term:"));
function search(term, after) {
$.getJSON("/message/messages.json", {after: after}, function (res) {
var messages = res.data.children
, stop = false;
for (var i = 0, l = messages.length; i < l; i++) {
var message = messages[i];
if (message_a_match(message, term)) {
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active July 6, 2026 01:15
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
@sgergely
sgergely / gist:3793166
Created September 27, 2012 09:43
Midnight Commander Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac OSX
----- Esc -----
Quick change directory: Esc + c
Quick change directory history: Esc + c and then Esc + h
Quick change directory previous entry: Esc + c and then Esc + p
Command line history: Esc + h
Command line previous command: Esc + p
View change: Esc + t (each time you do this shortcut a new directory view will appear)
Print current working directory in command line: Esc + a
Switch between background command line and MC: Ctrl + o
Search/Go to directory in active panel: Esc + s / Ctrl + s then start typing directory name
@ttscoff
ttscoff / planter.rb
Created September 22, 2012 17:57
Create directory trees from indented text input
#!/usr/bin/ruby
=begin
Planter v1.3
Brett Terpstra 2013
ruby script to create a directory structure from indented data.
Three ways to use it:
- Pipe indented (tabs or 2 spaces) text to the script
- e.g. `cat "mytemplate" | planter.rb
- Create template.tpl files in ~/.planter and call them by their base name
@billerickson
billerickson / gist:3698476
Last active February 23, 2024 16:49 — forked from luetkemj/wp-query-ref.php
WP: Query $args
<?php
/**
* WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference
* Compiled by luetkemj - luetkemj.com
*
* CODEX: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query
* Source: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-includes/query.php
*/
$args = array(
@searbe
searbe / parse_xlsx.php
Created August 7, 2012 09:48
Parse simple XLSX in PHP with SimpleXML and ZipArchive
<?php
/**
* I had to parse an XLSX spreadsheet (which should damn well have been a CSV!)
* but the usual tools were hitting the memory limit pretty quick. I found that
* manually parsing the XML worked pretty well. Note that this, most likely,
* won't work if cells contain anything more than text or a number (so formulas,
* graphs, etc ..., I don't know what'd happen).
*/
@niotech
niotech / dabblet.css
Created April 18, 2012 07:38
List of all FourSquare Venue Categories
/**
* List of all FourSquare Venue Categories
*/
background: #fff;
@erikh
erikh / hack.sh
Created March 31, 2012 07:02 — forked from DAddYE/hack.sh
OSX For Hackers
#!/usr/bin/env sh
##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#
@panicsteve
panicsteve / gist:1641705
Created January 19, 2012 18:26
Form letter template for acquired startups
Dear soon-to-be-former user,
We've got some fantastic news! Well, it's great news for us anyway. You, on
the other hand, are fucked.
We've just been acquired by:
[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter