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@mrflip
mrflip / maximum_battery_life.md
Created March 19, 2012 08:32
maximum battery life checklist -- use before a long plane flight

Max Battery Life Checklist

Here is a checklist to follow if you want maximum battery life -- for instance if you're about to get on a long plane flight.

10 hour battery life on a non-SSD Macbook Pro 17"

Low power use checklist

With power connected:

@nicoleslaw
nicoleslaw / 1_Tiny_Content_Framework.md
Last active January 24, 2025 16:39
Tiny Content Framework

Tiny Content Framework

About the project

This is a tiny content strategy framework focused on goals, messages, and branding. This is not a checklist. Use what you need and scrap the rest. Rewrite it or add to it. These topics should help you get to the bottom of things with clients and other people you work with.

Give me feedback on Twitter (@nicoleslaw) or by email ([email protected]).

Contents

@btoone
btoone / curl.md
Last active July 10, 2025 04:38
A curl tutorial using GitHub's API

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin
@jonathanmoore
jonathanmoore / gist:2640302
Created May 8, 2012 23:17
Get the share counts from various APIs

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

@jleclanche
jleclanche / weather.py
Created May 13, 2012 19:05
Quick python weather script using Google's Weather API
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
import sys
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from xml.dom import minidom
try:
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.parse import urlencode
except ImportError:
@yorkxin
yorkxin / avoid-jquery-when-possible.md
Created July 7, 2012 13:04
Avoid jQuery When Possible

Avoid jQuery When Possible

jQuery does good jobs when you're dealing with browser compatibility. But we're living in an age that fewer and fewer people use old-school browsers such as IE <= 7. With the growing of DOM APIs in modern browsers (including IE 8), most functions that jQuery provides are built-in natively.

When targeting only modern browsers, it is better to avoid using jQuery's backward-compatible features. Instead, use the native DOM API, which will make your web page run much faster than you might think (native C / C++ implementaion v.s. JavaScript).

If you're making a web page for iOS (e.g. UIWebView), you should use native DOM APIs because mobile Safari is not that old-school web browser; it supports lots of native DOM APIs.

If you're making a Chrome Extension, you should always use native APIs, not only because Chrome has almost the latest DOM APIs available, but this can also avoid performance issue and unnecessary memory occupation (each jQuery-driven extension needs a separate

@UniIsland
UniIsland / SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload.py
Created August 14, 2012 04:01
Simple Python Http Server with Upload
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Simple HTTP Server With Upload.
This module builds on BaseHTTPServer by implementing the standard GET
and HEAD requests in a fairly straightforward manner.
"""
@TigorC
TigorC / form_ajax.js
Created August 22, 2012 11:43
Django bootstrap AJAX form
// Для отправки вормы использовать jQuery ajax forms (http://jquery.malsup.com/form/)
// Показывает ошибки формы
function show_form_errors(form, error_json)
{
clear_form_errors(form);
for (name in error_json) {
var elem = form.find('input[name=' + name + '], textarea[name=' + name + ']');
elem.closest('.control-group').addClass('error');
elem.parent().prepend($('<span class="help-inline">*' + error_json[name] + '</span>'));
}
@adharris
adharris / postgres_array.go
Created November 28, 2012 19:52
PostgreSQL demo of Array types using Golang
package main
import (
"database/sql"
"errors"
"fmt"
_ "github.com/bmizerany/pq"
"os"
"regexp"
"strings"
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active June 13, 2025 01:26
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