blackfalcon

by Dale Sande

CSS has had a long and sordid past. A developer never sets out with the goal of making a complete and total mess of things. Their intention is not to build something that is practically illegible, impractical to maintain and is limited in scale. But somehow, this is where many inevitably end up. Luckily, all is not lost. With some simple strategies, organizational methods and out-of-the box tools, we can really help get that junk-drawer inline.

For many of us getting started with Sass, at one time or another have created a junk-drawer of files. For most, this was a rookie mistake, but for others, this is a continuing issue with our architecture and file management techniques. Sass doesn't come with any real rules for file management so developers are pretty much left to their own devices.

Large CSS files and increased complexity

CSS started out with very simple intentions, but as [tableless web design][1.1] began to really take a foothold, o

MoOx

  //...
  $background: null; // if you don't do this, background is undefined out of the @if/else scope
  @if ($direction) {
    $background: linear-gradient($direction, $color, $color2);
  }
  @else {
    $background: linear-gradient($color, $color2);
  }
  //...
  

anzeljg

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

tkadlec

var myImage = new Image();
myImage.src = "http://somedomain.com/image2.png";
    
if (myImage.complete) {
  //already downloaded
} else {
  //not yet downloaded
}

axelpale

/**
 * Copyright 2012 Akseli Palén.
 * Created 2012-07-15.
 * Licensed under the MIT license.
 * 
 * <license>
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 * a copy of this software and associated documentation files
 * (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
 * including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,

inflammable

/*
 * base58.js
 *  - encodes integers to and decodes from a base58 (or your own) base58 alphabet
 *  - based on Flickr's url shortening
 * 
 * usage:
 *   base58.encode(integer);
 *   base58.decode(string);
 * 
 * (c) 2012 inflammable/raromachine

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

btoone

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

oodavid

Deploy your site with git

This gist assumes:

• you have a local git repo
• with an online remote repository (github / bitbucket etc)
• and a cloud server (Rackspace cloud / Amazon EC2 etc)
  • your (PHP) scripts are served from /var/www/html/
  • your webpages are executed by apache
• apache's home directory is /var/www/

GarrettS

function F(){}
function newApply(ctor, args) {
    var i, 
    fp = F.prototype = ctor.prototype; // Copy prototype.
    if(fp) {
        fp.constructor = ctor;
    }
    i = new F;
    ctor.apply(i, args); // Apply the original constructor.
    return i;