Scott Murray scotthmurray

The Why and When of Choosing Elm

What is Elm?

Language (and "framework") for building web frontend applications
Can be used in place of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Compiles into the above

ID	Name	OverallRating	NumberOfStudents	DropoutsCurr	DropoutsLast	AttendancePctCurr	AttendancePctPrev	MathPctCurr	MathPctPrev	SchoolType
822	Abernethy Elementary School	Outstanding	421	0	0	95.5	95.2	73.0	88.9	E
823	Ainsworth Elementary School	Outstanding	527	0	0	95.9	95.4	73.0	86.2	E
824	Alameda Elementary School	Outstanding	718	0	0	96.0	95.5	73.0	89.6	E
4507	Alliance High School	In Need of Improvement	235	68	55	82.1	80.8	85.1	27.7	HSG
826	Arleta Elementary School	Satisfactory	405	0	0	94.3	94.2	71.6	54.7	E
4162	Arts Communication & Technology School	In Need of Improvement	230	17	9	87.9	83.2	85.1	50.0	HSG
827	Astor Elementary School	Outstanding	448	0	0	95.2	95.0	71.6	77.6	E
828	Atkinson Elementary School	Satisfactory	412	0	0	95.3	94.8	73.0	62.3	E
830	Beach Elementary School	Satisfactory	515	0	0	95.2	94.3	71.6	63.9	E

Git Flow

I keep meeting people who struggle to wrap their heads around the proper way to use Git + Github. This snippet is designed to explain Vincent Driessen's git branching model, at least as well as I understand it. Speacial thanks to Stephen Koch for being the true master here.

This tutorial is for Linux or OSX. Feel free to use Cygwin or write a fork for windows.

A way to think about Git and Github.

Pagination Best Practices

Article by Faruk Ateş

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the obvious example, but it's good to realize that paginat

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/

	from json import load, JSONEncoder
	from optparse import OptionParser
	from re import compile

	float_pat = compile(r'^-?\d+\.\d+(e-?\d+)?$')
	charfloat_pat = compile(r'^[\[,\,]-?\d+\.\d+(e-?\d+)?$')

	parser = OptionParser(usage="""%prog [options]

	Group multiple GeoJSON files into one output file.

	{
	"europe": {
	"va": "vatican city",
	"ch": "switzerland",
	"ad": "andorra",
	"ee": "estonia",
	"is": "iceland",
	"am": "armenia",
	"al": "albania",
	"cz": "czech republic",