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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

frxstrem

'''
Establish a socket connection through an HTTP proxy.

Author: Fredrik Østrem <[email protected]>

License:
  Copyright 2013 Fredrik Østrem

  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

yoavram

# pdfx usage: http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/usage
# requests docs: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#post-a-multipart-encoded-file
import requests # get it from http://python-requests.org or do 'pip install requests'

url = "http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk"

def pypdfx(filename):
  '''
	Filename is a name of a pdf file WITHOUT the extension
	The function will print messages, including the status code,

jeromer

# LICENSE: public domain

def calculate_initial_compass_bearing(pointA, pointB):
    """
    Calculates the bearing between two points.

    The formulae used is the following:
        θ = atan2(sin(Δlong).cos(lat2),
                  cos(lat1).sin(lat2) − sin(lat1).cos(lat2).cos(Δlong))

aaugustin

from django.contrib import admin


class ReadOnlyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    """
    ModelAdmin class that prevents modifications through the admin.

    The changelist and the detail view work, but a 403 is returned
    if one actually tries to edit an object.