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sfoster / gist:547756

Created August 24, 2010 15:39

	(function(d){
	console.log("Wrapping dojo.connect/subscribe");
	var dc = d.connect,
	ddc = d.disconnect,
	ds = d.subscribe,
	dus = d.unsubscribe,
	uniqueHandleId = 0,
	handleIds = {};
	var handleData = { connect: 0, disconnect: 0, subscribe: 0, unsubscribe: 0 };
	d.connect = function() {

sfoster / lazyWidgets.html

Created September 9, 2010 17:03

	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Lazy Widgets</title>

	<link id="themeStyles" rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.5/dijit/themes/claro/claro.css">

	<!-- required: dojo.js -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.5/dojo/dojo.xd.js"

sfoster / diagnostics.js

Created September 15, 2010 21:55

	(function(d){
	console.log("Wrapping dojo.connect/subscribe");

	var dc = d.connect,
	ddc = d.disconnect,
	ds = d.subscribe,
	dus = d.unsubscribe,
	uniqueHandleId = 0,
	handleIds = {};
	var handleData = { connect: 0, disconnect: 0, subscribe: 0, unsubscribe: 0 };

sfoster / FeedStore

Created October 13, 2010 16:11

	dojo.provide("myns.data.FeedStore");
	dojo.require("dojox.data.ServiceStore");
	dojo.require("dojox.rpc.Service");

	dojo.declare("myns.data.FeedStore", dojox.data.ServiceStore, {
	// summary:
	// Flexible, extensible store for normalizing read-only JSON feed data

	service: null,

sfoster / getValue snippet

Created January 4, 2011 10:13

dojo.data store (e.g. ServiceStore extension) getValue method implementation that allows mapping of attribute names to potentially deep properties

	getValue: function(/Object/ item, /String/property, /value?/defaultValue){
	// summary:
	// Gets the value of an item's 'property'
	//
	// item:
	// The item to get the value from
	// property:
	// property to look up value for
	// defaultValue:
	// the default value

sfoster / simple mocking

Created April 6, 2011 17:09

Simple mechanism for temporarily replacing a method's implementation e.g. for mocking during tests

	var mockMethod = function(obj, methName, fn) {
	var orig = obj[methName];
	var handle = [obj, methName, orig];
	obj[methName] = fn;
	return handle;
	}, unMockMethod = function(handle) {
	handle[0][handle[1]] = handle[2];
	};

	// usage:

sfoster / gist:1018071

Created June 10, 2011 00:56

perl script to extract tab delimited entries from Firebug's ConsoleExport html output

	#!/usr/bin/perl

	# quick, throwaway script to extract out info messages from the HTML dump of the
	# firebug console which is produced by the ConsoleExport Firefox/Firebug
	# plugin.
	# I was interested in info message of the form.. so its pretty specific
	# console.info("some label:87ms", 113, 200);

	# TODO provide a way to extract log/warn/info/error/all entry types

sfoster / gist:1018660

Created June 10, 2011 11:36

Screenshot sequence w. node.js and screencapture


	(function(){
	var sys = require('sys');
	var filestem = process.ARGV.length > 2 ? process.ARGV.length[2] : "screen";

	var spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
	timer = null,
	startTime, stopTime;

	function outfile(d) {

sfoster / fileWizard.js

Created July 8, 2011 12:06

Wizard-style prompts from node.js


	/**
	* Module dependencies.
	*/

	var fs = require('fs'),
	path = require('path');
	spawn = require('child_process').spawn,
	exec = require('child_process').exec;

sfoster / gist:1128716

Created August 5, 2011 22:51

hooking up xml2json to convert XML piped in via stdin to JSON on stdout

	// hooking up xml2json to convert XML piped in via stdin to JSON on stdout
	// e.g.:
	// curl http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss \| node index.js > gutenberg.json

	var x2j = require("xml2json");

	process.stdin.resume();
	process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8');

	var xml = '';

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