Steve Spencer sspencer

sspencer / unitedstates.php

Created March 3, 2012 00:10

United States in PHP array

sspencer / FormatThousandsSeparator.m

Created July 27, 2012 19:18

Format Decimal Number with Thousands Separator

	NSNumberFormatter *formatter = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
	[formatter setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterDecimalStyle];
	NSLog(@"formatted: %@", [formatter stringFromNumber:[NSNumber numberWithInt:1234567]]);

sspencer / SomeNetworkOperation.m

Created August 1, 2012 01:57

Override MKNetworkOperation so 4xx response body available in the error handler

	// Register your NetworkOperation class after creating your network engine
	// someEngine = [[SomeEngine alloc] initWithHostName:SOME_API customHeaderFields:nil];
	// [someEngine registerOperationSubclass:[SomeNetworkOperation class]];


	// ------ SomeNetworkOperation.h ------
	#import "MKNetworkOperation.h"
	@interface SomeNetworkOperation : MKNetworkOperation
	@end

sspencer / repl.js

Created April 10, 2013 19:52

Simple standalone NodeJS REPL.

	// Simple embedded REPL
	var repl = require("repl");

	repl.start({
	prompt: "karma> ",
	input: process.stdin,
	output: process.stdout,
	eval: function(cmd, context, filename, callback) {
	// cmd comes thru as "(ls\n)", get back to original "ls"
	callback("You typed: " + cmd.substring(1, cmd.length-1).trim());

sspencer / closure.sh

Created April 22, 2013 23:10

Shell function to send JS file thru closure. Usage: closurejs file.js

	closurejs()
	{
	curl -s --data output_info=compiled_code --data-urlencode js_code@${1} http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/compile
	}

sspencer / negative_lookahead.js

Created March 31, 2014 22:54

	var crappy_xml = "<tag>some forget to encode & others <do not></tag>";

	// negative lookahead
	crappy_xml.replace(/&(?!(\S+;))/g, '&')

sspencer / sql.js

Created March 31, 2014 22:56

	// From: http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2013/05/multi-line-strings-in-javascript-and.html
	function multiline(fn) {
	return fn.toString().match(/[^]\/\([^])\\/\}$/)[1].trim();
	}

	// NOTE: exported objects are Strings, not functions
	exports.getTour = multiline(function() {/*
	SELECT
	*
	FROM

sspencer / marzullo.js

Created June 3, 2015 01:02

Marzullo's algorithm in JavaScript based on http://vmaroli2.blogspot.com/2012/11/marzullos-algorithm-in-java.html

	// MarzulloAlgorithm in JavaScript
	//
	// Not quite what I need which is a list of ranges that contain a specified number.
	//
	'use strict';

	function Point(name, point, type) {
	this.name = name;
	this.point = point;
	this.type = type;

sspencer / solo.go

Created August 31, 2016 20:17

	package command

	import (
	"fmt"
	"net"
	"os"
	)

	const (
	message = "This process is already running in SOLO mode."

sspencer / timer.go

Created September 10, 2016 23:46

Time a function

	// Golang UK Conference 2016 - Mat Ryer - Idiomatic Go Tricks
	func StartTimer(name String) func() {
	t := time.Now()
	log.Println(name, "started")
	return func() {
	d := time.Now().Sub(t)
	log.Println(name, "took", d)
	}
	}