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swissmanu / gist:2642579

Created May 9, 2012 07:06

simplyfied requestAnimationFrame

	/**
	* An even more common approach to look for vendor specific implementations in
	* the browsers javascript object model.
	* lookUpImplementation(vendors,subject,functionName,replacement) is reusable
	* for other tasks too :-)
	*/
	var vendors = ['webkit','moz','o','ms'];
	window.requestAnimationFrame = lookUpImplementation(
	vendors, window, 'requestAnimationFrame'
	,function(step) {

swissmanu / gist:4284339

Created December 14, 2012 10:27

Draws a smiley face under iOS. Pass a mood value ranging from 0 to 1 for making it happy (or sad :( )

	/**
	* Draws a smiley inside the given rectangle. The mood value (0...1) is used
	* to make the smiley happy or sad.
	*
	* @param rect Rectangle to draw the smiley into
	* @param mood Happy (= 1) or sad (= 0) or anything in between
	*/
	-(void)drawSmileyInRect:(CGRect)rect withMood:(float)mood {
	CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
	CGContextSaveGState(ctx);

swissmanu / Helpers.h

Last active December 11, 2015 04:29

Assuming you have a crappy model which contains properties with a locale identifier as suffix (like "title_de", "title_en" etc), `localizedProperty(NSString*, id)` returns a specific translation of that property. This Gist provides a global function and is ready to use :-)

NSString* localizedProperty(NSString* propertyName, id fromObject);

swissmanu / gist:4663178

Last active December 11, 2015 21:29

A global helper function to draw a vertical gradient using CoreGraphics. Pass a NSArray with UIColors and a plain C-array with step-location for each color. Don't invoke too often and when, don't use to many color steps. Each color needs to be converted using an expensive for-iteration.

	// NSArray *colors = @[[UIColor redColor], [UIColor greenColor], [UIColor blueColor]];
	// CGFloat locations[] = {0,.5,1};
	// DrawVerticalGradient(rect, colors, locations, ctx);
	void DrawVerticalGradient(CGRect rect, NSArray* colors, const CGFloat steps[], CGContextRef ctx) {
	CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
	NSMutableArray *cgColors = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:colors.count];

	for (UIColor *color in colors) {
	[cgColors addObject:(__bridge id)(color.CGColor)];
	}

swissmanu / gist:4682477

Created January 31, 2013 12:18

Following functions make the the creation and drawing of programmatical generated UIImages a little bit easier. Call `CreateBitmapContext(CGSize)` to get a CGContextRef you can draw into. Afterwards, just call `CreateUIImageFromBitmap(CGContextRef)` to return a common usable UIImage instance and free up any used resources. This Gist is based on h…

	CGContextRef CreateBitmapContext(CGSize size) {
	CGColorSpaceRef space = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
	CGContextRef ctx = CGBitmapContextCreate(nil, size.width, size.height, 8, size.width * (CGColorSpaceGetNumberOfComponents(space) + 1), space, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast);
	CGColorSpaceRelease(space);

	return ctx;
	}

	UIImage* CreateUIImageFromBitmapContext(CGContextRef ctx) {
	CGImageRef cgImage = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(ctx);

swissmanu / NSArray+ExtractValuesAsArray.h

Last active December 12, 2015 07:38

Create a NSArray with a specific value of the items of another NSArray.

	@interface NSArray (ExtractValuesAsArray)
	/** Creates a new NSArray with the specific value of the items of another array. Ensure that the items of the array are KVC compliant since a key path is used to gather the values.
	*/
	+(NSArray)arrayWithValuesOfArrayItems:(NSArray)array keyPath:(NSString*)keyPath;
	@end

swissmanu / gist:4943356

Created February 13, 2013 09:38

check if a CLLocationCoordinate2D is inside MKCoordinateRegion. this is a simplified version of http://stackoverflow.com/a/10574327/368959

	-(BOOL)isCoordinate:(CLLocationCoordinate2D)coordinate insideRegion:(MKCoordinateRegion)region {
	CLLocationCoordinate2D center = region.center;
	CLLocationCoordinate2D northWestCorner, southEastCorner;

	northWestCorner.latitude = center.latitude - (region.span.latitudeDelta / 2.0);
	northWestCorner.longitude = center.longitude - (region.span.longitudeDelta / 2.0);
	southEastCorner.latitude = center.latitude + (region.span.latitudeDelta / 2.0);
	southEastCorner.longitude = center.longitude + (region.span.longitudeDelta / 2.0);

	return(coordinate.latitude >= northWestCorner.latitude &&

swissmanu / gist:5382296

Created April 14, 2013 11:00

simple startup script for sabnzbd, couchpotato and sickbeard on a synology nas.

	#!/bin/sh

	SABNZBD_CONFIG=/root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini
	SABNZBD_HOST=--HOST_ADDRESS--
	SABNZBD_PORT=9200
	SABNZBD_APIKEY=--YOUR_API_KEY--

	CP_PID=/var/run/couchpotato.pid
	CP_CONFIG=/usr/local/couchpotato.config.ini
	CP_DATADIR=/root/.couchpotato

swissmanu / templatePrecompiler.js

Last active December 16, 2015 18:58

Creates precompiled handlebar templates and makes them available as a basic common js module. Change the paths templatesSource and templatesDestination to your needs. Simply execute with "node templatePrecompiler.js"

	/** File: Template Preprocessor
	* Creates precompiled handlebar templates and makes them available as a simple
	* common js module.
	*/
	var Handlebars = require('handlebars')
	, _ = require('underscore')
	, path = require('path')
	, fs = require('fs')
	, templatesSource = path.join(__dirname, 'src', 'templates')
	, templatesDestination = path.join(__dirname, 'src', 'templates', 'precompiledTemplates.js')

swissmanu / create.sh

Last active December 17, 2015 15:09

create.sh creates a git repository which automatically publishs its contents over a webserver when receiving changes from its remotes. It's like gh-pages, but on your own server and without an extra branch.

	#!/bin/bash

	if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "Supply a name for the repo/site to publish"
	exit 1;
	fi

	URLROOT=gitpages.mydomain.com
	ROOT=/home/www/gitpages.mydomain.com
	REPOS=$ROOT/repositories

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