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@neonstalwart
neonstalwart / local-selenium.md
Last active July 31, 2024 20:57
how to run intern self tests with a local selenium 
$ brew install selenium-server-standalone chromedriver
$ git clone [email protected]:theintern/intern.git
$ cd intern
$ npm install --production
$ ln -s .. node_modules/intern
$ curl https://gist.github.com/neonstalwart/6630466/raw/f0e4e4efbefa40c746f7c68e2bb4fa0dd5215047/selftest.local.intern.js > tests/selftest.local.intern.js
$ java -jar /usr/local/opt/selenium-server-standalone/selenium-server-standalone-2.35.0.jar -p 4444 &
$ node node_modules/intern/runner.js config=tests/selftest.local.intern
@jonschlinkert
jonschlinkert / markdown-cheatsheet.md
Last active April 10, 2025 18:38
A better markdown cheatsheet.
@phamann
phamann / Lessons.md
Last active June 6, 2024 11:35

Lesson's learnt building the Guardian

Below is a collection of my favourite responses I gathered from Guardian engineers when asked the question: What have you learnt starting from scratch and building a mobile-first next generation web platform for the Guardian?

Daithi O Crualaoich

  • Work with great people.
  • Deploy like crazy. This means the team has to control the infrastructure as well as code.
  • Design is not a service. Designers have to sit in the team.
  • Infrastructure is intrinsically unreliable. Discard and replace is the robust strategy.
  • Use your CDN for HTML too.
  • Don't always do as you are told.
@iliadraznin
iliadraznin / istype.js
Created June 8, 2013 15:28
Simple function to detect type Array. JavaScript return type "object" whether you give it an actual object like { red:44, green:57, blue:220 }, or an array like [44, 57, 220]. So I wrote this small function to separate the two.
function istype(obj) {
return (typeof obj !== 'object' || typeof obj[0] === 'undefined')
? typeof obj
: 'array';
}
@redchair123
redchair123 / find_unlicensed_repos.sh
Last active December 16, 2015 11:19
Simple shell script to find unlicensed repos on github
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2013 Niggler
# 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 limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTW
@asciidisco
asciidisco / getTitle.js
Created January 31, 2013 16:19
Access PhantomJS via WebDriver/JSONWireProtocol from node to receive the title of a webpage
// before you launch this script, make sure you have phantomjs v1.8 installed
// and launch it with the port specified in the options: ´$ phantomjs --webdriver=3456´
var http = require('http');
// request body for "/wd/hub/session" request
var body = JSON.stringify({desiredCapabilities: {browserName: 'firefox', version: '', platform: 'ANY'}});
// base options for post requests
var options = {
@klederson
klederson / HTML5StorageMultidimensional.js
Created October 8, 2012 18:23
Adding Multidimensional Support for javascript / html5 sessionStorage , localStorage or just Storage object
/**
*
* MOVED TO: https://github.com/iFind/html5MultidimensionalStorage
*
* This methods extends the default HTML5 Storage object and add support
* to set and get multidimensional data
*
* @example Storage.setObj('users.albums.sexPistols',"blah");
* @example Storage.setObj('users.albums.sexPistols',{ sid : "My Way", nancy : "Bitch" });
* @example Storage.setObj('users.albums.sexPistols.sid',"Other songs");
@ykarikos
ykarikos / png2svg.sh
Created June 7, 2012 22:17
Convert png to svg using imagemagick and potrace
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "" ]; then
echo Usage: $0 pngfile
exit 0;
fi
FILE=`basename $1 .png`
if [ ! -e $FILE.png ]; then
@aseemk
aseemk / url.coffee
Created April 27, 2012 05:51
Simplified wrapper around Node's native 'url' module
# url.coffee
# by Aseem Kishore ( https://github.com/aseemk ), under MIT license
#
# A simplified wrapper around the native 'url' module that returns "live"
# objects: updates to properties are reflected in related properties. E.g.
# updates to the `port` property will be reflected on the `host` property.
#
# The public API and behavior are pretty close to the native 'url' module's:
# http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/url.html Currently lacking / known issues:
#
@emilbjorklund
emilbjorklund / breakpoints_via_css.html
Created April 24, 2012 16:03
Width detection via sneaky CSS rules
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!--[if IE 8]> <html lang="sv-SE" class="no-js ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html lang="sv-SE" class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Breakpoint detection test</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
@media screen and (min-width: 320px) {
#page:after {
content: 'smallest'; /* represent the current width-bracket */