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@btoone
btoone / curl.md
Last active December 10, 2025 22:00
A curl tutorial using GitHub's API

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin
@kirpit
kirpit / bash.py
Last active March 17, 2023 06:29
Enables to run subprocess commands in a different thread with TIMEOUT option!
#! /usr/bin/env python
import threading
import subprocess
import traceback
import shlex
class Command(object):
"""
Enables to run subprocess commands in a different thread with TIMEOUT option.
@jasoncodes
jasoncodes / gist:1223731
Created September 17, 2011 07:45
Installing Ruby 1.9.3 with rbenv on OS X
# The latest version of this script is now available at
# https://github.com/jasoncodes/dotfiles/blob/master/aliases/rbenv.sh
VERSION=1.9.3-p286
brew update
brew install rbenv ruby-build rbenv-vars readline ctags
if [ -n "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ]; then
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init - --no-rehash)"' >> ~/.zshrc
else
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init - --no-rehash)"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Building a Facebook application and hosting it in Heroku

Introduction

With Facebook's Graph API and the creation of the Open Graph protocol, it is now easier then ever before to read and write data from and to the "social graph". Here's a few of the possibilities:

  • You could turn your webpage into a fully-featured Facebook-like page, just like if you were inside Facebook.
import os
from fabric.api import env, require, run, sudo, cd
env.project_name = ''
env.server_name = ''
env.webapps_root = '/opt/webapps/'
env.project_root = os.path.join(env.webapps_root, env.project_name)
env.activate_script = os.path.join(env.project_root, 'env/bin/activate')
env.wsgi_file = os.path.join(env.project_root, 'django.wsgi')