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wil / echo.c

Created November 12, 2009 15:29 — forked from paulsmith/echo.c

Nothing here, just watching it

	/**
	* A simple preforking echo server in C.
	*
	* Building:
	*
	* $ gcc -Wall -o echo echo.c
	*
	* Usage:
	*
	* $ ./echo

wil / rabbit.py

Created February 18, 2010 12:12

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#

	### patch socket and tornado
	import gevent.monkey; gevent.monkey.patch_all()
	import gtornado.monkey; gtornado.monkey.patch_all()

	import tornado.httpserver
	import tornado.ioloop
	import tornado.options

wil / gist:347596

Created March 29, 2010 08:25

Django Setting Expires Header in XHR Response

	import time
	from django.utils.http import http_date

	AJAX_NEGATIVE_CHECK_EXPIRES = 60 # object is still available
	AJAX_POSITIVE_CHECK_EXPIRES = 60*10 # if object is not available (or taken)

	def check_ajax(request):
	# do stuff here
	timeout = AJAX_NEGATIVE_CHECK_EXPIRES if avail else AJAX_POSITIVE_CHECK_EXPIRES

wil / find_forelse.py

Created October 24, 2011 11:49

Look for the for/else construct in python code

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# Parses a .py file and look for for-else constructs
	# Usage: find_forelse.py some_python_file.py

	import sys
	import ast

	def check_file(filename):
	with open(filename, "r") as f:

wil / django_sql_debug.py

Created January 3, 2012 10:51

Django Production SQL Debugging in the manage.py shell

	# These are some commands to copy and paste into a manage.py shell session
	# in order to find out what SQL queries are generated by a view

	## turn on DEBUG so that ``connection.queries`` gets populated
	from django.conf import settings
	settings.DEBUG = True
	from django.db import connection


	## handy function for printing the queries

wil / fake_django_request

Created January 3, 2012 11:45

Fake django request useful for calling a view function

	from django.http import QueryDict
	class FakeRequest(object):
	pass

	request = FakeRequest()
	request.GET = QueryDict('a=1&b=2')
	request.META = {}

wil / convert_cache_setting.py

Created October 8, 2012 05:00

Django 1.3 CACHE_BACKEND settings backward compatibility

	# This allows you to maintain your Django cache settings in Django 1.3 style i.e. settings.CACHE
	# and convert it to the old settings.CACHE_BACKEND url so that you can run it under Django 1.2 or earlier


	from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured


	CACHE_BACKEND_MAP = {
	'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache': 'db',
	'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache': 'dummy',

wil / graphite-deb.sh

Created February 5, 2013 12:23 — forked from rcrowley/graphite-deb.sh

	VERSION="0.9.9"
	BUILD="betable1"

	set -e -x

	# Keep track of the original working directory.
	OLDESTPWD="$PWD"

	# Work in a temporary directory.
	cd "$(mktemp -d)"

wil / install-root-key.sh

Created July 10, 2013 14:17

downloads the public key from the "cloud" environment

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# install-root-key.sh
	#
	# This script downloads the public key from the "cloud" environment.

	if [ ! -d /root/.ssh ]; then
	mkdir -p /root/.ssh
	chmod 700 /root/.ssh
	fi

wil / libresolv_query.c

Created August 2, 2013 16:27

Demonstrates how to send a DNS query and parse response in C using libresolv.

	/*
	* Copyright (c) 2013 by Wil Tan <[email protected]>
	*
	* Based on dump_dns.c from the dnscap <https://www.dns-oarc.net/tools/dnscap>
	* originally written by Paul Vixie.
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2007 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
	*
	* Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
	* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above