This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.
| on alfred_script(q) | |
| set {the_path, file_name} to parse_path(first item of q) | |
| tell application "iTerm" | |
| set _terminal to make new terminal | |
| tell _terminal | |
| launch session "Vim" | |
| tell the last session | |
| write text "cd \"" & the_path & "\"" | |
| # Replace e with your vim command |
| These two files should help you to import passwords from mac OS X keychains to 1password. | |
| Assumptions: | |
| 1) You have some experience with scripting/are a power-user. These scripts worked for me | |
| but they haven't been extensively tested and if they don't work, you're on your own! | |
| Please read this whole document before starting this process. If any of it seems | |
| incomprehensible/frightening/over your head please do not use these scripts. You will | |
| probably do something Very Bad and I wouldn't want that. | |
| 2) You have ruby 1.9.2 installed on your machine. This comes as standard with Lion, previous | |
| versions of OS X may have earlier versions of ruby, which *may* work, but then again, they |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT | |
| ## Copyright (C) 2011 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <[email protected]> | |
| ## | |
| ## This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. | |
| ## https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT | |
| # | |
| # Usage: gitio URL [CODE] | |
| # |
| The regex patterns in this gist are intended to match any URLs, | |
| including "mailto:[email protected]", "x-whatever://foo", etc. For a | |
| pattern that attempts only to match web URLs (http, https), see: | |
| https://gist.github.com/gruber/8891611 | |
| # Single-line version of pattern: | |
| (?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’])) |
