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willread / gist:4199560

Last active October 13, 2015 12:58

Solve for number of columns, width of columns and padding given width

	var width = 620;
	var minSize = 100;
	var maxPadding = 10;

	for(var padding = 1; padding < maxPadding; padding++){
	for(var size = minSize; size < width; size++){
	var cols = (width + padding) / (size + padding);
	if(cols % 1 == 0)
	console.log("columns: " + cols + " size: " + size + " padding: " + padding);
	}

willread / gist:4133768

Created November 23, 2012 02:30

Count the occurences of a phrase in a file

grep -oh something ./some.file | wc -w

willread / gist:4128941

Created November 22, 2012 01:36

Serve the current directory via SimpleHTTPServer in OSX

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

willread / gist:3876557

Created October 12, 2012 00:13

String representation of an array

'"' + words.join('","') + '"'

willread / gist:3875540

Created October 11, 2012 21:16

Remotely add a vhost to a couchdb instance

curl -XPUT -HContent-Type:application/json https://user:[email protected]/_config/vhosts/subdomain.host.com -d '"/database/_design/app/_rewrite"'

willread / reverseWords.js

Created August 24, 2012 01:57

Reverse the words in a string

	// Reverse words in a string

	var reverseWords = function(sentence){

	var words = sentence.split(" ").reverse(); // Split the sentence into an array of words and reverse it
	var string = "";
	for(word in words)
	string += (word > 0 ? " " : "") + words[word]; // Concatenate each word to the output and add spaces where required
	return string;

willread / minimalAjax.js

Created August 21, 2012 20:20

Minimal cross browser AJAX

	var minimalAjax = function(url, callback){

	var xmlHTTP = window.XMLHttpRequest ? new XMLHttpRequest() : new ActiveXObject("MicrosoftXMLHTTP");
	xmlHTTP.onreadystatechange = function(){
	if(this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200)
	callback(this.responseText);
	}
	xmlHTTP.open("GET", url, true);
	xmlHTTP.send();

willread / padNumber.js

Created August 21, 2012 15:29

Pad a number with leading zeros to a specified length

	var padNumber = function(n, d){

	if(!d \|\| d <= (n+"").length)
	return n+"";
	return (0).toPrecision(d - (n+"").length).replace(".", "")+n;

	}

	padNumber(1.234, 6); // Returns "000001.234"
	padNumber(1.234, 10); // Returns "01.234"

willread / convertFont.sh

Created August 20, 2012 19:10

Convert SVG Font To TTF Using cURL

curl -X POST -F outputFormat=ttf -F fontFile=@./icons.svg www.freefontconverter.com > icons.ttf

willread / classNameManipulation.js

Created August 3, 2012 04:40

Utility methods for adding, removing, checking for and toggling classes in classNames.

	var hasClass = function(el, c){
	return new RegExp("(\\s\|^)" + c + "(\\s\|$)", "g").test(el.className);
	}

	var addClass = function(el, c){
	if(!this.hasClass(el, c)) el.className += " " + c;
	}

	var removeClass = function(el, c){
	el.className = el.className.replace(new RegExp("(\\s\|^)" + c + "(\\s\|$)", "g"), " ").trim();