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zircote / test-before-observing.php

Created June 18, 2013 16:08

ProTip: Test the key exists before accessing the value in the switch.

	<?php

	switch (isset($headers['content-type']) && $headers['content-type']) {
	case 'application/xml':
	$format = 'XML';
	break;
	case 'application/json':
	default:
	$format = 'JSON';
	}

zircote / ApiProblem.php

Last active December 18, 2015 05:19

A PHP Exception to provide the functionality of the `application/api-problem` RFC proposal. This class creates simple JSON [RFC4627] and XML [W3C.REC-xml-20081126] document formats to suit the purpose described in [Problem Details](http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-problem).

	<?php

	/**
	* @link http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-problem
	* @link http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988
	*
	* @package ApiProblem
	* @category Exception
	*/

zircote / cli.sh

Last active December 17, 2015 21:19

cli warehouseA place for me to keep snippets I like but can never readily remember

	ls data/some_path_with_spaces_in_the_name/*.csv\| while read name; do
	./bin/load_csv.sh "$name" table_name
	done

	# Only show lines when the value in column number 6 changes.
	tail -f some-logfile.log \| awk '{if (last!=$6) {print $0}; last=$6}'

	#generates php class properties from a tables columns
	mysql -B -N -u root my_db -e 'describe table_to_use'\|awk '{printf(" \"%s\" => null,\n", $1) }'

zircote / bubble_sort.php

Last active December 17, 2015 09:29

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13364680/convert-word-into-number-for-lexicographical-order Lexicographical Ordering

	<?php

	usort($unsortedObjectArray, function( $a, $b ) {
	if ($a->weight == $b->weight) {
	return 0;
	}
	return ($a->weight < $b->weight) ? -1 : 1;
	});

zircote / base_62_converter.py

Created April 17, 2013 16:55 — forked from bhelx/base_62_converter.py

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	#
	# Converts any integer into a base [BASE] number. I have chosen 62
	# as it is meant to represent the integers using all the alphanumeric
	# characters, [no special characters] = {0..9}, {A..Z}, {a..z}
	#
	# I plan on using this to shorten the representation of possibly long ids,
	# a la url shortenters
	#

zircote / ga-analytics.js

Created March 26, 2013 19:47

Get the clientId for the universal analytics

	tracker = ga.getByName('tracker')
	tracker.get('clientId')

zircote / cake-example.php

Created March 22, 2013 20:14

I am not familiar with cake; however based on the example I was given this should produce the desired result.

	<?php
	use Swagger\Annotations as SWG;
	App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');
	/**
	* Users Controller
	* @SWG\Resource(
	* apiVersion="0.2",
	* swaggerVersion="1.1",
	* basePath="http://api.myhost.local/api",
	* resourcePath="/users"

zircote / create-properties-from-table.sh

Created March 20, 2013 16:45

mysql -u username dbname -e 'describe db_table'|awk '{print "    protected $"$1";"};'

zircote / r53-dyn-dns.sh

Created January 21, 2013 12:07

Automated DNS updates using Route53

	#!/bin/sh

	ZONE="my-tld.com"
	RESOURCE="some-host"
	INTERFACE="eth0"
	ADDR=$(ifconfig $INTERFACE \| grep "inet addr" \| awk -F: '{print $2}' \| awk '{print$1}')
	cli53 rrcreate $ZONE $RESOURCE A $ADDR -x 3600 -r

zircote / com.zircote.headlessvm.plist

Created December 19, 2012 17:02

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Disabled</key>
	<false/>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<false/>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.zircote.headlessvm</string>

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