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(Bash) Common @openshift RHC commands

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:59:55 GMT

I use these commands all the time while dealing with @openshift. I figured it would make sense to spell them out.

(HTML) HTML: List of countries for a Dropdown menu

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:49:15 GMT

Country listings

(CSS) CSS: Retina display media query

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:51:41 GMT

I needed a quick way to target high-resolution graphics. Here was my final solution

(JavaScript) NodeJS: Server-side browser detection

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:36:54 GMT

Browser detection before sending any resources to the client.

(HTML) HTML5: Input box with regular expressions

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:10:19 GMT

If I ever need a regular expression for $99.99. Here it is.

(JavaScript) Firebase: Chat

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:41:40 GMT

Dead simple way to provide chat to your apps using Javascript

(JavaScript) Firebase: Leaderboard

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:39:49 GMT

Easy-to-use leaderboard

(JavaScript) NodeJS: Minimize all the JS files in a directory using Uglify-js

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:51:36 GMT

If you happen to have 5 or 6 javascript files that you'd like to compress into 1, then try uglify within terminal.

(JavaScript) NodeJS: Delivering a crossdomain.xml file using Express.JS

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:32:23 GMT

There are many ways to deliver a crossdomain.xml file through NodeJS or Express.js. Here is one solution

(JavaScript) Javascript: Controlling video using D-Pad control

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:13:28 GMT

If you happen to have a GoogleTV and you want to control using the D-Pad, here's how you do it using a switch case and jQuery.

(ActionScript 3) HTML: Disable autozoom on GoogleTV

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:52:53 GMT

If you want to design your site without having Google compensate using autozoom

(JavaScript) Javascript: User-agent detect GoogleTV or Boxee

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:50:48 GMT

Simple way to detect GoogleTV or Boxee browsers using Javascript.

(JavaScript) NodeJS + ExpressJS: Strip out port from req.headers.host

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:58:16 GMT

I doubt anyone will ever need this but just in case. I had a scenario where I needed to deliver the hostname (without the port) through an .ejs variable. The hostname comes from the request header so that's easy to find and I simply used a .match with a ternary conditional to keep things clean.

(JavaScript) Node.js: Import geo-based Flickr data into CouchDB

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:12:45 GMT

The Flickr URL creates a JSON feed with geo-based photos. Using Node.js, CouchDB, and cradle (npm install cradle), you can ingest the JSON data into CouchDB and perform complicated spatial indexing queries. The command for the import is bash$ node name_of_this_javascript.js

(HTML) HTML5: Boilerplate

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:41:24 GMT

I suspect this boilerplate code will continue to evolve while I settle in on my favorite libraries and frameworks but

(JavaScript) Javascript: Copy a video frame and turn it into an image

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:05:43 GMT

Very cool example of copying a frame from an MP4 and displaying it on the canvas or image. In order for images to be saved, the video must come from the same domain

(Python) Python: Last.Fm Advanced API Example

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:24:38 GMT

I started messing around with the Last.fm API and somehow just started building more and more service requests. This should be enough to get anyone started on using Last.FM's API

(ActionScript 3) Python: Last.fm Simple API Example

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:19:18 GMT

Recently I needed to capture a JSON feed of the top artists from Last.fm. The script makes a request for a JSON response which I later treat as a dictionary object. You'll probably need to sign up for an API Key before using this script

(Ruby) Ruby: Search Spotify API

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:04:01 GMT

Simple test showing how to make a request to Spotify's API.

(Django) Django: 3 ways to serve templates in views.py

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:36:32 GMT

There are so many ways to serve templates within views.py that sometimes it's hard to get a handle on which is ideal for a project. This snippet does not attempt to explain every possible way to serve a template, simply a few I've found helpful organized from low-level (more code) to high-level (less code)