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      <title>(Ruby) Search for remote gems from command line and view detailed results in textmate - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/57642/search-for-remote-gems-from-command-line-and-view-detailed-results-in-textmate</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Do a remote search for all gems containing the word 'pdf' with detailed descriptions and view results in textmate&#13;
requires `rubygems-mate` gem&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:13:04 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/57642/search-for-remote-gems-from-command-line-and-view-detailed-results-in-textmate</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Add directory to load path - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/57371/add-directory-to-load-path</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:51:14 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/57371/add-directory-to-load-path</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Require directory of files - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/57370/require-directory-of-files</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:50:24 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/57370/require-directory-of-files</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Ruby Opening, Reading, Writing, Closing Files - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/47574/ruby-opening-reading-writing-closing-files</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:03:59 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/47574/ruby-opening-reading-writing-closing-files</guid>
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      <title>(Rails) Rails in groups of - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29568/rails-in-groups-of</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:09:03 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29568/rails-in-groups-of</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) stupid hash update experiments in ruby - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29567/stupid-hash-update-experiments-in-ruby</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:50:34 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29567/stupid-hash-update-experiments-in-ruby</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) stupid hash experiments in ruby - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29566/stupid-hash-experiments-in-ruby</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:47:58 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29566/stupid-hash-experiments-in-ruby</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Ruby array collect with index - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29565/ruby-array-collect-with-index</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29565/ruby-array-collect-with-index</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Ruby caller experiments - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29563/ruby-caller-experiments</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:43:35 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29563/ruby-caller-experiments</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) stupid simple array shuffle in ruby - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29562/stupid-simple-array-shuffle-in-ruby</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:40:47 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29562/stupid-simple-array-shuffle-in-ruby</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Copy object Attributes to another object in Ruby - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/29561/copy-object-attributes-to-another-object-in-ruby</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:39:47 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/29561/copy-object-attributes-to-another-object-in-ruby</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Javascript - Detecting Parameters - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/27057/javascript--detecting-parameters</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:45:46 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/27057/javascript--detecting-parameters</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Test for IE6 with YUI - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/16848/test-for-ie6-with-yui</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:35:21 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/16848/test-for-ie6-with-yui</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Update older gem to now - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/16035/update-older-gem-to-now</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;For moving from older gem to newest if  ' sudo gem update --system ' doesn't work&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:14:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/16035/update-older-gem-to-now</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Javascript Class with instance creation arguments - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/16034/javascript-class-with-instance-creation-arguments</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Namespace to avoid collision with other javascript variable/method names&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:09:50 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/16034/javascript-class-with-instance-creation-arguments</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Console Helper for Firebug - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/16033/console-helper-for-firebug</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This comes in handy when working in big objects and you need to see what's happening on the inside of an instance.&#13;
&#13;
I aliased 'console.log' to 'put' and wrapped it in a try/catch block that throws alerts if no console is available. Less typing - and mildly rubyish.&#13;
&#13;
I got the logAllMembers bit from a mailing list archived message - forget the author but props to them. Only alteration I made was to skip null members in the output.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:44:03 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/16033/console-helper-for-firebug</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) using mencoder to join avi files - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/11551/using-mencoder-to-join-avi-files</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;simple way to join avi files on the command line (need to have mplayer installed)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:32:34 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/11551/using-mencoder-to-join-avi-files</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) clear /tmp of files older than 3 days - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/11550/clear-tmp-of-files-older-than-3-days</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Clear files in /tmp directory that are older than three days - terminal/cron&#13;
this is a very simple example - could also remove by last access time, etc.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:29:11 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/11550/clear-tmp-of-files-older-than-3-days</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) Recurse directory tree and count pages in all pdf files using pdf-reader gem - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/11548/recurse-directory-tree-and-count-pages-in-all-pdf-files-using-pdfreader-gem</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I had a directory tree with around 4000 pdf files and I needed a page count - so I semi-rolled this. I swiped the counter code from the gem README:&#13;
http://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/tree/master&#13;
&#13;
It could be more contained - as is I run it from irb:&#13;
&#13;
`&gt;&gt; require 'total_pages'`  &#13;
`&gt;&gt; pagetotal = TotalPages.new`  &#13;
`&gt;&gt; pagetotal.count('/my/pdf/directory')`  &#13;
&#13;
I added rescue to print info on a file if it fails to open or doesn't conform to to the PDF specification and causes pdf-reader to raise an error - without this the script will quit - that sucks when you're trying to count pages in thousands of files.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:18:37 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/11548/recurse-directory-tree-and-count-pages-in-all-pdf-files-using-pdfreader-gem</guid>
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      <title>(Bash) GNU-Linux disk usage (du) one-liner -OR- WTF is taking up so much space in? - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/8065/gnulinux-disk-usage-du-oneliner-or-wtf-is-taking-up-so-much-space-in</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;because ICRAFT...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:11:54 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/8065/gnulinux-disk-usage-du-oneliner-or-wtf-is-taking-up-so-much-space-in</guid>
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      <title>(PHP) php_inspector_inc.php - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/7621/phpinspectorincphp</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;For when I catch a bad case of stupid and forget how to write simple php and I need to put the training wheels back on.&#13;
&#13;
Drop this in before the closing body tag on a php page to see a list some of  what is happening when the page loads.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:43:04 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/7621/phpinspectorincphp</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Inspecting objects when using prototype from firebug console - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/7312/inspecting-objects-when-using-prototype-from-firebug-console</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;unless I can *see* inside its all a mystery...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:21 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/7312/inspecting-objects-when-using-prototype-from-firebug-console</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Format (humanize) file byte size presentation in javascript - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/5949/format-humanize-file-byte-size-presentation-in-javascript</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I use this in addition to the &#13;
number_format  (http://snipplr.com/view/5945/javascript-numberformat--ported-from-php/)&#13;
 snippit in SWFUpload to display the size of files a user is preparing to upload.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:11:07 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/5949/format-humanize-file-byte-size-presentation-in-javascript</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) Javascript number formatting  (number_format ported from PHP) - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/5945/javascript-number-formatting--numberformat-ported-from-php</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The number_format function from PHP rewritten as javascript. &#13;
From the super badass http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/phpjs_licensing/&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:03:54 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/5945/javascript-number-formatting--numberformat-ported-from-php</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) remove non-word characters - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/5795/remove-nonword-characters</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:21:46 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/5795/remove-nonword-characters</guid>
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      <title>(Ruby) spaces to dashes - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/5794/spaces-to-dashes</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:20:59 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/5794/spaces-to-dashes</guid>
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      <title>(JavaScript) PHP Array To JSON String - inkdeep</title>
      <link>https://snipplr.com/view/4114/php-array-to-json-string</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;SEE http://json.org/ for PHP JSON Libraries.&#13;
&#13;
grunt knuckle drag brute force ugly escapes for quotes make a php array a json string&#13;
&#13;
Produces trailing commas which some Javascript Librarys can't deal with.*&#13;
&#13;
_*NOOB NOTE [a comma is added at the end of each array key/value set]_&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:42:03 UTC</pubDate>
      <guid>https://snipplr.com/view/4114/php-array-to-json-string</guid>
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