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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

/screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
/ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
/printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
/prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

2015-01-29 Unofficial Relay FAQ

Compilation of questions and answers about Relay from React.js Conf.

Disclaimer: I work on Relay at Facebook. Relay is a complex system on which we're iterating aggressively. I'll do my best here to provide accurate, useful answers, but the details are subject to change. I may also be wrong. Feedback and additional questions are welcome.

What is Relay?

Relay is a new framework from Facebook that provides data-fetching functionality for React applications. It was announced at React.js Conf (January 2015).

Frontend Development

Attention: the list was moved to

https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks

This page is not maintained anymore, please update your bookmarks.

Sublime Package Control for managing packages (like the ones below)
Github theme for colors
Soda theme for better chrome
Sublime ERB keyboard shortcuts for ERB tags

My user settings:

	from django.contrib.sessions.backends.base import SessionBase, CreateError
	from django.conf import settings
	from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
	import redis

	class SessionStore(SessionBase):
	""" Redis store for sessions"""

	def __init__(self, session_key=None):
	self.redis = redis.Redis(

	virtualenv --no-site-packages .
	source bin/activate
	bin/pip install Django psycopg2 django-sentry
	bin/pip freeze > requirements.txt
	bin/django-admin.py startproject mysite
	cat >.gitignore <<EOF
	bin/
	include/
	lib/
	EOF

	#include <cstdlib>
	#include <iostream>
	#include <fstream>
	#include <sstream>
	#include <conio.h>
	#define IN "A-large-practice.in"
	#define OUT "A-large-practice.out"

	using namespace std;

	from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
	import urllib

	dbpedia_endpoint = "http://dbpedia.org/sparql?"
	ns = {'ns': '{http://www.w3.org/2005/sparql-results#}'}
	result_xpath ='%(ns)sresults/%(ns)sresult/%(ns)sbinding/%(ns)sliteral' % ns

	def wikipedia_abstract_from_dbpedia(dbpedia_key):
	sparql = """
	SELECT ?abstract

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	Setting up Django using Apache/mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 8.10
	======================================================

	This article will cover setting up Django using Apache/mod_wsgi on Ubuntu
	8.10. The article is targeted at a production environment, but keep in mind
	this is a more generalized environment. You may have different requirements,
	but this article should at least provide the stepping stones.

	The article will use distribution packages where nesscary. As of 8.10 the