1. Create a twitter account twitter.com
2. Create a twitter “application’ and get your keys dev.twitter.com/apps
3. Click on “settings” and set the access to read and write
4. easy_install python-twitter
5. Use this template

Whenever you save a “Post” object, the def send_tweet method will attempt to tweet a message containing the name of the object as well as the absolute url.

%[--- This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com ---]%

And I want to turn it into

<div class="filerule">This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com</div>

So first I need to match: %[--- This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com ---]%
And then I need to match: This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com

The regex pattern would look like:

pattern = new RegExp('\\%\\[---(.+?)---\\]\\%','gi');

This entire pattern matches the whole line and the paranthesis define a match “group.” When looking for this pattern you will find two matches one for the line ( %[--- This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com ---]%) and one for the text (This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com).

You reference these matches by $1, …,$n where n is the number of that group.

The entire line would be $0 where as the text being matched would be $1.

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {

        function CreateFileRulers(){
        var raw_text = $("#raw_text").text();
        pattern = new RegExp('\\%\\[---(.+?)---\\]\\%','gi');
        raw_text = raw_text.replace(pattern,"
--- $1 ---

");
        $("#raw_text").html(raw_text);
        }
        CreateFileRulers();

});

html:

<div id="raw_text">
%[--- This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com ---]%
</div>

After document ready the html:

<div id="raw_text">
<div class="filerule"--- This is part of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com ---</div>
</div>

Bingo cards are generated off the phrases entered into the Empty Words website, play with your co-workers!, play with your boss! (well, that might not be a good idea).

Creating a database user and giving them full rights to a database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES
ON db_name.*
TO 'db_user'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'the_password!'
WITH GRANT OPTION;


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Instead of ignoring these phrases, I’ve decided to keep track of phrases/words that mean nothing to me.

Enter www.empty-words.com

• Got a job at a media giant, that is somewhat sinking.
• Got enganged
• Picked up ruby and python (python is winning)
• Built a CCNA lab
• Got into microprocessors
• Started to brew beer
• Got more networking experience than ever before
• xbox with netflix changed my life.

Best Tech Things of the Year / Found Out About this Year (to me.. in all seriousness)

1. Adafruit Industries ( actually useful kits)
2. Ponoko ( next best thing to owning a laser cutter)
3. SlugPower (seriously my favorite hack of the year, it’s not hard to control a relay over serial.. but the integration and thought is awesome)
4. Netgate (for the diy router/firewall maker)
5. Drobo ( I’m allowed to say that.. I’ve built almost a dozen different NAS’s)

Here’s some stuff I got:

1. Took a picture of the guy off one of my shirts

2. Did some touch up in photoshop

3. Layered it with clear packing tape and cut out the stencil

4. Placed the stencil on the pumpkin and outlined the design, then cut it out.

I think next year I’m going to get an electric pumpkin jigsaw… because.