Converting MXF to MOV on Mac OS X for Final Cut Pro X
Final Cut Pro X can’t import MXF files yet, not sure why not. There are several apps around that can convert from …
Generate useful CSS border/padding classes using LESS loops
This LESS code uses two loops to generate a stack of useful CSS positioning helper classes, which look like this: .left10 { …
Convert HTML named entities to numeric entities
This code generates a lookup map using get_html_translation_table of named html entities to numeric entities. str_replace is then used on a string …
Verifying SHA-256 seed values
Wikipedia lists pseudocode for SHA-256, including seed values. Better check if they’re right. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; print <<HERE; Initialize hash values: (first …
Non-responsive Bootstrap 3 by stripping media queries
Bootstrap 3 is mobile first, and uses media queries extensively. This is problematic for people that still have to support IE8, but …
Using Google as an Open ID Connect authentication source for Salesforce.com
Google’s service supports OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect as an identity provider, and Salesforce.com supports using OpenID Connect as an authentication source. …
Cross-browser CSS to set DIV transparency
This Bootstrap LESS / CSS chunk will set transparency for the background of a div, but without modifying the transparency of its …
Using YUI to workaround SSL warnings when fetching JSON-P over HTTP
Modern browsers don’t allow content to be fetched using HTTP on a page delivered over HTTPS. You get errors like: IE: SEC7111: …
Multithreaded script to mirror AWS S3 buckets
This script copies the contents of one Amazon S3 bucket to another, including between accounts (as long as your access key has …
Script to dump memcached data
Perl script to dump all the keys/values that memcached presents over its API (not totally guaranteed to be *all* the keys/values, but …