How to install and configure grunt on mac Osx

This post is intended to assist folks who are trying to install and work with grunt on mac osx Install Node.js and npm with Homebrew First, install Homebrew by typing in the following command ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" Then, type in brew update to ensure your Homebrew is up to date. brew update Run brew doctor to make sure your system is all good. Follow any other recommendations from brew doctor.
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Normalizing Ranges of Numbers

Range Normalization is a normalization technique that allows you to map a number to a specific range. Lets say that we have a data set where the values are in a range of 1 to 10, however we wish to normalise it to a range between 0 and 5 Mathematically speaking the equation comes down to translated to Python class Normaliser: def __init__(self,dH,dL,nH,nL): self.dH = dH self.dL = dL self.nH = nH self.
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Install tile-stache on OsX Mavericks

This is quick tutorial about installing Tilestache library in OSX Mavericks. Step 1 Make sure Developer tools are installed xcode-select –install Then add these flags to tell xcode to use python like rest of the world does export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments export CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments Finally type in sudo easy_install tilestache Thats it all done, you might see some warnings but thats fine ignore them . Read the introduction here to get started Hope it helps.
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Gheat Java – Heat maps

A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the individual values contained in a matrix are represented as colors. This article will attempt to explain the process or creating and using GHEAT-JAVA, which is a port of famous aspen based gheat and took great inspiration from Gheat.net Writing a service which would serve heat map tiles is a bit tricky,there are three major components involved The client part i.
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Embedding Flash,Quicktime,Windows Media,Silverlight or HTML5 Video

Flash Object This is quick Snippet which demonstrate how to embed flash object in a web page. <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="path-to-my-flash-file.swf" width="0" height="0"> <param name="movie" value="your-flash-file.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high"/> </object> Quicktime This is quick Snippet which demonstrate how to embed quicktime object in a web page <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="200" height="16"> <param name="src" value="pathToMyMovie.mov" /> <param name="autoplay" value="true" /> <param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" /> <param name="controller" value="true" /> <!–[if !IE]> <–> <object data="movie.
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