Ben Shelock

function doRequest(url) {
                xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
                xmlhttp.open("POST", url, true);
                xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
                    if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4) {
                        alert(xmlhttp.responseText)
                    }
                }
                xmlhttp.send(null);
            }

            $(document).ready(function(){
                $('#new').click(function(){
                    var snippet  = $('textarea').val();
                    var gists    = 'http://gist.github.com/gists';
                    var url = gists+'?file_ext[gistfile1]=php&file_name[gistfile1]=aFile&file_contents[gistfile1]='+snippet+'&user=theimben&token=ce2f109e83777d2bdbbcccd2d28349b5';
                    doRequest(url);
                });
            });