This Bash script is used to calculate your Grade Point Average (GPA) on the command line. Usage might not be intuitive. Please see the usage function or just run the script without passing it any arguments. The gval function should be edited to reflect your own region or university. It has been written and tested on [...]
Friday, May 1, 2009
The following plugin for Pidgin will block the incredibly annoying and useless notifications from AOLSystemMsg on AIM. “AOL System Msg: Your screen name (mrEman) is now signed into AOL(R) Instant Messenger (TM) in 2 locations. Click here for more information.” To use, paste code in file, save file as blockaolsystemmsg.pl in ~/.purple/plugins/ and then open (or re-open) [...]
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Static sites in this context just means non-database driven sites. Your static site can be an elaborate PHP script or just a few markup and image files. For this I am using Jekyll – A neat Ruby gem that makes your static sites dynamic. It lets you create layouts and embed custom variables in your [...]
Saturday, January 24, 2009
This is a small Ruby script that fetches the 100 trends of the day for a specific date. If multiple dates are searched, one can find out how many times a keyword occurred between two dates, or just find out what keywords are constantly appearing on the top 100 list. Very profitable info! but alas, [...]
Sunday, January 11, 2009
This is a little (as of now incomplete) scraper I wrote to grab all the anime video code off of AnimeCrazy (dot) net. This site doesn’t host any videos on its own server, but just embeds ones that have been uploaded to other sites (Megavideo, YouTube, Vimeo, etc). I don’t know who the original uploaders [...]
Saturday, December 27, 2008
A quick script I whipped up to dump my MySQL database. Usage: sh backthatsqlup.sh (be warned that it dumps ALL databases. This can get huge uncompressed) #!/bin/sh # Isam (Biodegradablegeek.com) public domain 12/28/2008 # Basic BASH script to dump and compress a MySQL dump out=sequel_`date +'%m%d%Y_%M%S'`.sql dest=/bx/ function e { echo -e "n** $1" } e "Dumping SQL file ($out). May take awhile..." #echo "oh [...]
Sunday, December 7, 2008
In a controller, you’ll commonly have a method that requires you have an instance variable containing the object you’re working with. An example would be the show, edit, update, and destroy methods (REST). To eliminate having find(params[:id]) in multiple methods, you can use before_filter, like this: class Admin::PostsController < Admin::ApplicationController before_filter :find_post, :only => [:show, :edit, [...]
Sunday, December 7, 2008
During development, working with forms quickly gets annoying because you have to constantly fill in each field, sometimes with unique info. One way around this is to write a little Javascript code that just populates the fields. I use something like this on the bottom of the form. I had jQuery no-conflict mode on in [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
One reason many people don’t contribute to open source apps is because they find it daunting to look through somebody else’s code. Some might even think that it’s just simpler to write something from scratch than to study someone’s work. This isn’t true, and reading foreign code is something get used to and excel at [...]
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Just sharing a script I wrote to quickly deploy Wordpress (and eventually a few other webapps) sites, which somebody might find useful. This uses Linode’s API* to add the domain name to the DNS server along with some subdomains. If you’re using another server, (Slicehost, your own, etc), you can alter the dns class to [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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