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  • 2010-05-04

    Move file between git branches

    For my own memory more than anything else:

  • 2010-05-03

    Guest uploader setup script

    Just slammed together a script to add users and give them access to the "upload" user directory.

  • 2010-05-03

    fgit - Run a Git command in several repositories

    fgit enables you to run a Git command in several repositories with one command. For example:

  • 2010-04-29

    Query CERN LDAP from the shell

    Here's one for the shell nuts:

  • 2010-04-20

    Howto: Timelapse video from photos

    It's amazing what shell tools can do: Flickr accepts HD video (720p, or max 1280×720) up to 30 FPS, so I tried to create one within those limits from the high resolution photos from today's sunrise. Turns out to be incredibly easy with free tools on Linux:

  • 2010-04-16

    Use SVG in SchemaSpy

    SchemaSpy PNG images take a lot more space than their equivalent SVG counterparts. To replace the PNG images with SVG you can use schemaspy2svg (Bash and DOS batch scripts).

  • 2010-03-29

    EIF replies

    In response to Glyn Moody's Open Source and Open Standards under Threat in Europe (Update: sorry, the link is dead), here are the open replies to the key people (I'll post as they are sent).

  • 2010-02-04

    Automatic backups to remote machine

    Update: SSH public key authentication isn't supported on the system I want to backup to, so I've changed the procedure to create a cron job on the server instead of the client.

  • 2010-01-22

    BASH / Bourne Shell which outputs its own documentation

    I love Python docstrings - It's a great application of the DRY principle. The excellent Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide has an example which does something similar, but it embeds the documentation in a variable in the middle of the code. This makes it less readable and findable than ordinary comments, and leads to duplication if you want to have the same documentation as a comment for other developers. Here's a very simple solution, which I'm sure can be improved to fit your documentation style. It simply prints all non-empty lines from the start of the file:

  • 2010-01-12

    BASH prompt galore

    Here's the latest result of trying to make a BASH prompt which might be useful if you use chroot, ssh, su or git: