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airtunes
Simple perl script for UNIX/Ubuntu/Debian systems to stream mp3/oggs to
an AirPort Express Airtunes server.
Requires
Justeport
(which requires
mono to run the .NET exe)
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asq
Mame Cabinet
front end, nice and simple and fast, using arcade controls. It runs in a
terminal window but can display a screenshot window as well.
Supports MAME as well as other emulators and various games.
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bew
A webcrawler/robot for mirroring entire web sites or web trees.
Just give it a URL and it gets everything underneath it. It can
tell you about broken links as a helpful side-effect.
If you want something more stable but don't need the recursion, see findex.
bugz
Bugzilla scraper. Can get list of bugs from a bugzilla server and output
them in a user-definable format. Useful for regression scripts and the
like, or anyone who wants command-line read access to bugzilla.
burstAnim
Converts multi-burst photos taken on a digital camera (such as my Sony DSC-L1)
into animated gifs.
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Contact.cgi
A CGI mailing form that can verify from email addresses without revealing
your email, as I do at my
Contact Page.
Great for making a "Contact Me" page without worrying about people collecting
your email. Also good for mailing lists and other websites that want to
replace all their mailto: links. Themeable.
Mail.cgi
A simpler CGI mailing form that doesn't verify email addresses but can only
send to a hardcoded destination. Themeable.
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Davent
Themeable event registration system which I've developed/used for our dance
weekend events for over a decade now. Includes website creation, registration,
payment processing, door checkin and even post-event survey. Different events
are created by creating small perl files of info, allowing things like complex
date-based or # sold based pricing. The biggest weakness is in dealing with
more complex checkin issues, such as dealing with one email buying multiple
registrations and doing registration changes and trying to figure out the
correct price (some of these problems are intractable).
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DaVite
This is a web invitation system, much like evite.com or invites.yahoo.com,
but you have total control over it! Note: I am no longer developing DaVite,
as I have started to do work on
MyVite
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ePerl
Embed perl in your text files! This is a very snifty tool. It
was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall as a C program, and
I realized that it should be written in perl, which I did in a program
that is an order of magnitude smaller. (In fact, the
source for this page is eperl).
every_change
This script kicks ass for code development. Watches a file and runs
it (or something else) every time it changes. Write your code in one
window, and watch it automatically execute in another.
exec_trace.tar.gz
An LD_PRELOAD tool that can give you a log of all the exec's done by a
command and any of it's children. Useful for debugging wrappers that call
wrappers that call wrappers...
Also traces stdout/stderr file redirects as well as environment variable settings.
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File_Browser.cgi
This is my file/database browser in a cgi script. It has a similar
look as the old Windows file browser except that it can keep track
of open folders inside closed folders. You can see it in action
at the
Fringe.
find_dup
Efficiently finds all duplicate files in a file list and optionally
removes them. Now (v2.00) with massive speedups for large sets of large files.
Ran on 16Gb of 3900 files: old find_dup: 12 minutes, new find_dup: 3 minutes.
findex
Fetches an index of files. Can count through numbered URLs and
only grab specific types of files, etc.. Pretty darn useful for
scrubbing links out of pages. Like a non-recursive but more stable
version of bew. See options/usage for many ways to grab many URLs.
flashcache
Finds/copies the hidden/deleted flash cache files that chrome (and
firefox?) now store with the flash plugin, such as youtube and google
videos (can find other such deleted cache files as well).
UPDATE 2012/05:
Seems that youtube has changed their ways and this no longer works, but I've
updated
myfilm which should be working again. If you
have any information on how Youtube is caching their files, I'd love
to hear it.
former
Creates CGI form/registration code. You describe the form inputs, and it
creates the code for outputting, checking and correcting. It's pretty
damn useful if you ever need to write some forms. You can look at the
script directory, or else grab the
tar.gz
forge
Forge email. Can handle port 25 and sendmail method. If you use
it by itself and don't have access to an insecure port 25, then your
mail may have the "may be forged" messages. You can fix this by either
downloading the
suid version or, much safer,
downloading the additional
forge_pipe tool
which forge can use for you and then:
chown root:root forge_pipe ; chmod 4755 forge_pipe
I don't guarantee that it's safe as suid!
google-cal
A command-line interface to google calendar using ruby. It can also
add Facebook events, extracting the event code from the Facebook page.
A good starting point or example code if you want to write your own
interface to google calendar in ruby. Includes a setup wizard for handling
the authorization process as well as script installation.
hex
Simple and kicks ass. Type in decimal, octal, hex or binary, and
this outputs all the possible formats.
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html2jpg
Converts HTML pages to images (gif, jpg, png, ps, etc..).
Very kludgy, only works with certain versions of Mozilla, but I needed a
way to automate screen grabbing the HTML window out of a browser
(for my album project). Maybe it'll help you. If you have KDE, I
recommend
khtml2png
img2iphone
Transfer images to your iPhone so the show up in "Photos" and the "Camera"
applications. Can use iPod-convenience package to do the copy, otherwise
can create a local directory of iPhone images that can be transferred
manually with scp. Requires ImageMagick (convert/identify).
Can only transfer to "Camera Roll" - if anyone knows how to create
other albums, please let me know. Updated 2009年12月26日 to work with v3.0+
firmware.
Also see
vid2iphone (doesn't do transfers).
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LocationExample
Example Android project that creates a simple but complete location app.
It uses Google Play Services and Google Fused Location Services (the
latest location API) to do location updates and properly handles the
lifecycle as well as turning location lookups on and off.
lnR
Recursively links a bunch of directories with either soft (-s) or hard links.
It makes a matching directory structure and then links all the files in
each one. You can also specify a regexp to -ignore certain files. Useful
for copying a large file tree for testing without using alot of diskspace.
Can also keep a 'history' of files seen so you can remove them from the
new tree and not have them re-added if you rerun lnR.
makeKML.pm
A perl library that writes KML files for Google Maps and Google
Earth. Can do the Geocoding (latitude/longitude lookups by address)
using the Google API or OpenCageData.com. Includes a simple HTML example that embeds the
KML map using the new Google Maps Javascript API v3 (because Google
Maps no longer supports direct usage of the KML on maps.google.com).
See "
perldoc makeKML.pm" for information.
mzmv
Moves mp3/ogg file(s) according to their tags. Replaces the 'mp3mv' tool
I had here previously. Requires vorbiscomment for oggs and/or id3tool for mp3s
mpls
Make extended xmms playlist. Takes a list or directory tree of mp3 and ogg
files and creates a playlist sorted by artist, album, track, title.
More importantly it can write EXT metadata for xmms (Turn on "Read meta data
from playlists" in preferences) so your playlists have song name and duration
info immediately available to xmms.
Is currently butt-slow for oggs because ogginfo is butt-slow,
run it as a cron job.
mvx
Simple yet kicks ass. Moves or copies files using regular
expressions. Thanks to Andrew Allen for the idea, which I'm sure he
stole somewhere else.
myfilm
Downloads films from youtube and iFilm to your hard drive.
Converts youtube flash films to .mov if "ffmpeg" is available.
If the format changes, let me know. Works with youtube as of 2011/12.
Works with iFilm as of 2006/05.
Requires perl and "lynx" or "GET"
ogg2mp3
Convert oggs to mp3s, converting ogginfo tags to id3 tags. Requires:
ogg123, ogginfo, id3tool and an mp3 encoder, perl and nothing else. I've
had a bug report that this might be limited to 48 minutes, I'd love
more info on this.
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perlc
Perl to C 'compiler' for hiding perl source code and creating an executable
for distribution. Also has simple support for limiting distribution.
(Not true compilation!)
perlc.zip
A variation of my perlc actually written in C by Dimitar D. Mitov
with a number of features: Can automatically detect libperl.a, does
dependency scanning, static linking, AES 256 CTR encryption using
disk device or 1st Mac address. (Not true compilation!)
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pemf
I got tired of procmail and the like, so I just wrote my own mail
filter that's easy to control and can do simple things like remove MIME.
MIME sucks.
If you can't vi it, it sucks. It can also catch SPAM,
auto respond to email, forward email, blah blah blah. Everything that
procmail can do, but it's perl, so it's
better. Perl rocks.
rdiff
Remote diff (with recursion). Similar to rsync or scp, but shows diffs
between a local directory/files and the same path on a remote host.
Currently requires that the absolute paths are the same on both machines,
but it wouldn't be too difficult to make that an option.
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scurvy
Lets you easily write screenplays or scripts in a simple text format,
then converts them into the proper screenplay format. Also imports
some RTF and Final Draft formats and can convert to multiple formats
as well.
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serverizor
Converts a generic command into a tcp server so you can disconnect and reconnect to
it from the command line. This is actually pretty handy.
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spigot
Spigot is an easy way to turn on and off printing of text according to
patterns matched and other simple rules. Like a combination of 'expect'
and 'cat' and 'head'. See usage for simple examples.
sqlite3_hash.gem
My first published ruby gem. A persistent simple Hash backed by
sqlite3. Contains (almost) the same features/API as the Ruby 2.0.0
Hash object. Also completely tested with rspec, making it a reasonably
simple rspec tdd ruby example. Also on
github
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tcp_forward
Forwards a TCP connection and lets you snoop and filter the traffic being sent.
Uses the simple IO::Socket server/client examples in the perlipc manpage.
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thumb
Just a thumbnail generator, except that it makes thumbnails the same size
while keeping aspect ratio by cropping - so the pictures aren't stretched.
This looks better than I expected - and is the code I use for the cropping
mode of 'album'
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libExpr.rb
Ruby expression tree generator. Can convert expression strings such
as "(7*3)+(var/2)" into an expression object that can be very quickly
evaluated (and can handle offloading variable evaluation). Can
convert to RPN, Prefix and AST (abstract syntax tree) and has a
flexible precedence model that includes presets for Ruby precedence
or C precedence. Uses the shunting yard algorithm, but also supports
unary (such as '-a' or '+a') as well as ternary (such as 'a?b:c')
operations as well as short-circuiting logic operations (such as 'a||b').
Only AST supports all of these features, see the docs at the top of
the source for more info). Also has a testbench that generates random
expressions and verifies correct operation. It's a tar.gz, but you can
also just look at the
source and the
testbench here.
libMarshalable.rb
Ruby "Marshalable" class with simple exclusion mechanism for Marshal.dump.
Inherit this and use 'marshal_exclude' (much like 'attr_accessor') to
specify any variables that should be excluded from marshalling, so
you can avoid TypeError exceptions.
"I have an elegant script
for this, but it was too big to fit in the margins.."
- Me, MarginalHacks
Thanks to Jamie Zawinsky and the
Jargon File
for the name
