Category Archives: /dev/null

Resize column in postgres without recreating

A nice hack for postgres field size: http://sniptools.com/databases/resize-a-column-in-a-postgresql-table-without-changing-data

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Playing with big files

If you’re looking for a big text file to play with, why don’t you try http://www.dotnetdotcom.org/.
We invite you to help us share the content of internet by downloading the first part of our index. It has roughly 600,000 pages and is shared in an easy to parse text file. We are making this available [...]

Rating for Blogger (Blogspot)

If you want to add rating system for your posts in Blogger, check Outbrain (http://www.outbrain.com/). They have fully automated script for that.
I’m using it form my animated gifs blog.

Media Wiki Bot

I needed a bot to quickly modify the pages of wiki.muonlinehelp.com. So I created Mutex which kind of helps do the job. It’s full of bugs with no error handling but works for me.
Usage:
 
<?
require ‘class.mediawiki.php’;
$mw = new mediawiki(’http://yourwikiurl/api.php’);
$mw->login(’bot_user’, ‘bot_password’);
$mw->editPage(’title’, ‘page_text’);
?>
 
You can get the source code from here. [...]

chomp for bash

Bash doesn’t have chomp command but you can use tr to get rid of \n \r (and other) characters.

GMail for Nokia 6080 with Globul

I installed the GMail mobile application a while ago on my Nokia 6080. The problem was that it couldn’t connect to the server.
Today I found a solution in one of the forums. The solution is provided for Opera Mini but works for GMail as well. The whole idea is to create personal setting for [...]

GPhone is dead

GPhone (a.k.a. Google Phone) is dead! Long live the Android. Google presented thei latest initiative: Open Handset Alliance, which plans releasing open framework for mobile devices.

Initial Import

The purpose of this blog is to keep track on the projects I’m working on.