gt5 is a handy shellscript that extends the linux command du (disk usage). It can be run from the console or remotely over ssh. Nothing to be installed. It uses GNU tools like head, sed, awk and lynx. It generates html which is then passed to lynx to be displayed. You can install it via: [...]
Archive for October, 2008
October 27, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: Tools
Filed under: Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: Tools
Browsershots loads a given URL, using different browsers on different OSses and generates a screenshot for each one. You can also specify window size, JavaScript-ing and Flash version. Simply enter your URL and wait until your ‘job’ has been processed. Finally you will see a screen like the one on the left. http://browsershots.org
October 27, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts
Social Tagging: innovation • Podcasts
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts
Social Tagging: innovation • Podcasts
Phil’s talk ‘Creative Econoomy’ recorded live April 4th 2008 at the Business Alliance Bootcamp for Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs contains 30 minutes of very interesting thoughts about innovation. Also check out Phil McKinney’s other Podcasts.
The advanced packaging tool has a built in cow. A nice piece of programmer humor.
October 23, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: mySQL • php • scripts • Tools
Filed under: Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: mySQL • php • scripts • Tools
I had a bunch of .dbf (source was Lotus Approach) files, at which I wanted to shoot SQL-like queries to generate some meaningful reports. So there were 2 tasks to be accomplished: Read the data into a tool or database and formulate and perform the queries to generate results to base your reports on. As [...]
October 15, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Software development, Videos
Social Tagging: culture • team • video
Filed under: Software development, Videos
Social Tagging: culture • team • video
The video (82min) shows Scott Dillman’s talk about ‘Software Craftsmenship’ at Agile 2008. He explains a series of fundamentals around software development in organizations and being a software developer, best practices, code quality, passing on knowledge, culture, metrics and many many more. Watch it! Goto: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Craftsmanship-Scott-Dillman
On one of my current projects, I had the problem that I had done several commits to the repository and suddenly changed my mind and wanted to go back to a certain point in the revison history where I started with my changes. How would you do that? Let’s say you started your changes at [...]
(1) Finds files in generated documentation, containing <span class=”field”>webservice:</span> and writes a file containing a clickable list of links to those pages: ~/sites/html/phpdoc_all_global$ find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -li ‘<span class=”field”>webservice:</span>’ | while read in; do echo “<a href=\”$in\”>$in</a>”; done > clickable_list_page.html (2) A for-loop on the commandline. The * equals all [...]
October 10, 2008 by marco · 1 Comment
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts, Software development
Social Tagging: Podcasts
Filed under: Inspiration, Podcasts, Software development
Social Tagging: Podcasts
I would like to recommend an inspiring podcast I listened to this morning while driving to work. Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems offers a very encouraging view on open source, the stages in open source development, mindset and business modells. Goto episode 39 of FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss39
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