Archive for January, 2009

Mini Searches with Answers

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Free web cron service :: CronMe.org
Possibly the only free web cron service out there.

Django | Formsets | Django Documentation
How to use formsets in Django

How to do a jQuery post and get JSON back
$.postJSON = fuction(url, data, callback) {
$.post(url, data, callback, "json");
};

Open Flash Chart – Home
Reader Jody writes in with this cool LGPL flash chart. Looks promising

SafeRoadMaps – Home
Traffic fatalities displayed on google maps. They also have the data set available for further analysis.

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Mini Searches with Answers

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Customizing a (K)Ubuntu 6.04 Linux Live CD
A useful looking guide to customizing an Ubuntu live CD. Hope it still applies to the 8.xx versions.

Linux Live for CD & USB
Linux Live is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux from an already installed Linux distribution. The Live system you create will be bootable from CD-ROM or a disk device, for example USB Flash Drive, USB Pen Drive, Camera connected to USB port, and so on.

nautilussvn – Google Code
NautilusSvn is a Python extension for Nautilus which integrates a load of Subversion functionality into the GNOME Nautilus file manager, basically as a clone of the TortoiseSVN project on Windows.

Fix – overflowing root trash bin – Ubuntu
I always get burned by deleting root owned files, and having them end up in some special root trash bin that I can never find, and having my root partition overfill at some point:
Fix:
-if you are using the command prompt, use "sudo rm -r filename"
-if you are using nautilus, start with the command "sudo nautilus", click options->behaviour and turn on real delete and use edit->delete rather than edit->trash.

Getting a NSString from NSMutableData, possible? – Mac Forums
OMFG Apple! in Python it's just urllib2.urlopen(url).read(). I miss you, Python

Changed The Battery In My Honda Civic : Diggers Realm
How to reset Honda Civic stereo code as dead battery or replacing battery

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Mini Searches with Answers

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

partiallydisassembled.net
Neat script I wrote for a friend to annotate a Python script with the types observed during a run of the program.

xml reverse-engineering ElementTree code generator (*whew*) « ActiveState Code
takes an ambiguous xml file and generates the ET code to generate that xml file. this is useful if you have an example xml file, or an ambiguous xml file that you'd like to use as a template to parameterize certain elements. upgrades coming.

How to View LCM files on your computer (format of such products as Fishing hot spots pro FHSP-E electronic charts)
LcmMapedit is the freeware program for making Lowrance map files. LcmMapedit is a modified version of GPSMapedit but with the lcm Lowrance file type authoring added. It produces the lcm file ready for uploading, so the Garmin requirement of final conversion into an img file is not necessary. It is downloadable at the mapcreate forum for lowrance map makers http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mapcreate_format/

GameSpot Forums – Xbox 360 – Profiles
My xbox360 Indiana Jones games wrongly tells me "You do not have an active gamer profile" when I try to load my saved game. To work around this I had to have only the wireless controller connected and disconnect the second controller until the saved game is loaded.

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