http://www.kumkee.com/blog Software Development, Graphics, Music, Kombi Vans, ANYwebcam.com and other Random stuff. Sat, 17 May 2008 06:18:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have released another Google gadget. This one is similar to the Java Search gadget but has options to search the documentation for languages other then Java. So far the languages/technologies that have search options are: Java, PHP, Ruby, CSS, HTML, Linux command line, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Javascript. Bellow the gadget is ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2008/05/10/developer-search-gadget/ When you have a lot of jar files that need to be loaded into the CLASSPATH especially if the jar's are upgraded and change there name often, updating the Manifest file or the command line arguments is a pain. This script will load all of the jars from a lib ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/07/10/bash-to-load-classpath-from-dir/ str = '6b 75 6d 6b 65 65 65 2e 63 6f 6d' str.split(' ').each { |val| print val.hex.chr } or you could just use centricle.com ASCII - HEX Converter http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/07/10/convert-hex-string-to-ascii-in-ruby/ The MySQL slow query log parser converts your slow query logs in to a more usable format. It also adds some interesting information like median and average times. For more information on it and a link to download the script go to the MySQL Slow Query Log Page http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/06/11/mysql-slow-query-log-is-your-friend/ ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/06/05/anywebcam-live-wordpress-plugin/ UPDATE: A new version of this gadget has been released. It is called the Developer Search Gadget and can be found here. This version has support for languages other then Java like Ruby, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript etc. The Java search Google Gadget searches the JavaDocs and Other API ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/03/24/java-search-google-gadget/ Probably the most interesting talk that I have heard in a long time. Han Rosling talk about some of the misconceptions that we have about the developing world. He has some interesting data comparing the differences between income, population and life expectancy over the last 50 years and shows them ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/03/22/hans-rosling-ted-talk/ Moving code to a different Subversion repository can be a pain in the ass at the best of times and having pesky .svn directories all over the places isn't going to help things in the slightest! Here is a easy way to recursively remove all of the .svn directories under ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/03/19/delete-svn-directories-under-os-x-or-linux/ This is how to insert an iframe into your HTML page and have it look like its a part of the page with no scroll bars etc, kinda like an SSI include. 1) Download and follow the instructions for the iframe SSI II include script by dynamic drive 2) If ... http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/03/12/iframe-ssi-include-with-no-scroll-bars/ Presentation Zen has an interesting article called Don't make a speech. Put on a show. Where they talk about Paul Arden's book It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be. And have a very cool example of a (slightly overboard) video presentation. http://www.kumkee.com/blog/2007/03/06/dont-make-a-speech-put-on-a-show/