Programming
Moving Python on your iphone.
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Moving your Applications directory to your /private/var/root partition (aka your MEDIA partition) is all well and good, but when you install python on your iphone, it’s installed in both /usr/bin where the main executable resides and the library modules are installed in /usr/lib/Python2.5 .
So they still consume a lot of space on your root partition. [...]
Iphone out of disk space ? Move your application directory to /var !
Monday, November 19th, 2007Any user who has logged into his iPhone via ssh (and has installed the bsd subsystem) or has used the installer.app terminal application can do the “df -h” command to get a human-readable output of his iphone partition setup.
It’s basically set up in two partitions : one root (/) partition and one /private/var partition which [...]
Dashalytics
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I’ve set up Google Analytics for a website recently, to keep track of the visitor statictics. Free is hard to beat, after all.
What is even better is for mac users is a free widget called Dashalytics that allows you to keep track of the Google analytic reports, without you requiring to log in to the [...]
A simple workflow for processing pictures
Sunday, October 21st, 2007About a year ago I bought myself a new camera (a Sony DSLR-A100) and it’s been a joy to use.
I had my sights on it for a few months, but it took me a long time to really convince myself to actually buy the camera. It’s not exactly cheap, but with a special price (100 [...]
Nike+ Ipod : what do you do when you forget it ?
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007It’s great to take your personal trainer and motivator along, but it’s less great if something happens.
What do you do when you forget to take along your nike+ iPod on your run, or heaven forbid, what happened to me, your latest and greatest run of almost 5 kilometers doesn’t get saved because you mucked around [...]
Bash script to convert pictures using ImageMagick
Friday, April 27th, 2007If you have ImageMagick installed, here’s a simple bash script that allows you to convert a whole lotta pictures in a folder to a different size. Just modify the folder names to reflect where your photos are stored :
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# This program converts all the pictures that are stored in the folder To-Process to [...]
Mac Automator
Thursday, March 29th, 2007I discovered a new function in the mac ‘automater‘ - the graphical GUI tool that allows you to drag-n-drop parts to make a batch program.
You can actually save a created automator script as a plugin - the most useful in this case would be an iCal plugin. This allows you for example to create a [...]
Now Reading plugin conflict (MySql Error)
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006I have been trying to implement the “Now Reading” plugin from Roblog as I thought it was a great way to keep track of what books I read and at what date.
But I couldn’t get it to work. It kept crashing with a MySql error whenever I wanted to add a book to the list [...]
How Windows Mobile 5 gets developed
Thursday, September 14th, 2006The Windows Mobile Team Blog is a great resource, I’ve found it very useful on occasion to get a glimpse into the developers mind.
In his “I’m just a feature” article, Mike Calligero explains what it takes for a feature request to get into a new Windows Mobile 5 build.
[If you are interested in knowing more [...]
Python and cx_Oracle
Friday, January 27th, 2006Recently I have taken over the maintenance of an application at work that was written very quickly and, to be honest, rather badly. A department needed the app badly.
I hasten to add that it is bad because it was done so quickly. Plus the person who wrote it is not used to writing EndUser applications.
It [...]
Python on the PSP
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006I have a programming urge coming over me. They come and go. Usually they leave when I realise (once again) how much hard work has to go into something before it is somewhat playable or workable. However, lately at work I wrote some bash and python scripts that really worked and had some useful output [...]