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Custom Search Engines in Google Chrome

By On January 22, 2010 · 1 Comment

Did you know you can define custom search engines in Google Chrome? Yes you can. When I want to find a map of something, I type "map <mysomething>" in address/search bar and — voila, a map appears. How to do it? It's simple, really:
Right-click your address bar Click "Edit Search Engines" Click "Plus" [...]

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Sync on Save/Run in NetBeans

By On January 21, 2010 · 1 Comment

Suddenly found an absolutely killing feature of NetBeans 6.8 (don’t
know, it could’ve been there before, but I found it only now) — it can
sync every file you save locally to remote server (FTP/SFTP), which
is, IMO, absolutely brilliant as now I can edit files locally using
nice [...]

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About Apple's announcement on 27th

By On January 20, 2010 · 2 Comments

One guy: don’t want to replace my MacBook Pro right now, need to wait until 27th
Me: is there anything to wait for?
One guy: it certainly is
Me: you know what is it?
One guy: Yep.
Me: fancy to share?!?!?!?!!11
One guy: NDA.
Me: …
One [...]

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Looking for alpha-testers for a new Twitter App

By On January 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

Update: it is not working right now. Now read on, but I warned you.

Hey guys,

I’ve kind of handcrafted a Twitter app over the weekend. Shortly — it’s a URL scrap book, which monitors your feed and collects all URLs, un-shortens them and stores for future use, so whenever you try to find that [...]

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A URL matching regex in Python — any problems?

By On January 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Can anyone see any flaws in it for real-world URL?

>>> str = 'and now http://sub.domain.com/something/?here3=3ab&what=1#where=1 that was a URL'

>>> urls = re.findall('http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&#+]|[!*(),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+', str)

>>> urls

['http://sub.domain.com/something/?here3=3ab&what=1#where=1']

For me it looks like working but you never now…  Comments from @HD42 [...]

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An ordinary day at Roman's home workplace

By On January 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It was an ordinary Saturday morning, a bit rainy, a bit grey but otherwise quite normal. So, one by one, I turned on all my four laptops and iMac and proceeded to my usual morning routine… 

To say the truth, Vaio laptop isn't mine — a technically challenged college of my [...]

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VNC: Linux in Mac

By On January 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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It would be cool to … (mac-boy's dreams)

By On January 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It would be cool to have a way to switch “natures” of your Mac OS X, not unlike the way I change Perspectives in Eclipse from PyDev to Java whenever I start hacking different project. Let me illustrate it on one simple example. When I’m at work I’d love to have my work resources connected [...]

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flickrpy + 30 lines of code = poor man's Flickr Backup solution

By On January 15, 2010 · 5 Comments

It uses somewhat buggy but excellent flickrpy module by James Clarke — works well for me after some small adjustments:

def main(): flickr.API_KEY = constants.API_KEY flickr.API_SECRET = constants.API_SECRET u = flickr.User(id = ’92002612@N00′) sets = u.getPhotosets() for ps in sets: name = ps.title name = name.replace(‘”‘, “‘”).replace(“/”, “_”) folderName = “/Users/kirillov/Pictures/Flickr/%s” % name [...]

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Emacs Fingers Monster

By On January 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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