Script

Apparently blinklist doesn’t export bookmarks to JSON format any longer and delicious has changed authentication scheme for its delicious API for new accounts (now it forces new users to use the OAuth / Yahoo ID). So the solutions described in this old post of mine doesn’t work. So given the current state of affairs the only way to get your bookmarks out of Blinklist is CSV (actually tab-separated) and the only easy way to import them to delicious is to use the HTML import. So we need a way to transforms Blinklist’s CSV to HTML bookmark file format. So I created this ruby scripts that takes bookmark.csv and generates bookmarks.html that you can import to delicious. ...

UPDATE: It seems that Blinklist’s JSON export doesn’t work any more, and delicious now requires OAuth authentication for new accounts (which rubilicious doesn’t support). So I created another script to transform Blinklist’s CSV format to HTML bookmark format which you can import to delicious. It’s done. I was suffering constant problems with BlinkList and I decided to move to del.icio.us. I also decided to rescue the old powermarks 3.5 bookmarks from the oblivion and import them to del.icio.us too. ...

If you got a lot of ill-named files like: $ ls S01E03.The.Sopranos.S01E03.Denial.Anger.Acceptance.avi The.Sopranos.1x04.Meadowlands.avi The.Sopranos.S01E01.The.Sopranos.avi The.Sopranos.S01E02.46.Long.avi The.Sopranos.S01E06.Pax.Soprana.avi The_Sopranos.105.College.avi that your divx player can’t sort properly and you want to end up with something like: $ ls 1x01.avi 1x02.avi 1x03.avi 1x04.avi 1x05.avi 1x06.avi you can use the following script in this way: cd /path/to/avi/files ../script.sh|sh and if you want to do the same thing to srt files then: cd /path/to/srt/files ../script.sh srt|sh As an example the script will normalize any of the following patterns S01E03, 103,1x03, or just 03 to 1x03. ...

I’ve created a ruby script to merge the content of a TikiWiki into another one. This script will read the tiki_pages, tiki_history and tiki_links tables from the MySQL backend of the source TikiWiki and import the contents into the destination TikiWiki. The script is ‘safe’, meaning that it will not overwrite any page if it already exists in the destination. The history of the page will be merged as well if the page exists at the destination. The script doesn’t work with page attachments yet. ...

When I returned from my trip to NYC I realized that the camera was set to the wrong date!. I left the camera without batteries a long time and the camera reset to year 1900. So all photos had the wrong date in the EXIF headers, with 295 photos manually correct each one was not an option. Well. I realized that all I have to do to correct the photos is take one phote see the date in that photo and substract that date from the actual date of the photo to obtain the time difference between the photos. Then I wrote a php shell script to walk over all photos and add that time difference to each photo. The script is here updatedate.zip . Before you try to execute it you need php 5 and pel (php exif library). But beware pel-0.9 has a bug in the PelTag.php file, so you will have to download the latest peltag.php from cvs. If you see the following error that means that you have the old PelTag.php `Fatal error: Cannot redefine class constant PelTag::XP_COMMENT in pel\PelTag.php on line 1086` And then all you have to do is to edit the update.php file and put the dates there ...