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Migrating GAE Blobstore to an HRD application

If you are planning to migrate your Google App Engine application to the “new” High Replication Database scheme, then you probably know that the Google migration process won’t handle Blobstore files....

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jQuery Lightbox: Adjust big images to the window size

jQuery lightBox is a great plugin inspired in the well-known Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar. After starting using it I realized that things became messy with big images, so I made a small modification to...

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Parallel Port Sniffer for Linux!

This software will help you to capture the parallel port data using a small kernel module for Linux. But wait, not only Linux, it also works for Windows, if you use it in a Qemu Virtual Machine under...

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Enabling GoogleAppEngineLauncher Source Code Change Detection in Mac OS X Lion

Quick recipe to enable source code change detection on the GoogleAppEngineLauncher (Mac OS X Lion). If you take a look to the app engine dev server logs, you’ll probably see the following message:...

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TortoiseSVN, non-standard SSH port, Network Error: Connection Refused

Another reminder. TortoiseSVN, non-standard SSH port, Network Error: Connection Refused. Edit C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\config Under [tunnels] section add: ssh = TortoisePlink.exe -v -P...

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Utility functions for udp / json-parser

Recently, I needed a json parser for a small C project, and -after googling- found this great library udp / json-parser. It is great, because it does what it says and it’s really low-footprint. Soon I...

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Jinja2 + Eclipse: quickly replace trans / endtrans to gettext() new style

Open find/replace dialog and check ‘Regular expressions’ Find: \{\% trans \%\}([^\{]*)\{\% endtrans \%\} Replace with: {{ gettext('$1') }}

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Compress a directory in inno setup

Inno setup script snippet to zip a directory using Windows built-in compression function MakeBackup(indir, outfile: String): Boolean; var res: Boolean; fso: Variant; winShell: Variant; f: Variant;...

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Denise’s birthday problem solution (in Python)

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from collections import defaultdict # (dd, mmm, yyyy) dates = [ (17, "Feb", 2001), (13, "Mar", 2001), (13, "Apr", 2001), (15, "May", 2001), (17, "Jun", 2001), (16, "Mar",...

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Sony Entertainment Network spam stopper

I don’t have a Sony PlayStation. But someone nicknamed “STRONDHA” has one, and somehow he managed to use my personal e-mail address to create his account. Oddly, Sony didn’t send any e-mail asking to...

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