From the monthly archives:

August 2008

MyOnlineProfile.net launches

August 22, 2008

MyOnlineProfile.net has launched - as a Google AppEngine application.
MyOnlineProfile lets you catalog your public online profiles in one place - leaving you with just one link to give your friends and one link in your email signature.
I first wrote MyOnlineProfile as a Grails application - its a small application at the moment, so it didn’t [...]

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Converting from Flash to AVI

August 10, 2008

If you want to convert from Flash to AVI (on linux) there is a good script here. It uses mencoder to convert files specified on the command line to XVID or DIVX - files are created using the same filename, but with an avi extension.

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Prototype, JSON and Appengine

August 7, 2008

I am using prototype in a Google Appengine project, and while it worked on my development machine, after deploying it onto the Google infrastructure prototype wasn’t parsing the JSON responses anymore.
In my code, I was returning the JSON in the response text (as opposed to using X-JSON response header). The Content-Type response header was set [...]

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Oracle types

August 1, 2008

It frequently surprises me when seemingly simple things are missing from mature products. For example, Oracle doesn’t have a boolean type. Strange but apparently true.
Never mind, this article describes how to work around this.

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Rename mythtv recordings

August 1, 2008

The files Mythtv records are saved with a timestamp as a file name, making it pretty hard to figure out which file is which.
To easily identify the files, you can use mythrename.pl - I couldn’t find it in my Mythbuntu installation, so I had to download it from http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv/contrib/user_jobs/. It ran okay, without any dependency [...]

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