Angry UNIXoid’s Humble Abode

We all use and love leiningen, the ultimate Clojure build tool. Sometimes, though, we want leiningen to do something it doesn't know how...

As you might have guessed from my last post, I have been playing around with web site scraping lately. This posed an interesting problem unr...

Let's say, you are hunting for a good deal on a hard drive and you want to monitor prices on newegg.com . You want an internal hard driv...

Preface OK, this topic has been discussed many times, sometimes, by much more competent people then myself . So, I will quickly reiterate m...

This blog has been on a hiatus for a while, mostly because I was busy or lazy or both. Now I will try and resume occasional posting. I think...

A couple of years ago I have written this script, that takes crontab entries from standard input, parses them and prints english translation...

It is very easy to dump and restore a database using mysql and mysqldump CLI utilities, just # backup mysqldump --single-transaction mydb ...