Smaller than, Greater than ‘<>‘ Symbol in Postgresql
Note to self. ‘<>’ = ‘!=’ The unique smaller than, greater than sign is equivalent to ‘not equal to’.
Ruby on Rails Debugging Techniques
Nice succinct blog on ROR debugging techniques, saving it for future reference. Ruby on Rails Debugging Techniques.
Get Android Remote Notifier to work with Unity on Ubuntu Natty (11.04) and Oneiric (11.10)
Ubuntu Natty onwards, the default desktop manager is Unity. Unity has disabled the default system tray, and applications which wish to show up on the Unity panel should support Ubuntu Application Indicators. Unfortunately Android Remote Notifier doesn’t support App Indicators yet and hence doesn’t show up in the Unity panel on being executed. Luckily for [...]
Wireless Sniffer on Ubuntu Linux – Capture / Analyze Network Traffic
Jotting down an easy recipe to get a 802.11 sniffer working on Ubuntu Linux. To be able to capture 802.11 packets, the first step is to figure out how to configure your wireless card to make it operate in monitor mode. That procedure differs from one vendor to other. We can take the guess work [...]
Sort and List Installed Ubuntu/Debian Packages by size
If you’re like me, you’ll try every package in the Ubuntu Repository. I just love to try different applications. But then I end up having zillions of applications on my laptop and hardly any disk place. Thats when I start pruning. But for that I need to know what to prune. Thats what the following [...]
SmartGit – A Solid Cross-Platform Git GUI Client
I have been looking for a git client for linux for a very long time. I use git-cola on and off, but never been happy with it. The only time I need a git client is to look at logs and extract snippets of code that I have used in the past. Otherwise I do [...]
why does strcpy have dest first and src after?
why does strcpy have dest first and src after? Its so non intuitive. This has been my pet peeve over the years.
Google Analytics Real Time Statistics using a Javascript Bookmarklet
There are many companies which develop web analytics software suites, hoping that they would upstage Google Analytics (some day). Their main claim being that they are ‘real-time’, while Google analytics is not. However that’s not true, because Google Analytics does collect stats in near real-time, but for some reason they never show the latest stats [...]
Error While Parsing Json using Python – TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str
Jotting this down for fellow googlers. I recently started learning a bit of python and wrote a small script to fetch the latest tweet. When you are new to a programming language, it takes time to grasp some errors. If you see this error while parsing json using python and simplejson, the problem possibly is [...]
Check whether a port is open or not on a windows machine
netstat -na | find “LISTENING” | find “TCP” | findstr “:80\>” Checking whether port 80 is open or not
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