November 2009
6 posts
typhoonae - Project Hosting on Google Code →
App for hosting GAE apps on your own gear. Worth keeping an eye on - it eliminates the no. 1 concern with app engine, portability.
JRuby on App Engine: Google App Engine 0.0.5 gems... →
Things are moving along nicely here.
Getting rid of the Spotlight Menu Icon in 10.6
It seems that Snow Leopard has gone back to the 10.4 way of displaying the spotlight menu item, which fortunately makes it easy to disable. This saves precious real estate, and gets rid of something that is pointless - I use launchbar for this. To disable run: sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
killall SystemUIServer This makes the item only readable...
XPather paths not working
If you’ve ever had to page scrape any crappy sites (i.e you can’t use CSS selectors because there isn’t any) you’ve probably ended up using XPath, and the easiest way to find those XPath expressions is to use the XPather extension for firefox. And once you’ve got to an expression that involves tables, you’ve probably ended up wondering why it didn’t work....
Vim + Transmit Remote Editing
I was having problems getting MacVim to work with Transmit’s remote editing feature - when I saved the file, it wasn’t uploaded. Turns out by default Vim can create it’s backup files by renaming the original as well as creating a copy - when it decides to rename, Transmit is left looking at the old file so never detects the updates. The solution is simple: add set backupcopy=yes...
Bulk deleting tumblr posts
Because tumblr doesn’t let you change the default blog, I wanted to clear out the old original blog I had to re-use for this site. Which brought me to the other problem - tumblr provide no way to batch delete posts, and will over 1,000 items in there I wasn’t going to sit around and delete each one by hand. So here’s a quick script I wrote, I hope it’s useful to someone.