Access klipper clipboard on CLI under KDE4
NOTE: find most recent version on github: https://github.com/milianw/shell-helpers/blob/master/clipboardHere’s a little script you can save in your path and do things like# paste current clipboard into...
View ArticleDownload script for springerlink.com Ebooks
After a long period of silence I present you the following bash script for downloading books from http://springerlink.com. This is not a way to circumvent their login mechanisms, you will need proper...
View ArticleTake 2: Download script for springerlink.com Ebooks
NOTE: This script is apparently against the licensing contract between universities and Springer, see: http://www.bib.hm.edu/aktuelles/news/newsdetail_9984.de.htmlNOTE 2: I do not maintain this script...
View ArticleAttack of the shell helpers
Everyone who uses the command line regularly has a bunch of (at least for him) useful helper scripts. I now took the liberty to put mine on github for general consumption.You can find them at:...
View ArticleShell helper: running KDE unit tests (ctests) the easy way
Unit tests are in my eyes a very important part of programming. KDE uses them, KDevelop does - the PHP plugin I help writing does as well. cmake comes with a ctest program which does quite well to give...
View ArticleQt: Tint alphatransparent PNG
Let’s assume you want to display the logo of your company in your Qt app. Most probably that logo has just single color with an alpha channel.But: Having the color hard coded in the image is not nice,...
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Tracking Memory Consumption Using Pmap
Massif is a really nifty tool which is very powerful, especially paired with my visualizer. The caveat of course is that it slows down the application considerably, I’ve seen anything up to a factor of...
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Git commit message highlighting in nano
For those who use nano as their CLI editor of choice: Here’s a syntax highlighting file for Git commit messages which also supports the special KDE commit hook keywords.## syntax highlighting for git...
View ArticleMaxwell distribution in C++11
Hey all,I recently needed to generate values following a Maxwell distribution. Wikipedia gives the hint that this is a Gamma distribution, which in C++11 is easily useable. Thus, thanks to...
View ArticleA git hook to prevent pushes with untracked source files
Hey all,do you know this: You work on something locally in git, ensure everything compiles and the tests pass, then commit and hit git push.What could possibly go wrong at that point, eh? Well, far too...
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