jake

Nov
19th

Thu

tip: python

quick and easy way to remove non-ascii characters from a string: filter(lambda c: ord(c)

tips python

Nov
17th

Tue

use !, ^, etc. for quick navigation of previous commands http://bit.ly/1BLVdt

tips shell

Nov
15th

Sun

use parameter expansion to remove file extensions in shell scripts, e.g. ${file%.*} http://bit.ly/4mJ8ev

tips bash

Oct
12th

Mon

to create a nested defaultdict of defaultdicts, use d = defaultdict(lambda : defaultdict(int)) http://bit.ly/tUbev

tips python

Aug
17th

Mon

use tcdump to capture packet traffic sudohttp://bit.ly/COr2z

tips networking

Aug
10th

Mon

use java.util.Hashtable for a hashtable http://tinyurl.com/d5rwv6

tips matlab

Aug
6th

Thu

script from @dreev to transparently use gnu screen over ssh for persistent logins http://bit.ly/lYNtG

tips shell

Aug
4th

Tue

to fix 403 forbidden error on apache in 10.5 (leopard), create appropriate /etc/apache2/users/user.conf file http://bit.ly/242lt

tips macosx

Jul
28th

Tue

use show tables like “table_name” to see if a table exists http://bit.ly/SjdBG

tips mysql

return rows as dicts with mysqldb using the DictCursor class http://bit.ly/56bBm

tips python