Useful Links
Added a new addition to my website. <a title="Links" href="http://links.amit-agarwal.co.in">Dew-NewPHPLinks
Looks quite promising for managing web links and sharing them. Hope to see submisssions from my readers too. 🙂
jatss – nice utility for time tracking.
Found a nice utility on sourceforge called jatss
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jatss/
Description: JATSS Time Sheet is pile of Perl code hastily thrown together to provide a simple to use time tracking tool for small groups.
Pros: Simple Web UI.
Fast to setup and fix issues.
Cons: Not too many features.
Scratch — Programming for kids
Scratch <a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/about">website.
Description from their site:
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Continue readingFlickr Link on the blog.
I have managed to install the plugin to display my flickr photos on the blog page. Link is <a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/flickr/album/72157601656654651/photo/1231634023/flowers-dscf1435jpg.html">http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/flickr
wordpress upgraaded to latest version
Upgraded wordpress to version 2.6.2 for some security fixes and new functionalities.
Linux awk command
Have you ever had a column-oriented text file, similar to a spreadsheet, but the columns weren't in the order you wanted? For instance, suppose you
had the following information in a file named "checkbook.orig":
COST DATE BALANCE
10.00 040198 1000.00
20.00 040298 980.00
30.00 040298 950.00
The information is good, but you'd prefer to have the DATE column first, followed by the COST information in the second column, and the BALANCE column third.
Continue readingparse and paste text
Lot of times, I copy the text but before pasting want to remove a word or make some other changes or add “wget” to the URL, quite common. So, I came up with this alias
replace='echo $(xclip -i)|sed 's/text//'|xclip -o'
and this depends on xlip, which you can install with
dnf install xclip