Here I want to collect interesting stuff from all over the web.
It should serve as a collection of articles, blog posts, or pages that I consider as useful, forward-looking or even just funny.
Most posts will not even have content – just links -.
Today I stumbled over http://scrapy.org/ while searching for an OpenSource website crawler. Its an interesting crawling and scraping framework for Python. It looks very convenient and easy to use. The most interesting feature seems to be the possibility to select website elements (f.e. hyperlinks) via CSS-selectors. In any case I’ll give it a try.
A very nice and really working recovery tool is PhotoRec. It’s a very cool commandline tool for Linux which is able to recover all images on a SD or MMC card that have been deleted accidentally. In my case my fingers where faster than my brain and so I had kicked three rally awesome images :-/. […]
Yeah ask-sheldon.com is now SSL-proofed! I finally got my free SSL-certificate from https://www.startssl.com/ Now you should use https://www.ask-sheldon.com/ to get to this blog.
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A nice little tool to format your JSON objects, if you had no suitable editor ready to hand. http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
Yeah the next prank from Adafruit! They build up their own web-based development IDE. At the moment it’s only in beta state but I think the chance is very high that it will become very awesome. Right now it runs on Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone and supports Ruby, Python and JavaScript. The genius part is, that the code […]
That’s very useful if you want to control your robot via wireless lan (Remote Control): https://sites.google.com/site/fabboco/home/arduino-manager-for-iphone-ipad https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/arduino-manager/id497240094?ls=1&mt=8
