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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Ruby script to download a number of files
# from individual URLs via HTTP/HTTPS/FTP
# specified in an external file.
#
# Author: Tobias Preuss
# Revision: 2013-04-18 16:26 +0100 UTC
# License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

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Convert file names to lowercase

$> for i in $(find . -type f -name "*[A-Z]*"); do mv "$i" "$(echo $i | tr A-Z a-z)"; done

Replace hyphen with underbar in all files

$> for i in $(find . -type f -name "*[a-z]*"); do mv "$i" "$(echo $i | tr '-' '_')"; done

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Backup via rsync

$ rsync -rt --delete --delete-excluded --links \
--exclude-from '/home/user/rsync-home-exclude.txt' /home/user/ server:/backups/home

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How to mount an encrypted home partition?

First add the passphrase

$ sudo ecryptfs-add-passphrase --fnek

Which gets me the following information:

Inserted auth tok with sig [aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa] into the user session keyring

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import scraperwiki
import requests
import lxml.html

from collections import namedtuple
from datetime import datetime

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/*
 * The plugins used for this build.
 */
/*
 * Provides the compile, test, jar, etc tasks
 */
apply plugin: 'java'

/*
 * Generates the Eclipse project files.

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build
node_modules
.DS_Store

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#GDG Android in Berlin brainstorming session

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On November 27, 2013 I was asking the brilliant Android developers at GDG Android in Berlin for their favorite libraries that make their lives easier and should be included in every newly developed app.

This is the list of libraries we collected during this 10 minute session.

Architecture

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require 'addressable/uri'

# Source: http://gist.github.com/bf4/5320847
# Accepts options[:message] and options[:allowed_protocols]
# spec/validators/uri_validator_spec.rb
class UriValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator

  def validate_each(record, attribute, value)
    uri = parse_uri(value)
    if !uri

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class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController

  respond_to :json
  def create

    user = User.new(params[:user])
    if user.save
      render json: user.as_json(auth_token: user.authentication_token, email: user.email), status: :created
      return
    else