There are 4 articles tagged as "script"

Automatically upload screenshots in XFCE4

on February 13, 2012. in Development, Programming, Software. A 2 minute read.

XFCE4 has a nice little tool for making screenshots - xfce4-screenshooter. My only gripe with it is that it can’t automatically upload the images to a server and give me the URL to the image (to be honest, it can, but it uploads the images to a shady looking website, and I don’t like that). And then one day I saw Evan Coury’s GtkGrab - a set of scripts which does exactly what I want! But, sadly, that’s for Gnome. So, based on Evan’s work, I put together this little script:

Benchmarking pages behind a login with ab

on November 09, 2011. in Development, Free time, Programming. A 2 minute read.

Tonight I decided to relax a bit and what better way of relaxing is there for a geek then to do some bash scripting?! So for fun and no profit I decided to try and benchmark pages with ab, Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool, which are behind a login. Turns out, it’s pretty easy after reading some man pages ;)

Backup script for mysql

on November 05, 2010. in Development. A 1 minute read.

This post is more of a reminder for myself. Anywayz, a little bash script that backups a database, gzipit and deletes all backups older than 3 days.

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pywst - setting up web projects quickly

on February 22, 2009. in Development, Programming, Software. A 2 minute read.

I wrote a Python script for automating the steps required to setup a web project environment on my local dev machine that runs on Ubuntu. Called it pywst: Python, Web, Svn, Trac. That’s the best I could do, sorry :P