QuickLinks vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 28. Dezember bis zum 15. Januar:

  • Bip – is an IRC proxy, which means it keeps connected to your preferred IRC servers, can store the logs for you, and even send them back to your IRC client(s) upon connection.
  • KNC – is Kerberised NetCat. It works in basically the same way as either netcat or stunnel except that it is Kerberised. You can use it to construct client/server applications while keeping the Kerberos libraries out of your programs address space quickly and easily.
  • glark – A replacement for (or supplement to) the grep family, glark offers: Perl compatible regular expressions, highlighting of matches, context around matches, complex expressions, and automatic exclusion of non-text files.
  • runiq – functions in a manner quite similar to GNU uniq, but runiq allows you to specify keys based on regular expressions in stead of field or the first N characters.
  • TrID – is an utility designed to identify file types from their binary signatures. While there are similar utilities with hard coded logic, TrID has no fixed rules. Instead, it's extensible and can be trained to recognize new formats in a fast and automatic way.
  • DropIt – A tiny, flexible, hard-working tool to automate sorting and filing data-files and folders.
  • droopy – is a mini Web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer.
  • Markdown QuickTags – is a plugin for WordPress which replaces the HTML editor with a Markdown-enabled set of buttons and features.
  • DIY Star Wars Snowflakes – Paper-snowflakes going Star Wars
  • Melo – Very cool looking last.fm client for Mac OS X

QuickLinks vom 24. Oktober bis zum 19. November

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 24. Oktober bis zum 19. November:

  • spark – A little shell script that lets you generate sparklines at the command line.
  • glogg – is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.
  • ResophNotes – Notational Velocity clone for Windows including Simplenote-sync and Markdown support
  • Pandoc – is your swiss-army knife if you need to convert files from one markup format into another. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too.
  • GitLab – is your own lite app for projects/repositories hosting on your server. Basically it is a free GithHub Clone written in Ruby on Rails.
  • Coordino – allows you to create a question and answer system for you and your users to enjoy. Basically it is a free StackOverflow Clone written in PHP.
  • KeyStroke – is a Safari extension that provides customizable keyboard shorcuts for common tasks and enhancements.
  • Samurize – is an advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.
  • dexy – is an open source document automation tool that can help you create documents using your favourite programming languages and your favourite software.
  • MarkdownPad – is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

QuickLinks vom 8. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 8. Oktober bis zum 22. Oktober:

  • Apple Store Refurb Tracker – provides different feeds enabling you to track apparition of new products on the Apple Store Refurb pages.
  • Pinky – is a free portable web server.
  • PieCrust – is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels.
  • num-utils – are a set of programs for dealing with numbers from the Unix command line. Much like the other Unix command line utilities like grep, awk, sort, cut, etc. these utilities work on data from both standard in and data from files.
  • Bashish – is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh.
  • Fake – is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.
  • Avatar Harmony – Synchronize your profile pics between Facebook, Twitter and Gravatar.
  • git-dude – is a simple git desktop notifier. It monitors git repositories in current directory for new commits/branches/tags and shows desktop notification if anything new arrived.
  • Private Eye – is a free network monitor for Mac OS X Lion
  • bcat – pipe to browser utility

QuickLinks vom 3. August bis zum 16. August

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 3. August bis zum 16. August:

  • checksum – is a blisteringly fast, no-nonsense file hashing application for Windows that generates and verifies SHA1 and MD5 hashes
  • Web Developer Extension – adds various web developer tools to a browser. The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
  • renameutils – are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.
  • Lion DiskMaker – is a small application programmed with AppleScript that you can use with Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 to burn a DVD or build a bootable USB key from Mac OS X Lion’s Installation programm.
  • ipswDownloader – Simple app for downloading firmware for Apple iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch.
  • LiveReload – monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.
  • LESS.app – extends CSS with variables, nested rules, operators and more. If you're still building websites without it, you're an idiot. This app makes it dead simple to use {Less} by automatically compiling *.less files into standard CSS.
  • Project Hamster – is time tracking for individuals. It helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
  • ControlPlane – Using a number of configurable evidence sources, rules and actions you can reconfigure your Mac based on what you are doing, where you are at or the time of day.  Set the office printer as your default printer while at work or start a set of apps once you’re home.
  • pow – is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X

QuickLinks vom 3. Mai bis zum 25. Mai

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 3. Mai bis zum 25. Mai:

  • Sosumi – is a simple way to find your iPhone using your Mac.
  • NirCmd – is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface.
  • GeoNamesTagger – is a Mac OS X docklet to easily update image EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata with location specific information.
  • Oolite – is a space sim game, inspired by Elite, powered by Objective-C and OpenGL, and designed as a small game that is easy for users to pick up, modify and expand upon. Almost every aspect of the game can be changed by using simple, free graphics packages and text editors.
  • DTerm – provides a context-sensitive command line that makes it fast and easy to run commands on the files you're working with and then use the results of those commands.
  • Using p4merge with Git – Although it is correct that git doesn't come with a nice merge tool, it is quite happy to use any merge tool that you have on hand. And since Perforce's merge tool is available free, you can use p4merge with git.
  • Rubular – is a Ruby-based regular expression editor. It's a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.
  • 5 Best Dropbox WordPress Plugins – Nice list, Dropbox Sync looks especially nice for a backup of all images.
  • Vagrant – is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments. By providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle's VirtualBox, Vagrant provides the tools to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual environments.
  • Blueprint – is DevStructure's workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and archives software you built from source to generate Puppet, Chef, or shell code. Everything blueprint sees is stored in Git to be diffed and pushed. It runs on Debian and RPM based distros with Python 2.6.

QuickLinks vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 21. Februar bis zum 6. März:

  • git-annex – allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
  • Handling my music collection with git-annex – Very cool, would probably not work with iTunes…
  • Pipe Viewer – is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
  • tumblr2wp – Tumblr2WP makes it super simple to transfer your Tumblr content to your own, self-hosted WordPress install.
  • Naked Password – The whole idea of naked password is to encourage your users to enter stronger passwords. Our beautiful model Sally tastefully removes items of clothing as the password grows stronger.
  • beets – is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
  • Searching Active Directory with ldapsearch – If you think there isn't a trick to this, that means you've never tried it – leastways not on an Active Directory container that has more than 1,000 objects in it (or whatever the search limit has been set to in your environment)
  • TCP Performance problems caused be interaction between Nagle's Algorithm and Delayed ACK – The overall summary is that many of the mechanisms that make TCP so great, like fast retransmit, work best when there's a continuous flow of data for the TCP state machine to work on. If you send a block of data and then stop and wait for an application-layer acknowledgment from the other end, the state machine can falter.
  • shop – A tool to show permissions at every level in a path. Shop gives you a quick overview of the permissions of the directory in question, as well as the permissions of every directory above it in the tree.
  • monotone – is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol.

QuickLinks vom 5. Januar bis zum 15. Januar

Meine pinboard.in-Links vom 5. Januar bis zum 15. Januar:

  • RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines – This document provides a minimum set of guidelines for Network Etiquette (Netiquette) which organizations may take and adapt for their own use.
  • Celerity – is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for programmatic navigation through web applications.
  • cucumber-nagios – lets you describe how a system should work in natural language, and outputs whether it does in the Nagios plugin format
  • Traverso – Is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music
  • VimGolf – Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke – do you?
  • Ad Hoc Data Analysis From The Unix Command Line – Your friends: cat, find, grep, wc, cut, sort, uniq
  • Free e-books for Windows administrators – This is a list of free e-books that are useful for Windows administrators. It will be regularly updated.
  • Review Board – is a powerful web-based code review tool that offers developers an easy way to handle code reviews. It scales well from small projects to large companies and offers a variety of tools to take much of the stress and time out of the code review process.
  • Shelf – is an app for MacOS that looks at the current foreground application, and tries to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.
  • NanoCount – is a little utility for MacOS X. It provides a word count feature for TextEdit, OS X's built-in word processor.

QuickLinks vom 13. Dezember bis zum 22. Dezember

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 13. Dezember bis zum 22. Dezember:

  • RTMPDump – is a toolkit for RTMP streams that actually works.
  • z – maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use
  • RubyDrop – Ruby project that aims to be an open-source, roll-your-own, Dropbox clone using Git as the backend. There's still a lot of details to work out, and the code may be a little messy, so you'll have to bear with me (it's a process)
  • Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python – Catastrophically bad code can be written in any language, including the elegant and powerful Python language. In this article, we explore how thinking about testing actually produces dramatically different Python code. Lastly, we learn how to measure scientifically the difference.
  • tig – is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands
  • Build a Bootable Rescue SD Card For Your Mac
  • Textual – is a lightweight IRC client created specifically for Mac OS X
  • Detox – is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them.

QuickLinks vom 15. Oktober bis zum 20. Oktober

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 15. Oktober bis zum 20. Oktober:

  • Remote Desktop Connection Manager – manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible.
  • taskpaper.vim – TaskPaper file-type plugin and syntax file for vim
  • NameChanger – is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files.
  • ruby-warrior – This is a game designed to teach the Ruby language and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way.
  • Scribo – is a LaTeX editor which focuses on navigation in large documents with multiple files. Scribo brings a live outline of your document which displays all \part, \chapter, \section etc. It even displays file includes (both \input, \include and \bibliography) which results in rapid access to the entire document.
  • Latexian – is a revolutionary, new LaTeX editor for the Mac. Latexian provides advanced tools for creating and typesetting LaTeX documents. Using Latexian's Live Preview, you can see how your document typesets while you are editing it.
  • An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
  • Sprachauswahl bei Git on Windows (msysgit) – Unfassbar missverständliche deutsche Übersetzungen in msysgit abschalten.
  • Screenpresso – Das beste Windows Screenshot-Tool ever.
  • Task Coach – is a simple open source todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists.

QuickLinks vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli

Meine delicious.com-Links vom 12. Juli bis zum 20. Juli: