code:bbpress_banner

2009-07-11T00:49:10-04:00

This is a plugin for bbPress that adds a message to the top of each page.

code:check_nfs_mount

2010-09-05T17:37:44-04:00

A simple script for checking whether an NFS mount is accessible. The only argument it requires is the mountpoint. It should be suitable for plugging in to a monitoring system like Nagios. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $timeout = 1; my $mp = $ARGV[0]; my $mtab = "/proc/mounts"; # First, we check if the OS thinks the filesystem is mounted my $found; open( MTAB, $mtab ) || die "Could not open $mtab\n"; while () { if (/\Q$mp\E/) { $found = 1; la…

code:combine_rss

2009-07-11T00:53:08-04:00

I wrote this to answer a question on Ask Metafilter. It takes a file with a list of RSS feeds and a file with a list of keywords and generates a new RSS feed with the items that include a keyword. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use XML::RSS; use LWP::Simple; use vars qw{$feeds_path $keywords_path $output_path}; # one url per line $feeds_path = 'feeds.txt'; # one lowercase search term per line $keywords_path = 'keywords.txt'; $output_path = 'nickels.xml'; sub main { my $rss…

code:craigscrape

2009-07-11T00:55:40-04:00

This program was intended to email me search results from craigslist. I wrote it before I realized you could get an rss feed of a search. #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'mechanize' require 'net/smtp' require 'date' # Sample configuration city = 'atlanta' terms = ['scsi', 'raid'] days_to_send = 3 # eg if run on the 15th return items posted on the 13th, 14th, and 15th email_recipient = 'recipient@example.com' email_html = true email_server = 'localhost' cutoff_date = Date.today - days_to_send ite…

code:custom_feed

2009-07-14T18:48:28-04:00

This program is part of a system that allows users to generate a custom news feed. The program at example.com/news returns an rss feed for specific categories of news. For example, news?categories=1,3,5 would return an rss feed with only the news from categories 1, 3, and 5.

code:focuser

2010-04-22T00:41:08-04:00

The Focuser class is a python interface to rainbow from Andrew McCallum's 'Bow' Toolkit. You must have already trained rainbow. At the moment, tThe path to the model's parent directory is hard-coded into the program. For example, if you have a model in /home/username/models/free_trade you would replace /PATH/TO/MODELS/ with /home/username/models/. You could then create and use a new Focuser like this

code:just_weather

2009-07-11T00:32:25-04:00

This program creates a weather page inspired by the now-defunct simpleweather.com. It depends on Yahoo's weather API, which is only available for non-commercial use. The perl program expects a zip code as input. #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; use XML::LibXML; use XML::LibXSLT; my $delay = 60 * 1; my $path = "$ARGV[0].html"; my $url = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=$ARGV[0]"; if (-e $path) { my @stats = stat($path); if (time -$stats[9] < $dela…

code:last_day

2009-07-11T00:51:39-04:00

A simple wrapper script that executes a command only on the last day of the month. The success or failure of the command is logged. #!/usr/bin/env/ruby # Sample usage: lastday "echo pay your rent" require 'date' require 'syslog' # reopen Date class to add new instance method class Date def last_day_of_the_month? da = self (da += 1).month == self.month ? false : true end end if Date.today.last_day_of_the_month? log = Syslog.open("lastday") ARGV.each do |arg| if system(…

code:wordpress_ppf

2009-07-14T18:45:36-04:00

This is a plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to specify the number of posts you want returned as part of an rss or atom feed. I found the post_limits filter by using Xdebug to trace Wordpress. The development of this plugin was funded by IEHI.

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