Unity – Book of the Dead
Wow! I guess the chances are rising incredibly vigorous, that I will experience the Holodeck very soon! 😀 My statement: Fucking awesome³!!! Watch out: https://unity3d.com/book-of-the-dead
Category: Interesting stuff
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 -.
All-inkl.com DDNS for Synology NAS
Recently I had to setup DDNS for my parents DS212+ DiskStation from Synology. I have an all-inkl.com hosting package including a dynamic DNS feature (DDNS under tools): The problem was to get the right settings for the Synology box. Solution for the DDNS problem I found the solution in this blog article: http://www.pflipsen.net/2015/12/21/all-inkl-com-ddns-auf-der-synology-diskstation-einrichten/ I saved […]
Plesk – get information about aliases
To get a list of all existing aliases defined for the respective system, you can connect to the MySQL database of Plesk as admin via key file: $> mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` psa Afterwards you can get a list of all aliases by the following select statement: select * from domain_aliases; This will give you something […]
OpenSource file sharing with pydio dataware
Just discovered pydio (https://pydio.com). I didn’t now this nice little file sharing tool before. A partner of my agency uses this OpenSource application to share files with customers and partners. It looks very nice, is responsive, provides native apps for iOS and Android, file synchronization over all platforms, flexible access control list (ACL) and is […]
Count search results on Linux shell
Lets imagine you want to search for a term in a file and you want to know, how often it can be found in the file. With this command combination you can count search results on bash: $> less xmlfile.xml | grep SearchmeIfYouCan | wc -l This is how this way to count search results […]
Syntax search engine SyntaxDB
Today I discovered a really nice syntax search engine for programming languages. You can search programming constructs like loops or conditions via an input field. You will get examples for the different programming languages. That’s pretty cool, if you are a cross language programmer like me, because sometimes it’s hard to remember each construct in the […]
Disallow crawling in robots.txt
Disallow all User-agent: * Disallow: / Comments # Comments appear after the “#” symbol at the start of a line, # or after a directive User-agent: * # match all bots Disallow: / # keep them out
European union country codes
ISO-3166-1 alpha-2: BE BG CZ DK DE EE IE EL ES FR HR IT CY LV LT LU HU MT NL AT PL PT RO SI SK FI SE UK
Euro (currency) country codes
ISO-3166-1 alpha-2: AT BE CY EE DE ES FI FR GR IE IT LU LV MC MT NL PT SI SK SM VA
Nice Python website crawler framework
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.