Lucene, Solr and Crawl consultant

Batch convert svg to png in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install librsvg2-bin
for i in *; do rsvg-convert -a $i -o `echo $i | sed -e 's/svg$/png/'`; done

to rasterize the ...

Mount a .dmg file in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install dmg2img
dmg2img /path/to/image.dmg
sudo modprobe hfsplus
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o loop image.img /mnt

The .dmg archive is now mounted at /mnt. You ...

Download KhanAcademy videos with a PHP crawler

At the moment (October 2011), there's no simple way to download all videos from a playlist from KhanAcademy.org.

This simple PHP crawler script changes that.

What it does is downloads the videos (from archive.org) ...

Painless CRUD in PHP via AjaxCrud

I recently discovered an Ajax CRUD library which makes CRUD operations positively painless: AjaxCRUD

Its features include:

- displaying list in an inline-editable table
- generates a create form
- all operations (add,edit,delete) handled via ajax
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What's new in Solr 3.4.0

If you are already using Apache Solr 3.1, 3.2 or 3.3, it's strongly recommended you upgrade to 3.4.0 because of the index corruption bug on OS or computer crash or power loss (LUCENE-3418), now fixed in 3.4.0.

Solr 3.4.0 release ...

Introducing SolrTutorial.com

Just launched a Solr tutorial website, a site styled after my LuceneTutorial.com but tailored towards Solr users.

It also includes high-level overviews to Solr for non-programmers, such as Solr for Managers and Solr for SysAdmins.

Delete directories older than x days

Great for cleaning up log directories.

find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime +14 -type d -exec rm -fr {} \;

Change 14 to the required age in days.

HOWTO: Collect WebDriver HTTP Request and Response Headers

WebDriver, is a fantastic Java API for web application testing. It has recently been merged into the Selenium project to provide a friendlier API for programmatic simulation of web browser actions. Its unique property is that of executing web pages ...

Solr 3.2 released!

I'm a little slow off the block here, but I just wanted to mention that Solr 3.2 had been released!

Get your download here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr

Solr 3.2 release highlights include

Ability to specify overwrite and commitWithin

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Classical learning curves for some editors