Archive for April, 2008
Creating a fun and nifty site with e107 no comments
I’ve been mucking around with Drupal for a few days and I just couldn’t get the whole flow of the thing. I mean sure I know how to create content and all that but it comes out as unnatural. I don’t mean to diss Drupal, far from it. I have seen drupal sample sites and they are so nice to gawk at. But the thing is I can’t bring myself to be interested in how I can make my site in it. I am more inclined to work on something that sparks my interest. The shortcoming is clearly mine not Drupal’s.
So while looking for cute svg icons I stumbled into free-source.net. I was just amazed at how the site looked like. Talk about pure eye-candy. When I found out it was made with e107, I dumbly thought about Enlightenment, the nice window manager for *nix. Well it’s not that far in terms of beauty.
overworked torrent minions no comments
Funny downtime message at http://isohunt.com
Using curl to download files numbered sequentially no comments
Ever had the dilemma of downloading files numbered sequencially without clicking each one of them and saving them? Everybody knows how robotic this task is especially if you have more than a handful of files to download. Well yes you can use download managers and browser plugins (Firefox’s DownloadThemAll!) but what if the file’s link is deeply embedded in the html file (eg: a photo gallery)?
If you have access to some type of unix console (linux, mac, windows via cygwin), you have the option to use the venerable wget. But using wget we have to make a script to automatically generate the sequencial filenames. Possible but, too much work.
