Mekk's programming notes - Scripts

Calibre scripts updated to handle Calibre 0.7.* and refactored for more natural installation

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:54:05 +0200

Important update to my Calibre scripts (described previously here and here):

Calibre 0.7.* is supported and should work,
installation and distribution method has completely changed, the package is now available from pypi, so can be easy_install-ed.

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Calibre utils update

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:13:45 +0200

Some updates to my Calibre helper scripts (which I described previously here): ISBN guessing script covers wider range of file formats, there are also two new scripts: one converts all .doc files to .rtf, another one crosschecks disk directory against Calibre database and reports documents not registered by Calibre.

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Calibre ISBN detector

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:25:57 +0100

As I recently bought Sony PRS-600 (fairly good reader with nice touch screen, in case you read Polish see my review), I become interested in ebook management. For Linux user it looks like the only reasonable option is to use Calibre - useful application which not only lets me manage my reader, but also provides well designed ebook database.

One of the nice Calibre options is that once you enter a book ISBN, plenty of useful information (canonical versions of author name and book title, description, cover, even tags) can be downloaded automatically. But, for some reason, the application does not detect ISBN. I repeated the sequence open a book, go a page or a few down, copy ISBN, go back to Calibre, open book data, paste ISBN a few times and decided it is boring and could be automated.

So I wrote a short script which performs this very action.

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Bitbucket-ing some of my projects

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:27:07 +0100

I created my BitBucket account and started publishing some of my code.

So far I pushed two projects there:

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Updates in my Google Reader client

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:48:00 +0200

I updated the greader2org script (see previous article for the description of how it can help you to manage Google Reader subscriptions):

Google password is not stored as a plain text anymore, instead it is saved in GNOME Keyring, KDE Kwallet, or other platform specific password storage.
manual edits of feeds.ini are no longer necessary, the script just prompts for the necessary parameters on the first run.

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Editing Google Reader subscriptions with a text editor

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:10:00 +0100

Having tried many RSS readers I finally stayed with Google Reader. It's not perfect, but works - and let me track my feeds from many computers.

Still, while I am happy with Google Reader as a reader, I am by far less excited with it's management functions. Renaming feeds, reorganizing folders, disabling feeds, replacing them with alternative versions, etc - all those functions are difficult, or not present.

So I wrote a small script which let me export my subscriptions as a simple text file, manage them in the usual text editor and save edits back to Google Reader.

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Moving images from F-Spot to digiKam

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:32:00 +0200

I have been using F-Spot for some time, but decided to try digiKam (I am starting to feel, that albums are not that bad idea, after all, and I like autodetection of new/changed images). As it turned out, digiKam failed to import F-Spot tags (in spite of the fact I was working in Write metadata to file mode), so I had to do some scripting to copy the F-Spot tags to the digiKam database.

Below the crucial script and some extra comments.

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Importing to Redmine with SQLAlchemy

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:06:06 +0200

I am somewhat unlucky. Being Python and Perl devotee, I just had to install PHP-based blog (all Python blogs seems to be pre-alpha, Perlish Movable Type is solid, but unclearly licensed and rumoured to be difficult to maintain). Now I wanted some reasonably looking issue-tracker, and it turned out that Trac is as far from multi-project handling, as it was two years ago, so I picked Redmine. Ruby on Rails application.

Yes, Redmine is what many people wanted Trac to be. Issues, wiki, timelines, roadmaps - but also file distribution, forums, categorization, and more. And very good, natural, support for multiple projects (including cross-project reports and moving issues between projects).

I had to write small custom issue importer. Maybe it will be of some use for somebody as a basis for another custom importer.... And yes, I wrote it in Python.

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