Linkdump Week 47

Dana Engel posted on 25.11.2013:

• This week, I struggled with my jailbroken iPhone 5 (stil on 6.1.2) which freezes when I unplugg/plug in my headphones and/or randomly reboots. So unsurprisingly, most of the links this week are about this. But alas, I still haven’t found a solution other than restore my iPhone onto iOS 7 and send it to the apple care guys. But I’m wary about that because I a) have bad experience with apple care/apple support and b) I’m not eager to lose my jailbreak.

  Other than that, I’m fiddling with Icinga/Nagios and its plugins so there are some links about this as well.

  Oh, and I started a new side project to brush up my rusty ruby: trakt-cli

  • How do I do redo (i.e. “undo undo”) in vim? - hint: just press CTRL+r
  • The Linux Information Project
  • Maximal password length in RHEL & SUSE LES
  • Maximum Password Length on Linux
  • Offes for All! Why Open-Office Layouts Are Bad For Employees, Bosses and Productivity
  • Debugging Python like a Boss
  • What’s the difference between print and puts?
  • Initialize - Thor execute a specific task first
  • Thor Wiki
  • Thor Method Options

  Ruby

  • Ruby Gems for commandline apps
  • Styleguide Ruby
  • Making Configuration Files with YAML
  • Parsing a JSON string in ruby
  • How do I parse JSON with Ruby on Rails
  • String concatenation and Ruby
  • What is thor? hint: it’s a rad ruby gem for building awesome commandline apps
  • How do I use ActiveSupport core extensions?
  • Use Rails ActiveSupport core extensions outside rails
  • Is there a shorthand if statement in ruby?
  • Ruby’s other ternary operator
  • The Exhaustive Guide to Rails Time Zones
  • Date, Time, DateTime in Ruby and Rails
  • How can I call an API in Ruby on Rails?

  TV/Movie APIs

  • 50 Television APIs
  • The Trakt TV show API
  • TV Media TV show API
  • TV Rage TV Show XML-API
  • The Movie Database API

  iPhone/Jailbreak-Links

  • PSA: How to update to iOS 7 Safely on a Jailbroken device
  • What toll can I use to jailbreak?
  • What are the correct steps for upgrading my jailbroken device and easily reinstalling my Cydia packages?
  • How do I save my installed Cydia packages for easy reinstall after restoring?
  • Why do I need SHSH blobs? Can I use them on all devices?
  • How to use iLEX RAT ro restore your jailbroken device back to “stock”?
  • iLex Rat - Restore jailbroken iPhone or iPad back to original state
  • Semi-Restore for iOS 5.0-6.1.2
  • A developer asked for my device’s syslog. How do I send it?

  Nagios/Icinga

  • Icinga Documentation
  • Icinga Quickstart Guide for Linux
  • Installation of a Perl-based Nagios-Plugin
  • The Nagios Plugin Project
  • Nagios Plugin Development Guidelines
  • How To use check_multi plugin with Nagios/Icinga
  • Nagios, Web Scraping and PHP as an Agent

  Mac Apps

  • ColorSnapper - The missing color picker for mac

  Web-Apps

  • TV Calendar