Best practice: Import mySQL file in PHP; split queries - Stack Overflow
april 2011 by infovore
"Here is a memory-friendly function that should be able to split a big file in individual queries without needing to open the whole file at once:" Yep, that'll do.
php
mysql
data
import
utility
script
april 2011 by infovore
markburgess.us :: DeliciousSQLExport
july 2010 by infovore
Export your DeliciousLibrary database to sql - rather than the overcomplex HTML sites it generates. Useful.
osx
freeware
export
deliciouslibrary
utility
july 2010 by infovore
pman -- create, print, save, view PDF man pages
january 2010 by infovore
"convert man pages into PDF documents and save them to a specified directory; (batch) print or view PDF man pages from the command line". Which is, you know, clever.
man
manpage
programming
documentation
unix
script
shell
utility
january 2010 by infovore
Slammer - Designer's Geometry Box
december 2009 by infovore
"Slammer gives you any grid you want, anywhere you want: Typographic Grids, Golden Sections, Fibonacci series or Rule of Thirds. Thats not all, Slammer also has Rulers, Crosshairs, Magnifier, Measurements & Screenshots. Slammer is a must have for any designer."
grid
layout
design
osx
application
utility
tools
december 2009 by infovore
GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter :: Home
december 2009 by infovore
"Welcome to the home of the Generic Syntax Highlighter - GeSHi. GeSHi started as an idea to create a generic syntax highlighter for the phpBB forum system, but has been generalised to this project." As seen on the Panic blog: very impressive, in particular, the clickable documentation of Objective-C keywords.
programming
syntax
languages
highlighting
tools
utility
december 2009 by infovore
tobi's clarity at master - GitHub
november 2009 by infovore
"Clarity is a Splunk like web interface for your server log files. It supports searching (using grep) as well as trailing log files. It has been written using the event based architecture based on EventMachine and so allows real-time search of very large log files. If you hit the browser Stop button it will also kill the grep / tail utility."
logs
server
webserver
analysis
utility
ruby
november 2009 by infovore
Namechanger
november 2009 by infovore
"NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files."
mac
osx
utility
application
november 2009 by infovore
rush
september 2009 by infovore
"rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby." Equal parts "ooh" and "hunh?", I think.
shell
ruby
unix
commandline
utility
september 2009 by infovore
tig
august 2009 by infovore
"Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands."
git
scm
versioncontrol
linux
osx
programming
cli
utility
august 2009 by infovore
Flickcurl: C library for the Flickr API
july 2009 by infovore
"Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. It uses libcurl to call the REST web service and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses." I did not know about this, but it looks nifty. Now, to compile it on OSX...
flickr
api
c
curl
utility
programming
july 2009 by infovore
Convertbot - Tapbots
march 2009 by infovore
This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about around a year ago - the value of bespoke, beautiful UI to interact with mundane code; people aren't just paying for software here, they're paying for interaction design.
iphone
interface
design
interaction
interactiondesign
app
conversion
utility
march 2009 by infovore
Introducing the ProjectSearch Rails plugin: - (37signals)
march 2009 by infovore
Rails plugin for intelligently searching within your application. Not a bad idea; will probably end up using this at some point.
programming
ruby
development
rails
plugin
utility
search
march 2009 by infovore
Mindquirk | Xbox Live Friends
february 2009 by infovore
"Xbox Live Friends is a tool for keeping a vigilant eye on what all of your friends are doing." It's much improved from previous versions, too. Enjoying this quite a lot.
games
osx
mac
utility
xbox
live
xboxlive
february 2009 by infovore
Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams
february 2009 by infovore
These feel about right. Or, at least, about right if you agree with Rams as both a designer and a provider of commandments. He's hard to argue with, for sure.
design
advice
utility
explanation
simplicity
dieterrams
clarity
february 2009 by infovore
IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check -
january 2009 by infovore
"Unlike other screenshot services, we are able to process a large number of capturing jobs in parallel and in realtime, making it the fastest service that we know of." Ooh. That could be useful.
design
web
tool
utility
browsertesting
compatibility
january 2009 by infovore
Transmission
january 2009 by infovore
"Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client." Impressive OSX version, for a multi-platform tool, too. Very pleased with this after Tomato gave up the ghost.
osx
opensource
tool
utility
bittorrent
client
january 2009 by infovore
MagiCal | Software | Charcoal Design
january 2009 by infovore
"MagiCal is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in conjunction with, or as a replacement for the built in system menu clock." Quite pretty, and makes a nice companion for FuzzyClock.
osx
software
calendar
mac
utility
time
date
menubar
january 2009 by infovore
Screen Shots - Bulk Rename Utility
october 2008 by infovore
"The main screen of the application. All operations are performed using this screen." And you can tell, you know. What a UI!
ui
utility
pc
windows
interface
amazing
october 2008 by infovore
KeyCue - find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts
september 2008 by infovore
"KeyCue gives you an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus lets you automatically start working more efficiently by making use of menu shortcuts." Awesome. Really, really awesome. I might well end up registering this.
mac
utility
osx
application
tool
reference
september 2008 by infovore
Sequel Pro – MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
august 2008 by infovore
"Sequel Pro is the perfect tool for working with database-driven websites and applications." Leopard-only MySQL management application; forked out of the long-neglected CocoaMySQL.
leopard
macosx
web
database
mysql
utility
application
august 2008 by infovore
The Omni Group - OmniDiskSweeper
august 2008 by infovore
"OmniDiskSweeper is a utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks."
osx
software
utility
macosx
mac
august 2008 by infovore
mikeash.com: QTAmateur for MacOS X
june 2008 by infovore
"QTAmateur is a small, simple QuickTime video player. It can play any format that QuickTime can understand, handle fullscreen video playback, and export files to any format that QuickTime can write." Cheaper than QTPro for converting Flip video files.
free
video
encoding
mac
osx
quicktime
application
software
utility
june 2008 by infovore
KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Utility is overrated.
september 2007 by infovore
"When a work of art becomes useful, it becomes a craft, or it becomes propaganda. When a toy becomes useful, it becomes a tool, or a weapon."
toys
art
creativity
utility
tools
making
september 2007 by infovore
Introducing templatemaker | Holovaty.com
july 2007 by infovore
Template maker is "a Python library for extracting data from similarly formatted text strings." Looks super-useful.
python
scraping
text
processing
utility
july 2007 by infovore
metaproducts (PdfCompress)
may 2007 by infovore
PdfCompress is a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files.
pdf
mac
osx
software
utility
compression
may 2007 by infovore
Objectpark's FuzzyClock
april 2007 by infovore
Often you don't need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like "five past ten" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock.
mac
osx
freeware
clock
utility
april 2007 by infovore
xPad. The Ultimate Notepad.
january 2007 by infovore
xPad - Garrett Murray's simple little note-taking application - is now freeware. It's simple, and most useful for jotting tidbits down in.
application
osx
editor
text
notetaking
software
utility
january 2007 by infovore
mon.itor.us - FREE website monitoring
january 2007 by infovore
"Mon.itor.us is the only external website monitoring service which provides commercial grade distributed monitoring services absolutely for FREE."
monitoring
server
utility
tracking
performance
free
application
tool
january 2007 by infovore
Headdress for OS X
november 2006 by infovore
Headdress helps you run multiple Apache vhosts with its simple graphical interface
apache
apple
macosx
osx
utility
server
development
november 2006 by infovore
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