Snipplr - noah

(Other) How to generate podcasts from HypeMachine searches or del.icio.us tags

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:18:39 GMT

Here's how to construct URLs such that they return podcasts for search/tag results. Both del and hypemachine hide these features pretty well, so I thought it was worth it to note the URL patterns here. Note that the del URL only works with /one/ genre tag. Two or more tags and the feed will be empty. I think the feed:// protocol may be ignored, at least by del.

(Perl) Remove duplicate lines from a text file

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:06:34 GMT

Sometimes I get a big list of things, and some of the things occur multiple times in the same list. A good example is a newline-delimited list of files: the same file path might be listed 4 or 5 times. So this script removes those kinds of duplicate lines. Found at Google Answers.

(Emacs Lisp) Persistent.el configuration

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:34:17 GMT

Configure the Persistent.el module. Persistent.el allows emacs to remember command histories across sessions.