PDF playing

Found a little tool today that bears further investigation: PDFTK. According to the webpage:

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a useful tool for handling PDF documents. Every PDF user should have one in the top drawer of his/her desktop.

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Searching MS Office Documents

From the DocIndexer webpage: DocIndexer is a toolkit for indexing and searching document directories. DocIndexer includes command-line utilities, Python file index and search classes plus a Win32 COM server (for scripting from languages such as Visual Basic) which can be used to integrate indexing and searching into application software. The current version has built-in support [...]

The Great Disconnect: [preferred_tool] is better than [your_tool]

Jeremy declares: "enough!" of people complaining about MySQL. Especially when such people try to convince others that, since MySQL doesn’t fit their needs, obviously it fits nobody elses needs.

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A simple, lightweight music player

foobar has to be the lightest (very non-intrusive, minimal memory consumption) of all the music players I’ve tried. It’s staying on my desktop.

Opera: browser quirks still continue

While putting together a modest web app for something at the house, I discovered an odd little quirk with Opera. The Web App uses an IFRAME to display content called by the user. It’s very simple really. A list is presented. The user picks an option in the list and there are several buttons to [...]