Rob Dawson codebox

codebox / gist:76aabe9391daaadd9662736547463ab0

Last active July 22, 2017 17:02

OSX shell command to read aloud the content of a web page

	URL=http://pun.me/pages/dad-jokes.php
	curl -L $URL \| tr '\n' ' ' \| egrep -o '<(title\|h\d\|p\|li)( [^>]>\|>).?</\1>' \| sed -E 's/<[^>]*>//g' \| say

codebox / StrictDateFormat.java

Created September 29, 2011 16:30

Java class that fixes a number of SimpleDateFormat annoyances

	import java.text.DateFormat;
	import java.text.ParseException;
	import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
	import java.util.Date;

	/**
	* Helper class providing a thread-safe, null-safe wrapper around a DateFormat
	* object configured to perform 'strict' (i.e. non-lenient) date parsing.
	*
	* @author rob.dawson

codebox / Mosaic.java

Created September 21, 2011 19:46

Java code to create a mosaic image from multiple small tiles (the code is a bit rough, sorry)

	package uk.org.codebox.mosaic;

	import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
	import java.io.File;
	import java.io.IOException;
	import java.util.Collection;
	import java.util.Collections;
	import java.util.HashSet;
	import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
	import java.util.concurrent.Executors;

codebox / make_tiles.sh

Created September 21, 2011 19:40

Shell script to generate tiny still images extracted at 1 second intervals from a video file (requires ffmpeg)

	#!/bin/bash

	# Set things up...
	INFILE=$1
	if [[ -z "$INFILE" \|\| ! -f $INFILE ]]; then
	echo Please supply the location of a video file
	exit 1
	fi
	OUTDIR=./tiles
	STEP=1