Gabriel

Category: Development

  • SourceForge.net: Tesseract OCR

    SourceForge.net: Tesseract OCR A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/09/21/sourceforgenet-tesseract-ocr/

  • New features for Collabofit: RSS feeds for every activity + 3 new fitness activities

    We just added some new features to Collabofit that are pretty exciting: RSS feeds for each activity 3 new activities (including my most recent favorite activity, Sledgehammer) Team manager badges and more… Check it out: RSS feeds for every activity are now live (+ 3 new fitness activities!) P.S. If you would like to start…

  • Upgraded the firmware on my Linksys WRT54G to Thibor’s HyperWRT firmware

    I’d been wanting to do this for a while. The biggest feature for me was the “static” DHCP setup, where you can keep DHCP for most machines on your network but assign a couple of machines to static IPs that never change. This comes in handy when you’re running servers that need to always have…

  • Prototype Carousel – Javascript scrolling window

    This class is a Prototype/script.aculo.us version of the excellent Bill Scott’s Carousel component. I needed it to be able to use it in Ruby On Rails application without using the 200KB of YUI JS classes. This library is licensed under a MIT-style license, so you can use it for anything you like, as long as…

  • Unix command line tip of the day: How to recursively add all newly added files to Subversion in an existing working copy

    When using Subversion for version control, if you have a working copy checked out and then you want to add a variety of new files and directories to the existing ones, you might do something like this: [code]cp -R newfiles/* files/[/code] Unfortunately, svn add only will add files or directories in the immediate directory unless…

  • Cocoa XML-RPC Client

    Pretty slick tool for testing an XML-RPC server for OS X. Cocoa XML-RPC Client XML-RPC Client is a free Cocoa-based developer tool for Mac OS X Tiger that allows you to access and debug XML-RPC web services from the comfort of your desktop. Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/08/01/cocoa-xml-rpc-client/

  • Fix for PHP PEAR on OS X 100% CPU problem

    I was rebuilding PHP 5.1.4 for my G4 PowerBook to use with Apache 2.2.2 and MySQL 5.* when I ran into this problem using PEAR: When I would run a command like: pear install Log PEAR would download the package, indicate that it was done, and then hang, consuming 100% of the CPU and never…

  • Katanaa – Forging sharp web apps

    Finally launched our new site tonight. Still probably needs testing in IE though it’s looking sharp in Safari and Firefox on Mac. Welcome to Katanaa – we make custom web applications Welcome to Katanaa. We are a custom web application software development company. We specialize in creating easy-to-use applications that solve real-world problems. No problem…

  • Top 30 Ruby on Rails Tutorials : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant

    Link to 30 Ruby on Rails tutorials: Top 30 Ruby on Rails Tutorials : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/07/17/top-30-ruby-on-rails-tutorials-ultimate-web-developer-lists-econsultant/

  • Dedi for Caseman

    Got a dedicated box from these guys for the Caseman project. http://www.dedicatedplace.com/index.htm Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/05/08/dedi-for-caseman/