Monthly Archive: June 2009

Jun
19

Linux-FS Watcher V-0.2 is released

What a week! but I enjoyed it Thanks to Duncan who wrote the wiki page for me Instruction and the update detail can be found in: http://fascinator.usq.edu.au/trac/wiki/Watcher/Installing

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Jun
15

MAC OS X – FS Watcher for The Fascinator Desktop

When a file is created, modified or deleted in MAC OS X, knotify will notify Spotlight to re-index and extract the metadata and data contents of the file. All the indexed information is stored in .Spotlight directory on the root directory. In my previous blog post, Linux-FS watcher, I mentioned that i used sqlite to …

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Jun
14

Linux-FS Watcher for The Fascinator Desktop (Updated)

Recently I am involved in The Fascinator Desktop project. Peter Sefton is updated the detail workflow of this project: Desktop Repositories: Smashing up Power point. Part of my involvement is to develop filesystem watcher (Linux and Mac OS watcher). The Linux FS watcher can be checked-out from http://fascinator.usq.edu.au/svn-auth/code/watcher/tags/0.1. This is a standalone program, thus you …

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Jun
05

Pdf manipulation in Python

For the past few months, apart from the data issue, I am involved in merging multiple pdfs to create a book of reading for the university. Refer to my post: Pdf merging. I am using two different libraries to complete this project: pypdf and reportlab Here is a very simple example of using reportlab library …

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