NOTE: This script is apparently against the licensing contract between universities and Springer, see: http://www.bib.hm.edu/aktuelles/news/newsdetail_9984.de.html
NOTE 2: I do not maintain this script anymore. Please look for an alternative.
Seems like quite some people are interested in my bash script for downloading ebooks from http://springerlink.com.
That script has some quirks, the greatest of all that it was written in bash which makes it kind of hard to implement new features. And one which was requested was support for books which span multiple pages on SpringerLink.
So here I present springer_download.py - a Python rewrite which should handle all the old links and some more. This is the very first program I’ve written in Python. And since it has to run on the Zedat servers it’s limited to Python 2.4.x without any fancy shmancy additions (a pity, since I’d love to use urlgrabber or pycurl).
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Ok, just a quick update on what we are doing / have done the last two days except drinking beer and eating quite a lot of food (though it never seems to be enough somehow….)
- Apol was polishing CMake support, speeding up KDevelop startup time when you enabled the QtHelp plugin, making sure that Kross plugins get loaded properly and some other things
- Adymo started some refactoring of Sublime in an experimental branch (actually they had quite a long discussion right now about things in the UI which should be changed/fixed). Besides that he also fixed some little bugs in the includepath resolver for CMake
- Nsams is fixing PHP support and adding new features here and there. Esp. completion inside a foreach over a Iterator class works now!
- and as always ZWabel did fix quite a lot of bugs, most of them which only were discoverable in a few corner cases, very nice indeed.
- shaforo who sadly already left us again to attend university fixed the sorting in the Project view among other things
- With Apols help I managed to get started with a documentation plugin which (currently) integrates PHP.net. I plan to make it possible to use the downloadable PHP.net documentation as well to speed things up. Actually setting up a documentation plugin is very easy! Maybe I’ll take a look at writing a documentation plugin for Zend, Symfony, etc. pp. as well - should be fairly easy. Maybe I can come up with a generic documentation plugin which makes it possible to include any kind of
.html documentation with some configurable mapping… lets see! Or maybe I should take a look at writing Kross plugins (Apol could help me here as well) for that purpose.
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Everyone who uses the command line regularly has a bunch of (at least for him) useful helper scripts. I now took the liberty to put mine on github for general consumption.
You can find them at: http://github.com/milianw/shell-helpers/tree/master
Some of these might be more useful than others, you decide :) Personally, I can’t live without the following:
apupgrade
a shortcut to update your Debian system with one command - no questions asked `openurl`
opens a given URL in an already opened browser instance or starts a new browser session. Not only one browser is checked. I use it because firefox is slow to start and konqueror is blazingly fast to start. But when firefox is already open I want to use that. `xerr`
shortcut for fast error checking in your Xorg log `clipboard`
makes KDE4 Klipper contents available on the CLI (read _and_ write access!) `debug`
shortcut to start a GDB session: debug APP APP_ARGS is all you have to do. Its basically the same as doing:
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