Monthly Archives: February 2012

Getting duration and other info from media files on a Mac

While afinfo and included tools on a mac get rich information on the cli, there’s a nice tool called mediainfo which simplifies the output. If you like egrep | sed | awk, by all means trot something like this out and you’ve got a decent capture of the duration along with the file name: afinfo [...]

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UIPopoverController in modal view

WARNING: using this might skirt the fruit company’s guidelines but it worked for me. Also, I survive by coding web apps with java (and sometimes php), android apps, iphone/ipad apps and am starting to spend time courting spring data + neo4j. In other words, I don’t spend ALL DAY in xcode and there are limitations [...]

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configuring HA and Spring Data + Neo4j

I was interested in getting started with the setup for HA on neo4j + spring data and found two old threads that helped. Since I’m not going to implement right away, I wanted to create a synopsis for later review. One way to configure spring data and neo4j with high availability is to use a [...]

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