Category Archives: Coding

Python code to convert UTF-8 to Latin-1

Posted on December 30, 2011 by James Murty

After dealing with UTF-8 to latin1 encoding issues repeatedly over the years I finally put the time into crafting a somewhat complete conversion script in Python that handles things like “smart” quotes and other commonly-used symbols. This probably isn’t the … Continue reading →

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Vimdiff for three-way merges in Mercurial

Posted on May 6, 2011 by James Murty

I’ve been using vim as my sole code editor for a couple of years now at work. I find that the more I use it and the more I learn (there will always be more to learn about vim) the … Continue reading →

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JetS3t 0.8.0, now with extra Google

Posted on October 3, 2010 by James Murty

I have released the newest version of JetS3t, version 0.8.0. Real Google Storage support Amongst many other things, this release is the first to include native support for Google Storage for Developers (GS). This means that you can now interact … Continue reading →

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XMLBuilder Version 0.3: XPath, Parsing and Maven Goodies

Posted on June 11, 2009 by James Murty

I have updated my small java-xmlbuilder project with some nice new features. First, here’s a reminder of what this project does: XML Builder is a utility that creates simple XML documents using relatively sparse Java code. It is intended to … Continue reading →

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XCode 3.1 and SVN 1.5

Posted on March 18, 2009 by James Murty

I am reading the book Xcode 3 Unleashed to get to grips with Apple’s Xcode IDE. While configuring a local Subversion code repository I came across a couple of problems that had non-obvious solutions. After creating an SVN repository in … Continue reading →

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JetS3t Version 0.7.0 Released

Posted on February 3, 2009 by James Murty

The latest version of JetS3t (jet-set), my Java library for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, is now publicly available. Visit the JetS3t web site to download version 0.7.0, to run the latest online applications, or to read the updated documentation. Version … Continue reading →

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