Andrea Olivato's Blog

Share on Dropbox – Nautilus Script

Andrea Olivato — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:07:06 +0000

To install this script just download the file , place it under your home ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts , make it executable and then kill nautilus. Below are copy&paste instructions to install from terminal cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts wget "http://www.andreaolivato.net/Share on Dropbox" chmod 755 "./Share on Dropbox" killall nautilus Please note that I manage duplicate files adding an incremental number [...]

Post your Google Buzz updates to Twitter with buzz2tw, a libre Perl script

Andrea Olivato — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:06:12 +0000

Technical guide with sources aiming to teach how to setup a simple Perl script to update a Twitter account using Google Buzz posts and goo.gl url shortener

Joomla Sitemap generator for Google News

Andrea Olivato — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:50:49 +0000

Because so many of you requested it, I started developing the new version of my Google News Sitemap Generator for Joomla CMS. This time I’m developing it as a component for Joomla, not as an external tool and currently it works with Joomla 1.5 Core Sef component only, but I hope to be able to [...]

Create your first API set in PHP

Andrea Olivato — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:48:03 +0000

Create a simple and good looking API system using PHP + MySql + Apache mod_rewrite, dealing with different formats and types of request. Learn how to make inserts or selects in your DataBase basing your queries on passed parameters and requested methods.

Ultimate collection of Google Chrome search shortcuts

Andrea Olivato — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:03:32 +0000

This is an in-development post. I will update it regularly to add new services. If you want to contribute, please jump to comments and leave your link + shortcut. I preferred a very short keyword to maximize the usefulness of these shortcuts. You can obviously decide to use a more descriptive keyword using more letters. [...]

Clean WordPress Database removing empty categories

Andrea Olivato — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:50:17 +0000

If you own a very large WordPress installation like the one I’m dealing with on LinuxFeed, you probably can not manually look for empty categories and remove them from the admin panel. With 13.000+ posts and 14.000+ categories it’s quite impossible to use WordPress GUI for management, and great plugins like WP-Optimize or Optimize DB [...]

Seesmic Desktop with Twitter lists support review

Andrea Olivato — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:27:06 +0000

Just a few minutes ago I received an email from the Seesmic team sharing the beta preview of their 0.6.3 new version, featuring a full twitter lists support. I installed the new .air package and started playing with it. Integration seems complete, and honestly I didn’t find any bug on lists actions. As shown on [...]

Using Regular Expressions to add links to tweets

Andrea Olivato — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:45:21 +0000

The usage of twitter by its own web interface or via the most recent clients, accustomed users to see linked @usernames and #hashtags inside any status update they read. When using Twitter API on your own website, service or app, you need to deal with plain text tweet, with no tags so no links. Using [...]

Create a module for Gentoo Eselect

Andrea Olivato — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:39:10 +0000

I do Love eselect! For those who don’t know eselect is a ‘modular administration and configuration framework’. In simpler words it is a management tool shipped with Gentoo, able to switch between packages versions and configurations files, working with symbolic links and environmental variables. Just to better clarify eselect job, it is able to make [...]

Download Feeds avoiding Feedburner redirects

Andrea Olivato — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:05:39 +0000

When trying to access the original feed of a blog (or website) which makes use of Feedburner, your crawler ( or browser or script ) usually receives a 301 header, redirecting it to the Google version of the feed. This means that if you need to access the original source ( for faster aggregation, to [...]