Adding Google API to Maven Repository

by Hopton, Paul 5 March 2010 in MMS Software

I needed to use the Google Calendar API in a project that was built with maven. I needed to make 7 jars available to maven by importing them to my local maven repository. This is fairly standard stuff but needs lots of typing, so thought I'd post it in case anyone else needs it.

Reducing Rousseau - Dictionary making with the Shell

by Hopton, Paul 4 March 2010 in MMS Software

Jean Jaques Rousseau

This evening I needed to get a list of unique words for a captcha tool. I decided to start with one of my favourite books of all time: 'Confessions' by Jean-Jaques Rousseau. I grabbed the text courtesy of the Gutenburg project and then had to figure how to extract the words. Rousseau was not only an eloquent writer but posessed a wide vocabulary (even when translated into english).

I googled for some scripts, but then just decided to pipe stuff together on the command line. here's how it looked:

grep -o '[a-zA-Z]\{4,12\}' rousseau.txt | 
    tr A-Z a-z | 
    sort -u |
    tr '\n' ';' > rousseauWords.txt

this processed the whole book in less than 2 seconds and gave me a list of all uniques words longer than 3 characters and shorter than 13, stripped of punctuation, turned to lowercase and seperated by a colon.

Not particularly eloquent, and I'm sure there is some repetition but it does the job nicely

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