Delete outlook mails

Unfortunate chain of events during some testing conducted by my colleague led to a full folder in my outlook. When I say full I mean ~7M emails generated during test that lasted a couple of minutes.

Python to the rescue (outlook needs to run during this operation)...

 
import win32com.client

outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
inbox = outlook.Folders["testnotifications"].Folders["Inbox"]

messages = inbox.Items
for message in messages:
    print("Deleting a message %s" % message.Subject )
    message.Delete()
deleted = outlook.Folders["testnotifications"].Folders["Deleted Items"]

while True:
    message = deleted.Items.GetLast()
    print("Deleting a message %s" % message.Subject)
    message.Delete()
print("Done")

Elixir and Phoenix, love at first sight

These days I am reading a lot about Elixir and Phoenix. I still didn't have the time to try them out but I fell in love by just reading the texts. Read this and this and tell me, doesn't it sound beautiful?

I have a bunch of materials that I gathered during the years that would help me switch to functional programming. The only peace from that pile that I invested more time was SICP which I would warmly recommend. That other stuff is just collecting the dust :)
I hope Elixir/Phoenix combination will help transition.

[EDIT:] And apparently, the whole thing is on fire. Just 5 minutes after I published this post it has 5 views. <3 p="">

X on windows 7

Install Xming server on your windows platform.
Install putty.
Connect putty to remote machine with these options:

You can start your GUI remotely

Spring embedded FTP server

Here is how to embed apache FTP server in a spring application:

<!-- ///////////////////// initializes ftp test server JAVA code is written for educational purposes :) ------------------------------------------------------ BaseUser testUser = new BaseUser(); testUser.setName("myUserName"); testUser.setPassword("myPassword"); testUser.setHomeDirectory("src/main/ftp"); -----------------------------------------------------> <bean id="testUser" class="org.apache.ftpserver.usermanager.impl.BaseUser"> <property name="name" value="myUserName" /> <property name="password" value="myPassword" /> <property name="homeDirectory" value="src/main/ftp" /> </bean> <!---------------------------------------------------- PropertiesUserManagerFactory userManagerFactory = new PropertiesUserManagerFactory (); -----------------------------------------------------> <bean id="userManagerFactory" class="org.apache.ftpserver.usermanager.PropertiesUserManagerFactory"> </bean> <!---------------------------------------------------- UserManager userManager = userManagerFactory.createUserManager (); -----------------------------------------------------> <bean id="userManager" factory-bean="userManagerFactory" factory-method="createUserManager"> </bean> <!---------------------------------------------------- userManager.save(testUser); -----------------------------------------------------> <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean"> <property name="targetObject"> <ref bean="userManager" /> </property> <property name="targetMethod"> <value>save</value> </property> <property name="arguments"> <ref bean="testUser" /> </property> </bean> <!---------------------------------------------------- FtpServerFactory ftpTestServerFactory = new FtpServerFactory (); ftpTestServerFactory.setUserManager(userManager); -----------------------------------------------------> <bean id="ftpTestServerFactory" class="org.apache.ftpserver.FtpServerFactory"> <property name="userManager"> <ref bean="userManager" /> </property> </bean> <!---------------------------------------------------- FtpServer ftpTestServer = ftpTestServerFactory.createServer(); ftpTestServer.start(); -----------------------------------------------------> <bean id="ftpTestServer" factory-bean="ftpTestServerFactory" factory-method="createServer" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop"> </bean> <!-- end of initializing ftp test server --> We embedded it in our development application context for spring. Also, we created scheduled thread to periodically generate content for embedded ftp server. It works like a charm.

Deleting many files, ubuntu server terminal vs win7 command line

We created a lot of garbage log files in our last project. ~60k files taking 2GB of space.
Ok, let's delete some of them. I don't need those xml files so I backed them up and I tried:

rm *.xml

Permission denied
Permission denied
...

Ok:

sudo rm *.xml

Everything goes ok.

ls

~60k files still here?!? WOOT?
I had to delete them in groups that are smaller than 10k files.

 sudo rm 21*.xml 

It worked
Let's try the same thing with another OS:
Extract backup to win7 machine. Go to console. Try:

del *.xml

Files are gone!

Migrating SVN with history to a new Git repository

Thx to stackoverflow.com thread and a post from user Casey I finally did it.

Follow instructions given by Casey and add few steps.

Here are the steps to add to save all branches.
do:

cd dest_dir
git checkout -b local_branch remote_branch

for every branch after step where you cloned:

git clone dest_dir-tmp dest_dir 

before step where you removed temporary dir:

rm -rf dest_dir-tmp

Installing skype

I tried to install skype yesterday. It's a nightmare.

1. www.skype.com
2. Follow "Get skype" link
3. Follow "Get skype for windows" link
4. Follow "Download skype" (3rd page and it still does not start!!!)
5. Site says something like: "You must login/register" WAT?!?
6. Forgotten your password?
7. Follow mail link
8. Enter new password
9. I enter something like "ExtrAComp1ic4t3dPassvvorD1234"
10. Site says something like: "Your password is too weak"
11. I enter "ExtrAComp1ic4t3dPassvvorD1"
12. Site says something like:"You can download now."

gg skype