Month: January 2011

Mass Conversion of different video files with handbreak-CLI

I am currently converting all my videos to a fixed format using handbrake. If you have a lot of videos to convert, the UI version of handbrake is not always the best solution. Handbrake offers a CLI, sometimes you it needs to be installed separately. It has a lot of options ( https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide ). So

setup your public SSH key to another UNIX Host

Normally you would prefer to use your public ssh key for login into a remote linux machine. I created a script to perform the basic steps for inserting your public key into the hosts authorized_keys files. The script looks like this: #!/bin/bash HOST=$1; echo “>> setup your ssh keys for $HOST” echo “” echo “>>

Show Build-Information in your iOS App About Panel

Sometimes it might be useful to have an exact piece of information about what version of an app you have currently running. Especially if you have a decent Testing-Group, it is important to track the versions in which a bug appears. The goal of this post is to achieve a info panel like this in

Using UIAutomation for Multilanguage iOS Applications

With the appearance of iOS 4.0 Apple introduced a new Test-Framework for automatically UI Testing: UI Automation. Based on Javascript and build-in into Instruments, UI Automation is a very useful tool during the Developing of iOS Application. A very good introduction in UIAutomation is here and here. During the development of a iOS Application, we