Cube

Dream cautiously! Your future to be is what you dream now.

Follow your heart and pursue your dreams: that makes you feel proud of yourself and happy

And this happiness is the reason for life.

-me

The other day, I wrote this bash script; I thought it would be good to share it with others too, may save someone time or help somebody. I usually use it at the end of day to create a backup of the software package I developed during the day. Just run it with the directory address you’d like to create backup of as input and in a glimpse the backup tar.gz file will be ready at ~/backups/. Later, for more assurance you may upload your backups to an online repository site like box.net or filedropper.com.

The backup.sh script is:

#!/bin/bash          

SRCD=$1
TGTD=~/backups/

BASENAME=$(echo $1|rev|awk -F \/ ‘{print $1}’|rev)
if [ -z $BASENAME]; then
	BASENAME=$(echo $1|rev|awk -F \/ ‘{print $2}’|rev)
fi
OF=$BASENAME-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz

tar -cZf $TGTD$OF $SRCD

Nothing special, just a simple backup script; Have a good day.

Hi, long time no see.

After one month of busy time, last night I found some free time to upgrade Cube’s and Mokaab’s Wordpress and reopen the blogs. To be honest, the reason why I set them down is not because of Wordpress which was out of date, but yet I prefer not to describe it here. Those who are closer to me may know.

Anyway, about the good news, long story short, “we” also launched two child project:

• Flishr: A desktop (PC) application which is a Flickr friend that helps Flickr users to batch upload their photos to Flickr, manage their tags and sets, search faster in Flickr, browse most interesting photos and download those favorite pictures (of course if the photographer granted the download rights). And also you can see who “we” refer to here.
  Update: Recently some issues arised regarding the Flickr API ToU. Now Flishr is completely Flickr API ToU compatible.
• PicArtia: Is a Web2.0 startup which enables you to create your own photo mosaic fast and easy, in just three simple steps. The point that makes PicArtia outstanding is the fast algorithm which is used to create mosaics. Again you can see who “we” refre to here.
  You may read some stories about PicArtia from this list:
  • PicArtia.com - Make Your Own Photo Mosaic
  • Turn Your Pictures Into Impressive Photo Mosaic Posters
  • PicArtia - Create a Photo Mosaic
  • And many other blogs and websites (like del.icio.us and go2web20.net)… Thank you all for your support.

Ok, take care, catch up with you later.