Archive of entries posted on July 2012

Calculating Hebrew Holidays

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hebcal is a nice utility that compiles on all major platforms and calculates the Hebrew holidays using a perpetual calendar. iconv is an amazing piece of work that can convert between zillions of encoding formats and is also available for all major platforms. By default, just running hebcal displays the current year’s Hebrew holidays in …

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Ubuntu – Accessing sqlite3 from Lua

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I thought this would be trivial but ended up fighting with various solutions until I found one that worked without requiring additional configurations. So first you might need to install the sqlite3 development libraries (which are needed to compile the Lua sqlite3 connector): sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev install luarocks if you don’t have it sudo …

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