Export your Spotify playlists

Last week Apple released Apple Music, the new streaming service available all over the World and as a big music-streaming-services fan, I decided to give it a try and use it for the free three months trial period next to Spotify which I have been using on a daily basis for the last two years. […]

XML and JSON prettify with Applescript and TextExpander

Generally, if you need to prettify JSON/XML/SQL code you can use your IDE builtin functions or you can count on many online services (for example): For JSON: http://jsonlint.com/ For XML: http://www.freeformatter.com/xml-formatter.html For SQL: http://www.dpriver.com/pp/sqlformat.htm But each time you have to copy your code, paste in the broswer, click on a button, and then copy the […]

Managing lists with Textexpander

TextExpander is a great utility I use on a daily basis to manage text snippets on my Mac and, thanks to the builtin synchronization mechanism, my iOS devices. The last version number 5, launched in May, allows you to run on both OsX and iOS Javascript scripts inside snippets: it means that using TextExpander custom […]

Decode BMC Remedy qualification with Java

Introduction In this article I’ll give you a quick introduction on how to use BMC Remedy API to convert string qualification. It’s a general introduction to Remedy APIs for experienced programmers, very quick and very easy, but if you want to know more (and more detailed), you can check for example this page. If you are familiar […]

Word documents generation from templates using Python

Working for a customer of mine, for each project I do, I always have the need to fill Word templates with fixed informations like, for example: – Project ID; – Project name; – Project description; – Relase date; – etc. The same informations need to be provided in different documents: technical analysis, test book, test […]

Automagically create a WordPress instance using Alfred

Sometimes you have to create a WordPress instance on the fly for test purposes. In this article I’ll show you how to create an Alfred extension that let you do this job with only one command. The only assumption is that you have a full working XAMP (Unix Apache Mysql Php) instance on your machine […]