Some more useful Skype scripts

I was going to write a script to mute\unmute Skype during a call, but I was unable to find DBus API documentation for Skype (I would be very pleased if you share a link or a document if you have one). Today I've found the script I need along with few more useful scripts:

• Toggle Skype main window I wrote earlier in my blog
• Answer\Hangup a call page in Russian
• Mute (or Answer) Skype Calls with BT Headset Button in Linux 

All these stuff could be easily bound to a hotkey depending on environment you're using.
Happy Skyping :)

Post SVN changelist to ReviewBoard (using post-review tool)

Yeah, this will work out of the box only for Unix systems. But I have no worries about that :)

$ svn stat --changelist "changelist name" | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -v 'gwt\.xml$' | xargs post-review -o

Here I post for review changelist named "changelist name" excluding GWT module descriptor files (*.gwt.xml), which a not to be commited and opens browser window with newly created review request.
As for locally modified files that are under SVN control, I usually move those that shouldn't be commit to separate changelist (named "no-commit"). Yes, I'm delighted with changelists support in IntelliJ IDEA! :)

How to restore Linux loader after installing Windows without Live-CD

Often having both Linux and Windows installed on the same PC I face trouble when after reinstalling Windows my Linux loader (GRUB\LILO\whatever) got erased with nasty one from M$. Before I always had to look up some live-CD distro to boot and restore GRUB. Today I was too lazy to do that - I had no suitable CD (or maybe it's time to throw away my CD drive) and after a quick look through the web I've found GRUB4DOS. So what magic does it provide? Here is the trick - GRUB4DOS allows you to install it from withing your running Windows instance, it boots up a GRUB-like stuff where you can select another partition to boot from. Basically you then boot to your broken GRUB record, then boot up your Linux distro and then having complete environment you just restore your broken GRUB MBR record. Easy, ha! To install the GRUB4DOS we don't even need to perform any dangerous manipulations with MBR. You just download grub4dos or grubinst package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/files/, copy grbldr from the package to your system drive root (e.g. C:\grbldr) and add following line to boot.ini:

C:\GRBLDR="GRUB4DOS"

Now you just need to reboot the PC, boot your Linux distro and reinstall GRUB On my ArchLinux I did the following:

$ sudo grub-install --root-directory=/ \(hd0\)

This installed GRUB to the MBR of my first hard drive and put staging files under /boot/grub directory.

Partial fix for tomcat hot redeploy

Adding the following to CATALINA_OPTS makes tomcat survive across much more redeploy iterations then by default :)

-Xmx1024m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Setting a single locale for GWT application

One library used to output messages in German when locale was not set explicitly (<extend-property name="locale" values="en"/>). After we add an English locale to GWT module compilation began to take twice more time than in was before and the count of compilation permutations grew twice time too. It appeared that we cannot just user . Compilation was just failing with that. After googling a bit I've found a strange example which was promised to work. And it did worked! :) So, here it is:

<extend-property name='locale' values='en'/>
<set-property-fallback name='locale' value='en'/>
<set-property name='locale' value='en'/>

Though it looks like a hack (and in fact it really is), but it do work! Now our project has single English locale and compiles in 6 permutations.