Category Archives: Work

Using GPG from behind proxies.

I have struggled a lot to get the GPG working inside corporate firewalls. It is so cumbersome to set the tools to automatically request keys from keyserver for signature validations. Finally found the magic options for doing this from behind HTTP proxy. Just keeping this command here for reference.
gpg –keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu –keyserver-options honor-http-proxy –recv-key [...]

Extract C*/Java*/Shell/Perl script comments

I was looking for something to extract comments from C/C++ source code. This script does the job beautifully. (Just tested it on a C source file with japanese comments that need to be translated).
In fear of getting the utility lost, I am copying it here…

Perl Regular Expressions (with snippets)

PERL Regular Expressions
See also: a utility to test regex stuff:
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Seven Steps to better Presentations

Jeffrey Veen: Seven Steps to Better Presentationss