Perl Advent Calendars

Hohoho, time to study up on Perl tricks! :) I've added a bunch of Perl Advent Calendars to my Google Reader, finding out some interesting stuff. There's a Bundle over on the right that you can add to get them too.

Advanced Printing from Google Calendar

Trying to get this up quick, so I'm just gonna post the bookmarklet and short instructions:

Drag to bookmarks, or right-click and 'Add Bookmark' (if available)

1. Go to your calendar
2. Click the bookmarklet
3. Click the regular print text/icon in your Calendar
4. A new interface pops up.
5. Set your options and click the 'Generate' button
6. The link that appears will generate your calendar

Reports any problems you have!

Update:

Here are some instructions that might be clearer for some, thanks to GT Product Manager:

1. Drag the bookmarklet to "Bookmarks" in the menu bar or your Bookmark Toolbar.
2. Open a Google calendar page.
3. Click the saved bookmarklet.
4. Select start and end dates in the top boxes using the drop down calendars or typing in yyyymmdd.
5. Select the calendars to print and other parameters.
6. Click "Generate URL."
7. Click "Link to PDF."
8. A PDF page loads that can be printed or saved, or you can copy the URL to paste/post elsewhere.

Google Calendar-like Date Time Picker: jQuery DataSpanPicker

Here's my first shot at a public jQuery plugin. It uses jquery.date_input.js as well. My goal was to replicate the Google Calendar start date/end date picker. Check out the GitHub page for full features! Their system implements some "smarts" when it comes to modifying the end date based on the start date, which is what I liked.

in reference to: nickspacek's jQuery-DateSpanPicker at master - GitHub (view on Google Sidewiki)

Reset Picasa2/3 Hidden Folder Password

So I had a hidden folder in Picasa that I didn't remember the password for, and I found an article in the Picasa help pages that said you could reset the passwords on the folder by deleting C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2\db3\catdata_info.pmp.

I only had a single passworded folder, so that probably simplified things; if you look in that file, you might see a 32-character long string with random looking numbers and letters. This is an MD5 hash of the current password. You can change this if you want (I did when testing this using a quick MD5-er at http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/). I also wanted to know what my old password was, so I found an MD5 brute-forcer and got it in a fairly small amount of time (since I was pretty sure it wasn't a long password).

Kind of random, yeah.