Access OS X keychain from Terminal
At everyday scripting, you often need to access sensible information like passwords. A common practice is to just write them plain text into your script, but at least on a Mac, we can do better. OS X ships with a tool called keychain. It is a central database where tools can store sensitive information like [...]
How to patch binary files with Java
Recently, I wanted to create an “intelligent” binary patcher, which not only replaces some chunk of binary data at a file’s predefined offset, but instead performs search and replace. Here is the Java class I came up with. import java.io.*; import java.math.BigInteger; public class BinaryPatcher { private String content; private final String filename; private final [...]
Robust HTML parsing the Groovy way
With Groovy, it’s very easy to parse XML data and extract arbitrary information. This works great as long as the input data is well-formed, but you can’t always guarantee that in real-world scenarios. Think of extracting data from HTML pages. They are very often a mess when it comes to XML validity and that’s where [...]
Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box Part 2
This is a follow-up article of Launchbar: Dialing phone numbers with Fritz!Box, where I explained how to use Launchbar for dialing phone numbers via FritzBox. Meanwhile, AVM has changed the login procedure and the original script no longer works. With the help of this example, it’s finally doing its job again. Special thanks go to [...]