Scripts

Scripts to help with general automation of routine tasks.

How to create a Bootable USB stick, with free space, from an ISO image

  • Posted on: 3 April 2019
  • By: Michael

A View to Search by Usernames or Email in Drupal 6/7

  • Posted on: 6 June 2015
  • By: Michael

I'll fully admit Drupal has one crappy user administration interface. And, since I get quite a few of the "can you find info about this user?" requests, which take so little time I can't bill for them :), I've expanded on the Drupal Post installation support question:

Search for username in Users list?
https://www.drupal.org/node/744628

and created a custom view to help out my customers.

In the better late than never, I've finally gotten around to publishing it . . .

Extract the Exif DateTimeOriginal field and prepend it to the file name to facilitate image sorting

  • Posted on: 19 May 2014
  • By: Michael

Clients!? Clients are wonderful things. They pay the bills. But they definitely ask you for some odd things.

I have a client who needed 10s of thousands of images, from different sources, to be displayed by the date they were taken. As he didn't want to spend hours in his favorite image editor, checking the properties of each file one by one, he punted the whole thing to me with a: "Hey, take these images, and add them to the gallery and make sure they display by date."

As it's my business to make clients happy, my reply, "Sure. I'll have that for you in a few days."