I'm doing a project in a course at my university on distributed systems. I'm planning on creating something similar to Dropbox ( getdropbox.com ), but with some sort of non-centralized peer-to-peer twist to it. For this i need some method of detecting change in a directory structure. How do you think Dropbox do this? Their implementation...
I have MAMP set up on my iMac and on my Macbook. I want to keep both installs synced using dropbox. When upgrading MAMP the only 2 folders you need to transfer are 'db' & 'htdocs'. My theory is then that these are the only 2 folders I need to keep in sync. Sound right to you so far? Syncing the 'htdocs' folder is easy as you can put it ...
Hi all, I have a local branch for day-to-day dev work in git. My workflow is: Do stuff on local_branch, commit Fetch origin/master Rebase local_branch to catch up with new stuff from origin/master It all works fine, however most of the recommendations I encountered say that one should not "push" private branches, on which rebase is...
I would like to share my Oracle SQL Developer configuration across my several computers that use Dropbox. How can I do this? ...
Hi, I've noticed that all betas for Dropbox are released simultaneously for Windows, Mac and Linux. How do they do that? Anyone knows which platform they're using? I'm aware that there are many native -very impressive, actually- functions in each of the platform clients, but they seem to release critical bug fixes efortlessly for all pl...
I saw this somewhere, but I can't remember where. Where can I find, for Mac OS X, a system that automatically syncs a folder to your web server, sort of like Dropbox does? The idea being that I can edit code on my computer, and it automatically updates it on the server. It seems so simple, but I can't for the life of me find the servi...
I'd like to know if the following situation and scripts are at all possible: I'm looking to have a photo-gallery (Javascript) webpage that will display in order of the latest added to the Dropbox folder (PHP or Python?). That is, when someone adds a picture to the Dropbox folder, there is a script on the webpage that will check the D...
This is what I have so far - my dropbox public URL creation script for a directory of public URLs (getdropbox.com - gpl I think). My LIST file was created using ls in the following fashion: ls -d ~/Dropbox/Public/PUBLICFILES/* > LIST dropboxpuburl.sh: for PATH in `cat LIST` do echo $PATH dropbox puburl $PATH > ~/URLLIST/$PATH d...
File: /home/USER/DIR/a http://www.here.is.a.hyper.link.net/ /home/USER/DIR/b http://www.here.is.another.hyper.link.net/ Need to remove all the odd lines in this file (PUBLIC-DIRECTORY-LIST)? Its for my batch script which can be found below (dropbox batch puburl creator): for PATH in `cat LIST` do echo $PATH dropbox puburl $PATH done ...
I would like to upload documents to GoogleDocs every time the OS hears that a file was added/dragged/saved in a designated folder, just the way DropBox uploads a file when you save it in the DropBox folder. What would this take in Ruby, what are the parts? How do you listen for when a File is Saved? How do you listen for when a File i...
I'm in the process of a writing an application, which needs to synchronize a file-structure between a client and a (http) server. The file-structure is essentially a list of file-paths where each path is a string connected with 1 or more data-block ids (256-bit reference to the actual data-block). A data-block can be referenced by seve...
I'm using the jQuery.Cascade plugin in my Asp.Net MVC application. I've got it all working in a manner as follows: jQuery("#CompareModelList").cascade("#CompareManufacturerList", { ajax: { url: '/Home/Models' }, template: commonTemplate, match: function (selectedValue) { return this.Manuf...
Ok, I just bought the new 27 inch iMac and I am trying get everything set up. I am new to rails and have been developing on my MacBook Pro and seem to be having some trouble sharing my applications. I use dropbox which allowed me to easily access the new files from my new iMac and therefore my rails applications but after installing rail...
I have a dropbox account. I put a bunch of images in a public folder. I'd like to display the images using shadowbox. Right now, I'm manually entering the filenames into this html file. Is there a way to dynamically update the gallery when I drag new images into the images folder? I'd prefer javascript if it's possible. If it's not...
At least in the linux version of Dropbox, the user can choose which folder becomes their Dropbox. Is there a simple way to get this programmatically? ...
Is there a good tutorial where I can learn using git+dropbox together effectively? ...
I have a Mercurial repository for a personal project, and I have been storing the master repository in my Dropbox for a few weeks now (something along this line; and I understand it's also possible with git). The idea is that it serves both as a way to work with multiple machines and as a remote backup. I clone the repository and work ...
I am trying to convert select boxes to radio buttons on the fly using jquery, and I'm not sure the best way. Example HTML: <form id="product"> <select name="data[123]"> <option value="1">First</option> <option value="2">Second</option> ...... <option value="n">xxxxxx</option> </select> </form> ...
Hello...I'm looking for an alternative to FTP for our computer-skittish employees who don't like FTP. This isn't for online backups, but a way for several employees to have a common area to upload files and then send a URL so an outsider can download the file without the outsider needing to log on. Drop-dead easy and non-threatening....
I got a laptop in preparation for the coming semester, which will see me taking a university programming course while working full time. I will, of course, be using a source control system (probably Subversion) and had the idea of creating my repositories in my Dropbox folder, which would enable me to check out and work on code locally ...