Fusion Tables to JSON Open Sourced

Due to a number of requests I have cleaned up and decided to release the code for FT2JSON under the Apache license so others can make use of the software for specific applications.

The code can be found here:

https://github.com/jordoncm/ft2json

The main app engine site will of course always be hosted:

http://ft2json.appspot.com/

Bookmarks for 2011-10-07 through 2011-12-05

These are my links for 2011-10-07 through 2011-12-05:

Fusion Tables to JSON

I have been messing around with Google Fusion Tables a lot over the past few months and I really like the service. However it really bothered me that the only format that the response data came in was CSV. I also wanted to be able to work with Fusion Tables query data entirely on the browser/client side. So I spent part of the weekend writing an application that proxies Fusion Tables API queries and transforms them from CSV into JSON. I also added a simple Javascript that you can embed on your page and then make Fusion Table queries directly from Javascript.

I posted the application on App Engine and you can find it here: http://ft2json.appspot.com

I wrote it in Python and used Tornado Web Server to help parse requests. Tornado works quite well within App Engine.

Bookmarks for 2011-09-19 through 2011-09-24

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Bookmarks for 2011-08-21 through 2011-09-16

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Bookmarks for 2011-08-03 through 2011-08-17

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Setting the UUID of a VirtualBox VDI

I wrote this script over a year ago because I needed a way to set the UUID of a VirtualBox hard disk (VDI) to a specific value. It will allow you to set the UUID in the headers of a VDI to a specific value.

To use this script:

./set-uuid.py {6918cef1-d9c4-4420-b0ef-01920c992a25} path/to/virtual-disk.vdi

The dashes and brackets are not required.

The script is available on my GitHub site: https://github.com/jordoncm/misc/blob/master/set-uuid.py

We had been distributing a VDI as the only file on a second physical hard drive on a dual hard drive Windows system and we wanted to be able to upgrade systems by simply removing the second hard drive with the VDI on it and putting in a new one. However the UUID of the new VDI we created did not match the UUID of the virtual hard disk record in the XML configuration of the virtual machine. So I read up on the binary header block of a VirtualBox VDI and wrote a Python script that will allow you to change the UUID to whatever you want.

It seems that VirtualBox may now have some internal commands to do this now as well, although I am not sure they are released or officially supported.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4821&start=15

Bookmarks for 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-27

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Bookmarks for 2011-06-30 through 2011-07-14

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Bookmarks for 2011-04-28 through 2011-06-16

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