Grab Packt With Groovy

Packt Publishing has launched a new programme called "free learning offer"; each day they put an e-book for free on their website to download: one only needs to login to Packt's website and click on the "claim your free book" link.
Following Grab Packt with Racket, here is the Groovy version, to autmotically add the e-book to your Packt account for later downloads. (read the full article on my website)

Grab Packt With Racket

Packt Publishing has launched a new programme called "free learning offer"; each day they put an e-book for free on their website to download: one needs to login to Packt's website and click on the "claim your free book" link.

A nice fellow, wrote some Javascript code (nodejs) to be able to automatically claim a book, for example by calling the code from a cron job. He named the code "grab_packt" and has made it publicly available on github.

To me it is not fair to have only a Javascript version! So I decided to give it a go with different languages. This time I'll present the version written with Racket.... (read the full article on my website)

aria2: An Ultra Fast Download Manager On Linux

aria2 is a brutally fast and very feature rich download manager available for Linux platform. It can handle almost any kind of download you can ever imagine (FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent, SFTP, ...) (read the full post on my website)