Month: June 2014

hack {cyprus} hackathon 2014 summer edition

hackathon

hack {cyprus} hackathon returns for the third year!  The event will be held on June 28-29th in Limassol, at Cyprus University of Technology.  I missed the last year’s event, but I’ve been to the presentation of the projects in 2012.  Hopefully there will be more participants this year, with even better ideas for mobile, web, and hardware projects.

jq – a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

jq – a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

HTTPie – command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

HTTPie – command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.

httpie

Main features:

  • Expressive and intuitive syntax
  • Formatted and colorized terminal output
  • Built-in JSON support
  • Forms and file uploads
  • HTTPS, proxies, and authentication
  • Arbitrary request data
  • Custom headers
  • Persistent sessions
  • Wget-like downloads
  • Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x support
  • Linux, Mac OS X and Windows support
  • Documentation
  • Test coverage