Synchronous getJSON jquery call

What a pain. Here's an easy way to make a synchronous getJSON call with jquery:

var jsonObjectInstance = $.parseJSON(
    $.ajax({
         url: "json_data_plz.cgi", 
         async: false, 
         dataType: 'json'
        }
    ).responseText
);

MySQL to CSV

Here's a quick example how to dump a MySQL query to CSV

mysql  -e 'SHOW VARIABLES' | 
  perl -F'\t' -lane 'print "\"" . join("\",\"", map { $_ =~ s/"/\"/g; $_ =~ s/\n/\\n/g; $_; } @F) . "\""' > mysql_variables.csv