linux geek/dad
Just packaged up a version 0.10 beta of phpitter. It’s really looking prettier. And now has a gtk notify plugin that looks much fancier than the libnotify plugin I had going.
It also does spell checking if you compiled php-gtk with –with-spell. And I’ve got some good timeouts set for pulling the timeline so the UI [...]
Well, I switched from GtkTextView’s to GtkHTML’s for the tweets and popup. This way it’ll handle hyperlinks for me. I was getting close to figuring out how to figure out which word someone clicked on in a GtkTextView, but this was way easier.
Since now hyper linking works, sending updates works, the reply/retweet/direct [...]
Last night I hacked at it some more. Here’s what it looks like now:
Ok, now see that message from @jimctc that says “@micah pic from the breeder. she arrives first weekend in may.” Check out what happens if I hover over @jimctc’s avatar for that message:
Also, here’s what the simpleLibNotifyNotice plugin does (note, [...]
Can’t stop fooling with this. GTK is a funny funny system. You have to know all the tricks to get things to layout right and capture the right events. Wish it was more intuitive.
This new cut of phpitter is much cooler. It looks better, updates the timeline every so often, saves/loads timeline data, will keep [...]
So… yeah. This was a fun Saturday morning. I wrote a gtk twitter client in php. Well… I wrote a proof of concept gtk twitter client in php.
The code is ugly and I’m sure has tons of issues, but it pulls your timeline and allows you to send updates. Check out [...]
Getting around
Sure… there’s “cd” to change directories and tab completion. But there’s more than that. Here’s some other tips for getting around quickly in a Bash shell.
Just about all Linux server distributions install a sendmail daemon that listens on 127.0.0.1 and relays email for the localhost. This is all fine and dandy if you have a handful of Linux servers, but can turn in to chaos once you get 30+ Linux servers.
I’ve been using CVS for at least 6 years now. I switched to using Subversion maybe in the past 3 years. When I switched to Subversion from CVS, I really didn’t understand what the fuss was about. The feature-set was really quite similar and it seemed basically like a matter of personal (or [...]