There are 5 articles written in December, 2011
on December 29, 2011. in Development, Programming. A 2 minute read.
Yesterday I did some shell scripting and thought about writing down the few things learned along the way. Amazing how little needs to be done to learn a lot :)
Continue reading Notes on shell scripting...
on December 26, 2011. in Development, Programming. A 3 minute read.
In my previous post I described (tried, at least) how to communicate with Pidgin from PHP, by using the Dbus PHP extension.
Continue reading Listening to Dbus signals with PHP...
on December 25, 2011. in Software. A 1 minute read.
My current, most used set up, includes a laptop and a second screen attached to it. The laptop is always to the left of the second monitor and together they give one big screen with a total resolution of 3046x1050. From time to time, X11 gets confused and shows the same image, with the same resolution, on both monitors.
Continue reading Configuring 2 monitors with xrandr...
on December 23, 2011. in Development, Programming. A 2 minute read.
I’m spending this day trying to create an “universal” administration dashboard with which I’ll finally be happy with. I’m using Dojo to spice up the UI, because I think it’s awesome and it has a lot of stuff in it and plays well with Zend Framework. This post is dedicated to the future stupid me.
Continue reading A quick note on Dojo's data grids and dojox.data.HtmlStore...
on December 18, 2011. in Development, Programming. A 4 minute read.
Earlier this week I got an idea of trying to communicate with Pidgin, a chat client, via the terminal. Sounded like a fun thing to hack on, plus, could be made useful (in my head, at least), for things like logging from a web application directly to IM, or, heck, even creating something like Github’s Hubot, commanding a server or an application just via chat. Surely I wasn’t the first one to come up with this idea and after a bit of a googling found out that Pidgin’s libpurple has a nice API for that, exposed via D-Bus.
Continue reading Communicating with Pidgin from PHP via D-Bus...