docendo discimus

Sometimes you need to realize repetitive (and boring) tasks. A natural approach may be scripts languages such as Perl or Python but it is not always the only one.

Today, i had to retrieve my skills in expect, a tool for automating interactive applications. It worked like a charm when i had to split an intensive task to get an acceptable performance.

In my opinion expect has some important limitations but it is a satisfaction when you see this tool emulating your behaviour in common applications.

Two weeks ago i had a talk with Alex & Berto, two emacs gurus here in Igalia, about fast editing with old and new editors. They introduced me some basic emacs commands while highlighting some emacs‘ awesome possibilities in coding. Really an amazing editor!

My limited experience in emacs don’t let me cook bacon & egss with this editor (yet!) but i got to customize my .emacs for quick blogging adding only two lines. Now, i can blog up a post while editing/coding easily.

To blog with emacs you only need a weblog supporting xml-rpc (WordPress rocks!) and this lisp package. Notice you can need some extra packages matching mt.el’s dependencies too but all information is self-contained in mt.el (installation, customization, requirements, etc.)

ohppss! … i almost forgot to say this post was blogged in emacs

Hi there, my name is Javier Muñoz and i am the blogger behind docendo discimus, my personal weblog in Igalia.

It’s my final intention to offer some value to community writing down ideas, comments and any random subject shaking my brain. Other topics you may find might occasionally be drawn from my other personal interests but science and technology will be the mainstream here.

I hope you enjoy this one and another Igalia’s personal blogs a lot but now … it’s time to blog!