Tagged “tips”
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Boosting WebKitGTK+ compilation for armhf with icecream
Some time ago I needed to jump into the fix-compile-test loop for WebKitGTK+, but in the armhf architecture, speaking in terms of Debian/Ubuntu.
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devhelp and jhbuild v2
A couple years ago I wrote a small tip about how to integrate the devhelp installed by your distribution with the documentation generated through jhbuild.
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using bugzilla, the right way
Yes, I admit it, I hate bugzilla. I mean, the bug tracking is something indispensable for every software project, but digging in its web interface for quick searches, I just find it unbearably awful.
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apache configuration for video tag in firefox
In contrast with Epiphany-WebKit, Firefox seems to be quite picky at rendering videos through the HTML5 tag <video>: it demands the correct HTTP headers.
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misc
Do you remember that I promised not to use a minimalist window manager? Well, sorry, another broken promise. Since I started to play around with imapfilter, I discovered lua. Moreover, a comment in a previous post made a mention of awesome, a minimalist window manager configured through lua. So, I installed it, play with it, and suddenly I got delighted with all of its features: Awesome comes along pretty well with Gnome and its panel, which I didn’t want to lose at all. Besides, Awesome provides its own panel (called widget box, a.k.a. wibox), which includes a systray (sadly, awesome systray steals the icons from the gnome-panel systray). I’ve found that a tidy desktop, which avoids to the user unnecessary mouse interactions, is much more relaxed and helps the user to focus on her task. We’ll see how this experiment ends.
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the true imap usage: imapfilter
As I said before, I have been using mutt as my e-mail client, and I’m really getting into it. It does what it is supposed to do, cleanly and fast.
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password management
Be on-line means have user accounts in a lot of services, such as email, social web sites, blogs, etc… And have multiple user accounts implies have to remember user names and passwords.
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Programming tips: Google's codesearch
Let’s face it: every programmer loves the “copy&paste” when he is prototyping a solution, learning how to use a new library or just needs a quick fix, and why not?
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devhelp and jhbuild
When I started to use jhbuild I resolved to not compile a whole new Gnome desktop because my work laptop is too slow and freeze easily: I had to reduce the dependencies at minimum and try reuse the libraries already provided by my distro (Ubuntu by the way).
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