Tagged “vala”
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Grilo meets Vala
Last week, after the internal presentation of Grilo, I got pretty excited about the project: basically, using Grilo I could make epris consume feeds from Jamendo.
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Minimal CD Ripper
Back in London I bought a couple CDs. Obviously I don’t use CD players anymore, I mostly stream all the music I hear (jamendo, spotify, last.fm). Though, if I want to hear music using my n900 without any network connection, I ought drop in there the music files. So, the solution is rip out the music from the CDs, encode them et voilà.
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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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My GUADEC-ES talk
Last Wednesday I talked in the GUADEC-ES about Vala. A slight introduction to the language. Here are the slides.
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