I have been a fan of minimalistic window managers for a long time. It began when I first switched to Blackbox in 2002 and continued on as I migrated to newer Blackbox variants such as Fluxbox and then on to Openbox. Although, when I switched to Openbox in 2005 it ...
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Adding new features to the jskomment commenting system
I had some free time today and I decided to make a few changes to jskomment so that I could implement a few features that I felt were missing.
Here are the changes that I made:
Change Log:
- jskomment has been given an overall nicer design.
- The data is now ...
Implementing the jskomment open source commenting system within Pelican
Open source orientated websites and proprietary comment systems
I like to frequent a variety of websites and blogs which discuss and advocate open source software.
Recently I had some time to kill and I did a few searches on DuckDuckGo in order find a few more decent ones to read.
This prompted me to write this post in ...
read moreMigrating to Pelican from Drupal
What is Pelican?
Pelican is a Python-powered static website generator which comes with a rather decent feature set. It allows you to write your blog entries in reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc using any editor that you desire.
It also supports:
- Atom/RSS feeds.
- Code syntax highlighting.
- Integration with various services ...
Making the Switch: Moving on from Irssi and GNU Screen to WeeChat and tmux
I have used Irssi and GNU Screen together for what seems to have been well over a decade now. Both applications do the job required of them quite well and as such they have always been one of the first things I installed an a fresh system.
Unfortunately, neither of ...
read moreMy Firefox Setup
This post is more for my future reference than anything, but hopefully it is useful to others as well. :)
Browser Information:
Firefox with OpenSUSE's patches which allows it to integrate better into KDE.
If you use Archlinux, it can be obtained through the AUR. The package name is firefox-kde-opensuse ...
read moreA blast from the past. My former online community and beyond.
A member of a defunct community that I ran for eight years recently showed up on my site and it got me thinking about the past and how much fun we all had back then. It dawned on me that people from my old community might be interested in knowing ...
read moreSimplifeed: A new open source social network
While browsing Reddit today I discovered Simplifeed, a sleek new open source social network created by Dominic McPhee, and after playing around with it far a little bit I have to say that it is great so far.
Simplifeed is an elegant and simplistic service which is currently in alpha ...
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