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So we had this script with Jonas, and the current news about it is that it’s mentioned by in this LWN article. I just innocently read the article and noticed:
After ten years, the code still has over 100,000 lines of German-language comments; those are now being targeted with the help of a script which repurposes the built-in language-guessing code which is part of the spelling checker.
Nice! :)
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Even if I gave it a quick testing about two weeks ago, now I tried the new Twitter / identi.ca support and I like it a lot. Now messages are not coming from a single user by default, but a separate channel is created, nicks are appearing there, and I can just highlight people to reply to their last tweet or simply type to submit a new one.
And of course my Skype module still works, as Wilmer fixed it up. :)
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Today I packaged tgt an iSCSI target (server). The upstream package provides a large number of examples, though I thought it’s a good idea to note what I used for testing:
# egrep -v '#|^$' /etc/tgt/targets.conf
default-driver iscsi
<target iqn.2010-11.local.test:storage>
backing-store /dev/sdb
</target>Something offtopic: a rejourn patch accepted and a LibreOffice bug fixed today.
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Today I had some Hungarian mathematical logic notes to type in Latex, and again I had to dig up the various references to get the proper symbols I needed.
I used the following pages:
amsmath is unique
in that for example it explains how to use \begin{cases}
this one is
a collection of lot of symbols, I found \mathcal here
An article from Wikipedia about logic symbols
The Math chapter of the well-known LaTeX wikibook
A set of macros making easy to declare lemmas, definitions, proofs.
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The problem was the following: I had this
example code and the size() method just gave me insane result all the
time, while just changing the driver to QMYSQL made the code work
properly. After asking on #qt, I have been
pointed out that the SQLite backend of
QtSql does not support the size() method. :/
So - for now - I’ll just use MySql for my unit tests, even if that means I have to manually truncate the contents of each table. Worths checking a bit later again, though - since I already used in-memory SQLite for my unit tests when I had a project in PHP with Doctrine, and it was working just fine.
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The story is old, it was exactly 3 years ago when last time I switched the engine under my blog. That time I switched from my custom php/mysql blog to b2evolution, and I hoped that using that engine it’ll require less time to manage it. Actually this wasn’t true:
When the php-5.3 upgrade came, I had to manually fix stuff.
I got a lot of spam, even if the captcha provided by the ready-to-use b2evo plugin was enabled.
The last thing: It turned out that it created the SQL schema in latin2, so utf8 comments had problems.
At that point I had enough trouble to think about migrating away from b2evo. And then I found rejourn, which is quite close to what I think is ideal to me. I just changed it a bit:
Added asciidoc support next to markdown.
Added RSS support, as my blog is part of the Frugalware and the LibreOffice planet, and I didn’t want to lose those readers.
Added support for tags, so that I can have a feed with a given tag only (to avoid OT posts on planets).
Before you ask: yes, I plan to submit back these feature to rejourn, if Ram accepts them. ;)
And finally, some more benefits:
the whole blog is now static HTML, generated by a single Makefile (so it’s faster + the server load is lower)
I can blog while I’m offline then later just git push the result.
I no longer have to use WYSIWYG editors or write HTML manually, I can use asciidoc. :)
Update: I forgot to mention:
I put up a simple b2evo → rejourn conversion script.
I just discovered that when I get email about new comments, I can reply via email as well - that’s really cool! :)
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So I have been invited to this year's openSUSE conference in Nurnberg to give a short presentation about my GSoC work (the RTF export rewrite in LibreOffice).
As I expected, the really interesting part was to meet people I never had the ability to meet in person previously - and of course to learn other new stuff. :)
So some of the items I really liked:
To sum up: thank you for the invitation, I enjoyed it! :)
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You probably have read that ooo-build has been renamed to LibreOffice (technically it's just a rename).
Test packages for i686 available here if you want to test it on Frugalware.
Aaand this time, as a very special gift, ppc packages are available as well! :)
I just built it, but Bouleetbil was kind enough to provide a screenshot when he tested it.
