Posted in General, Linux on October 29th, 2004 5 Comments »
Looking for an alternative to the bloat of gnome-terminal? I was. I tend to use multiple terminals (I have 5 open right now) and I’m not a fan of tabbed terminals. I vaguely remembered using aterm once upon a time, so I fired it up. By default, aterm is quite ugly […]
Posted in General, Journal, Technology on October 28th, 2004 1 Comment »
This past week has been pretty hectic. I’ve spent most of my time working on a ‘Related Search’ engine for work. Basically, if someone searches for ‘cat’, it can suggest alternate searches, such as ‘cat food’, ‘cat toys’, ‘pet care’, etc. It’s a fairly large project — one that I’ve been working […]
Posted in General, Linux, Technology, Perl on October 24th, 2004 1 Comment »
I’m making good progress on podlet. I started working on the syncronization logic. There are a few important things to take into consideration before copying files to the iPod:
What files need to be copied?
Does the target have enough free space?
Do we need to prepare the music before copying it?
ped recursively through my music […]
Posted in General, Linux, Technology, Perl on October 20th, 2004 2 Comments »
I finished integrating the code to auto-detect the iPod via HAL/Gnome2::VFS. I still need to test the VFS cleanup - making sure there are no leaks and whatnot. I also need to tackle automake/autoconf, or whatever it is that supplies ./configure and such. I’m not sure how I’m going to handle dependancies […]
Posted in General, Apple, Linux, Technology, Perl on October 18th, 2004 3 Comments »
I finished writing the iPod auto-detection code tonight, which means i’m almost ready to move on to syncronization.
This was a fun bit of code to work on. It was my first time working with Gnome-VFS. It took a little while to get the perl binding to work. That ended up being an […]
