After Shutter, the Skitch like for Linux, I would like to spot the light to a very useful Linux app called Caffeine.
Why is it use for?
Caffeine stop your computer for going to sleep, or just to switch your back light off.
Really useful when watching a video, or during a meting.
You can also add process, that [...]
Yesterday, during a meeting I saw one of a mac addict using Skitch. Like every time I saw someone using a good proper Mac Os only tool, I try to find a proper Linux alternative.
Shutter is the Skitch Linux alternative:
Then I found Shutter. Shutter is the Skitch Linux alternative.To install it on Ubuntu, just download [...]
Rubyflow blog started yesterday a thread called Tools of the Trade, so to reply here is my main tools, I use everyday.
Hardware
As described in a previous post I now use a netbook as main development machine until September this year.
Machine1: Medion E1312,11.6″,Athlon 1.6 Ghz single core, 2 Gig Ram . For all task, it’s really [...]
This morning I needed to transform some Textmate snippets to Gedit format.
I’ve wrote a quick and dirty code for that (tmsnippets2gedit on github)
You just need to copy the script to the textmate bumdle root directory, and run it.
You’ll have a new file call result.xml that you need to edit to specify the language format (JS,Ruby,XSL, [...]
After resintalling my workstation on Ubuntu Jaunty (for using EXT4), I had to reinstall my development softwares.
Using Giantrobot 2009 Rubyit’s guide to Mac Os development as a guideline for this post, I’ll present here my current Linux configutation for Ruby development.
Also opinionated (Gedit over Netbeans), this configuration suit all my need for developing everyday. (And [...]