Features i’d like to see in a GTD application
I've been working for more than 6 years in "software" development doing php programming as a freelancer and for my own company. After all these years i find that most time on developing a project is spent understanding what you have to do and letting other know what they have to do. In other words, getting things done.
The application to let u better organize should:
1. let you add tasks fast, without getting your hands off the keyboard
2. allow you to collaborate with others (ie: assign tasks to them and get tassk from them)
3. track time you spend on a task
4. invoice clients based on the time spent on their tasks
5. not get in your way
6. have a desktop and a web version
Each task should support:
- comments
- file attachments
- subtasks
More to come. Feel free to sugest what would you like to see in such an application.
Getting Things done in Gnome
Yesterday i ran into Lionel Dricot's post on Planet Ubuntu regarding the newly launched app: Getting Things Gnome!
The first official release of Getting Things Gnome!, GTG "Just 5
minutes more" 0.1, is out! Grab it and test it!GTG is a personal organizer for the GNOME desktop environment, it
focuses on ease of use and flexibility, while keeping things simple.
What i like best about GTG is that it doesn't get in your way. You can easily add new tasks whitout having to get your hands away from the keyboard.
The next thing i would like implemented in GTG is colaboration. It would be great for multiple ppl to assign tasks to eachother and get reports when the tasks they have assigned to someone are completed.
To get involved in this project please visit it's launchapd page: https://launchpad.net/gtg/
TextMate skin for Eclipse (darkmate ported to eclipse)
After a few hours of setting up the colors, i have managed to port the darkmate skin for gEdit to Eclipse. The settings work for PHP, JS and CSS editors, although i will need some feedback on the JS and CSS implementations.
Here are a few screenshots:
Here are some of the colors i have user:
background: #232323
text color: #FFFFFF
comments: #BB66FF
keywords: #FF9900
numbers: #00C99B
strings: #96FF00
variables: #009CFF
You can download the darkmate-eclipse.epf, but before importing make sure you make a full backup of your preferences.
So… ’sup?
- With your linux box i mean... What's up with it?
- Not much... here goes:
User: mimir (uid:1000) Groups: mimir adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare vboxusers Working dir: /home/mimir Home dir: /home/mimir Hostname: orion IP (lo): 127.0.0.1/8 IP (eth1): 192.168.1.102/24 Gateway: 192.168.1.1 Name Server: 208.67.222.222 Name Server: 208.67.220.220 Date: Wed Jan 21 19:43:43 EET 2009 Uptime: 19:43:43 up 9:44, 3 users, load average: 0.56, 0.42, 0.25 Kernel: Linux orion 2.6.28-4-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 16 21:50:52 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux Memory: Total: 3895Mb Used: 3071Mb Free: 823Mb Swap: Total: 1953Mb Used: 7Mb Free: 1945Mb Architecture: Processor: 0 : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz Processor: 1 : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
All that info is found just by invoking Scott Morris's 'sup script.
Cool script!
Eclipse plugins written in PHP?
On another Eclipse related news, i have noticed today the GSOC 2009 ideas for eclipse. Although all the ideas are interesting, what catched my view was "Write Eclipse plug-ins in PHP
" through e4.
e4 is the community effort for building the next generation of the Eclipse Platform. The project has three principle aims:
- Simplify the Eclipse programming model: This will
reduce development and maintenance costs and enable a larger developer
community to leverage the platform in their own Eclipse-based
applications.- Enable the platform for use on emerging web-based runtime technologies:
This will ensure the platform remains a compelling and viable
application framework in a rapidly changing web technology landscape,
and it will allow e4-based applications to leverage web technologies,
while remaining insulated from specific technology choices that may
quickly become obsolete.- Broaden participation in development of the platform:
This reduces the risks associated with building on a platform largely
funded from a single source. Having a large and diverse group of
commercial backers, will ensure the platform remains vibrant and viable
over the long term.Please refer to the project proposal for more information, including the initial list of committers. The e4 project summary page is here.
I'm really interested to see what comes out of that.
eclipse.org receives a facelift
Today eclipse.org received a new skin. It's great for me so see that they are going for a simpler design, that will appeal to more people.
For developer of any kind, eclipse seems the way to go. They have a ton of projects that are in constant development. I think they have one of the most active communities in the open source world. Note that unlike Linux communities that don't have a lot of backing up from enterprise, eclipse has quite a few huge "strategic members".
I can't wait for the next release of PDT 
Generating random numbers
This is just an idea, don't throw rocks at me if someone else posted it before or if it turns out to be utter crap.
I've been thinking on how one could generate random numbers. My first thought was that you would need some complex algorithm then a few nights back I observed something in nature while waiting for a friend. It was snowing.
Looking for a while how the snow flakes were going every possible directions I realized that their movement was pretty random. At least it was to my eye. Let's imagine you have camera that's able to capture in perfect 3D images in HD. You could then get each flake's coordinates using adequate software that can identify objects into a 3D image.
There you go. Random number of snow flakes in a frame, random position of each snow flake in each frame. Add some external randomizer (like some wind) and you really get some interesting stuff.
Can someone confirm if there is even a small chance that at least two snow falls can be identical? Then my idea is utter crap 
Chmod only files or chmod only folders
I moved the blog the a new server and i realised that all the permissions got screwed up on the process. All files and folders were having chmod 777, and that's not exactly ideal. After digging a bit on google on how to chmod only files or chmod only folders, i came up with this:
1. Recursive chmod only files within this folder:
find . -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} ;
2. Recursive chmod only folders within this folder:
find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} ;
Hope this helps!
Install native 64bit Flash Player 10 on Linux
EDIT: updated the scripts to install the 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha refresh for Linux that was released on December 8th, 2009.
Adobe FINALLY released a native 64bit Flash Player 10 plugin. Although this is still an alpha release, the news is very exciting for Linux users, since we don't longer depend on nspluginwrapper, which although does the job, has it's drawbacks.
I have put together a small tutorial on how to install the native flash player 10 64bit plugin for linux.
#!/bin/bash # Script created by # Romeo-Adrian Cioaba romeo.cioaba@spotonearth.com echo "Stopping any Firefox that might be running" sudo killall -9 firefox echo "Removing any other flash plugin previously installed:" sudo apt-get remove -y --purge flashplugin-nonfree gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla libflashsupport nspluginwrapper sudo rm -f /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f ~/.mozilla/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -f /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/*flash* sudo rm -rfd /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper echo "Installing Flash Player 10" cd ~ wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz tar zxvf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ echo "Linking the libraries so Firefox and apps depending on XULRunner (vuze, liferea, rsswol) can find it." sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/ # now doing some cleaning up: sudo rm -rf libflashplayer.so sudo rm -rf libflashplayer-10.0.45.2.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
You can now restart firefox
Some users seem to have problems with viewing this page, so i wrapped everything needed to install the native 64bit flash player on linux into a shell script. Grab the Ubuntu script here, chmod +x and execute it.
Thanks to Claudio de Taunay for providing a script that works in OpenSuSE 11. You can pick it up here.
Thanks to Homer Xing from the Ailurus project you can now install native flash player 64bit on Fedora. You can pick up the script here.
Let me know if you encounter any bugs.
the scripts to install in different distro:
Ubuntu: install native flash 64bit on Ubuntu
Fedora: install native flash 64bit on Fedora
OpenSuse: install native flash 64bit on OpenSuse
The debut Severed Fifth album, Denied By Reign is out now! Media industry, take notes!!
Severed Fifth's debut album, Denied By Reign was launched today.
The album features the following eight songs:
- Metric Of Hate
- Beating Heart
- Dollar Plague
- The Lake
- Edge Of Design
- Take The Test
- War
- Enslaved By Pain
For me this release is more important than Metallica's Death Magnetic, and this for several reasons:
1. IT'S FREE!! You would think that huge bands like Metallica would embrace the new ideas when it comes to distribution and making some $ (they are not starving after all, the money they have should feed their brains enough to get a better idea than working with a label)
2. I think we will see this type of bands rising in the near future. Let me explain myself: with today's technology you don't need virtually any funding other that some talent (you either get or don't get that from nature) and the instruments to play great music (or do some acting or whatever...). You don't need a garage to meet with the band members and practice, you don't need to waste your life trying to get booked to play in a shitty club for $20 and then cancel you because the managers left testicle is feeling lonely . You can do all of these in the comfort of your home and you can get payed for it.
I've setup two mirrors:
Romania on my ex high schools server:
[MP3] severedfifth-deniedbyreign-full-mp3.zip 74M
[OGG] severedfifth-deniedbyreign-full-ogg.zip 57M
USA:
[MP3] severedfifth-deniedbyreign-full-mp3.zip 74M
[OGG] severedfifth-deniedbyreign-full-ogg.zip 57M
Long live Jono Bacon for proving that open source ROCKS!!