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Why your program is a frog. But not a real frog, a Lamarckian one. ...
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Version 0.6 of Marave, my peaceful, fullscreen text editor is now available at the usual
place: http://marave.googlecode.com ...
Just uploaded Marave 0.5 to the usual place . Marave is a relaxed, fullscreen text editor that
tries not to distract you. ...
Version 0.4 of Marave, a distraction-free fullscreen editor is out at
http://marave.googlecode.com ...
Version 0.3 of Marave, a distraction-free fullscreen editor is out at
http://marave.googlecode.com ...
Version 0.2 of Marave, a distraction-free fullscreen editor is out at
http://marave.googlecode.com ...
The first " good " version of Marave my relaxing text editor is out! ...
When I was migrating the comments I noticed a page looked wrong in the site, and started fixing
it. ...
As a former future mathematician, it drives me mad when I see an ad that looks like a great
opportunity... as long as you don't crunch the numbers. ...
You may have heard about the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged
from the future . ...
These are the visitors of this site in the last 10 minutes or so: ...
Dear http://www.pythonprogramminglanguage.info/ I have no problem whatsoever with my
blog being republished. I would prefer if you could link back here from somewhere, mmmmkay? ...
Yesterday I was spammed by a new age portal called Portalmico . The name is strange, since in
spanish (their language) it means " Monkey Portal " , but that the heck, after adding me to the
Facebook group they wanted me to join, posting they are spammers, then leaving, I started to
think... ...
I am not sure if this is good or bad: ...
On my latest disappearance, this blog turned 9 years old. I started it (in advogato , where you
can still read it, BTW), on January 17th, 2000. ...
I moved to Buenos Aires (BA) almost exactly 8 years ago. For those who have never been here, let
me tell you some things about it. It's large. Do you know Sao Paulo? A bit smaller. Much smaller
than Mexico DF. About the same size as New York. Twice the population of the Randstad. About the
same as greater Paris or Istanbul. So figuring out a way to move around it was important. ...
Walking near the train station of Carupá, heading for a customer's I saw a rather shabby house
in the industrial area, white and with green painted doors made of metal. And on top of it,
standing as if about to jump, there's a statue of a chubby guy wearing a white shirt and black
pants. Why is there a statue in the roof of that house? Why is it so creepy? ...
I had to do a vry late night job yesterday, so I am not going to do it right today. Probably
wednesday. ...
You start a blog, you like something another guy wrote, what do you do? ...
I have decided to make this blog available also in Spanish starting yesterday. ...
Consider this: ...
Since this blog just broke the 100K visitors barrier yesterday (although it had about 150K
more when it was lateral.pycs.net), it's a good time to revisit some of the old stuff that was
somewhat good. ...
Or at least my article about it. ...
I suppose it happens to everyone once in a while, and it has happened to me often in the past, but I
am thinking if I should keep on writing this blog, or if some large change is needed. ...
I stumboed onto a site where you write and they are supposed to share the advertising revenue
with you. ...
Since the very beginning, BartleBlog has been using CherryTemplate for its output
formatting needs. I like it, because it's very simple. ...
Took a while to implement, but BartleBlog finally got a functional menu editor: ...
... has been all about UI. ...
- Done with the main blog config dialog. ...
It's remarkably easy to turn your QTextBrowser into a limited web browser, at least good
enough to show images from the web. ...
It's remarkably easy to turn your QTextBrowser into a limited web browser, at least good
enough to show images from the web. ...
I found a couple of hours to hack, and decided to spend them on BartleBlog. ...
Now, I don't know if this is useful, but I do think it's way neat.
Inspired by S5_, rst2s5_, and mootools_ I took an hour (or two) and hacked this neat little slide tool.
The goals differ from S5 in that I intend to write a frontend, so that you have a sort of very-poor-man's powerpoint, but also in that the output should be simple to embed in other pages so that I can eventually make this a part of bartleblog.
Check it out (click to go to next slide, move mouse to the top of the slideshow for controls):
.. raw:: html
<div class="sl_presentation">
<script type="text/javascript">
new Asset.css('http://lateral.blogsite.org/static/css/slides.css');
slides=[ 'slide0',
'it-s-nerd-oriented',
'it-does-things-simply',
'it-s-very-easy-to-extend',
'and-it-has-kickass-features'
];
var current=-1;
var numPages=5;
var topMargin=25;
var delay=1500;
function slide_out() {
if ( current > -1 && current < numPages )
{
var eff1=$(slides[current]).effects({
duration: delay,
transition: Fx.Transitions.cubicOut
});
eff1.start({'top': [500]/*,
'height': [0]*/ }
);
}
}
function slide_in() {
if ( current > -1 && current < numPages )
{
var eff1=$(slides[current]).effects({
duration: delay,
transition: Fx.Transitions.cubicOut
});
eff1.start({'top': [topMargin]/*,
'height': [450] */}
);
}
}
function next() {
slide_out();
current=current+1;
slide_in();
};
function prev() {
slide_out();
current=current-1;
slide_in();
}
function controls_in() {
var eff=$('controlBox').effect('top',{
duration: 100
});
eff.start(0);
}
function controls_out() {
var eff=$('controlBox').effect('top',{
duration: 100
});
eff.start(-100);
}
</script>
<div id="controlBox" class="sl_control" onMouseOver="controls_in(); " >
<span id="prev" onClick="if (current > 0 ) {prev();}"><< </span>
<span id="next" onClick="if (current <numPages-1) { next();}"> >></span>
</div>
<div class="sl_cover" onMouseOver="controls_out();" onClick="if (current <numPages-1) { next();}"></div>
<div id="header" class="sl_header">
</div>
<div id="footer" class="sl_footer">
Why use BartleBlog
</div>
<div class="sl_slide" id="slide0">
<h1>Why use BartleBlog</h1>
<h2 id="if-you-are-a-nerd">(If you are a nerd)</h2>
<table class="docinfo" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="docinfo-name" />
<col class="docinfo-content" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th>
<td>Roberto Alsina <<a class="reference" href="mailto:ralsina@kde.org">ralsina@kde.org</a>></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="sl_slide" id="it-s-nerd-oriented">
<h1><a id="it-s-nerd-oriented" name="it-s-nerd-oriented">It's nerd-oriented</a></h1>
<p>It's trivial to display source code, with
proper syntax highlighting.</p>
<div class="code-block"><pre><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">base64</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="o">*</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">myFirstFunction</span><span class="p">():</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b64decode</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s">'YnllIHdvcmxkIQ=='</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
<p>Even for things like shell sessions.
Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd
feature I deem cool.</p>
</div>
<div class="sl_slide" id="it-does-things-simply">
<h1><a id="it-does-things-simply" name="it-does-things-simply">It does things simply</a></h1>
<p>Wanna show a flickr photo?</p>
<div class="code-block"><pre><span class="p">..</span> <span class="nt">flickr:</span>: myPhotoTitle
</pre></div>
<p>How about using openomy.com to share your files?
And whatever else you can think of, it probably
<strong>can</strong> be done.</p>
</div>
<div class="sl_slide" id="it-s-very-easy-to-extend">
<h1><a id="it-s-very-easy-to-extend" name="it-s-very-easy-to-extend">It's very easy to extend</a></h1>
<p>Really. It's simple python code.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines.</li>
<li>The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103.</li>
<li>The module to do calendars has 72.</li>
</ul>
<p>If there is a python module or web service to do what you
want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple.</p>
</div>
<div class="sl_slide" id="and-it-has-kickass-features">
<h1><a id="and-it-has-kickass-features" name="and-it-has-kickass-features">And it has kickass features</a></h1>
<p>Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one!
Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup!
Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual
code, but the hard part is done!</p>
<p>Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's <em>somewhat niche</em> ;-))</p>
<p>Now, who else has that kind of thing?</p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
next();
</script></div>
There may be an artifact when you slide out the syntax-highlighted boxes, but I have no idea how to fix it.
Also, I have not tested it at all in IE, so if it fails there, don't worry, that's to be expected!
Next time I speak in public, I may use this :-)
And, as a teaser... this is the source for the presentation you just saw:
.. code-block:: rst
Why use BartleBlog
==================
(If you are a nerd)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:author: Roberto Alsina <ralsina@kde.org>
It's nerd-oriented
------------------
It's trivial to display source code, with
proper syntax highlighting.
.. code-block:: python
from base64 import *
def myFirstFunction():
print b64decode ('YnllIHdvcmxkIQ==')
Even for things like shell sessions.
Dammit, I am a nerd, I will try to add every nerd
feature I deem cool.
It does things simply
---------------------
Wanna show a flickr photo?
.. code-block:: rst
.. flickr:: myPhotoTitle
How about using openomy.com to share your files?
And whatever else you can think of, it probably
**can** be done.
It's very easy to extend
------------------------
Really. It's simple python code.
* The module to do syntax highlighting has 41 lines.
* The module to do dynamic animated menus has 103.
* The module to do calendars has 72.
If there is a python module or web service to do what you
want, hooking it into BartleBlog is simple.
And it has kickass features
---------------------------
Like online, embedded, animated slideshows! Like this one!
Done with 65 lines of simple almost-plain-text markup!
Ok, it's not fully implemented yet, because it needs some manual
code, but the hard part is done!
Or automatic SVN changelog display ( I admit that's *somewhat niche* ;-))
Now, who else has that kind of thing?
.. _mootools: http://www.mootools.net
.. _s5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
.. _rst2s5: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/slide-shows.html ...
A new gadget: Mootools based menus. ...
The nerdiest feature of all time... simple SVN logs. ...
It was pretty hard, but I finally managed to make bartleblog re-render only the necessary
pages. ...
It was pretty hard, but I finally managed to make bartleblog re-render only the necessary
pages. ...
I had a few minutes waiting for yum to do its thing and added a couple of easy features: ...
- I did the tag editor: ...
Even though it's not really ready, I am switching my blog to BartleBlog. ...
Now that the backend is still iffy but generates a blog, I finally started showing some love to
the UI. ...
A lot of new features going on, like openomy based file uploading and links that work like
simple rst directives: ...
I added a Restructured Text directive that takes as argument the title of one of your (my)
flickr pictures, like this: ...
Added a Yahoo! Ui menubar generator. It turns this: ...
Another morning, another feature: archive ...
A couple more hours of hacking, and the templates are all new, and more functional then ever. ...
After a few more hours hacking, it's got the following working: ...
I have been posting this blog using PyDS for over 4 years now. Sadly, the PyDS author seems to
have abandoned it. Which is sad, because it's nifty software. ...
Now, if this appears in the site, bartleblog has advogato support..
...
Hey, it works :-) ...
So, the link below will disappear in a minute or two. Right now, you can get it via CVS. ...
Let's see if bartleblog can edit this.... yes? ...
I got a few mails asking to see Bartleblog... well, if you have a working PyQt, and a working PyDS
(advogato support is totally broken right now), and you have a good backup of your blog, then
you may try to get it from here (Use CVS) ...
I wonder if bartlebog is a good name. It sure is better than klog, and I like XIXth century lit
references. ...
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