Introduction This time I’m going to write about how I did setup Redmine in one of my servers, since It was a rather “special” setup I decided to publish how I managed to do it. Before going into the details I want to describe exactly the setup I did. Redmine SVN, a svn checkout of [...]
Entries from December 21st, 2008
Setting up Redmine with archlinux
December 21st, 2008 View Comments
Tags: apache · archlinux · mercurial · mongrel · redmine · Tutoriales
WordPress 2.7 and new theme
December 11th, 2008 View Comments
The new wordpress 2.7 update came just in time with my decision about changing the theme for valkertown, this time I picked a less colorful them, a bit more serious yet I’m thinking on adding some colour to it by adding a nice photograph of one of my trips to the header banner. I find [...]
Arreglando un robot de Planeta Linux para identi.ca
December 8th, 2008 View Comments
Bueno, colocar los “feeds” rss del universo de Planeta Linux resulto un poco más complicado de lo que pensé, no por alguna dificultad real sino por el pésimo servicio que presta ETB(www.etb.com.co), simplemente cada ~30 segundos decidÃa no transportarme ningún dato durante ~30 segundos, esto se convierte en una pesadilla cuando se trabaja con servicios [...]
Tags: bot · identi.ca · mercurial · planetalinux · python · rant
Valkertown en planeta linux y el planeta en identica
December 7th, 2008 View Comments
Recientemente descubri que mi blog hace parte del Planeta Linux que es una comunidad latinoamericana de blogs que hablan sobre GNU/Linux, personalmente trato de apoyar tanto como pueda a esta clase de iniciativas. Cuando visite el sitio del planeta vi que teanian una cuenta en Twitter, esto me sorprendio un poco, pensé que seria más [...]
Tags: gnu · identi.ca · linux · planeta · planetalinux · rss
Awesome-WM settings and workplace setup
December 6th, 2008 View Comments
It has been quite a while since I uploaded a screenshot for my “desktop” environment, it hasn’t changed much but I have tweaked it a bit and spent some time upgrading it to today Awesome git clone. Awesome is a great tiled window manager that is completely configurable, basically it gives you the tools to [...]
Tags: awesome · configuration · screenshot · wm
Setting my desktop backgrounds from Flickr part 2
December 2nd, 2008 View Comments
Well after a while of testing my previous script I found that the overall quality of the images I was getting was good but from time to time a really horrible image would popup, so I decided to try another approach. I have heard about Flickr’s interestingness, and decided to see if I could grab [...]
Tags: api · flickr · interestingness · python · simplejson
Setting my desktop backgrounds from Flickr
December 2nd, 2008 View Comments
Well I’m now trying to publish here some of the tools I use and write everyday to customize my desktop, most of them are simple hacks, this time it’s a way to set your desktop background from a Flickr feed that is requested to be filtered using some tags. Heres the code: #!/usr/bin/python import [...]
Tags: awesome · backgrounds · bash · desktop · Esetroot · Eterm · flickr · python
Goodbye Pownce, shutting down Jance
December 1st, 2008 View Comments
Well pownce is going to be shutdown on December 15 2008 and with that Jance will be left out of purpose so I have to shut it down, since I’m not really pleased with the move ( I’m a pro user with lots of months left) and also I invested a lot of time developing [...]
Tags: friendfeed · identi.ca · jaiku · jance · pownce · shutdown
Disqus comments now on Valkertown
December 3rd, 2008 View Comments
Disqus, pronunced discuss is a service to handle comments and threads about comments, I heard of it some time ago and have hit it from time to time yet I hadn’t pay much attention to it so far. s no Now I have just signedup there with my openid and decided to give it a [...]
Tags: blog · comments · disqus · identi.ca · valkertown