Yearly Archives: 2009

A website visitor tracking statistics free open source alternative to Google Analytics

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

Everyone that wants to know how his/her website’s traffic is doing has a form of “visitor counter” or web traffic analytics software. By what I’ve seen, the most popular one is Google Analytics. There’s a free and open source web … Continue reading →

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5 ways to promote Identi.ca and Open Microblogging over Twitter

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

On the Free Software Foundation Latinamerica mailing list, there’s been a discussion about supporting Identi.ca and open microblogging and encourage quitting using twitter by setting the example. The topic about closed network services and its risks is a very important … Continue reading →

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Emacs identica-mode version 0.7

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

I’ve finally arranged some time to publish a new version of Identica-mode for Emacs to easily track and post updates to any Laconica installation such as Identi.ca What’s new Added menu with most useful features Added re-dent (retweet) feature by … Continue reading →

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Top 10 firefox extensions I can’t live without

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

Recently Mozilla launched Firefox extension collections to avoid hunting down your favourite extensions for certain tasks. Here’s my top 10 firefox extensions I cant live without: Firebug This is a web developer must have. It has a ton of features, … Continue reading →

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Writing music with lilypond

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

A week ago, I spent most of my afternoon helping Ada with her new Debian system. She’s writing her thesis and for that she needs to have music notes on the document. I’ve insisted her to write her thesis in … Continue reading →

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Emacs identica-mode with multiple timelines and direct messages

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Gabriel Saldaña

Emacs identica-mode, a way to read and post to Identi.ca microblogging site and any Laconi.ca installation from Emacs, now has support for several (friends, replies, public and user) timelines. Also added support to send direct messages. Some of the changes … Continue reading →

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