I’ve updated identica-mode for Emacs and now has a way to connect to any laconica server, instead of just identi.ca. To configure add this to your .emacs file, or your customizations file or your choice: (setq laconica-server “myserver.com”) I’m working on publishing the git repository of the project. In the meantime you can download it […]

What would happen if your access to most of your online services were to be disabled? What would you loose? I’ve been in situations where we have to decide either to run certain applications on our server, like E-mail, scheduling, project management, etc. Or use the ubiquitous, given-for-granted web services from huge companies with huge […]

Yesterday’s big news was that Google released their own “open source” browser called Google Chrome. They released only the binaries for Windows, and even thought they claim to be open source, I don’t see where I can get the source code yet. But what really bothers me is the license agreements for Chrome: 11. Content […]

Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Status.net code base. I recently needed to update my status from Emacs, since its faster for me and easier. I’ve been using an an Emacs mode to update my Twitter account, but there was nothing to use for my Identi.ca account. And […]

There are several services to host your project’s code on the web for free. But recently there’s been some outages on “very reliable” services like Gmail, Amazon and let’s not get started with Twitter. Also some service policies may bother you like Google code rejecting a lot of software licenses, and Facebook will never delete […]

Recently I had to edit multiple files (239 in total) scattered in a bunch of directories and subdirectories. Here’s a quick and safe way to do it. What I had to do was add the Google Analytics script snippet to a part of a website that was being maintained by a pair of <your favorite […]
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