I forgot to mention that I took part of the French Perl Workshop, end of november, in Paris. I gave a funny talk on HTML::Mason. In French. But With Kitties.
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Category: Gentoo
Bye-bye Paris, Hello London !
That’s it! Just wanted to let you know I’m now in London. I still have no internet at home, so I’m still not able to do anything really useful, but that should change soon. In the meantime, I’ll start poking #gentoo-uk people irl 🙂
Cheers ! (as they all say here in UK )
screenrc
Today I decided to rewrite some of my config files. I started with ~/.screenrc. It’s amazing the cool things you can do in that file 🙂
Here are some of the options I use. One of them is rather useful : replacing the main screen key : instead of ‘ctrl-A’, I changed it to ‘ctrl-O’. That’s because ‘ctrl-A’ is binded in many applications (emacs, *sh, other editors, links…), and it clashes a lot with the badly chosen default screen key ‘ctrl-A’.
The other nifty option sets the caption of the bottom line : it displays all the windows with their number and title, the current one being highlighted in white on blue. And some status information are padded to the right of the screen.
# ~/.screenrc
# use visual bell
vbell on
# replace ctrl-A by ctrl-O
escape ^Oo
# set a big scrolling buffer
defscrollback 5000
# Set the caption on the bottom line
caption always "%{= kw}%-w%{= BW}%n %t%{-}%+w %-= @%H - %LD %d %LM - %c"
Moving to London
As some of you may know, I’m going to move to London in one month, with my girlfriend. Of course I’m also changing job, I’ve found a great company, where I’ll do advanced perl programming, refactoring, and so on, something I really like 🙂 I’ll tell you more once I’m there.
As a side effect, I’m not really active these days, hopefully this will change once we have moved.
LSM 2006 : pictures
*Back home* ! we had a nice time this week at the “LSM 2006”:http://www.rmll.info/?lang=en. It’s over now, but I’ve taken some pictures, among them the Gentoo booth we held to sell 2006.0 livecds. It worked pretty well, even if all the costs are not coverd.
!http://static.flickr.com/58/184043162_4e9e61546c_m.jpg!:http://flickr.com/photos/damsieboy/184043162/in/set-72157594188204338/
new blog home
Hello there,
My blog has finally moved here, this place should be its final location.
Let’s start with some Perl. I needed to build a small robot to fake human interaction on a web site. Perl provides great tools for that :
- IO::Socket::INET for raw stuff
- of course the good old LWP, and the associated lwp-request script
- HTTP:: Proxy, a new module very useful and powerful
- the excellent WWW::Mechanize and the associated mech-dump
that, with the firefox LiveHTTPheader extension, and ethereal, gives you great power.
My small contribution : a trivial patch to add basic authentication in mech-dump, as it is available in lwp-request.
gentoo poster
Today I went to a shop near the office and made them print the gentoo poster for the upcoming Libre Software Meeting, where kernelsensei and I will organize the gentoo booth. Feel free to use it for your needs, it’s a simple A0 poster of the official gentoo logo.
Gentoo booth at LSM
!http://www.rmll.info/img/armelle_fond.jpg(LSM)!:http://www.rmll.info/?lang=en
This week from Tuesday (tomorrow) until Saturday, the 7th edition of the Libre Software Meeting will be held in Nancy, France. This is going to be a great event, with sun, friends and beers. Oh and OSS/Free software of course 🙂
If you go there, make sure to stop by the gentoo booth, set up by Kernelsense, maxtoo and myself. We’ll sell x86 livecds away, and burn other gentoo isos on-demand.