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My xfce setup

J May, 2011 /

Some shortcuts

Alt + F4 Close window
Alt + F5 Maximize window
Alt + F6 Maximize vertically
Alt + F7 Maximize horizontally
Alt + F8 Hide window
Alt + F9 Shade window
Alt + F10 Stick window
Alt + Tab Cycle windows focus
Ctrl + Shft + Alt + Arrow (up, down, left, or right) Move window
Shft + Alt + Arrow (up, down, left, or right) Resize window
Shft + Alt + Page_Up Raise window
Shft + Alt + Page_Down Lower window
Alt + F11 Toggle fullscreen
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow right arrow Next workspace
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow left Previous workspace
Alt + Insert Add a workspace
Alt + Delete Delete a workspace
Ctrl + F(N) Go to workspace number N (1-9)
Alt + Ctrl + Home|End Move the window to previous|next workspace
Alt + Ctrl + keypad key number N Move a window to workspace number N (1-9)
Alt + F1 Start xfhelp4
Alt + F2 Start xfrun4
Alt + Ctrl + Delete Lock the screen

Ubuntu Unity Nonsense

J May, 2011 /

Just upgraded the ubuntu to 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and what a surprise! I got MacOS look and feel.

Doing some research and I can’t believe Gnome3 has the same STUPID look as MacOS OMG!!!

What innovation  you see at copying the same OS from MAC. I remember the days when the Linux desktop looks innovating and it was pleasure to work with so many options. Now everything is going the Apple way.

I felt depressed is there around at least one windows manager which is not influenced from Apple?

I hate Dock launchers –  looks not innovating – it looks clumsy and old. Everything which is copied clumsy!

Gnome3 – you are going on the same path as Unity!

Windows7 – is 100 times better because it has its OWN LOOK AND FEEL – I’d rather work with windows7 than on a Gnome3/Unity. Blah!

The solution?

Xfce desktop is now closes to what Gnome was

MAC OS, WTF?!

J April, 2011 /

No support for write on NTFS drives.

strange keyboard – I remember how I laugh when microsoft put their logo on dedicated button on the keyboards – haha -> Apple

Usability – What are those fancy drawing on the keys, they look all the same to me, no way to rember them.

Fucked hardware – $60 for cable which cost less then $1 haha, no card reader.

Nice plastic case with big mouse pad.

I hate the way how MAC os wants to be different making some irritating changes – not revolution – only some small tweaks.

Apple Mac is for people which DON’T know how to work with computers

http://shadowofged.blogspot.com/2007/07/bad-news-on-doorstep.html

Rails tip of the day

J April, 2011 /

Generating random string

ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(16)

Netbeans is dropping Ruby/Rails

J April, 2011 /

They have to put their efforts on Java. Phuuuu.

Seriozly this was the best IDE around for Ruby/Rails.

  • RubyMine – is heavy and cluttered and it is not free
  • Vim – is nice but it is NOT ide
  • RadRails – is in some beta

Here is a list of alternatives on stackoverflow and some others

Why not to choose wordpress for a publishing platform

J April, 2011 /

Today when I look in my xcache I found interesting fact. Most of the wordpress pages are around  1Mb.

OMG! 1MB for a blog post. This is server/memory killer.

One more thing is that their API is total mess (very well documented) but still mess.

The blog is back

J April, 2011 /

After I have upgraded the php the wordpress has decided to stop working. blah.

No error messages, no warnings, no blog.

I was doing Zen for 3 months and today I have managed to restored all the posts.

I use my blog to store some useful notes to me and I hope that they are useful to someone else also.

Autoicrement the serial in bind zone files

J September, 2010 /

Argh. 30+ zone files and I have to increment all numbers by hand…no way.

Usage:  ./inc.rb in the current directory with all db files.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

Dir.glob("*.db") do |file_name|
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GPS in Bulgaria

J September, 2010 /

Използване на GPS системите на Webeye

Малко реклама:

Имам приятел, който е собсвеник на транспортно-логистична фирма.  Той имаше проблем с шофьорите си, които си правеха делавери с горивото на негов гръб. За да си реши проблема и да има стриктен контрол той реши да използва GPS системи за проследяване, мониторинг и контрол.

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Wireframing for faster website development

J August, 2010 /

I have tried the approach listed in “Getting Real” by 37signals and I have great results.

The client was very happy because he can imagine his website.

Now I am considering to buy or make such nice tools :)

http://www.uistencils.com/website-stencil-kit.html

http://www.mstonerblog.com/index.php/blog/comments/return_of_the_paper_wireframes/
1. Pencil

Pencil (free) is a Firefox plugin that professes to enable you to build wireframes and prototypes. As a prototyping tool it’s quite good, allowing you to quickly put together a reasonably high fidelity mockup. However, be aware you’ll still need to produce the visual design elements for Pencil, as it relies on dragging and dropping pre-made graphical elements.

The output wireframe elements that ship with Pencil do tend to be based on the look and feel of a Windows desktop application. This really is undesirable for a web application, however you could modify this with your own page elements.

Another downside of Pencil is that its export functionality provides only a few image formats. This means that Pencil falls short of being a real interactive prototype development tool.

Balsamiq Mockups

Balsamiq Mockups (price:$US79, demo available) is an interesting product running on Adobe AIR. Its representation of the interface elements has a refreshing hand-drawn, sketch-like quality to them. This does help promote the degree of changeability of the wireframes, as they look very much like a draft. If you lack the skills to create hand-drawn sketches then Balsamiq is a useful tool, as it allows you to produce quality roughs. Balsamiq also offers a standard collection of interactive screen elements, which is helpful to start off with.

http://gomockingbird.com/ is like balsamia

https://www.jumpchart.com/ – for very simple pages- I cant find how to change the layout.

Denim

A java based.

http://dub.washington.edu:2007/denim/

Eclipse based plugin – http://wireframesketcher.com/

And a nice topic in stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55363/best-tools-for-creating-website-wireframes

iphone

http://iphonemockup.lkmc.ch/

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