Journal

What a week!!!

2009-11-05T01:12:42Z

SquareSpace app for the iPhone & new Ratchet & Clank game!! Win!

SynergyKM for 10.5

2009-02-12T15:43:47Z

Got enough comments to inspire me to make a new version! Now uses 1.3.1 and is available here!! Have good moshpitting! ~~UPDATE: Check this out !~~ I have rebuilt the SynergyKM package created by Lorenz Schori - Upgraded it for 10.5 xcode compatibility and modified the installer. Next I will attempt to bring it to synergy 1.3.1 Here is the link : SynergyKM 1.0 Cheers!

Using VIM to make erlang pretty

2009-02-06T20:06:03Z

I recently read an article talking about purtifying erlang. This inspired me to create a quick function in vim to do this for me! Here it is:



function! ErlPretty()
 silent !erl -noshell -eval 'erl_tidy:file("%",[verbose]).' -s erlang halt
endfunction

cmap ep :execute ErlPretty()

Hopefully someone finds it handy!

SVN actions for Automator

2008-12-08T17:39:23Z

I have been playing with Automator for a few days now, and it's totally fun! Anyway, I needed to do svn checkouts / updates ( more to come later ). Here are the two actions I have so far. I would use checkout with "Ask for Finder Items" and "Ask for Servers". The update action would be best used with "Get Specified Finder Items"

FunPidgin patch for Debian's Pidgin Package

2008-04-30T21:36:14Z

This is a quick patch I whipped up to bring funpidgin to debian's pidgin. Applying is pretty simple: apt-get build-dep pidgin && apt-get source pidgin cd pidgin-2.4.1 wget http://www.deftly.net/25_fun_pidgin.patch -O debian/patches/25_fun_pidgin.patch ./debian/rules binary dpkg -i ../*.deb Just make sure you remove the previous version of pidgin prior to installing the patched version - just for good measure

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2008-02-07T14:12:10Z

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Linux Home Automation

2007-10-05T02:26:03Z

Using a simple $30 kit from x10.com, a bluetooth dongle and a bluetooth capable cell phone, one can easily setup some slick home automation. A small application called bluemon allows for your linux machine to watch for bluetooth devices and run commands upon a quality of single you specify. The X10 kit I purchased came with a serial transmitter. This allows me to use bluemon to call bottlerocket, kicking on my lights when I enter a room. Here is my config file for bluemon ( only changes shown ):

BLUEMON_ENABLE='yes' BLUETOOTHID='aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff' DISCONNECTHACK=-d

Once you have bluemon running, simply run the "bluemon-client" command. I use something like this:

bluemon-client -b aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff -u on -d off

off / on are simply shell scripts ( in $PATH ) that look kinda like this:

br -x /dev/ttyS0 -N br -x /dev/ttyS0 -F

Good Times.