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Put your latest tweet as Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 1:27.

Twitter became a trend nowadays when almost everything important is being found out via this social-networking micro-blogging service. And now with Google’s real time search-results that includes tweets too, Twitter is recognised as a powerful platform by even the Internet’s giant. Since your (and mine too) online presence might include a few tweets a day, [...]

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Python and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 26th, 2009 at 18:01.

If you remember Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux), Tudor has found a better solution to accomplish this using Python. I did argue with him a bit regarding the number of requests made (you can see that in the comments on his blog post) but finally I would agree that his solution was better [...]

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Configuring Eclipse for J2EE development

Posted on August 4th, 2009 at 12:01.

Starting to learn about Servlets and JSP from “Head First Servlets and JSP 2nd edition“, I have reached a level where just editing my files from gedit wouldn’t suffice, as typos began to generate frustrations on my side. Although this is the recommended way by the book authors to build your projects while learning, which [...]

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Resolving vertically flipped images from webcams in Ubuntu

Posted on July 31st, 2009 at 1:53.

UPDATE: Please check the solution from here as it represents the correct approach for fixing this problem in Ubuntu (all releases). Also, the patch from this post doesn’t work for the kernel included in Ubuntu 9.10.

Usually I do not use my laptop’s webcam. Not that I use another webcam. But when I made the radical [...]

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Lazy programmers do…

Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 16:21.

Scripts to avoid clicking in three places once they start their computer:

#!/bin/bash
firefox mail.cotescu.com &
thunderbird &
pidgin &
sleep 5s
purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=http://radu.cotescu.com"
exit 0

This starts those three programs in the background once I log in provided that I add this script in System – Preferences – Startup Applications in Ubuntu.

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Bugs

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 at 17:58.

Because all this week I have been a steady bug fixer (both at home and at work), this comic really rocks given the circumstances:

via XCKD.com

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How to send null values in soapUI requests

Posted on May 16th, 2009 at 0:58.

soapUI is a pretty useful web service testing tool that can help you generate a multitude of tests like load testing, functional testing, data consistency testing and many more. I have started using it for real two days ago when I needed to test some SOAP web services for work. The main issue that kept [...]

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