This only adds already commited files to a new commit. And leaves files not in the git repository alone.

This is how I solved it:

Edited ~/.local/share/applications/sublime.desktop
Especially this line:

/home/leon/Software/bin/sublime contains this:

Then I installed some excellent plugins:

• http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control
• https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel
• https://github.com/JulianEberius/SublimeRope
• https://bitbucket.org/sublimator/sublime-2-zencoding

So I purged them with the help of this blog.

I compiled evolution with the help of a Makefile that I downloaded.

I had to add the "maverick" distro and install some additional packages such as:

• gobject-introspection
• autopoint
• libgdata-dev

I removed the evolution-exchange plugin.

The master branch of gweather required gtk3 so I changed that to: gnome-2.30 (or something)
I had to apply a patch to solve a build error.

Bottom of this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution-hackers@gnome.org/msg03863.html

I really, really don't want to work with it ever again and I regret that I chose ZF for this particular project just because of the db layer.

There's also a wiki about this new feature from Ubuntu. I thought about creating a plugin for weechat that uses this library. Especially because the notify-plugins is useless if you're away and somebody mentions you on irc. Libindicate would be perfect for this. First have to find out how the behaviour of the applet would be.

[update]
I asked my question on the libindicate launchpad so I'm very curious about the answer(s).
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For Ruby I use netbeans. I would also like to use it for php but it doesn't allow to quicly open a file via ftp/scp or whatever. And it can sometimes be sloooooowwww. I've  seen netbeans used on a Windows platform and there it is much faster.

When I right-click on a project in netbeans for the first time, it takes 5 seconds (not lying!) to render the popup-menu. Come onm take forever!

And because I was now developing with Python I decided to try a new editor. Something more hardcore and lighter. Something nerdy So ofcourse I only have two decent options: Vim & Emacs.

I already had try them with Ruby. But I found good Ruby (& Rails) support rather lacking by both of them. I believe that the python comminity is more hardcore and therefore are using more arcane editors And maybe because they aren't afraid to hack away in another language than their own (lisp, vimscript).

I think I have been comparing the two editors for nearly two weeks now. I have spent hours and hours comparing, trying and browsing for blog posts about the two. At the end, I really didn't know which one to choose. I really suck at deciding something So I made a little list of what I find to be strong points of each editor:

VIM:

• Better syntax highlighting/theming supprt (wombat ftw!!)
• Faster/smaller
• No weird handling of new buffers like with emacsclient
• No daemon like: emacs --daemon
• Better python integration
• Easier to make extensions
• Preview of docstrings when using omni completion

EMACS:

• Better python-mode
• No commandmode/normalmode
• Directory browser/editor
• Debugger (better integration with external tools)
• easier to begin
• Everyting is a buffer™

And now I have chosen to be the editor with which I am going to work is...... (drum roll please) .......:

Gedit!

No, it's (g)Vim

And while writing this article I was looking for a WordPress/blog plugin for Vim and Emacs. At a glance it looked like the wordpress plugin for Emacs was a little bit better. So already I was doubting my decision... So it could be that I switch editor in the next few months But I'm first going to really use gvim to see if it fits with my workflow and is really useable for me.

As cherry on the pie, a nice screenshot of my gvim in action:

[update]
I've installed Netneans 6.8m2 and it feels a lot faster than 6.7 but python completion is as bad as in 6.7.
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[update2]
Found out about Vim's netrw. So Emacs no longer got "Directory browser/editor" as a strong point.
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The new Pmpd project (looking for a better name) can be found on github. The hardest part so far is having to restructure the sources. Python is not a difficult language to master at all but I'm very picky on how everything fits together. My ruby project felt right on that part. But the python equivelant has some things I just don't like enough up to now.

So hereby I present to you: a fixed Phoogle files which is hacked decent.

One of them is that they want to save a field in the database that contains a unique identification number for the secondhand cars they sell. But this number is set-up in a way that is unique to BMW's. So actually, I didn't want to add this column to the database, 'cause that will mess up my clean database tables.

But then I came up with the idea to add functionality to the website where users (dealers in this case) can add custom columns to their cars / profiles.

Instead of creating this functionality from scratch, I first wanted to know if there are any plugins that have this functionality already. I found these three:

1. acts_as_free_form
2. has-magic-columns
3. acts_as_customizable

I haven't decided (yet) which is best.

And if you want to roll your own, here's a nice article about choosing the best structure for dynamic fields.

I realize that the story above is written in truly horrible English. But I really didn't have the energy to make something nice of it...

It shows all of my github projects. I directly turned it into a plugin for you to enjoy. You can download and read the documentation in the wordpress plugin directory.

But, I have to finish a project this week and merb/datamapper is not just stable yet, has less documentation, less plugins, less helpers and less features.

For example, the "has and belongs to many" association in datamapper isn't fully implemented (look a the tests). There are some nice backend generators for Rails. And if you have to finish a project in too little time, it's a quick decision.

I know, I could also make/fix this stuff for merb and datamapper myself and I would love to. But there just isn't enough time! Aaarghhh...

And used this deploy.rb

Then to setup the current, releases, etc. directories:

Then, when I tried to login via ssh with shared key: nothing!
After some searching I found out that capistrano messed up the permissions on the .ssh directory

To fix it:

• Sifter
• Beanstalk
• Redmine
• Unfuddle
• Lighthouse
• JIRA
• 16 bugs
• Bugzilla
• Fogbugz
• Trac

Especially Sifter looks really nice! But... it isn't open source. So too bad. I went with Redmine: open source, ruby on rails and already a nice feature set!

A nice overview of bug/issue tracking systems can be found on wikipedia.

I'm a real sucker for nice message boxes. If you are too: this is a must-read.

Et voila: vpnc with openssl!

And while I was doing that I also decided to install guessnet from Intrepid. So I don't have to compile guessnet anymore.

It involves two steps:

1. Updating you apt sources
2. Making sure only ruby and guessnet are going to be installed from the new sources. Not all the packages!

1. Updating your sources

Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list and copy the following code into it:

2. Apt preferences

If /etc/apt/preferences does not exist, touch it!

Then copy this code into it:

That's all! "Aptitude update" & "aptitude install ruby guessnet" and you are good to go.

I tried using the "Package" keyword with wildcards, but that's a no-go

For it to work you have to download the latest (nightly) netbeans build and the netbeans python plugin(s)

So here is it:

All you do is adding the desired variables to "/etc/apache2/envars". That's it!

If that's not difficult enough, I encountered this weird behaviour that the --noop argument didn't do anything. After an hour of searching I realized it was my own stupid fault!

I had to puppet configuration files: /etc/puppet/puppetd.conf (old way) and /etc/puppet/puppet.conf (new way). I browsed throught the source code and it looks like puppet first checks the old file, if it is found it parses that one. If it's not found, the new file is parsed. I don't know why, but if the old file is used, the --noop argument isn't parsed by puppet. So removing /etc/puppet/puppetd.conf was all I had to do. Pffff....

But why did I create the puppetd.conf file? Because I'v read the "Pulling strings with puppet"-book. And althought it's fairly new, puppet is advancing at a very high rate. So the book is becoming out-of-date already.

At Tim_online we have several webservers and each of them have apache2 installed running php with fcgid (a fastcgi implementation). Why this configuration and not mod_php? Because it is reasonably fast (at leaster faster than plain cgi) an secure (because it doesn't run under the apache user).

For it to run php scripts as the website owner, you need suexec.

Suexec is a mechanism supplied with Apache that allows to execute CGI scripts as the user they belong to, rather than Apache's wwwrun user. This improves security in situations where multiple mutually distrusting users have the possibility to put CGI content on the server.

So when u visitor requests one of the webpages of one of my customers the proces looks like this:

request -> apache -> fastcgi -> suexec -> proxy -> php file

I don't exactly know anymore why the proxy is required, but it is
Know the problem is: suexec (by default) can't execute the proxy file, because it isn't owned by the php file owner. So you have to hack suexec to make this work.

I did this. And everything worked. The webservers were happy to serve al these requests untill one day apache get updated. The automatic ubuntu updates push a new version of apache with a new suexec binary. Problem!

So when you come at work there are 16 "missed incoming calls" and you co-workers are going mad with all the dissapointed customers. You look at the apache logs: hmzzz, suexec is giving 120 errors... What could that be? !Ping! Suexec ofcourse. Let's see, how did I solve this problem the last time. First let's download the apache sources. ./configure. Yes. now where's suexec.c? Ah, cd support. Now,  make suexec. Wait, missing headers. Let's install those first. Make suexec. Arrgh. It doesn't work! Suexec -v. Wait, forgot to adjust the ap_httpd_user, ow, and comment out the offending lines. Yes, this should work. Ok. Copy it to /usr/lib/apache2. Ok, it works!

But at that time, an hour has past. If you can find the right files at once. So I decided to write down the steps I took to download, configure and compile suexec the quickest and simplest way. Here we go:

That's it! Test it by doing: sudo ./suexec -V
That should output:

Basically what I did:

1. I installed the necessary headers
2. Got the latests suexec code from the apache svn repo
3. Downloaded the suexec patch from my blog
4. Patched suexec to disable the file owner check
5. Compiled suexec with the default ubuntu options

1. The generated images aren the size you want them to be. So they're smaller of size than the original images.
2. You won't get any ugly resized images (see the example below).
3. It works with remote images. So you can link to an image one someone else's blog and they get resized to the size you want + cached. So that way they get loaded from your own server: so faster.

No more ugly resized images:

The one on the left is without com_resize. The one on the right is _with_ com_resize. If you don't see any difference. Your browser is probably doing some fancy stuff with the image. In that case you don't need com_resize. But maybe the readers of your blog do!

For the people who don't see any difference (leave a comment with your OS + browser, please!) I have attached a screenshot. Made in IE6, so the font is ugly too