Archive for February, 2009

Get started with github

Posted by JohannesTheDeveloper in Happy Hacking on February 26th, 2009

- create your local git repo.
- create account+project on github
- copy your github url (see project page)
- git remote add origin <github-url>
- git push origin master
copies your local changes
- git pull origin master:master
pulls from github

Setup for another directory/user:
- git clone <github-url>
- git push
- git pull

Note: the second user lives in origin, whereas your original lives in master and you push to origin.
I’m still trying to figure stuff out. Git resources: http://www.gnome.org/~federico/misc/git-cheat-sheet.txt

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Skype in Pidgin

Posted by JohannesTheDeveloper in fun with Linux on February 17th, 2009

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There is a Skype API plugin available for pidgin. Looks like this:

To compile it under 64bit Linux, do


$ svn checkout http:// skype4pidgin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ skype4pidgin-read-only
$ cd skype4pidgin-read-only
$ make all
$ sudo make install

Restart pidgin. You get 2 additional account types: Skype and Skype (DBUS).

I don’t understand why the author is flamed for not making a independent protocol implementation that doesn’t need Skype running. It is Skype that prohibits that.

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FreshTorrents

Posted by JohannesTheDeveloper in Happy Hacking on February 3rd, 2009

This has been moved to freshtorrents.sf.net.

I made a desktop application that allows you to browse for popular torrents.
It currently supports legittorrents.info and thepiratebay.org.
Here is a screenshot:

freshtorrents1

It provides you with an alternative view on popular, cheap (bandwidth-wise) and new torrents giving you infinite filtering freedom.

Download:

$ git clone git://github.com/JohannesBuchner/fresh-torrents.git

Or get the zip from the website.

Run

$ python fresh-torrents/freshtorrents.py

You can also do this with a launcher.

First, you have to select a backend from the menu.
Play a little with the app and let me know what you think and how to improve it.

Right-clicking opens the torrent description page, middle-clicking (or both mouse buttons) opens the .torrent file directly.

Additional hint: You can search by keyword in the list. Just start typing in the list, seperate keywords with a space, and hit cursor-up and cursor-down to jump to the next match.

Packages needed: pygtk >= 2.0

See freshtorrents.sf.net for more information!

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