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Using Mercurial instead of Drop Box

Posted on Monday 15 November 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Recently I’ve had a number of friends telling me how fantastic Drop Box is for synchronising files and how they don’t understand that I don’t use it.  Drop Box has one very good argument in its favour: you can use … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Question: Using Ubuntu With Your Favourite WM

Posted on Monday 1 November 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

So as I mentioned before, I’ve been using Ubuntu with window managers other than GNOME.  But there are some things I took for granted about GNOME, such as the way that it automatically connects to my preferred wireless networks, or … Continue reading →

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Window Manager Woes

Posted on Monday 18 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve been playing around with different window managers for my Ubuntu installation.  At work in particular, I find it really useful having a tiling window manager because (a) it improves my efficiency because the keyboard shortcuts help to cut down … Continue reading →

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Python Unit Testing

Posted on Monday 11 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve had to write and maintain Python unit tests both for work and for Trosnoth.  I’ve played around with py.test and nose, and have done a tiny bit with trial (for twisted).  As a result I’ve come up with the … Continue reading →

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Talking Back to Mum

Posted on Monday 12 July 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

The Aim While doing some programming on the HATE terminal emulator, I came across an interesting idea: I wanted to be able to type a command into bash (from within HATE), that would leave the current bash session running, but … Continue reading →

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