Today started the LinuxTag for me with some construction work on the Kubuntu Community booth. It’s interesting to see how such a conference is being set up.
If you come to visit the LinuxTag drop by for a talk about Kubuntu! We are at booth 12/36.
In other news I was looking for a job and just today got a confirmation of Systematrix. I’ll start next week and the working conditions are great. Seems like my RealLife (TM) is working pretty good now, lets see how it evolves with becoming a student later this year.
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A few days ago I started a complete rewrite of html2text. It now uses a new htmlparser (also written by me) which should make the whole HTML cleanup process obsolete. The generic XML parser which is currently used dies on invalid XHTML, with my parser it should be possible do handle errors and parse HTML 4.01 documents without any regex magic beforehand.
You’ll hear more of this in about a week as I’ll be on vacation until the 24th.
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Finally: Yesterday I had my last Abitur exam. Now I’ll have much more time to invest into programming and this site. I plan to make some progress with 3co and start learning C++ so I can help with KDE development.
Next steps in my life will be to apply at the FU-Berlin to study physics and computer science starting this fall. Hopefully I’ll get a job in the mean time…
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Update: Use Markdownify, it’s the successor to html2text.
I just released html2text 1.6, a minor bugfix release which now handles empty img tags (<img>, i.e. without the trailing slash) . Thanks to Bermi Ferrer for his patch.
Also I missed a debug output in one of the functions which is now removed and I beautified the source code a little bit (I added more whitespaces).
You can download it on the project website:
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Yes I know it is pretty darn late but hey - what else are holidays there for? Except learning and partying and dancing and chilling and… well yes I just could not stop until it worked like I wanted it to.
My TypoGridder now works as a MiniTool for Konqueror and as a bookmarklet in Firefox and Opera. It should have the correct height on any page and should be on top of everything. Please test it and report any bugs.
Visit TypoGridder project Page
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Update: Use Markdownify, it’s the successor to html2text.
URL:
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I recently read two articles about using grids in webdesign. It just makes sense. Read them yourself:
I’ve wrote a little javascript which displays a basline grid on any page (via bookmarklet). For more information visit the project website.
Please use this article for any feedback.
PS: And as you might see, I have a lot to do to let my website align to any grid. The curse of a layman.
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I recently read two articles about using grids in webdesign. It just makes sense. Read them yourself:
I’ve wrote a little javascript which displays a basline grid on any page (via bookmarklet). For more information visit the project website.
Please use this article for any feedback.
PS: And as you might see, I have a lot to do to let my website align to any grid. The curse of a layman.
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Microsoft has created some new fonts for their Office 2007 suite and Vista: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel. Read this article for more infos and some pictures.
They look pretty good I have to admit but nevertheless they are tainted by evil ;-). Nevertheless they might become quite common in the next months. So how does one acquire these fonts (besides spending a fortune on their software)?
Windows ships them with their free PowerPoint Viewer. All you have to do is extract the *.exe and the containing *.cab. Than you’ll be able to install the TrueType Fonts like others.
I didn’t find this out, I read it in the German Blog http://praegnanz.de or rather this blog entry
HowTo install on Linux
Run cabextract on the *.exe and the ppviewer.cab once. You’ll have the TTF files in your current directory, install them (e.g. via KControl).
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Some things I’d like to code if I had the time / skill:
- open text files in kate / kwrite / quanta on demand (analogous to my open_url script)
- help the programming effort to add greasemonkey support for konqueror, see neofreko and namshub
- add something like stylish for konqueror (a simple frontend for user stylesheets)
- write a “clean up php code” plugin for quanta and/or kate, which adds/removes whitespaces etc.
- port labplot to kde4 / qt4
* give labplot a new website 6. add a klipper plugin or something to send its contents to an online pastebin like [attachr](http://attachr.com/)
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