A few days ago the Linux Foundation announced the 5 finalists for its 2012 T-Shirt contest. I’m sponsoring my fiancèe’s work, titled “Freedom lifts us up”, which you can preview below. In her own words “The concept behind my design is quite simple: linux and its freedom power many aspects of our lives most people don’t know: Nasa (shuttle), US Navy (submarine), Toyota (car), US Airways (plane) and Pixar – Disney (cinema) all make use of Linux in their bu

To install this script just download the file , place it under your home ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts , make it executable and then kill nautilus. Below are copy&paste instructions to install from terminal cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts wget "http://www.andreaolivato.net/Share on Dropbox" chmod 755 "./Share on Dropbox" killall nautilus Please note that I manage duplicate files adding an incremental number to the name, after the full name (yep the extension too) Below is the full source of the s

Technical guide with sources aiming to teach how to setup a simple Perl script to update a Twitter account using Google Buzz posts and goo.gl url shortener

Because so many of you requested it, I started developing the new version of my Google News Sitemap Generator for Joomla CMS. This time I’m developing it as a component for Joomla, not as an external tool and currently it works with Joomla 1.5 Core Sef component only, but I hope to be able to implement other Sef services soon. Check the project home page for downloads and info. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) Related posts on Google News Real Deal Finance » Hamas promises

Create a simple and good looking API system using PHP + MySql + Apache mod_rewrite, dealing with different formats and types of request. Learn how to make inserts or selects in your DataBase basing your queries on passed parameters and requested methods.

This is an in-development post. I will update it regularly to add new services. If you want to contribute, please jump to comments and leave your link + shortcut. I preferred a very short keyword to maximize the usefulness of these shortcuts. You can obviously decide to use a more descriptive keyword using more letters. How to use this If you want to install a new search engine to Google Chrome, just right-click on the omnibar (addressbar) , choose ‘Edit Search Engines‘ and click Add

If you own a very large WordPress installation like the one I’m dealing with on LinuxFeed, you probably can not manually look for empty categories and remove them from the admin panel. With 13.000+ posts and 14.000+ categories it’s quite impossible to use WordPress GUI for management, and great plugins like WP-Optimize or Optimize DB might help but they do not look for empty categories. So I managed to create simple queries to select and then remove all the unused ones. Be sure to un

Just a few minutes ago I received an email from the Seesmic team sharing the beta preview of their 0.6.3 new version, featuring a full twitter lists support. I installed the new .air package and started playing with it. Integration seems complete, and honestly I didn’t find any bug on lists actions. As shown on the image on the left both your own lists (twitter cyan) and the lists you follow (grey) are displayed on the left menu. By clicking on each link a new column will appear or you wil

The usage of twitter by its own web interface or via the most recent clients, accustomed users to see linked @usernames and #hashtags inside any status update they read. When using Twitter API on your own website, service or app, you need to deal with plain text tweet, with no tags so no links. Using Regular Expressions it is possible to create links easily and quickly, in quite any programming language. As what really matters is the regular expression itself and not the programming language use

I do Love eselect! For those who don’t know eselect is a ‘modular administration and configuration framework’. In simpler words it is a management tool shipped with Gentoo, able to switch between packages versions and configurations files, working with symbolic links and environmental variables. Just to better clarify eselect job, it is able to make you switch between Java VM versions, Python releases , Gcc compilers and it makes it possible to choose your favorite editor. Esel