OSX vs Linux, two months report

OSX vs Linux, two months report

OSX vs Linux – 2 Months report

- The first excuse (aka Disclaimer), for sure there are lots of things I have yet to discover or get used to them. Don’t consider this a professional opinion.
– The second excuse, I bought the system from a company that pre-installed some software (Mac Office, Adobe Suite full), maybe they did something wrong.

I used Linux about 8 hours a day for the past 5 years. The companies that employed me allowed me to ...

Python scripts

“Python ® is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development.”

Python and Nike+

It’s pretty simple to make a script to read your stats from Nike+. Use a browser like script (there is one provided above), do some query to Nike+ and retrive some XML, that you can parse using BeautifuSoup. I did this to integrate my Nike+ stats with Django. I’m planning to post what and how I did it here. If you want to see the scripts earlier, don’t hesitate to contact me via email.

Python Simple Web Browser

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Linux Tips

Screenshot Blog

  crontab -e 10,30,50 8-17 * * 1-5 import -window root -display :0 ~/screen-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M`.jpg  

Explanation: I read somewhere, some time ago, about the idea to track of what you have done, through screenshots. For this, you can use ImageMagick’s import and a cronjob. In the above cronjob you take a screenshot every 20 minutes, from 8 to 17, Monday to Friday. At the end of the day, you can make yourself a quick review.

Note: if you are planning to publish this images, do not forget to delete the one where you are planning ...