Identi.ca mode for Emacs
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 5 Comments
Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Laconi.ca code base. I recently needed to update my status from Emacs, since its faster for me and easier. I’ve been using an an Emacs mode to update my Twitter account, but there was nothing to use for my Identi.ca account. And seeing there’s a Vim plugin, I thought someone, like me, needed an Emacs mode too.
So I forked the original twittering-mode to use it with the Identi.ca platform, using its Twitter compatible api.
System Requirements
- GNU Emacs 22
- Linux, Mac OS X, BSD or any Unix based OS (requires curl and wget)
Download
Installation
Put it in your Emacs elisp files directory (.emacs.d/ in Ubuntu)
Then add the following to your .emacs (or your preferred customizations file)
;;; Identi.ca mode
(require 'identica-mode)
(setq identica-username "yourusername")
(setq identica-password "yourpassword")
Use
To start identica mode type:
M-x twittering-mode
the buffer ‘*identica*’ will appear and you can see your friends timeline.
To refresh friends timeline
C-c C-f
To post an update of your status
C-c C-s
type your message in the minibuffer, and hit Enter. You will see ‘Success: Post’ in minibuffer.
Hope it can be of use for anyone using Emacs for almost everything, like I try to do, and would like to hear some feedback.
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Antifeatures
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Write a Comment
Mako Hill has been talking about the Antifeatures, which are features that you don’t want but the product costs more when they don’t have them instead of costing more for adding them.
Sounds tricky? Well, maybe its more understandable with this last news story about Dell will charge $50 dlls to have XP installed. It is more expensive to have bad and old operating system, than a bad and new one.
Fortunately, there’s always the option of having the good and new Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system on your Dell at no extra cost.
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Post iPhone announcements
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Write a CommentAfter today’s iPhone announcements and all the excitement that has been generated, I started thinking about the competition. The nokia n95 and all the other smart phones have little advantage over the attractiveness of an iPhone.
The features and the looks are nice. But the price? I can’t think of how a Nokia N95 at more than $500 dlls is going to compete with an iPhone 3G at $199 dlls standard pice world wide.
And it reminded me of a nice Dilbert cartoon:
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Change default columns in Drupal grid view
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Write a CommentI’ve been working with Drupal templates these past weeks and I needed to make a photogallery.
I found a great resource for doing it following this nice video. But because of the space available in my template’s design, I needed 3 columns intstead of the default 4 on my grid view.
So what I had to change to do that, is in the modules/views_bonus_grid.module and on line 20, you change:
// set default count.
$cols = $view->gridcount ? $view->gridcount : 4;
with:
// set default count.
$cols = $view->gridcount ? $view->gridcount : 3;
Place whatever number you want, and there you have it.
I know that editing the module itself is not the best way to do it. But it works and its the quickest way to get it done.
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Apple’s WWDC Keynote effect
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Write a CommentIt is incredible the effect that Steve Job’s announcements have on the internets
tubez. The keynote is starting and there’s a lot of speculation about Twitter
coming down to its knees. Well… so far I can still access twitter.
There’s a lot of links where to get live updates:
But I prefer the IRC channel on irc.macrumorslive.com, channel #macrumors where
I’m getting the latest and fastest updates on the keynote.
No, I’m not an Apple fanboy. I don’t have any Macs or ever had one. But I love
to be updated with the latest in technology. And like it or not, every Apple
announcement kinda changes the world.
Hope to see something like that happening with free software related news someday.
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Life updates
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Write a CommentIts been a while since my last update here on my blog. Truth is that I’ve been distracted with other types of blogging but mainly I’ve been through major changes.
I don’t know if I wrote about it before, but I used to work for HoraDeComer.com a web startup for restaurant searching in Monterrey. Micro managing there didn’t work for me, so I looked at other opportunities after 5 months of developing interesting stuff there.
Fortunately I got a call from Danilo Black. I’m happy to say that I’m working with Drupal and hope to be contributing some patches someday soon. Its been a great experience for me so far because I get to work with Basilio, a good friend of mine and I’ve been learning to work with a larger team.
Work on the twexter project has been progressing a lot these days, and we have already a nice demo to test. There’s still a lot of work to do on that interface but we’re getting there step by step. Its my first “open source project” I’ve contributed and curiously I’m the mantainer of the main code. I’d love some input from others but I think the tool needs to mature more to wake some interest for contributions. I just hope the tool will help kids and people in general to learn new languages easily. It can also be used as a nicer translation tool.
I’ll try to keep up my publishing and will try to publish more interesting stuff, and less personal life gossip.
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