I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: HTTP backend rewrite The backend that makes the HTTP connections has been completely rewritten to use url.el mode instead of the previous [...]
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3 methods on how to backup your Emacs file
The emacs personalization file (dotemacs) is a very important resource for every Emacs user. Typically found at ~/.emacs, this file contains elisp code all the personalization of Emacs to accommodate each user. Its so important that it basically represents your Emacs “personality”. To loose your .emacs file can mean loosing a lot of hours of [...]
Mac OS X from a GNU/Linux User
The Mac OS X slogan I’ve heard from several mac fanboys is “it just works”. Well, being a GNU/Linux user for quite some time and coming to OS X, that is not the case for me. There’s a lot of little things that “just don’t work” on my particular usage. Recently I’ve been given a [...]
Emacs identica-mode version 0.7
I’ve finally arranged some time to publish a new version of Identica-mode for Emacs to easily track and post updates to any Laconica installation such as Identi.ca What’s new Added menu with most useful features Added re-dent (retweet) feature by pressing C-c C-m with pointer on status to re-dent User timeline method now prompts for [...]
Emacs identica-mode with multiple timelines and direct messages
Emacs identica-mode, a way to read and post to Identi.ca microblogging site and any Laconi.ca installation from Emacs, now has support for several (friends, replies, public and user) timelines. Also added support to send direct messages. Some of the changes are: All API calls are now through HTTPS Changed keybinding, pressing “g” on identica-mode buffer [...]
CONSOL 2009
I participated at CONSOL 2009 and had the opportunity to give 4 talks this time and meet with "the software libre community". The talks were great, with very interesting subjects, and there seems to be a lot of interest in virtualization this time. Rolman gave his talk about virtualization with KVM and the basics of [...]






