Bugzilla has a very interesting feature called Whining. With it you can schedule reports to be automatically sent by email to you or anyone else in your team.
As an example, I have sent to me on the weekend a report of all items that were created or worked by our dev team in the past week.
Creating a whining report is pretty easy:
save a search criteria that interests you (eg.
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If you like to support open standards format, here is a (at least for me) new discovery: .epub.
If you like open standards and ebooks, support the spreading of .epub. This file extension is a mixture of three open standards OPS ( Open Publication Structure ), OPF ( Open Packaging Format) and OCF (Open Container Format), produced by the IDPF.
From what I know Kindle – the hot ebook reader of the moment – does not support .
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As the last post of the year I wanted to sum up a short list of the best open source projects I met in 2008. Several from the list were created way before, but only got used by yours truly this year.
Without further delay:
Identi.ca which I’m now using way more often than Twitter; Gwibber is pretty much the only way I’m using Twitter nowadays since I ditched Twihrl.
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Gnome has the great advantage of being a Chameleon with its Theme options. Making your Gnome based distro looking like a Mac OSX is very easy:
Download Mac4Lin; Click on the file Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh for an automatic installation; Install AWNand setup it up with the applets you need. Since I installed AWN, I removed the bottom panel of my desktop.
Final result?
For the past few months I’ve been doing a lot of work editing images in .eps format. Since I really like my Gimp, I spent weeks trying to find a nice way to edit these images with this program, instead of running to Photoshop. Well, I was finally able to find a solution I now share with you.
The steps you’ll need to follow are actually quite simple:
Download Gimpand install it; Download Ghostscriptand install it; Go to the /bindirectory of where you installed Ghostscript copy all .
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Before installing my Linux distro I did some pretty lengthy research on partitions. This was a concern for me since I was not doing a fresh install, but installing Linux right beside Windows with a dual boot installation.
If you want to have your entire computer Linux-only, you will not have much to worry, the automatic installation can handle everything by itself. But, if you want a dual boot with Windows, or want to leave some space for other operating systems, it is wise to study a bit about this topic before starting your installation.
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As mentioned previously, Gimp is a very good open source program for your image editing needs. What is even better about Gimp is its plug-in structure which allows for a greater usage of the program.
One of these plug-ins, called GimpPublishr,will allow you to upload your images to Flickr or Picasaweb automatically. It is quite simple to use, to install it just drop the extracted files inside your Gimp plug-in folder.
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A couple of websites that have helped me greatly to find excellent open source projects:
osalt.com (open source as alternative): here you will find a good list of open source alternatives, a description of each program and the rating readers have given to each project; SourceForge: the home of the majority of open source projects, you will also find statistics of the most downloaded programs and their “pick of the month”.
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