Abandon the GUI!

So, it only seems fitting that I should talk about a command-line interface to posting on this blog. No, I do not mean using links or the like, but a way to post from the command line.

So, this post is being typed up in vim on my Fedora 8 laptop. I will use this great little tool I found called wppost to post. wwpost is part of the perl module WordPress::Post.

A brief summary of its commands are bellow:

       -c category, can be a list separated by commas, no spaces
       -t title
       -i description, main body of post, if it has a slash, it is interpreted as a file to slurp
          like a text or html file
       -D iso formatted date for post, can be left out
       -T if there are image attachments, place them as thumbnails only, with link, not just resized

Some usage examples taken from the man page:

    Most basic of usage, (provided you have a ~/.wppost file)

       wppost -t 'hi everyone' -i 'i just wanted to say hello'

    If you want to specify two different categories:

       wppost -t 'Another Apple' -i 'Apples are really great. I do love them so.' -c food,rant -D 20071231

    If the body of the post is in a file

       wppost -t 'title here' -i ./content.txt 

    If the content of the post is in a file and you want to use the file
    name as the title

       wppost -i ./Title_Here.txt

    If you want to have file attachments:

       wppost -t 'recent photos' -i 'these are recent pictures i took' ./*jpg

Pretty cool, huh?

Peace out!

He’s back! And with with something new/cool:dvtm || dynamic virtual terminal manager. I have looked at other character-cell based `window’ managers before, but they either a) did not work or b) took up too much screen room with needless decorations.  The nice thing about dvtm is that it is small, simple, and works well under screen.

At work, I have a screen session running on my main dev server, and four dvtm’s running.  This gives me the text-mode equivalent of four virtual desk-tops with different windows running at the same time so I can see what I am doing.  This has been a big boon for my productivity.

The only downside is that you need to have a lot of room to make this work, so you need either big monitor ro small fonts or both.  I have to settle for small (7 pt) fonts.

You are tired of hearing your GUI friends talking about their games? Tired of playing simple Adventure? Why not try Pacman for Console?

The game play is just like the old quarter game you played long ago, and the best part, you can develop your own maps! Check out the screen shot: