since I mostly develop in PHP language, I wanted a way to share my code for a while, just to show it to a friend or so, without pasting the code into pastebin.

For such situations PHP created the extension PHPS, which stands for "PHP Source". on Apache for ex. all you have to do is to add to httpd.conf file the line "AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps", and phps extensioned files will be highlighted.

On Nginx however, there's no such thing, some will say for good. After a little search i found that many Nginx users already created their own code to highight their PHPS files. but if we make the highlight ourselves, why not to take it into a completely new level? I've decided to add more features, such as line numbering. I looked over the www if anyone already wrote such thing. the best solution i saw can be found here. I've decided to use it and to add more features, like anchoring the lines, so i'll be able to point the viewer to a specific line.

I also created a demo, so you can try it without running it yourself.

At last, I uploaded my work, including the Nginx configurations into GitHub, and it can be viewed over here. If you have any ideas to improve the code or you found a bug, I'll be more than glad to have your feedback!

Dor.

Actually I've never wrote anything about it, but it's been a long while I'm using Fluxbox, and I must say that I love it very much. it's fast, customizable and easy to use. – however, new users may not like it as much as I do, because it doesn't think a lot about the end users.

I wanted to join a Fluxbox users team in Launchpad to spread the word, but it seems that the only close thing to it was some kind of private team ansd did not fit the standards of "X-users", so I decided to open my own one!

You're all invited to show you're support in this great environment on https://launchpad.net/~fluxbox-users, Paul already joined

Dor

For a long time I was annoyed by the Right-To-Left problems that occurred quite often in the IRC which made text that has Hebrew and English mixed impossible to read.

Few months ago I decided to find a solution, for me anyway, for that problem. Days passed and I had no time to work on it until the last few days. I decided to write an Xchat plugin that will hook the messages and will add RLM or LRM where needed. of course that BiDi have always been a hard spot for RTL users, but I believe i've done it as fine as possible (and this is the place to thank MKSoft for reviewing and cleaning my code!!)

You may want to check it out: https://edge.launchpad.net/rtlplo0x

Of course that if you think you can make it work better or cover more BiDi problems, you're more than welcomed to fill bugs and  improve the code

* Something I'd like to point out: even though I use Hebrew, it is supposed to work the same for any other RTL languages, like Arabic, Persian, Urdu and more.

Dor

התחושה שלי היא שהיה הרבה יותר מקום לעבודה על סטייל הפעם, איזה כיף
אם תציצו במרכז התכנות תוכלו לראות תכונות חדשות, כמו היסטוריית התקנות, תכנות חדשות, תכנות מומלצות, תכנות לקנייה (!) – עכשיו כשיש אפשרות למכור תכנות, אולי חברות מסחריות יתחילו להתעניין בפיתוח באובונטו…

האמת היא שהדבר הכי בולט לדעתי הוא ה־Theme עצמו שעבר פיתוח רציני, פתאום הכל כתום־שחור משהו, אני אישית אהבתי את השינוי.

דבר נוסף שכדאי להתנסות, הוא הגופן החדש של אובונטו, שכנראה שעד הגרסה הבאה כבר יכיל עברית תודות למסירות של כמה חבר'ה (תום?), שתפסו את קנוניקל עם המכנסיים למטה ובזכותם עברית בין השפות הראשונות שייכנסו אחרי אנגלית, אז סחטיקה

קצת שנוי במחלוקת: קנוניקל הוסיפו תכנה קטנטונת ששולחת פינג לשרת של קנוניקל, ככה הם סופרים כמה משתמשים יש להם (שמחוברים לאינטרנט). הדבר לא מזיק ולדעתי נכון, אבל אנשים רבים לא אוהבים את הרעיון. כך או כך אפשר למחוק את החבילה "canonical-cencus".

קצת חסרונות:
לאלו שרגילים להשתמש ב־aptitude: הוחלט להסיר את החבילה, כנראה שהיא תופסת יותר מדי מקום. כמובן שהיא עדיין נמצאת במאגרים ואם תרצו תוכלו להתקין אותה.

באג למשתמשי שתי שפות ומעלה: פעם בכמה זמן פתאום נתקעת החלפת השפה (לא משנה באם מדובר באנגלית־עברית או צרוף אחר..) וקשה מאוד לכתוב ככה. הבאג גורם לכך שאם תלחצו על האות א' לכמה שניות תקבלו שורה כזו: "אאאttאאtאאאאtttאttאאא" וכן הלאה..
מבאס, אבל יתוקן בעדכונים הקרובים.

דבר נוסף: אתם מוזמנים להציץ, להרשם, לתת ביקורת ולדווח על באגים באתר הקהילה הישראלית של אובונטו: http://ubuntu-il.org

את המערכת תוכלו להוריד מאתר המראה הישראלי: http://mirror.isoc.org.il/pub/releases/maverick (כמובן אחרי שהם יעדכנו את המראה).

שבוע מצוין
דור.

אגב: אתם מוזמנים היום משעה 17:00 לבוא לארומה בעזריאלי להפגש ולחגוג את שיחרור הגרסה החדשה, כיף מובטח להמונים!

There are no Ubuntu developers that doesn't use English only?

Funny

Dor.

After all the time expecting excited, we (the Israeli LoCo) had a booth on August penguin event, which is no less than the biggest FLOSS event over here.

First of all, we spread more than 700 Ubuntu CDs, including Kubuntu, Server edition, and even what we had left from the last version (9.10). I was amazed to see that we gave almost all the 9.10 CDs! not to mention all the badges and stickers people were so happy to have! (and again thanks to Ubuntu-fr).

I was happy to see in the event many people that i already know from Ubuntu on the grass (which is our Ubuntu event name)

Try to find our Booth in the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sijproject/2010
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=203940&id=810428115&l=cda90399a0
http://elad.blogli.co.il/archives/1406

As you can see, the event was a great success, either for our booth and for the FLOSS in Israel

Dor.

One of the features I like the most in open source is the ability to change and improve the software in the way you wish using Plugins/Extensions.

It's been a long while i've got spam messages from ICQ. if there's something I really hate is spam. and because I support ICQ for being the first IM success in the history (and for being an Israeli invention as well) I just can leave it.

Anyway I was getting so many spam messages per day I was about to get mad. I started to look for the best plugin to give an end to that spamming story, and got very unsurprised to find one over the repositories

So what's the concept?
the idea is that when someone wants to add you he should first answer a question. this is quite much the same plugin that was very popular back then to the Gaim days (which I can't find its name BTW).

How to install?
couldn't be more simple: find your way to the Ubuntu software center (or if not using Ubuntu, you can still try your luck with your software installer) and look up for "bot sentry" (without quotes). Click the Install button, and – that's it!

All you need to do now is to activate it on your pidgin. open Pidgin and use Ctrl + U to open the plugins window. now you should tick the checkbox next to "Bot Sentry". almost there…

Now click the "Configure plugin" button, and fill the form with the details you want. I suggest using for the question something that is quite sure that everyone knows the answer (yes, it means no private jokes!).
PLEASE NOTICE that it is working on all your accounts by default, so you better hurry up for the next step of the guide

How to use?
as i mentioned below, now the plugin already runs, and by default affects all your accounts. go to the accounts management window (Ctrl + A) and modify the accounts you don't want to use this feature. go the the advanced tab for each account and remove the check from "Use Bot Sentry for this account" checkbox.

Done!

NB – Even though I was writing mainly about ICQ, this feature works with about any IM protocol.

NB2 – for those who wish to know why Pidgin and not Empathy: in Hebrew we use to say that you shouldn't argue on taste and smell. besides, Pidgin rocks way more than Empathy!

Dor

Earlier today (or yesterday depends on your time stamp) Alan Bell had sent me the logs of the community council meeting that happened the night before (and can be read over here).

After reading the logs came into my head a great idea! how about having the Planet to be multilingual in its main feed, but to have specific language feeds and pages.

When you'll enter the planet.ubuntu.com page (and why isn't it .org?!) you'll see posts in many languages, but under the menu, I'd suggest in the left side you'll be able to find list of languages code names. so if i want to follow all posts in English, Hebrew and Italian, I'll register the feed/en, feed/he and feed/it. if I'll want just to see how big our community is, i'll be able just to see all the languages posts of today and to be amazed to the fact that there is a live community speaking …. Esperanto (or any other language such as Binary).

I see only good that can become from that. any language will get its own place on the global Ubuntu community stage,  you'll be able to find all the posts about Ubuntu in the language you choose, and furthermore: we will have an huge collection to show to the world – WE ARE UBUNTU!

in these words…
thoughts?

Dor

Just wanted to share how thankful I am to Ubuntu-fr for the huge amount of stickers i just received from them.

Not too long ago I asked in the #ubuntu-locoteams channel from some promoting materials for August Penguin, a big event coming on this Friday (6/8). actually this is the biggest FLOSS event in Israel that happens once a year.

This year we're going to have a booth presenting Ubuntu, which makes me fully proud. since it's FLOSS there's nothing much we can tell the people that they don't already know – so we're  spreading items to make Ubuntu more popular over Israel.

So when YoBoY (in the name of Ubuntu-fr) managed to send me stickers I was extremely happy – so thanks!

Dor.