Songbird Global Hotkeys for Ubuntu Linux

February 20, 2010 by jabapyth
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    One thing that I have really missed in playing with songbird is Global Hotkeys for changing the song, etc. This functionality is available for Windows, but Linux (and Mac) users still have to wait if we want official support. There is a workaround, though, thanks to GeekShadow's addon Command Line Support. This allows for all kinds of clever hackery, including global Hotkeys.

Event Bubbling example

December 29, 2009 by jabapyth
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Event Bubbling

Javascript events are handled in a very particular way...
a way that isn't always immediately intuitive. For an excellent description of just how this all works, check out this article over on quirksmode.org. The purpose of this post is to give you a practical knowledge of how this actually works, as well as point out a few quirks.

UNetbootin failed to unmount /cdrom

November 1, 2009 by jabapyth
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I used UNetBootin to install Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) to my laptop, but I kept running into the error "Failed to unmount partitions"

The installer needs to commit changes to partition tables, but cannot do so becaue partitions on the following mount points could not be unmounted:

/cdrom

Please close any applications using these mount points

Would you like the installer to try to unmount these partitions again?"

SVG Birds

October 11, 2009 by jabapyth
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I needed to create some svg birds for a game I'm working on (i couldn't find any around) and I thought I'd share them; feel free to use/abuse them in any way you want ;)

Error installing xdebug: phpize not found

August 15, 2009 by jabapyth
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So I ran "sudo pecl install xdebug" like a good linux user, but was stymied when it threw the error "phpize not found", especially when "sudo apt-get install phpize" yielded no friuts (darn it, that usually works!)The magic package actually happens to be "php5-dev", so a quick "sudo apt-get install php5-dev" fixes everything!Now wasn't that simple...of course it made me waste a half hour searching, but, never again ;)

Gravitron

June 30, 2009 by jabapyth
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Gravitron is a space based game where you must defeat your enemies solely by deflecting their bullets back to them.

Yeah, the help page needs work, and more levels are forthcoming. But the gameplay is pretty sweet as is, and there are a a bunch of cool enemies. suggestions/comments/bug reports are welcome.

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[Drupal] Make user profile URLs readable

May 27, 2009 by jabapyth
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Here's a tip for making you're community site that much more user friendly:
change this:
     http://example.com/user/5275
to this:
     http://example.com/users/joe-shmo

Much better, right?
To accomplish this, we will make use of the excellent Pathauto module, which, among other things, allows us to alias user profile urls.

All screenshots from drupal theme garden on one page

May 15, 2009 by jabapyth
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I got annoyed with drupal theme garden so I whipped up this page

this shows all the screenshots from all the (drupal 6) themes on themegarden.org
check it out here

Flock

April 11, 2009 by jabapyth
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This is a basic flocking implementation, demonstrating the organization and collection of many bodies in a cohesive group. The boids all follow the mouse, and are bounded to stay inside the screen.

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EatEmUp

April 11, 2009 by jabapyth
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EatEmUp is a cool Artificial Intelligence simulation, which shows a "bully in the playground" type situation -- one predator goes after many prey objects, which have different "fields of view" (as manifested by the semitransparent circles surrounding them). The predator simply goes after the closes one at any given moment.
At this point, the simulation is pretty cool as a screen saver, but has no real interactive functionality.

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