Month: January 2013

  • Off to LCA2013

    While I’ve been involve in Linux and Debian for many (15 or more) years, I’ve only ever been to one “major Linux thing” in all that time and that was manning some stall for Debian about 10 years ago. Well, let’s call it two because next week I’m off to the Linux.conf.au 2013 conference. I…

  • Bootstrap – The hidden gem in Turbogears

    I’ve been trying to tidy up my Mako templates within my Turbogears 2 project.  As part of that I was looking at some of them that are quickstarted including one which is the About page. What was curious was there was all this CSS work all done already for you, including icons.  Digging further I…

  • Pre-selecting ToscaWidgets jqgrid values in TurboGears

    My Turbogears project has recently reached an important milestone; one of the back-end processes now runs pretty much continuously and the plugins it use (or at least the ones I can see) are also working.  That means I can turn to the front-end which displays the data the back-end collected. For some of the data…

  • procps 3.3.6 and Mudlet 2.0

    Yesterday was a busy Debian day for me with the release of not one but two packages. procps procps version 3.3.6 was released both as an upstream and a Debian package.  While there were many bug fixes in this release, the main new feature for it was the top inspect feature. The top inspect feature…