Happy New Year! To all my readers, no matter when you are actually getting round to this post, I wish you all a happy new year, and that this year goes well for you (or has been going well for you so far, if you’re reading this a bit further in the future). Now, on […]
So here I am again, typing another blog post. Except this time, im writing it in markdown, and it will then be statically generated to HTML, using some exceedingly clever perl which I have been adding things to. The main program is called App-SCS, and was created by Matt Trout (mst). This app is only
So, in trying to actually run Android Studio on a new machine, I’ve had to add a few more dependencies. You can see the original post here: Android Studio Under Debian. Now I am running Debian Testing, and came up against some more interesting missing dependencies after that when creating a new project. So if
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So, ive been having issues trying to get Google Hangouts working in Debian, specifically under Jessie. It shows the green connecting symbol, then gives up and shows an error screen (which is oh so helpful….). After trying multiple things or installing, uninstalling, installing 32bit versions, etc., I came across some instructions here. These actually fixed it!
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So, just needed to create another USB Boot disk, and had to search through my command line history for the command set I used… tends to be, if you’ve ever needed to do anything more than once, its probably a good idea to write it down. So here is how to create a Linux USB
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Ok so a quick post – have been trying to get freeglut to install under Debian, so I can do some OpenGL work in Perl. However, just couldnt get it to work – it kept complaining that GL/gl.h and GL/glut.h were both missing. Turns out I was missing two extra bits… So to get it
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Hey long term readers! Just another short entry so that things I find useful to know are actually accessible to other people if they so need it. Today: Getting Android Studio to work in Debian (Wheezy). So when I first ‘installed’ (read: unzipped) Android Studio, it wouldn’t start up – something about a .jar file
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This is just a quick update, to let you know that the code from the Perlanet Simple walkthrough is now on Github, here! There are a few changes I’ve made, though mainly just re-organise the folder to make more sense. So now the actual script is in the ‘bin’ folder, the template and config files
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So in my current project at Shadowcat, I am using a CPAN module called Perlanet, as written by Dave Cross. This module/program is mainly for aggregating web feeds (Rss or Atom feeds) and creating a new feed and web page from them. Now, with the stuff I’m doing for Shadowcat, I have been refactoring a
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Ok, in trying to print out an event from Google Calendar, there was an issue in getting the main content of the entry to print. the trick with this is to do: $event->content->body this will then print out exactly what you want! woo…. (thanks theorbtwo & castaway)
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