I’ve written about web crawling with Perl, but there are some severe limitations to that. The biggest being that it doesn’t (easily) support AJAX. Enter the WatiN web application testing framework for .Net. Best of all, it’s a *free* framework and supports multiple browsers -currently IE, Firefox. I’ve read rumor somewhere that support for Chrome [...]
Well, as much as I like messing around in Linux, it’s just that – messing around. From a software development standpoint, Windows still rules. Visual Studio just can’t be beat. But that is a post for another day (soon). For now, I want to talk about how I used C# and VLC to feed my [...]
Love the new button layout in Ubuntu 10.04? Yeah, me neither. Thankfully, it’s absurdly easy to fix it. You can run this from a terminal window or from the Run dialog (Alt+F2).
gconftool-2 –type string –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
Bada-bing!
So I’ve already done a post on getting track information from Rythmbox, but VLC felt cold and left out, so here it is. The process is pretty much the same, just tweaked a bit for VLC.
First, go into VLC, Tools -> Preferences, click the “All” radio button (near the bottom), Interface, click “Main interfaces” and [...]