Every time I need to add an image to one of my posts, I use a very simple tool to upload it to my Flickr account first. Once the image is uploaded, all there is left to do is write the post and paste the corresponding URL from the Flickr site for every image you want to publish together with your article. Even though most tools out there used to perform this task were written for the Windows plataform, I know of a few that were written for the Linux community, such as F-Spot and FlickrUploadr.

Short and quick 10-minutes tutorial about basic Python programming syntax that should get you going with this popular programming language!

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For the volunteers working in the translation of Ubuntu Linux from English to a different language, here is a great tool based on AJAX: AJAX Translator To use it, simply select the language that you want to translate from in the upper textbox and the language that you want to translate to in the lower textbox made, and what the “magic” unfold! The translation happens dynamicaly as you type! Though a bit too literal, I find it to be of great help.

Spent a good 2 nights trying to figure out what the following error meant: glade_xml_build_interface: assertion `wid != NULL' failed The error was genetated when I tried to compile a small C# program I wrote using Glade for the UI. As a good netizen, I googled for the meaning of this but just couldn’t get usefull info… until now! Apparently, the error results from setting up the Glade.XML object and not using the same exact name for your forms/windows as you gave them in your .

2006/02/10 : Alpha 1 2006/03/10 : Alpha 2 (feature complete) 2006/04/07 : Beta 1 (string complete, feature frozen) 2006/05/05 : Beta 2 (string frozen) 2006/05/26 : Release Candidate 1 2006/06/07 : Release Candidate 2 2006/06/19 : Release Candidate 3 2006/06/27 : Firefox 2 For more info, check here.

The other day I was bragging about the new plugin for Firefox 1.5, Performancing. In a nut shell, it allows you to compose and edit blog posts inside your Firefox tabs. It pretty much supports all the major blog protocols out there and it has a neat interface. Since I use my Portable Firefox 1.5 a lot, this little gem works just perfect for me on the go!