Mashing Twitter and FSO

06Dec09

I really love Twitter and it didn’t make any sense to me to shell out a rupee for every tweet sent through my Airtel Mobile. Moreover, I am on one of those monthly booster packs which allows you to send 22000 text messages for free. I simply had to exploit this by setting up my […]

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Tags: dbus, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gta02, neo, neo1973, openmoko, Python, scripts, snippet, twitter

Give your boss the illusion of managing you… with pidgin and dbus

30Jun09

Oh yeah!. With the power of DBus and libpurple APIs it is possible to give your boss the illusion of managing you. Just run the following script (under WTFPL). Tested with jabber accounts in a live office environment . #!/usr/bin/env python # By Sudharshan S, released under WTFPL import dbus import gobject import time class […]

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Tags: comicstrip, dbus, dilbert, im, moronity, pidgin, pointyhairedboss, purple, Python, snippet, wally, wtfpl

odeviced: More sysfs abuse (Screenshot attached! :P)

13Jun08

A few days gone by, and endless wrestling with git wherein I was not able to push code. Turned out, I was using the wrong URL to push ..doh! But anyway, the code is beginning to stabilise a bit (Read no unexpected segfaults, only expected ones..). The last few days were spent in changing the […]

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Tags: dbus, freerunner, freesmartphone, freesmartphone.org, fso, gsoc, neo1973, odeviced, openmoko

Fun with Vala and DBus

18May08

After the lousy semester exams, I decided put in some time to learn vala and dbus to cheer me up. For the unitiated, `Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications […]

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Tags: dbus, gsoc, odeviced, openmoko, soc, vala