Thanks to Cyril* I have just solved a weird problem I had with Typo. To write my posts, I use Markdown. When I began to use Typo I did not know how I could use Markdown. First, I simply wrote in the visual rich editor but then Markdown was not taken into account. So I used the ‘source’ mode, there it was working. Except that the carriage returns where not displayed by this view. So, as long as I was typing the post it was ok but when I wanted to go back to a post it was really ugly. Thus I saved my posts in a text file and if I wanted to update one I updated the text file and copied and pasted to typo. You imagine the pain !
I have long thought this stupid problem was due to a bad configuration. Somehow it was. A way to solve this problem is to go to Settings/Write and choose ‘Use simple editor without live preview’ instead of ‘Use visual rich editor’. The catch is with that you won’t be able to have a … ‘live preview’. There is at least one other person wishing a ‘live preview’.
I am glad to have Typo fully working now !

* To be precise Fred also helped me on this subject some time ago but his answer, while correct, was not precise enough and I had not understood it, my bad. Thanks all the same !

With the migration to Intrepid, I got KDE4. The first impression is ‘wow it is shiny’ ! The second impression is ‘does it work’ (it was not) ? The third impression, once it works, is ‘how does it work’?

In life there are things that change and things that do not change. Linux is an always changing and evolving thing. However, the fact that after each migration I lose my wifi connection is something that does not change. But now I am used to it, so before the migration I pulled my ethernet wire to be ready and happy! Let us see how this migration from Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) went.

Why is GIT so interesting ?

With git, I have been doing some gardening these days. Indeed I growed trees, cut branches, grafted branches.
I have been using a Version Control System (VCS) only for one year. That is about since I started the Thinkosphere project. I have been using SVN. At first I was like “Hey this is so cool”. SVN is a real time machine or at least a past time machine. You can easily go back in time to get the state of your source code from months ago. Unfortunately you cannot go forward to the future (with GIT you will be somehow able to do that !).

On October 24th, David Lowenfels aka dfl added the beginning of a test app in OFC plugin. As I had myself a local test app used to play around with OFC I thought it would be nice to add my test code in the OFC plugin. This code is actually made mainly by Charlie’s examples taken from his blog and my own examples.