It is definitely a work in progress, but right now it is very easy to use and it gives reports for the last few days, last 3 weeks, and current month. Also, for mac users, it has the option to change your Adium statuses using osascript, with customizable status messages for a few situations.

weekly report

monthly report

You can find the source code and installation instructions at github (http://github.com/jao/termite).

I plan to add features like, defining projects and tags to the worked time, and exporting the reports to formats like pdf and csv.

So if, like me, you are curious about these tools, I’ll post what I did to install them.

First I made backups (by moving some folders around)

mv ~/.gem ~/gems-old
sudo mv /opt/local ~/macports-old

You could also install a gem called ‘rubygems_snapshot’ and do a

gem snapshot export ~/my_gem_list.yml

or a simple

gem list > ~/gem_list.txt

and just plain delete your user gem repository

rm -rf ~/.gem/

Of course I am assuming you were installing them in your home directory, why wouldn’t you be?

But if by any chance you have gems installed all over the place you could try running this instead (since this would remove the applicable executables as well):

sudo gem list | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo gem uninstall -a -x -i

Now let’s get started.

Installing homebrew

official installation instructions

Start by running:

ruby < <( curl 'http://gist.github.com/raw/323731/25f99360c7de3f72027d8fd07cb369b1c8756ea6/install_homebrew.rb' )

or download it from here and run it yourself.

If by any chance you don't trust or know what that does, you can test it by running the code below that calls this simple and safe ruby script first.

ruby < <( curl 'http://gist.github.com/raw/385387/0cacf4231fceb621c987221ee0aaa380be2bca5d/testing_download_and_run.rb' )

If you are curious, this is the source of that gist:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts 'Hello World'

Then install Xcode, I recommend downloading the latest version 3.2.2 at this moment from apple's website.

If you are the only person using your computer, you can change the ownership of /usr/local by doing a:

sudo chown -R $USER /user/local

Delete some folders:

rm -rf /usr/local/include
rm -rf /usr/local/lib

After that you can start playing around with homebrew i.e.

brew install wget

I install most if not all of my stuff from brew now, even mysql and other things that I would rather not get from port.
Warning: do not remove your system's /usr/bin/ruby since brew depends on it.

Let's move to rvm installation now

(official installation instructions)

To Install/update from the github repository, which they recommend, run:

bash < <( curl 'http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head' )

I had a version of ree installed in /opt, so I just deleted it, I recommend that you do the same.

Add this to your .bash_profile or .bash_rc file, whichever you use.

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

They advise you to put it at the end of it, and to make sure you have no returns inside your file.

I have a reload function in my file so I just ran reload

rvm install ree
rvm install 1.9.1
rvm install 1.9.2-head

Set the one you use the most as the default one, at work is ree:

rvm ree --default

Everytime you open a new terminal, it should be using the default rvm ruby, but to make you might want to add the rvm-prompt feature to your default PS1. Add ~/.rvm/bin/rvm-prompt i v to your PS1 variable, something like:

# a fancy ps1
export PS1="\e[1;33m\u\e[0m|\e[1;32m\h\e[0m \e[1;34m\w\e[0m |\e[33m$(~/.rvm/bin/rvm-prompt i v)\e[0m|\n\$ "

If you want to install a gem for all of your rubies run

rvm gem install gemname

if not, you just use your regular gem to install stuff (it should be using the specific gem for your chosen ruby - as you can see below).

$ which ruby
/Users/jao/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2010.01/bin/ruby
$ which gem
/Users/jao/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2010.01/bin/gem

I think that sums it up. Have fun!
And ask questions or say if something is wrong in the comments.

Back in the late 90s, I used to write mostly about my life, but I used this website more to test new technologies, and workarounds, solutions to get things done. I remember that I used a javascript/iframes/php hack to make “ajax”-like calls. And to my knowledge, this site was the very first one to use these emulated calls like that.

used to write comments without reloading the page

I remember how this code used to work, and I remember being kind of cool back then, all of my friends were thrilled by this. Sadly or fortunately, that is nothing special these days.

mysql queries and html code all mixed together, funny!

The php source is even weirder to look at, I miss the recklessness that was programming with sql calls being made from all over the place. I remember a couple years later I started writing my own framework (like every other programmer) and it was pretty solid by the time Ruby on Rails exploded everything with it’s simplicity and agility.

I am considering refactoring blogware, well, actually making a new blogware would be more accurate, probably using ruby and RoR, adding some cool web 2.0 features that you can find in current cms/blog tools. And maybe some crazy new things that will be properly used 5 years from now.

I made this because I always disliked those happy IM windows, with things bouncing around making weird sound effects. It was intially much simpler than this, but a fancy terminal is still good, as long as it is fast, right?

My friends Caffo, Taiza and Juca helped me with this since the beginning, and there is even a Variant (color style) made by Caffo that is in the package –  bu noone likes it.

I’ve heard that this might work on pidgin too, can someone confirm this? If not what changes do I need to make so this can work?

a sample message

I plan to only update this to fix bugs now, but if you have any ideas, suggestions or requests, just let me know.

To get this you can go to the Adium Xtras page, or you can get it straight from GitHub, where you can find more versions as well.

The Hero will not be receiving the Android 1.6 upgrade, it will however get the 2.0 one. Do note however that we do not have a confirmed release date for this upgrade, all I can recommend at the moment is that you keep yourself updated by visiting our website regularly as the latest information will be available to view from there.

We don’t know when, let’s hope it happens soon.

/win

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
STDOUT.sync = true
bars = ['/','-','\\','|']
i=1
while i do
  print "\rrunning #{bars[i%4]}"
  i += 1
  sleep 1
end
trap("INT") {
  print "\n\n"
  exit
}

If you like to see updates without flooding your terminal screen, this is one of the best ways to do it.

What should I get? And why?

Just use this link http://www.google.com/profiles and edit your personal information… All I want is to have my friend’s birthdays on my google calendar (contacts), without adding it myself :D