Gopal Venkatesan's Weblog

I’m one of those folks that don’t use heavy bloated window managers like GNOME or KDE. I prefer a light-weight, fast and slick window manager which is why I run Enlightenment DR17 (or E17 for short).
For a terminal application I used to run XTerm, but now I use mrxvt which is another light-weight terminal emulator [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 at 10:56pm and is filed under Enlightenment, GNU/Linux.

This weekend I want to drive from Bangalore to Coorg. I was just wondering it would be nice if I have a web site that can give me driving directions (in India). Otherwise I would have to ask my friends for the route, on the way stop by shops, etc and ask for directions. Its [...]

This entry was posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 5:59pm and is filed under News, Yahoo.

Its amazing to see Yahoo! contributing a lot of its internal tools to the community.
Following its previous project, YUI, its R3 now.
If you are wondering what R3 is, it is a command line tool designed to help manage templates, localization, and translations across many internationals/countries/projects.
Read more about R3 here.

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Tags: r3, yahoo, open [...]

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 at 4:19am and is filed under News, Yahoo.

After Sunnyvale and London, it’s now in India.
Yahoo!’s open hack day is on the 5th and 6th of October in Bangalore. If you’re interested in working with APIs, making mashups and showing them off to an audience of your peers, then you must show up there.
The hack session is by invite only and we’ve got [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 at 11:09pm and is filed under News.

I use the W3C Slidy Presentation Tool for my presentations. I found a very annoying bug that prevented the showing and hiding of the table of contents smoothly.
When perusing through the source code, I found that there are couple of typos in the showTableOfContents() and hideTableOfContents() functions. Dave Raggett was kind to incorporate my patch [...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 at 9:02pm and is filed under Random.

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This entry was posted on Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 1:34pm and is filed under Enlightenment, GNU/Linux.

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