Blog

Content before 2026 was migrated and some information might have been lost.

Mudando para o Reino Unido

Published on February 16, 2016.

Note

This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

Algumas mudanças na minha vida nos próximos dias. Na sexta-feira eu me mudo para Manchester no Reino Unido para trabalhar lá por dois anos.

Eu recebi uma proposta de trabalho da The University of Manchester para o cargo de Research Software Specialist na Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, School of Computer Science, Information Management.

More ...

Gnus

Published on February 16, 2016.

Gnus é um leitor de newsreader que também pode ser utilizado como leitor de email. Depois de vários meses utilizando Org mode resolvi dar uma chance ao Gnus pela sua integração com o Org mode (algo para um futuro post).

Nesse post você encontra uma configuração minimalista para testar o Gnus.

Instalação

O Gnus é parte do GNU Emacs e você precisa apenas instalar o GNU Emacs para começar a utilizar o Gnus.

More ...

Sync Address Book

Published on January 1, 2016.

In a previous post <../../../2015/10/24/calypso> I wrote about Calypso, a CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV server. At this post you find some tips to use DAVdroid with Calypso.

Note

To follow the tips you need Calypso running and DAVdroid installed on your smartphone. To install Calypso, follow this steps. And to install DAVdroid, check this page.

Gotta Import ‘Em All

Ran :

$ calypso.py --import private/YOUR_NAME your-vcard.vcf

only imported the first contact at your-vcard.vcf. I wrote a patch to fix this behaviour that is available at http://keithp.com/pipermail/calypso/2016-January/000089.html.

More ...

pyCardDAV

Published on January 1, 2016.

pyCardDAV é uma coleção de scripts em Python que podem ser utilizados pelo Mutt para acessar contatos.

Instalação

Nota

Você precisa utilizar Python 2. (T_T)

$ sudo pip install pycarddav

Configuração

Edite o arquivo ~/.config/pycard/pycard.conf. Caso o arquivo não existe utilize https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geier/pycarddav/master/pycard.conf.sample como ponto de partida.

Syncronização

Para sincronizar o banco de dados local com o servidor utilize :

$ pycardsyncer

Bye Bye 2015

Published on December 31, 2015.

Note

This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

To close 2015, a nice quote that I read today:

"People deny reality. They fight against real feelings caused by real circumstances. They build mental worlds of shoulds, oughts, and might-have-beens. Real changes begin with real appraisal and acceptance of what is. Then realistic action is possible."

These are the words of David Reynolds, an American exponent of Japanese Morita psychotherapy. He is speaking of personal behavior (...)

More ...