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BackupMonitor: improvements

Posted on by Thibauld

Icône de Backup Monitor

A new version of backup-monitor has been released including:

  • bugfix for when the locale is not defined, or when playing a little with the script’s command line options
  • refactoring of the GUI to give the user more feedback and to give more hints on where to click (GUI inspired by Ubuntu’s update-manager)
  • using OptionParser to ease the command line handling
  • change in licence: for the GUI changes I’ve look and taken ideas from many GPL project, so it’s just fair (if not plain compulsory) to release this new version under GPLv3.

Most of these modification were motivated by the first feedbacks I got from a friend, thanks to him then ;)

For more info and download, please go here.

Programmation artistique

Posted on by Thibauld

On a fait du chemin depuis l’ASCII art et on trouve désormais pas mal de ressources pour transformer les ennuyeuses tâches de codage en mini-expériences graphiques (toutes proportions gardées évidemment), les derniers exemples qui me sont passés sous le nez:

  • Graphe d’appel en couleur: comment rendre (presque) joyeuse une tâche de profiling (ousqu’on regarde à quel point ce qu’on a codé est lent à mourir)
  • Rendu 3D de graphiques: génération de camembert via Python+PovRay , c’est complètement j’té mais j’aime bien :)
  • “Sparlines”: de petits graphes très discrets à insérer un peu partout. Pas très excitant dans le fond mais simple, efficace et surtout très très fashion en ce moment…

Update (bis)

Posted on by Thibauld

I’ve just made avaiable a new version of my backup monitoring scripts. This scripts will remind you regularly that your data needs to be backed up (default one month after the latest backup) and also help you in doing so (requiring very few intervention on your behalf except maybe two or three clicks at most).

I’ve also updated the Ephyblog plugin to Epiphany so that they work after the API change that happened in version 2.22.

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