I’m on a very brief break and hacked on my Twitter notifier for a couple of minutes. To tell you the truth, a couple of bugs have been ironed out a week after I posted the first version. It has been working so well, I didn’t bother playing around with the code.

Twittipy now prompts for your username and password. If you want it to save to the config file, just uncomment some of the lines. I’m not comfortable with the password saved in a file and I haven’t thought of a way to encrypt them. By the way, Pidgin saves passwords in plain text too. The login prompt is old code from a wxPython experiment some time ago (and it ain’t pretty).

After you get authenticated, an icon will appear in your system tray. To exit Twittipy, right-click on the icon.

Download it here.

I love Wine! No offense to the GIMP folks but I still use Photoshop 7 and when I found out that it now works out of the box with Wine, it gained my trust. Here’s how to install Wine 1.1.4 on Fedora 9.

1. Check if you have wine installed.
   $ rpm -qa | grep wine
2. Uninstall the old version.
   $ sudo yum -y remove wine
3. Download the latest build from Koji. The following is the i386 build.
   $ wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-twain-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-capi-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/src/wine-1.1.4-1.fc9.src.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-jack-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-nas-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-core-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-ldap-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-cms-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-cms-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-tools-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-desktop-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-esd-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm
4. Install the RPMs.
   $ sudo rpm -Uvh wine-*
5. Confirm installation.
   $ rpm -qa | grep wine

I upgraded to the lastest version of Wine just to get Google Chrome running on Linux even if I already read that it’s slow and SSL support is absent. I followed this guide.

I almost got it running but it was really slow (see screenshot below). I also have V8 compiled but when I tried to play around with it, I didn’t know what to do even with the interactive console.

My invaluable thoughts on Chrome:

• I think it’s great that it uses Webkit. Not really sure if it’s faster than Gecko but at least testing with Webkit is more fun now.
• You can drag a tab in and out of the window. That’s cool but I couldn’t pin the window to stay on top.
• The developer tools are almost as great as those provided by Firefox extensions (i.e. Firebug).

Some people are starting to stalk (not follow) me on Twitter so I’m thinking of making my updates private. I’m not a selfish person so I’ll blog some of my tweets here.

SIPv4 - A commentary on the state of SIP

Philippine Web Design Conference (a WIP)

Sangoma U100 - A USB FXO for Asterisk. I’m getting one, thanks to Mark Q. [pic]

Koji - package builder for Fedora

Cairo-Dock - giving in to using this dock so my windows minimize to it only because I can’t configure my XFCE task list to expand. I want to configure it so that the icons highlight when hovering over the icons. Right now it zooms in.

His Art, Our Heart: The Amorsolo Retrospective - just a plug on what I worked on recently. I’ve fallen in love with mootools and this is coming from someone who always loathed frameworks.
Credits:
Art Director: David Guerrero, Dino Cabrera, Guadakomeda, Leah Mababangloob
Logo Design: Bixie Reyes, Gino Caoile
Copywriter: Racquel Narciso, Pia Roxas, Maan Agsalud
Accounts: Cels Esguerra, Mads De Guzman, Karen Go
Developers: Dennis Billano, JP Loh