Friday, May 27, 2011

Complete variables with cd command in bash

Hello,
lately I've been searching for a way to complete variables containing directories with the "cd" command in bash. This is very helpful if you have something like "cd $mydir/". This is not actually working in debian bash-completion.
Then I've realized that other commands such as "ls" actually expand variables. I looked for some "complete" combo used for "ls" but not for "cd" in /etc/bash_completion and I came out with the following:

complete -F _longopt -o default cd

Luckily, this is exactly the command needed to enable variable expansion with the "cd" command. Put that in your .bashrc after loading bash_completion and you're done.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Enforce facebook chat through SSL

Hello,

since a few days facebook is supporting SSL for the chat. The problem is that it can't be enabled.

Until facebook enables this you can use the SSLGuard plugin for firefox, which enforces SSL for a list of web sites, including all facebook pages and the chat as well.

We have some good ideas for sslguard that we'd like to get in for the next releases... stay tuned.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Valag 1.2 released

Hello,
I've just released the 1.2 version of Valag, the graph generator for analyzing Vala code trees. Only relevant change is the fact that it now builds against libvala-0.14.

More information and download at the Valag homepage.