Wordpress Automatic Installer Shell Script
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under Wordpress, command line
Today I’m going to share with you a little script to automate installing Wordpress. This is a standalone shell script that will download the latest version of wordpress and configure it for you.
First of all, here is the script.
This script will download the latest version of wordpress and extract it to the directory you specify. [...]
Installing Adobe Flex Builder for Linux on Arch Linux x64
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under free software
As you probably know if you are reading this, Adobe Labs has a Flex Builder alpha available for linux. Unfortunately, Flex builder for Linux is 32-bit so running it on Arch Linux or any other 64-bit Linux distro requires 32-bit versions of the JRE, Eclipse, and Firefox. Thankfully, you can find the JRE and Firefox [...]
Tags: flex
Why I use free and open software
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under free software
This is by no means comprehensive, but I wanted to quickly outline my reasons for staying away from proprietary software and sticking to free and open source software. My reasons are both technical as well as ethical.
Proprietary software products are specialized consumer products. They employ a systemic division between user and developer. There is no [...]
Tags: ethics, freedom, open source
Convert FLAC files to MP3 with flac and lame
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under command line
Flac files are just dandy, and I’m happy to use them. Sometimes, however, you might need mp3 files instead. Particularly if a friend of yours asks you to make him an mp3 cd out of some albums you only have in FLAC format. So what to do? well it’s easy enough to do from the [...]
Tags: code, flac, lame, mp3, scripts
ImageMagick: Join images together on the command line with ImageMagick
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under command line
Turns out it is pretty easy to join images together. This is especially useful for joining together a button image and it’s rollover state.
Here, I want to join together the images portfolio.png and portfolio_over.png
Tags: images
Code highlighting colors for Geany
Posted by Ali Gangji | Filed under free software
If you’re anything like me, you love Geany for its super fast loading and restoring open tabs. However, I really didn’t like the highlighting colors. I used to use Kdevelop, and I enjoy Kate’s colors for web code so here I’ve made some filedefs for geany to get Kate like colors for XML, CSS, JS, [...]