Ben Nelson nelsonblaha

Calibre Server on Linux

Introduction

Calibre is a powerful cross-platform, open source, ebook manager and editing platform. Its calibre-server component can be used to publish an e-book library on a local network. While you can launch calibre-server as a desktop application, it can also be run as a daemon on a headless Linux server.

This tutorial on setting up calibre-server using Ubuntu 14.04 is very good, but dated.

Launch Sublime Text from the command line on OSX

Sublime Text includes a command line tool, subl, to work with files on the command line. This can be used to open files and projects in Sublime Text, as well working as an EDITOR for unix tools, such as git and subversion.

Requirements

Sublime text 2 or 3 installed in your system within Applications folder

Setup

How to GTD with Simpletask

This is a guide to implementing Getting Things Done (GTD) using [Simpletask][] by [Mark Janssen][].

Simpletask uses the [todo.txt][] syntax, but has sufficient differences and quirks of its own to be worth describing in detail---at least, that's the story I'm going with. I actually began this guide as an exploration of my own trusted system. Personal workflows are by definition eccentric; I have included only what seems to me to be broadly useful.

This implementation of GTD covers the "standard" classifications: next actions by context, projects, somedays, agendas by person and meeting, etc. In a departure from strict GTD, each entry in these lists is also tagged with an area of focus, interest or responsibility. I find that the ability to slice the system by this extra dimension is worth the additional complexity at the processing and organizing stages. Limitations, issues and workarounds are discussed at the end.

Before we begin, some words of wisdom

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import os
	import requests
	import libxml2
	import time
	import phue
	import daemon
	import lockfile
	import signal

	/* French initialisation for the jQuery UI date picker plugin. */
	/* Written by Keith Wood (kbwood{at}iinet.com.au) and Stéphane Nahmani ([email protected]). */
	jQuery(function($){
	$.datepicker.regional['fr'] = {
	closeText: 'Fermer',
	prevText: '<Préc',
	nextText: 'Suiv>',
	currentText: 'Aujourd\'hui',
	monthNames: ['Janvier','Fevrier','Mars','Avril','Mai','Juin',
	'Juillet','Aout','Septembre','Octobre','Novembre','Decembre'],

	<snippet>
	<content><![CDATA[
	<div class="field">
	<%= f.label $1 %>
	<%= f.$2 $1 %>
	</div>
	]]></content>
	<!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
	<tabTrigger>formitem</tabTrigger>
	<!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger

	function decodeUrlParameter(str) {
	return decodeURIComponent((str+'').replace(/\+/g, '%20'));
	}