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Friends who know me, know, that I'm a damn Vim fan.
I spend most of my life in front of my computer, and mainly Vimming.
Thus, you shouldn't blame me for my efforts to control everything, right within my Vim.
I wrote several Vim plugins, doing some nifty (at least for me) tasks; but the latest one, is a very useful plugin (again, at leas for me ) which was missed in recent months (actually after Gentoo developers purged XMMS, I missed a great plugin written by `Andrew Rodionoff').
And now it's back, but this time for Audacious!

On behalf of the Jaws development team, I'm proud to announce another release of Jaws.
Jaws 0.7 (At my signal, unleash hell!) is a release with lot of Ajax and fancy stuff you will love, new gadgets and new code!
As usual it's provided through three tarballs:
Jaws Core: Include core and core gadgets (useful if you want to use Jaws as a framework).
Jaws Blog System: include same as jaws-core but also some gadgets like Banner, Blog, Chatbox, FileBrowser, etc..). Useful if you want to use Jaws as a blog system and a theme.
and Jaws Complete: include everything

For more information: official announce

It's always nice to hear some good news from topics you're interested in, isn't?
One of my concerns in recent years, is wide spreading of HTML emails, I do hate them, with no shade of doubt, they are one of the golden keys of spammers success; furthermore, it opens up holes in email clients, my email clients are always told to render HTML emails to text.

And what's the good news?
DoD has just dropped HTML emails support (as well as Outlook web access) and will block incoming ones. Well although it has nothing for me in direct, but hopefully it could lead to more discussions and probably, some logical solutions.

It's months since release of Vim 7.0 (8 May, 06), and seems is a bit late to write in appreciation of it, but `Better late than never.'
Among a bunch of new exciting features, the built-in Spell Checker shines.
Well, plugins for spell checking were available earlier, but now it's built-in (TM). As I'm not a native English, I've a lot of typos is my writings, although most of them are grammatic but I've misspelled words there too. Thanks to the built-in spell checker in most Mail clients (specially in my favorite, Sylpheed) I've less problems there, in my e-communications, and thanks to Firefox 2 built-in Spell Checker I've even less in writing blog posts or commenting on other' ones. But what about the rest of life?
When I'm writing Homework, Articles or anything, I need a live Spell Checker environment too. Well OOo is there and we all like it but that's heavy to load for such tasks on my poor box, and by the way I prefer to write a dirty draft with 80 characters line width, unformatted in plain text and in a terminal based editor (sorry OOo, but you can't do this).

Thanks Bram, and Happy Vimming!

Tonight (The last night of Autumn) is Yalda Night (Shab-e-Yalda) which is longest night of Year.
Happy eating watermelon!

I just can't imagine how debugging was a painful task before being familiar with Joe Hewitt's (now is copyrighted for Parakey Inc.) Firebug.
Struggling with LiveHTTPHeaders or WebScarab for determining whether calls are executed at all or playing around with DOM Inspector to inspecting an element's various attributes or Venkman for JavaScript debugging, and Console² for viewing errors and notices were my daily jobs mainly at the debugging stage ... (oldishhhh days!)
But Firebug provides an "All-in-One Magic Box" to make all of these stuff, Just fun!
Firebug performs all of these in a very very neat UI, and the great news that made me to write this post is that:
"Firebug 1.0 is getting Close"

IEEE Spectrum (November issue) Features Parakey on the cover, A new project from Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt.
Parakey tends not to be one of those WebOS loser projects which just aggregates informations and let you drag them across your browser, it's main goal is to make content publishing easy, very easy, as easy as making the content of your globally accessed page, off-line!

Ross wants independent developers to create a variety of applications for Parakey. To that end, he and Hewitt have created a programming language for Parakey that they call JUL, a mashed-up acronym that stands for “Just another User interface Language.”

... it looks like a Web site—down to the Firefox-style tabs that run across the top of the page, which each family member uses to display his or her own section—it is, in fact, something much more ambitious: a universal interface. Even though Parakey works inside your Web browser, it runs locally on your home computer, which allows Parakey developers to do things inside your Parakey site that a traditional Web site could not do, such as interact with your camera ...

Spam, spam and spam ..., Time for a migration.
I'm using Thunderbird for about 15 months when I don't like it at all!
I should admit that, the just reason made me to use it so far is the fact that Thunderbird is from Mozilla.
Anyway, with the amount of spam which I get daily and TB's poor anti-spam engine (even after 15 months doesn't seem a well-trained one), I decided to migrate and candidates were Evolution and Sylpheed(-claws), dunno why I can't be happy with Evolution at all, even with it's ton of integrity options with GNOME; Hi Sylpheed then!
Well, here, before emerging Sylpheed and downloading email messages I had to wonder in a way to reduce the spam-handling-by-hand.
Bogofilter was my choice.
And finally it's time to train it, as it does its magic based on the principles of probability (is a Bayesian one), I needed an archive of spam and non-spam emails, the best way was to download all of my gmail account emails, move junks to Spam folder and train it!

Well, although it took a long time, but now, the result is awesome!

I can't imagine it.
He was the first (and the last) leader (hey, please dont start FUDs here in my blog comments, he was the PEAR leader imo) which puts so much effort to help the new developers or users and keep working in other parts of the project, He's the meaning of PEAR in my mind because he introduced me with PEAR world and now he's leaving, and will leave us alone here with a lot of FUDs from the men that don't know differences between PEAR as a Package and all of PEAR as a Group.