[dev] Shell vs C where is the border?

2014-03-10 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I was recetly wondering about the use cases of C and shell. I've seen that this topic appears several times mostly when discussing sbase. Some of you probably knows ffmpeg, software that allows to convert media files between various formats. Imagine now that we have several smaller tools that d

[dev] What is bad with Python

2014-03-03 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've recently had a presentation(during local Linux User Group meeting) about some basic ideas Unix philosophy and suckless projects. This has led my attention once to the topic of programming languages and I must admit that I've found Python much less harmful that I had previously considered

Re: [dev] man and man-db

2013-11-05 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:58:58AM +, Raphaël Proust wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Szymon Olewniczak > wrote: > > Which db engines > > do you consider of being suckless? > > I (as in “myself”, not as in “the suckless community”) think file > based stor

[dev] man and man-db

2013-11-04 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, I've realized recently that starting from the times of Fedora 13 man application was replaced by man-db in all major GNU/Linux distros. Do you thing that using Berkeley DB is better that traditional flat-text whatis db (in my opinion it is, it probably speed up things)? Does the apropos comman

[dev] TDD

2013-10-22 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, what is your opinion about TDD? Is it suckles or not? Do you have any experience with this kind of development? Do TDD in C make any sense? BR, Szymon

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-20 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 01:02:34AM +0200, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Evan Buswell said: > > But OTOH, I do like the idea of separating the translation-to-html bit > > from the generate-sensible-output bit. XSLT may have done this poorly, > > but it's on the right track (and what else works better

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-18 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> On 18/10/2013, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: > > I believe that we can make the web the better place without huge revolutino > > s/HTML/XML+XSLT/g is quite a revolution. But it's something whitch I can use in my application straight away without forcing user to change their web

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-18 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 06:48:06PM +0200, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Chris Down said: > > On 2013-10-18 14:44, Szymon Olewniczak wrote: > > > Pages writen in XML has readable source and data can be accessed much more > > > easily. > > > > I don't ev

[dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-18 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, everyone knows that XML has its defects but considering some of our discussions about suckless web ideas I think that XML + XSLT is quite a good solution - much better than plain HTML. Pages writen in XML has readable source and data can be accessed much more easily. In addition using of XML c

[dev] [dwm] mousless monitor switching

2013-06-03 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, there is one thing about dwm that really annoy me. In multi-monitor setup I need to use mouse to switch between my screens. Can I do it using some keyboard shorotcuts. I like the way it's working in i3 where I simply have one set of tags for all screens and switching tag automaticly switches s

[dev] suckless conference 2013 - video

2013-05-25 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, does anyone is going to make a video of suckless conference talks? I would like to be present in this year conference but sadly I had found out too late about that. Regards, Szymon

Re: [dev] [dwm] Dvorak programmer keyboard

2013-05-24 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
> Use the keys array. If you don't know the name of the keys use xev. xev is the tool what I was looking for. Thanks. Regards, Szymon

[dev] [dwm] Dvorak programmer keyboard

2013-05-24 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
Hi, today I decided to switch from i3 to dwm. Nearly everything works perfectly instead of tags. I using dvorak programmer keyboard and instad of 123456789 on the top row of keyboard I have: &[{}(=*)+] . Now how can I assign this keys to point to dwm tags. Regards, Szymon

[dev] Why HTTP is so bad?

2013-05-22 Thread Szymon Olewniczak
On the http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ I've found very interesting statment about HTTP: "or best of all: don't use HTTP". Can someone explain me why the author claims that? What is bad in http? Regards, Szymon