During the past few months I’ve been working on a project to convert my vast Emacs configuration into something generally useful and self-contained that could help the typical software engineer. Th...

As you know I’ve recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll. One of the things I had to do was add an Atom feed (RSS sucks). It was quite the easy task. I just had to create an atom.xml fil...

This is my first post after a very long hiatus partially induced by a migration of my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, which I started half an year ago and never quite finished.1 I wasn’t particular...

After a long period of planning I finally migrated my professional CV from Word to LaTeX last weekend. Since I live in the European Union I used the europecv LaTeX class. I’ve uploaded the LaTeX c...

Most of you probably have heard that Fedora 13 will feature experimental 3D support for the Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia cards. This support, however, is not enabled by default. To enable ...

Recently I’ve been trying to switch my work environment theme to something with lower contrast (namely the excellent Zenburn theme). Swing applications, however,have difficulties with GTK themes wh...

If you have access to the source, you can do this in the main method: // enable anti-aliasing System.setProperty("awt.useSystemAAFontSettings","on"); System.setProperty("swing.aatext", "true"); ...

I always thought that the fact that JDialogs accepted a parent frame as a constructor argument was the thing, that would make the dialog’s position relative to that of the frame: public JDialog(fi...

Have you ever been wondering how to access the Emacs menu bar, when using Emacs in console mode? The answer is easy - press F10 or type M-x menu-bar-open(both methods work in X as well, of course)....

Sometimes you may want to start a couple of programs just after an interactive login to your favourite shell, which in my case would be zsh. For example - I use Emacs as daemon process (emacs --da...