Creating And Deploying Org Mode Jekyll Site To Github Pages

We’ll go over how to create a Jekyll site using Org-mode and how to deploy it to Github Pages! I won’t go over styling and creating a nice Jekyll site, just building a bare bones basic one, and deploying to GitHub.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on emacs

Simple Vala App

In this post we’ll go over how to create a simple Vala application. This app will just act as a counter. For example, whenever a user presses the “+” button the counter is incremented, the reverse happens with the “-“ button.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on vala

Python's New Module: Zipapp

Zipapp is a new module that is coming out in Python 3.5 (As of this writing it’s in alpha stage 3). The purpose of this module is to make a single standalone executable package from multiple Python files.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python

Kivy's Screen Manager And Back Button

This is a follow up post to my previous one where I discuss how to capture the back button press in Kivy. In this post we will go over an example on how to use that knowledge to check if we can go back to any previous screen, just like any other regular Android/iOS app. First lets create two files, main.py and example.kv.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on kivy

Mimicking Constants In Python

Spoiler: The reason this is not called Creating Constants in Python is because there is no way of creating true constants just beacuse of the way Python is. But that doesn’t stop us from mimicking that behaviour in attributes.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar on python

VMware Workstation, Ubuntu 14.04, And The Keyboard Problem

I have VMware Workstation version 11 and Gnome Ubuntu 14.04. The problem I have is that whenever I focus to a VM and then focus out to the host machine, for some reason all my main keyboard shortcuts don’t work! For example Ctrl, Alt, Super, and other keyboard bindings no longer function, heck they don’t do anything at all! The only thing I was able to find about this, was this small post. Thankfully, this helped me figure out what was going on, but I had to do something different than the directions given there.

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Author's profile picture Daniel Gopar