João Prado Maia's Weblog » Musings http://pessoal.org/blog Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:42:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Customizing the message display layout in pine http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/07/09/customizing-the-message-display-layout-in-pine/ http://pessoal.org/blog/2008/07/09/customizing-the-message-display-layout-in-pine/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:28:57 +0000 jpm http://pessoal.org/blog/?p=109 I’ve been using pine for a long time now — I remember it was the default mail client available at my university’s computer sciencie department. If I remember correctly, I think it was the first program I ever used in a UNIX system (back in 96?).

In any case, after more than a decade using this program, I just found out that you can customize the display of the message list within a folder. I noticed that the list of messages looked different while browsing the Wikipedia entry for Alpine.

My personal setting now is:

index-format=STATUS MSGNO SMARTTIME FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJECT(67%)

If you go into the configuration section, search for the “index-format” entry (^W index-format), and then hit ? to go to the online help entry, you will get access to all of the documentation available for this. Very cool stuff.

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  • Bart Jansens documents his experiments with Varnish, a reverse proxy server that is making the rounds as of late. Varnish really needs better documentation.
  • Pragmatic Programmer Screencasts – now with Erlang screencasts that should make it grokking this language a bit easier for newbies. I saw this a few weeks ago, and I can’t remember exactly, but I think no new screencasts have been published since?
  • Google Doctype (kind of old news by now) – a new effort to build an online reference library by web developers for web developers. Do we really need another resource for web development articles?
  • Writing Apache’s logs to MySQL – very old article, but still nice for someone that is not interested on deciphering Apache’s documentation.
  • Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache’s Blackbox Logs – same for this one; nice overview of what’s possible with mod_logio
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  • Interesting way of using Apache to send large files to the client by using mod_xsendfile.
  • Microsoft is still using an internal IE-HTML DOM that is not XHTML-compliant, even in XHTML documents.
  • Dion Almaer wrote a simple video player that skips to specific portions of a YouTube video, using the newly released set of APIs. Lots of interesting ways to integrate with their content.
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  • eleven2 – Local hosting company from Houston that sponsored last night’s meetup. Love their design!
  • Interview with Paul Tuckfield, the MySQL DBA at Youtube, about his work there on managing their database infrastructure.
  • Hack to allow you to run different versions of Safari on the same machine
  • Keeping track of website uptime with Pingdom
  • Google Chart API seems interesting, even though I would probably just use JpGraph for my own projects
  • Love the overall layout and colors of this chart from the Wall Street Journal
  • Krumo, an Open-source project that provides a replacement for the var_dump / print_r functions in PHP
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  • Understanding the output generated by JSLint
  • Comparing the benchmarks of PHP versions 3 through 5.3
  • 10 principles of effective web design
  • Really cool image zoom JavaScript library (very smooth animation!)
  • Somewhat cool extensions to script.aculo.us to implement the iPhone wobble and illuminate effects in JavaScript
  • Plotr, an interesting JavaScript charting library built on top of Prototype
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