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New Gentoo Goodies

Two very wanted features landed in Gentoo Linux portage tree. PyPy ebuild submitted just 2 months ago! automatic unmask of packages released in portage 2.1.10! Thanks Zac Medico, you rock! --autounmask and --autounmask-write are two new parameters for portage that every user was dreaming of. It will even respect --ask flag! Here is what happens: emerge --ask --autounmask-write pypy will ask you to unmask latest pypy version and to confirm configuration changes emerge --autounmask-write pypy will just unmask needed packages without asking. In either case, you have to confirm changes with dispatch-conf or similar tools. Happy Gentooing!

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GSOC week #1: TinyMCE improvements for Plone

Another year, another Google Summer of Code, another project! This time I'm working on most needed and used part of CMS — text editor. Following has been done on Products.TinyMCE: pep8-ified the product ported all doctests to unit/integration tests added product to jenkins with coverage/pep8/lint reports on Plone 4.0/4.1/3.0 wrote specifications for new UX of image/link browser in TinyMCE and forwarded it to Peter Čuhalev for mockups Next week, I will work on current tickets at plone.org tracker. Time to shoot some bugs!

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New blog

It has been a long time since last blog post. Not that I have nothing to say, but a lot has happend in last half a year and I promised myself I would switch to new blogging platform before using it again. Welcome blogofile. Since Zine is history, I figured out static website/blog is what I should do in the first place. Now, my whole blog (including all posts) is available at github.com. Instead of reporting issues with blog in comments, you can create pull request for me to review and push to production.

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