Python and iCalendar ICS processing

Introduction iCalendar (.ics or webcal) is a standard for providing ‘calendar’ information over text file, it allows to define events, etc and it’s ideal to ‘subscribe’ over the internet to remote calendars, which is commonly used to show free/busy slots for scheduling meetings, etc. If you’re familiar with Google Calendar or others, it uses ‘ics’ under the hood, and you can get full url for it so that it can be shared. ...

September 17, 2019 · 5 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Argos extension writing for Gnome3

I was using from time ago this extension for Gnome named Argos which allows to create useful data views using scripts written in whatever language of choice available, bash included. So far I had just a simple extension writing a UNICODE character, but with the suggestion of my colleague Javi Ramírez, I decided to use the motivational idea to write a simple script to calculate how much you’ve earned so far in the day and show that information at a glance on your menu bar. ...

June 27, 2019 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Killercoda scenario creation

After some time checking the scenarios at https://learn.openshift.com, I decided to give it a try. With the help of Mario Vázquez, author of Getting Started with Kubefed, I did create two scenarios: How to use Citellus on Citellus: Troubleshooting automation KubeVirt on a ‘browser-based’ approach for MiniKube setup for validating KubeVirt: Kubernetes with VM Virtualization (versus the regular containers). You can check how them can be created by looking at their code at: killercoda Scenarios or the ‘playable’ version at https://killercoda.com/iranzo/. ...

June 11, 2019 · 1 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Use custom domain name with Blog-O-Matic

As a recipe, if you want to enable a custom domain name on blog-o-matic a special file needs to be created on the ‘GitHub Pages’ served ‘master’ branch. In order to do so, edit pelicanconf.py and add the following differences: diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py index 680abcb..fc3dd8f 100644 --- a/pelicanconf.py +++ b/pelicanconf.py @@ -46,13 +46,16 @@ AMAZON_ONELINK = "b63a2115-85f7-43a9-b169-5f4c8c275655" # Extra files customization -EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = {} +EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = { + 'extra/CNAME': {'path': 'CNAME'}, +} + EXTRA_TEMPLATES_PATHS = [ "plugins/revealmd/templates", # eg: "plugins/revealmd/templates" ] -STATIC_PATHS = [ 'images' ] +STATIC_PATHS = [ 'images' , 'extra'] ## ONLY TOUCH IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! This will copy the CNAME file created in content/extra/CNAME to the resulting ‘master’ branch as /CNAME. ...

May 16, 2019 · 1 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

AwesomeSlides for converting LibreOffice ODP into revealjs

Introduction For some time now, I wanted to put the presentations I did in the past to be available, and since I’ve added support to my blog to render revealjs slides, I wanted to also put other presentations that I did in the past, probably (or for sure) outdated, but that were sitting in my computer drive. The presentations already got several transformations, but in the actual status they are stored as LibreOffice ODP files, that made it a bit difficult. ...

January 22, 2019 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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