Tiago Sousa and Om Maciel recently blogged about many of Geany’s great features. Geany is a cool, lightweight text editor especially configured to edit program files. I have been using Gedit as my IDE for learning python but now I’ve switched. Geany handles quite a number of file types.

Geany has a three pane layout with document tree and symbols on the left the main editor on the right and across the bottom is a panel that contains a terminal, messages, a notes area called “Scribble” and a compiler window. This sounds cluttered but its UI is elegant and is clean and intuitive. I’ll soon be trying Geany out editing some Docbook file for the Ubuntu Documentation Team.

I’ve been working with a gallery generation application for Linux. This one is a duet between Google’s Picasa and SimpleViewer.

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Knowing things can be a hindrance. I’ve always sort of had this inkling but I’ve never been able to articulate it. This morning I came across a blog posting on “Success Begins Today” that helps clear things up for me.

Yet what usually happens… Most people start from the outside (knowledge) and try to work inwards (center) only to find that there isn’t a core at all.

This describes some aspects of myself. In some areas I’ve labored to start by finding and operating from core or center. Other ares I’ve leaned too heavily on my knowing power. The difference seems to be this dependence on knowledge rather than experience.

Good stuff. Zen strikes from the oddest places sometimes. I’ll have to sit with this more.

Working with the Inkscape. Found a tutorial show how to do this logo with photoshop and it only took about 42 nanoseconds to convert what I saw to Inkscape action. This is where I work and I’m going to slip this into the next presentation I have to do. Let the coolness flow.

Here is a link to the original photoshopit post.

How I did it.

Above is my “Quicky Glass Globe” as I learned from Richard in Beeton, Ontario. Richard lives about 45 minutes South of my birth place Barrie, Ontario. My dad was stationed at Canadian Forces Base Borden back then. We migrated West to Calgary when I was only a few months old so I have no recollection of it.

Enough biographical drivel! Richard has blessed us with a great screencast using the Inkscape to produce the above graphic. He’s done the MacGyver and creates a mic stand out of tape, camera tripod, coat hanger and a pair of nylons. I had heard the there were lots of issues synchronizing sound with screencast in Linux but those problems must have been overcome. Richard has inspired me to give it a try. Now, I’ll have to come up with something to screencast.

Thanks Richard, I found it useful and the sound was just fine.

Visit Glashaus by clicking on above sketch

One of my favorite voyeuristic pastimes is to look through artist’s sketchbooks, so I thought I’d point to some here. Peter Hoffman is a talented artist from Cologne, Germany. He has done some fantastic colorful and futuristic work with CD slipcover design but I think his more simple illustrations and sketches are fabulous. He captures the look and mood of his subjects in a way that draws you in especially with this pen sketches.