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Merry New Year. So here's what happened to me (for those who are interested) in 2004:

• HITBSecConf2004 was a blast.


• Failed to get any fundings, my funds ran dry and I was forced to work.


• Quit working and started building my company again, this time also without any fundings. There are rumors that I'm making a five figure salary, don't believe everything that you read.


• Kit opened a stall at Mont Kiara - here's hoping it will grow to a shop next year.

Other than that things were pretty much the same. Anyways, for those who appeared in my retrostatement - new year wish 2004, go check it out and see wether your wish came true.

Adios.

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http://fetchgals.sourceforge.net/

With PHP, I can have a file with all the functions list in it, and in my .vimrc, I can add the following:

set dictionary-=~/.funclist.txt dictionary+=~/.funclist.txt
set complete-=k complete+=k

Where .funclist.txt contains all the list of PHP functions. Typing CTRL-N (and CTRL-P to reverse the completion) in edit mode will enable auto completion. Sweet.

Now, in my development work, I write a lot of functions (or methods, depending on what hat you're wearing). Question is, in order to use auto completion, I have to manually add my function names to .funclist.txt. I'm resorting to a Perl script that will scan my development directory (usually it is just a particular directory) for functions, compare it to a list I have, and add them to the list if they're new.

Is there a better way to do this?

Icons in menu

To add icons to your menu, edit your ~/.fluxbox/menu like the following:

[submenu] (Editors)
      [exec] (gvim) {gvim} < ~/.fluxbox/icons/gvim.xpm>
      [exec] (xedit) {xedit} < ~/.fluxbox/icons/xedit.xpm>
      [exec] (nano) {aterm -e nano} < ~/.fluxbox/icons/nano.xpm>
      [exec] (vi) {aterm -e vi} < ~/.fluxbox/icons/vim.xpm>
[end]

In order to support png images, or compile your fluxbox with imlib2 support. In Gentoo, this is as easy as

USE="imlib2" emerge fluxbox

A good collection of xpm icons can be found here.
By default, fluxbox will resize the icons to match your font size. If you are using fonts other than artwiz, you can edit your style configuration file and add the following:

menu.ItemHeight: 20

If you are using other fonts, you can resize them. xfontsel is a good program to get the best font.

Fonts

Install artwiz and aleczapka fonts

emerge artwiz-fonts aleczapka-en

Aterm

I use aterm since Eterm is bloated, while xterm does not support transparency. I customize aterm by creating an .Xdefaults file which contains the following:

aterm*loginShell:true
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading:60
aterm*background:Black
aterm*foreground:White
aterm*scrollBar:false
aterm*scrollBar_right:false
#aterm*transpscrollbar:true
aterm*saveLines:1000000000
#aterm*font:-misc-*--*--*-10-*--*--*-iso8859-
#aterm*font:-xos4-terminus-medium-*-normal-*--*--*--*-iso8859-*
aterm*font:-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1
aterm*scrollKey:on

Automagically creating menu

fluxbox-generate_menu will do that for you. Bear in mind though, if you have manually edit ~/.fluxbox/menu, it will be overwritten the next time you run fluxbox-generate_menu

Themes

Fluxmod has a large collection of themes. If you want to create your own themes, the best way is to refer to the themes.cfg files that you've downloaded, and play around with it.

This is the screenshot of my notebook, running Gentoo, and fluxbox-0.9.11. I'm using this theme.