Flavio Castelli

Let me introduce a small project I’ve been working on with a friend of mine, Giuseppe Capizzi. The project is called jump and allows you to quickly change directories in the bash shell using bookmarks.

Thanks to Jump, you won’t have to type those long paths anymore.

You can find jump’s source code, detailed documentation and installation instructions here.

SUSE packages can be found here.

Also this year I’ll attend the Linux day (a day dedicated to Gnu/Linux  and FLOSS that occurs every year in Italy) organized by my LUG. Guess what I’ll be talking about…

While organizing the event somebody proposed to setup a local server with some music released under CC license. He suggested to download some albums from Jamendo (due to network issues we won’t be able to provide direct access to the website).

Since nobody wanted to download the albums by hand, last night I wrote a small ruby program that does the dirty job.

Requirements:

Ruby and json gem have to be installed on you machine.

Usage:

Help:

./jamendo_downloader.rb –help

Download the top 10 rock albums:

./jamendo_downloader.rb -g rock -t 10

Have fun

I think there’s nothing more to say… enjoy my jamendo_downloader