conky with ical
I encountered a simple problem: how to display ical calendar events with conky without writing an ical parser. The solution came in the form of a suprising tool: calcurse. This is a command-line, text-based, slightly graphical-like interface for ical handling. So: download the calendar, import it into calcurse, show it in conky. But how to [...]
reduced functionality switch – case in nginx: map module
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CSS3 double borders – the two-coloured version
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Loading a function from a DLL from C
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