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Changing the location of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx notification bubble to a different corner

Posted on July 16, 2010

Ubuntu notifications, those grey bubbles for incoming instant messages and such, are in the top right corner under the system tray area by default. Many applications, like Google Chrome browser, place lots of controls there and notifications might block them. Also, you might prefer some other corner due to your personal taste. The application for responsible for those bubbles is called notify-osd.

Here are instructions how get a custom notification-osd which can read a config file where you can specify settings for the notifications. Though it requires you to install a custom notify-osd version, the instructions are plain and simple. For less hardcode users, there also exists a version with graphical user interface to configure notify-osd.

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Python-like urlparser module for Javascript

Posted on November 29, 2008

I had to deconstruct and reconstruct URLs from pieces when doing advanced Javascripting for Plone.

I found this nice library from Denis Laprise. However, it had a bug with fragment extractor and lacked reconstruction possibilies. So I decided to make a new version.

Download urlparse.js version 0.2. thank you :)

Couple of examples:

var p = new Poly9.URLParser('http://user:password@poly9.com/pathname?arguments=1#fragment');
p.getHost() == 'poly9.com';
p.getProtocol() == 'http';
p.getPathname() == '/pathname';
p.getQuerystring() == 'arguments=1';
p.getFragment() == 'fragment';
p.getUsername() == 'user';
p.getPassword() == 'password';

var p = new Poly9.URLParser("http://localhost:8080/path);

p.setQuerystring("foo=bar");
p.setFragment("anchor");
p.setPort(7070);

var url = p.getURL() // http://localhost:7070/path?foo=bar#anchor