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I'm working (since too long) on a Haskell binding to the XFCE library "xfconf" because, you know, in order to improve one programming skills, one should write code. Anyway, after harassing the Haskell mailing-lists with my newbie questions, I got a not-so-bad working binding to xfconf.

… memory leaks apart.

It took me a lots of efforts to finally solve this memory issue, mainly because I'm a bad programmer who don't know a damn about software runtime and also because I don't know what tools to use with Haskell.

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For the ones who favor their command line interface over graphical terminals, here comes a bundle of Makefiles and scripts to easily publish new entries on a DotClear2 blog with XML-RPC enabled.

It is loosely based on *BSD ports and the idea behind static blog generators like jekyll, which in fact I've never used so the comparison might be more about what I think they are and what I'd like to use. Nevertheless, the few features I have aimed for are:

• automation, otherwise I would not waste whole days on the command line
• integration with VIM, the text editor
• pure text files, a very simple and universal way to store data. Moreover ones can manage the whole damned thing with Git.
• extensible, as in the Unix philosophy where you combine a myriad of small programs to achieve your task

The project is available on GitHub.