Definitely this is not a good month for technology as a whole. First Steve Jobs dies and now Dennis Ritchie. Generally I don’t like to write about this kind of stuff, but unlike the first event this loss certainly won’t reach the media and news, so I decided to talk about it. This amazing hacker...
In the last Oct. First, Gnome 3.2 was moved to the Arch Linux Extra repository. Several new features and applications were added in this new version, but not all are installed automatically when you perform an upgrade from Gnome 3.0. That’s right, this is one of the bad things of a "rolling...
Keeping the subject of Regular Expressions, today I will show in which case the usage of regular expression overcomes a (relatively complex) Python snippet. Take a deep breath and let’s go…
Recently a nice application called Gnome-Pie, made by Simon Schneegans, was released. According to the author it was inspired by an add-on written for the game World of Warcraft called O-Pie. I have to admit that it remembers me a lot PieDock, although it has a really different approach and usage,...
Many times, during our day-to-day as a programmer, we face with the need to analyze, search and return values into a string. There are two ways to proceed with this, you write the string anlysis manually or use a regular expressions, also called: RegEx Regular expressions are a chain of character...
Today begins one of the most popular rock festivals in the world, Rock in Rio. A mere detail is that, if you look at the schedule you will see that, what is most lacking in the festival is real Rock. Approximately 60% of the "big names" are not rock, it proves that the event has become extremely...
Git, a distributed version control system created by Linus Torvals, has won many fans over the Internet. But this isn’t a mere version control system, it differs in many aspects when compared to its competitors, for example Subversion, Bazaar, Mercurial, Perforce, CVS, among others. Although...
Retaking the Daniel G. Siegel’s video tutorials about PyGi. Last month the author posted the 6th video tutorial, named Creating A Slinky Web Browser. I was waiting this sixth video in order to post along with the fifth video, Creating A Snazzy Video Player. Apparently the series is a little "dead",...
Hello everybody! I know I owe several articles here, but definitely I have to write about what I saw on the internet today! First of all, everybody meets Joey. What about him? Well, I’ll explain in just one image … VIM Rocks! He is organizing the VimConf, a virtual conference for VIM lovers from...
I’ll start this article the same way that Alex Gaynor (the speaker) began. "Who here remembers their CS data structure class?". Then he adds: "Who cares?". For those who learned to program in high level languages, data structures isn’t anything to worry. But for older people like me who started...
