May 2009
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Stupid brazilian keyboard
Although I’m no prude I generally don’t write offensive words. I have to make an exception though: Brazilian keyboards are stupid! Die! I’m a programmer (at least I try to be one) and typing a lot everyday gives me the right to say that. My previous laptop died in the middle of the night. I [...]
WordPress is a killer app
I’ve been using WordPress for 2 months now. I was reluctant at first to adopt it. My main concern was having a whole system in the way in case I ever needed to code an unusual feature for my website. Then I listed several reasons why I was definitely wrong about not using WordPress in [...]
Producing Open Source Software
I have just finished reading a really good book: Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel. The text is enriched by examples taken from the Subversion project where the author used to be involved. The book covers a wide range of topics found in Open Source Projects including Technical, Social and Political Infrastructures, Money, Packaging [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 Intel Graphics
Seems that the Intel Graphics will have to be updated to work with version 2.6.28 of the Kernel running on Ubuntu 9.04. Performance is not good. I followed the instructions to use UXA instead of EXA and it improved the perfomance on how graphics are rendered in my notebook. It is still not fast as [...]
eLisp and buffers
I finally decided to devote some time to learning elisp and get rid of the shame I have every time I copy and paste code into my .emacs file. I’m now reading Programming in Emacs Lisp (Second Edition) by Robert J. Chassell. It is really good reading. Not only to learn elisp but also because [...]
Awake Autoresponder micro release
Awake Autoresponder version 1.3.4 released. This is a micro release with some small bugs fixed. Next version is on the trunk right now. It is going to be a major release since I’m rewriting a lot of code and compability is broken. I’m also making some experiments with some 3rd-party libraries and even frameworks like [...]