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Great old Emacs Manual in Info mode
I realized this morning that I read all of the emacs manual in Info mode. I read a small section every morning for a few weeks. Info mode is a really neat format and it solves the problems I have reading digital books. In fact, I gave up reading digital books a long time ago. [...]
Ubuntu 10.04
I’ve been running Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop (VAIO VPCCW) since its release. I had some problems before with a release but this time things were a little more difficult. I don’t know what I was thinking but I tried to use the Update Manager and give it another chance since it never worked before [...]
Coders at Work
Sometimes I need to re-charge the batteries and let my brain rest. I guess. I was receiving messages from my body (brain, soul and who knows what else) to take some rest. By rest I mean taking a break after regular work time. No side projects or books/manuals that need focus and extra attention. Signing [...]
Working for cupid
These past months have been crazy and brought lots of changes to my life. Proof of this is that I let more than a month go by without a single post. Let me try to fix this with this short entry. I left my day job in Brazil and joined a talented team in Millbrae. [...]
2 monitors on Karmic Koala 64
In December I bought this brand new laptop and had the perfect excuse to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10. Like I mentioned in this post, the video drivers were the only issue I had. Nvidia released new drivers for Linux 64 (v. 190.53) so I took the chance to update and plug an old 19” monitor to [...]
Ubuntu 9.10
I was planning to skip Karmic Koala. Jaunty was running just fine but since I replaced my notebook I had an opportunity to try it. I bought another Sony Vaio but this time without a stupid keyboard. I opted for the VPCCW model because it offered an NVIDIA (GEFORCE 230M) graphics card. I was interested [...]
Meanwhile, at the PHP world
In order to accomplish my goal of keeping this blog updated and grant me some good memories in the future, let me write down about what is going on in my small PHP world: CakePHP In my daily job we deal with tons of code written in the pre-framework era but I had a chance [...]
Chromium compiled in Ubuntu
In theory it would be good to test web applications on several different browsers but I must admit that I’m mainly concerned about Firefox and Internet Explorer. Well, now that I have a “Windows Day” during the week I included Google Chrome in my tests. It is such a nice browser and since it uses [...]
Ubuntu support for 2 monitors
I’m an Ubuntu fan. These guys at Canonical know how to get things done. They release 2 Ubuntu versions per year full of improvements. It should be a case of study on how fast Ubuntu gets better. This week I decided to add a second monitor to my notebook. I first thought I was going [...]
Emacs key bindings everywhere
I can only hear the sound of tapping while I type on my stupid keyboard. No scales, chords or notes. Even so, I treat the keyboard as a musical instrument. To improve typing or playing one should avoid unnecessary motion. If your hands stand still while only your fingers move you save energy, time and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ubuntu wireless nightmare is gone
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 this morning and for my delight I had proper wireless connection with just a few clicks. The nightmare is gone. Another great improvement in this release is performance. It only takes a few seconds to boot. A new OS release running faster on the same machine? Great. The only drawback for [...]
New website
Launching a new website today. I’m really busy and have no intention to reivent the wheel building a website so I installed WordPress. We have it at work and it is such a nice tool. Yes, the default theme works fine! Besides working in the office I have been also coding for the Autoresponder. A [...]
New Project arrives
Back from Germany! Had 15 days to rest. Lovely company, places to visit, great food and beer. Oh beer!! Das Bier und das Wasser. Neutral liquids. I wish if I will ever find a bottle of Erdinger here for only 85 cents. Well, I must admit that it was not 100% fun. First my flight [...]
Ubuntu Wireless Nightmare
I’m in love with Emacs. Can’t go back to products like Eclipse or Komodo anymore. Right now my problem with Emacs resides in the spaces and tabs territory. It would be a piece of cake to solve it if it was not for my completely ignorance (yet!) with Emacs Lisp. All I have is a [...]
New website section – Game Coding
Devoting some time for casual game programming now. The new section Game Coding (link removed) presents a free TicTactoe game for download. Note on Mar/22/2009: This section was removed because I no longer have the game or the source code for it. It was just some excuse to learn the Windows C API anyway.