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Gnome Foundation Membership
Woohoo! I received this mail some days ago:
Dear Rafael Villar Burke,
We are pleased to inform you that you are now part of the GNOME
Foundation Membership. You are now eligible to become a candidate
for election and to vote in the annual Board of Directors elections
held each November.
[...]
For more information about the GNOME Foundation, visit the GNOME
Foundation’s [...]Repository formats matter a lot in Mercurial
Keith Packard discusses why robust repository formats are important for any version control software. This is really an important point when evaluating the robustness of any version control system, as you want to avoid the corruption of all your data due to a disk failure and an unfortunate way to store the tracked information.
One sad [...]Tweaking msys and cygwin
I’ve been using msys and cygwin to have a sane command line environment when working in windows. Something I didn’t know how to fix until today was the lack of input and display support for accented characters and the weird behaviour of the del key. I finally got it all working as I want it [...]
Keeping site stats for your Wordpress site at dreamhost.com
Wordpress uses it’s own .htaccess files and thus shadows the stats page on dreamhost. To keep the recipe at hand for the next time I’ve decided to link the relevant wiki page here.
HTML 4.01 Entities Reference
It’s quite common to find myself searching the web for HTML entity names when writing webpages. They’re very useful to avoid encoding problems with those symbols that don’t fit belong to those defined with ASCII codes.
I’ve posted a reference here to have them at hand next time.Static typing
This is how Dr. Gary Larson graphically describes static typing.
Christopher Alexander on Architecture and Science
Googling around trying to find some texts about design patterns and computer programming I could find this interesting cite from Christopher Alexander, in a website devoted to his book The Nature of Order:
In the past century, architecture has always been a minor science - if it has been a science at all. Present day architects [...]The Zen of Python
pachi@pachi-portatil:~$ python -i
Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Jul 30 2006, 15:43:58)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060715 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-9)] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than [...]To live is to choose
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there” — Kofi Annan
(Seen at Antonio Zulgadía’s blog)GUADEC 2006
This is my first post on the rvburke site blog and I’ll try to keep blogging here regularly. I expect the main topics will range from architecture, structural engineering and free software, so, if you’re interested in them, keep tuned!.
Esta es mi primera entrada en el blog, que supongo que acabará tratando principalmente sobre cuestiones [...]