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FizzBuzz in Haskell

2011-05-05T22:32:00.000-04:00

Today I woke up thinking: "What's that programming puzzle everyone can do and the goal is do it in one line... oh yeah FizzBuzz"

So I re-wrote it again in Haskell! Take a look:

This is by far not pro Haskell code, but gives you an idea how cool list comprehensions are in this magical language ;-).

To see how this run (in case you don't have a Haskell interpreter handy, you can go here: http://codepad.org/qy0c7CdP

Haskell vs Python

2011-01-14T03:05:00.000-05:00

I was playing solving some problems with Haskell and I was impressed by its readability that I wanted to share with you. Like we say in Python: "Readability counts"... just in this case is Haskell the more readable.

Shit I Said Once (about the entrepreneur word)

2011-01-09T16:10:00.000-05:00

Honestly, who cares! I'm a "projecteneur" looking to incorporate my "project" in what people may call a "startup" to get rid of my day job and make money with what you can call a "business plan" (that I have not written down... and probably won't ever).I have the guts to not ask for VC/Angels money for an "idea", that, IMHO is ridiculous.And I don't plan of having an office ever because I hate offices and I think everyone should too!Can we make the word official? "projecteneur" or "bootstraper" :-)(I can haz super secret project... not tellin')

Clippy

2010-12-09T23:34:00.002-05:00

Small apps are the best! (that's what she said... not really but she did!)

Check out my latest project: https://github.com/igorgue/django-clippy

Basically I was in my never ending practice of TDD/BDD with Python and decided to write a small Django library.

APPush

2010-12-01T01:56:00.000-05:00

Failure, is important to us.

What many people don't understand is that failure make you better and in some failures there are wins.

My startup was called APPush (www.appush.com) the initial idea was to bring developers a PUSH API to enable them to easily make money. All our ideas were really cool, we had the best technology in the market, if we had released we'd have been a lot better than our competitor (which is just one... one company).

We tried to bootstrap, I became fan of it to be honest, and I think is the only way to enjoy your entrepreneur career; which I just started :-). Bootstrap is really hard though, takes a lot from you, family time, day job time, friends, etc etc.

I feel sorry, because APPush failure was my fault, but honestly it was everyone fault, since everyone got upgraded in his personal and professional life, thus, less time for APPush. All these changes in life were caused directly by APPush, this company, made us better, and that's what killed it.

In my case, this is what I accomplished:

* I got a new job

* I rent my own place now

* I got promoted from not even being consider a "developer" at my previous job to a "senior" lever programmer and then even "CTO" for a while

I own those accomplishments to APPush, and especially Matt, for being my friend and the best boss I ever had!

Sometimes the purpose of things in life aren't what we expect them to be, instead their purpose is greater than we could ever envision -- Matt (http://twitter.com/#!/roder/status/13808235715).

We'll do it again Matt, and I promise, this time it'll be awesome!

In summary, I'm a better person and 2010 won't be a year I remember for falling in love, making more money or getting an apartment, it will be a year I'll remember for failing... in a good way ;-)

Training programmers (not a guide)

2010-06-26T13:10:00.000-04:00

At the place I work we've been spending the last week training a QA agent (BTW, we're still hiring).

The person we hired has these qualities:

* Dedicated
* Honest
* Humble
* Good designer (can be useful in the future)
* Loves tech

He lack of:

* Programming skills
* Debugging skills
* Hardcore stuff skills (like UNIX-fu)

Our job requirements were:

* Extremely Liberal Sense of Humor [ GOOD ]
* Basic Understanding of Web Programming from a high level [ KINDA ]
* Basic debugging skills in JavaScript, jQuery & CSS [ KINDA ]
* Basic debugging skills in PHP OR Python [ NOPE ]
* Organizational Skills [ WE DON'T REALLY KNOW ]
* Highly effective communication skills [ HE COOL ]
* Willing & Able to learn at lightning pace [ SO FAR, YES! ]

Would you hire this person?

Many of you, would say NO! we believe in hiring the best! (e.g.: Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky), that's nonsense IMHO, because if you think about it, the crappy programmers, will be staying unemployed and you either can't find good programers (they all have jobs, our case) or the crappy (with potential) programmers can't get a job and look for jobs in other areas (we got an applicant that was working in the medical field, writing test specs).

Believe in training

We believe in training, we know that we can't find a very good programmer (or QA agent), so we knew we needed training material, we put together a good path for the QA position:

The QA person needs to be able to test Django applications:

- http://anybodycanprogram.com/ my friend's book, about learning programming
- http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index Zed Shaw's book
- http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial01/#intro-tutorial01 Django tutorial
- http://diveintopython.org/ advanced level not required
- http://catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html by Eric S. Raymond - recommended not required

We believe if this new hire can get through all this material, he can be in the level we want, not only as a QA agent, also as a programmer which is in the end the final goal!

BONUS 1: QA is not an area where you want to be

After working 3 years as a QA, I realized that NOBODY who has dreams or goals in life, wants to be a QA.

QA made me want to start my own company also lead me to bad performance at work.

A young person cannot be QA for a long time, because QA is: boring, repetitive and frustrating. Why do you think software companies hire QA agents?, because programmers don't like doing boring, repetitive and frustrating tasks.

We figured out the best we can do with this young talented hire, is to train him as much as we can meanwhile he does QA stuff.

In the end is just a job, and some jobs are supposed to be like that, just do it, be professional and don't stay there for too long.

BONUS 2: Hiring is hard

Getting good people is hard, getting people that is honest is hard, most of the people are not qualified for the job, overvalue themselves, and they think we're dumb enough to believe in their bullshit (seriously guys, we're smart ;)).

Any advice? Contact me.

SHA1 hexdigest: Ruby vs Python

2010-04-14T03:05:00.001-04:00

After playing for a while today with some SHA1 encryption in Python I decided to post something so I can remember how to do it in the languages I use the most these days:

Python win? probably, mostly because of Ruby's namespaces (but these ones are so powerful that I like them quite a lot).

Both result of course:

891b83416dfe8e8786e453088c507847ca73ff89

Some references:

Posol + Ninjas + Beer = Linux podcast

2010-03-15T01:46:00.002-04:00

Fui taggiado en el posol!, el posol es el podcast de Software Libre de mis amigos en Nicaragua, es realmente muy chistoso (completamente en español por cierto) e informativo.

TODOS mis lectores deberian de ~~leerlo~~ escucharlo, sino, son trolls! :)

New York

2010-02-04T11:01:00.000-05:00

I went to New York for an interview, I gotta say, I loved the city a lot, I totally see myself living there.

The cool thing about New York is that it's just like the movies; People are super classy, girls looks like models (they might be), Arabic cab driver in the morning Russian one in the afternoon, people with those large jackets, pretty awesome, and the buildings, huge old buildings! Every single building in New York would be an historic place in Miami.

This is the first time I had these type of interviews, it was like a video game stages, one by one I was trying to beat them.

I think I did great maybe with the exception of the first one on which I was pretty nervous, and seriously I have trouble answering coding questions over the air (put me to type and I'm great).

Last Lecture

2010-01-26T21:14:00.002-05:00

I know it's kinda old (I read the book in 2008 and last year too :)), but the book made me cry, the video too... it's just watch it!:

Dad

2010-01-25T01:13:00.000-05:00

I was talking with my dad about the internet revolution, business, politics, the scientific method, taxes, immigration, life, college, law, money, the fake financial system, day care license studies, new york, Appush, software as a service, pharmaceutic studies, the consultants business, scientific calculators on watches, science in the real state development area, society means technology, Nicaragua and virtualization.

Awesome 4 hours if you ask me. I love taking with my dad when he's in the mood, every single day I hope our relationship get better.

Positivism, Fando & Lis

2009-12-29T23:22:00.000-05:00

- Let's play. Okay I'm a great pianist.
- If you're a great pianist, if I cut off one arm what will you do?
- I'll devote myself to paint.
- If I cut off the other arm what will you do?
- I'll devote myself to dance.
- Lets say you're a great dancer. If I cut off your legs what will you do?
- I'll devote myself to sing.
- So you're a singer. If I cut your throat what will you do?
- Since I'm dead, I want with my skin to be manufactured in a beautiful drum.
- If I burn the drum. What will you do?
- I'll become in a cloud that takes all the shapes
- If the cloud dissolves what will you do?
- I'll become rain and help the herbs to grow
- You win! I'll feel very lonely the day you leave
- If you ever feel very lonely search the wonderful city of Tar

RE: 2009 Resolutions

2009-12-26T12:22:00.004-05:00

Before posting next year ones, lets review this year:

Read all my unfinished books FAIL so many awesome books to read
Code my unfinished Web (Django) projects FAIL actually I'm kinda sad for this
Work on my git-sharp framework FAIL the .NET Git framework implementation is in better hands now
Learn Unit Testing WIN TDD FTW! (still learning but it's cool!)
Write a little compiler FAIL I *want* to do this
Go to college LOL and FAIL, I don't know what I was thinking here, better to spend money on strippers and fun stuff
Get a girl This is weird ~~EPIC FAIL! I like a girl a lot but she doesn't give a shit about me~~
Start coming on time to work LOL and FAIL seriously is this important? haha
Read more non-tech books WIN; Read two, that's an improvement, even though 1 was written by a computer scientist and the other one is about politics.
Get a secondary income FAIL I did better in 2008 actually
Fix my car's little damages LOL and FAIL seriously is just a car
Be a committer on a Open Source project or get a external committer in git-sharp (when its done) - FAIL and WIN I started a lot of Open Source projects (a lot == 3)
Code more than I code right now WIN APPush best company evar!
Learn a Database C API LOL and FAIL I don't want this anymore WTF was I thinking
Learn how to use CouchDB and write an app with it WIN I wrote a little example which I can't find the source code :(
Learn the Android API and write an app for it FAIL I'm even more interested in learning the iPhone SDK now
Write in my blog at least 2 times a week FAIL (kinda WIN though), I have a new blog too

Not a bad year at all

Darfur, Sudan and 3 Points

2009-10-11T22:54:00.005-04:00

Today I saw a documentary about the social problems of Darfur, Sudan, really touching stuff, basketball superstar (Tracy McGrady) goes to the region and tries to understand the situation there to later compromise to help.

Darfur is a place due war is in a "humanitarian emergency" state, whatever that means it doesn't sounds like a "safe" or "happy" place.

I dunno, these kind of things make you think a little bit about how awesome your life is comparing yourself with other people. Even myself, I grew up in the hood of a 3rd world country, certainly a whole different situation than living in Miami (a lot!).

Tracy starts talking (before going to Darfur) about how hard is the life in the hood where he grew up (Florida), just to find out a very different (and harder) reality.

See the movie on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/3-points (too bad on Hulu for international readers).

Youtube user page of the Darfur Dream Team: http://www.youtube.com/user/darfurdreamteam

3 Points stands for: Peace, Protection, Punishment / what the people of Darfur want.

Just a reminder: "It's just a ride"

2009-09-17T22:30:00.003-04:00

The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they've begun to question, 'Is this real, or is this just a ride?', and other people have remembered, and they've come back to us and they say 'Hey, don't worry. Don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.' and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

"Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This just has to be real."

It's just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter, because ... It's just a ride.

And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever ... in peace.

-- Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994)

Generate your ctags and cscope db files in one script

2009-08-18T00:24:00.002-04:00

I found myself generating the ctags db and the cscope db all the time, so I created a script to generate both in one single command... because I'm lazy ;):

"Cash For Clunkers" gov best idea ever!

2009-08-04T14:33:00.006-04:00

For those of you that don't know yet, "Cash For Clunkers" is the most successful "economic help" program that the government has ever run!.

One more prof that if you give money to the people they *will* spend it, and more in the US, you don't have to be a smart guy to know that, instead of giving huge bailouts to GM do more of this type of initiatives, "Cash For Clunkers" is so awesome that ran out of money in just a couple of days!

The way it works (the program is likely to continue, obviously), is let say you own an old car (<1995) that does certain MPG (spend a lot of gas, basically american cars), in these economic times, you might not buy a new car, since, you know, it would hard to pay; but the government is running this program that will trade your old car for a 3,500USD - 4,500USD credit that way you can get the car you want at a more affordable price, and at the same time helping the economy, creating jobs (the industry need to produce more cars, the dealership to hire more salespeople), the environment (spend less gas), and you.

So this looks like a great deal right? hell yeah!, my brother had a car, bought it for 700USD, but the blue book says it value was 1,000USD, insurance for that type of car is expensive (bad car more accidents), also the car had a V8 engine thats like 50USD a week just on gas. So let say he goes and buy a Toyota Yaris with the CARS program, the Yaris starts on 12,205USD let say its 15,000USD after the dealer steal you some money ;) 11,500USD, even with the worse credit ever my brother would have to pay like 150USD a month for that car, and its more fuel efficient a Yaris today can live with 50 bucks a month on gas (I do that with my Scion TC), insurance is cheaper on that car, and the environment is happy and my bro has a new car :) that actually works! and has like -170,000 miles :D.

The program was supposed to run from July 1st to November 1st, but was delayed until July 24th, guess what? the program is out of funds already!!!, this is huge!, a billion of dollars just in days!

Ford and GM are the happiest kids of the month.

Now some politicians are skeptical with this program... is your obligation to send those people to STFU!

And BTW, my brother was in a accident 2 months ago (he is fine), and his car was totaled :(, the insurance company gave him not even a buck he ended trading the car for the towing ride, and guess what he doesn't have a car :(, and if you know Florida, you can't do nothing without a car.

If you wanna know more about the program go to www.cars.gov the program is likely to get more money.

Classy Firefox

2009-07-12T22:16:00.002-04:00

Classy Firefox
Originally uploaded by igorgue

Firefox has been seriously sucking on Linux since 2.0... :(, sad thing lets move to Chrome!

Hashes and Dicts in Python and Ruby

2009-07-11T11:50:00.005-04:00

*dicts or hashes are passed by reference in Python and Ruby*

That's it!

Python example:

Output:

[{'a': 1}, {'a': 1}, {'a': 1}, {'a': 1}]

Ruby example:

Output:

[{"a"=>1}, {"a"=>1}, {"a"=>1}, {"a"=>1}]

Terminator... I'll be back!

2009-07-09T19:45:00.004-04:00

[LOLing with Terminator (my favorite terminal emulator)]

You can get and build terminator from here: https://launchpad.net/terminator/+download

Interweb != World

2009-07-04T02:17:00.002-04:00

"CNN We are the poor people; we don't have internet access nor speak English"

I like to have neutral positions on all the things in life, and more in politics, but some people attitudes are just plain wrong... *the internet is not the world* people!, and this apply to the current events in both Iran and Honduras.

So when I see Twitter users with the green icon I think: Well that's cool, you're supporting some people in Twitter that have issues with their government; but please don't look at this as a whole. Because its impossible and not logical to think of it as a majority.

Removed ads, People actually read this, WTH is going on?

2009-07-02T15:41:00.005-04:00

Removing ads:

A quickie, now I'll try to sell myself as a developer instead of trying to make money from my content with ads, its a nice strategy (duh!)...

People read:

I'm realizing that I have 200+ users reading my feed, so if I blog more is better, I'll keep you guys informed from now on...

We suck:

I like politics, news and all the things that happens in the world, 2009 is a pretty sucky year... really if you think about it, *nothing* good had happened in 2009.

Make stuff to do things:

Right now I'm working in a super cool and awesome secret project, involves Python and the interwebs.

Things I'm learning you might like: Twisted, RabbitMQ, Erlang, CouchDB, BeepBeep (just today).

Things I read you might like: StackOverflow, Hacker news.

This blog post was sponsored by... I_DIDN"T_EVEN_POST_ANY_LINK.com LOL

Geek Achievements: 1337 @ Gmail

2009-04-28T22:28:00.002-04:00

1337
Originally uploaded by igorgue

I don't have anything to say... just 1337 @ Gmail!!!

My Dell Mini 9

2009-04-16T22:54:00.001-04:00

My Mini 1
Originally uploaded by igorgue

This is my new toy :)

Graffiti DrupalCamp Centroamerica

2009-04-16T14:47:00.003-04:00

Graffiti DrupalCamp Centroamerica 6
Originally uploaded by xamanu

Some Drupal love at my alma mater go to Drupalcamp Centroamerica (http://www.drupal-centroamerica.org/)

2009-04-15T11:05:00.001-04:00

Testing sms to bloggr posting

Running | Installing Jaiku in Your Box

2009-03-14T00:37:00.003-04:00

Today Jaiku was open sourced by Google, to my surprise it runs on Django 1.0 :), using the also awesome appengine_django project to run Django 1.0 in Google App Engine.

As right now, it doesn't work out of the box, I'll explain how to run it (thanks for the help in the development list):

1. Install python-profiler: sudo apt-get install python-profiler
2. Go to .google_appengine: cd .google_appengine
3. Apply this patch:

The original discussion here: http://groups.google.com/group/jaikuengine-discuss/browse_thread/thread/368c64cd3aba6970

You Know, They're Actually Friends

2009-02-26T23:05:00.002-05:00

All in this world is about pacts and conspiracy... so big company's fanboys take this!:

Getting | Not Getting New Laptop

2009-02-24T00:35:00.004-05:00

Yesterday was a bad day for my laptop (pic!) is about to die, the fan is dead, and I don't know how to repair it, and send it to fix it will cost a lot of money. Even though the fan was dead for about 6 months or so, still I had no problem but now, its like a pain to work with since it just shut down after a quite amount of time. I'm afraid someday it will just die in a fire (literately).

So I'll get a new laptop (has to be a laptop since I don't have a desk or space to put a desktop system), I was thinking, what I'll get this time, a nice one or a powerful one, I think I'll get both a nice and powerful, but here is the thing, which one?

Mac is not an option: since, you know, I wanna actually run an OS that I actually like, and that's Linux and Linux sucks in macs *period*. Don't get me wrong, the hardware is pretty cool and the OS is certainly better than Windows, but I'm a Linux user.

The Envy: HP Voodoo Envy 133 looks amazing! just pure gold!, better than any notebook out there (even Macs), but the specs are pretty outdated!, and I bet I can't get better performance than my laptop with it.

Right performance & specs _nice_ looking: Dells (XSP and Studio 15) I actually like their specs, but I don't like their style, ppl! learn from Apple squared and thin == sexy! anyway, after the Envy 133 Dells laptops are just better looking than anything out there right now IMHO.

Screw look&feel, get a Thinkpad!: thinkpads have the best hardware overall, but they are ugly! very ugly!, made for marketing people (ugly!).

The other option is just wait, but that's the boring option and I want to stimulate the economy soon :)

My Python Gear

2009-02-04T20:28:00.001-05:00

Python gear
Originally uploaded by igorgue

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 dense.
Readability counts.

Desktop Screenshot | Domo-kun is Back

2009-01-31T14:01:00.003-05:00

Engavillados.com | Diagramas Notificaciones

2009-01-30T00:27:00.004-05:00

Las notificaciones juegan un papel muy importante en Engavillados.com, aqui les muestro como trabajan en 2 escenarios:

Modo Notificacion de Evento:

Modo, "charla" con engavillados.com:

Engavillados.com | Roadmap

2009-01-29T23:43:00.005-05:00

Bueno hace unas semanas Engavillados.com se lanzo el sitio pero como una incógnita, bueno la idea es la siguiente:

El problema:

Los sitios locales de entretenimiento en Nicaragua son muy malos, no tienen ninguna característica social, están básicamente en el pasado, no hay ningún tipo de innovación mas que un contenido algo bueno, y sobre todo están enfocados en sus patrocinadores en lugar que sus usuarios.

Esto en nuestra opinión esta mal, y es lo que intentamos reparar.

La solución:

Go HyperLocal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_news#Hyperlocal)!, llegar a lo ridículamente local, cubrir todo, lo insignificante es importante, dado que es importante para algunas personas.

Se intenta ser el mejor sitio de entretenimiento local para Nicaragua, básicamente, llegar a donde estés, para que puedas saber que hacer, cuando hacerlo, y para que hacerlo.

Ser interactivo!, usar SMS como una forma de comunicación con el website, inspirado en sitios como dodgeball.com para crear una red social fuera de nuestra interfaz web.

Cubrir todo!, noticias, eventos, lugares, ofertas de restaurantes, ofertas de bebidas en bares, fiestas en discos, fiestas caseras, conciertos, eventos culturales, menús de restaurantes, horarios de televisión, películas... etc etc etc... todo esto integrado al sistema de notificaciones que te permitirá estar en el sitio, sin estarlo :).

Ser abiertos!, nosotros adoramos la cultura libre, por lo tanto, el contenido del sitio sera abierto para todo publico, si tienes un evento que quieres promocionar, el sitio es tu servicio, si tienes una radio nueva, el sitio te permite publicar tu programación, tienes una pequeña función de cine en tu barrio? el sitio te permite publicarla también :), y todo esta registrado. Fuiste a un evento y quieres subir fotos del mismo? súbelas a engavillados.com.

Somos sociales!, comentarios en todos lados, RSS en todos lados, tags en las fotos.

Somos acomodados!, no queremos que te registres al sitio, para que? si puedes usar tu cuenta de Facebook o de Gmail, Yahoo, la URL de tu blog personal, actualmente no se necesita crear nuevos sistemas de usuarios, podemos usar los que ya tienes, todo esto de una manera segura.

Bueno, pero esto tomará siglos en desarrollar?

Ehhh... realmente no, siempre y cuando tengas las mejores tecnologías a la mano, y sabes que? la mayoría son gratuitas!

Entonces, para cuando el site?

Mañana!, :), naa, este es el "Roadmap":

Beta Publico: Marzo 2009 - Sitio totalmente funcional, la idea es tener todas las características del sitio completo, pero pueden haber errores.
Version 1.0: Abril 2009 - Sitio probado en el beta
Version 2.0: Junio 2009 - Sitio completo pero con las mejoras sugeridas por los usuarios

UPDATE!: Beta ahora es Marzo :)

Engavillados.com | Diagrama del Login

2009-01-29T23:38:00.003-05:00

Este es el modelo que usaremos en engavillados.com para registrar y autenticar a nuestros usuarios:

RE: Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites

2009-01-29T10:25:00.003-05:00

My response to: http://randomfoo.net/2009/01/28/infrastructure-for-modern-web-sites

"Framework Design Guidelines" (http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/category/26...) states: "Simple things should be easy, complex things should be possible" (the book uses "scenarios"), these, IMHO are complex things, they are possible some easy some not, but they can be done.

In the end how many websites need all these ponies? 1, 2? maybe in your website you'll need 3 of all the ponies, I rather make the all the simple scenarios easier than adding more complex stuff to the framework.

Writing Template Tags in Django

2009-01-29T03:35:00.006-05:00

Template tags are very useful, if you like your Django template language to use your customized syntax.

To write a template tag you need to do a couple things:

Make a Python package named "templatetags" inside your app:

| |~events/
| | |~templatetags/
| | | |-__init__.py
| | | `-events.py
| | |-__init__.py
| | |-admin.py
| | |-manager.py
| | |-middleware.py
| | |-models.py
| | `-views.py

In your template you need to load your custom template tags too:

{% load events %}

And that's it, your events.py file is loaded into your template, but, you need to write some templatetags.

First, think about your template tag, what is it going to be? a filter? or a block alike? (anymore types?), I'll choose the "block alike" since its harder to implement :).

We are going to be able to do:

{% get_event_metadata event.pk as metadatas %}

That will create a "context" "variable" from a pk... here are my models:

I avoided posting the whole source code, since its not relevant.

Now, lets create our template tags, in our events/templatetags/events.py file:

One thing to notice is that when you call the template tag from the template all the events.py gets is a string, and the only way to get the value from that "string" (or variable in this case, is to get it from the context, using template.Variable and the context var, or context.get("varname").attr.

VIM and Django

2009-01-27T23:49:00.008-05:00

Today, I'll share some files with you, my precious VIM config files and extra plugins, and some tips on how to use them.

My .vimrc, you need to put this one on $HOME/.vimrc (you can actually use another location for it, but that's the default):

This is my script to launch GVIM on a Django environment, so it will create a tags file and load the settings.py file too (also set the GVIM window geometry ;)):

I put it into $HOME/bin/djp so to run it I just call:

$ djp .

Unpack my .vim directory to your $HOME to get a lot of plugins, like the NERDtree, NERDcomments, SnippetsEMU, some syntax files and colors, yes lots of colors :):

http://files.getdropbox.com/u/421955/vimconfigs.tar.gz

I'll try to update this vimconfigs.zip file on my Dropbox account regularly.

Some tips in my configs:

Press F3 for opening and closing NERDtree

Press F4 for opening the scope editor (probably that's the name of that thing)

CTRL + N cool autocompletions

UPDATED: CTRL + X then O to open OmniCompletion :)

Engavillados.com

2009-01-21T00:07:00.003-05:00

www.engavillados.com

El Mejor Programador de Nicaragua

2009-01-20T17:18:00.002-05:00

Solo para aparecer en Google como primera opcion :D

El Mejor Programador de Nicaragua!

Got cha!

RT: NO identi.ca

2009-01-13T20:40:00.002-05:00

Using identi.ca is like going to party the same day as your friends do but in another place (alone).

I started today tweeting that (also posted here):) remarkable!

In other words, you use what your friends use, it is not the other way around, you can't convince 100+ people to use something you want to, that's just IMO silly.

F-Spot Beat iPhoto to the Punch

2009-01-06T23:47:00.001-05:00

F-Spot Beat iPhoto to the Punch
Originally uploaded by igorgue

Yesssss!!!!! we just invented photo desktop apps fanboys!

2009 Resolutions

2009-01-05T01:08:00.005-05:00

Tomorrow is the first official 2009 day for me, since I'm going to start going to work that day :P, so its better start with this MEME: 09 resolutions:

Read all my unfinished books
Code my unfinished Web (Django) projects
Work on my git-sharp framework
Learn Unit Testing
Write a little compiler
Go to college
Get a girl
Start coming on time to work
Read more non-tech books
Get a secondary income
Fix my car's little damages
Be a committer on a Open Source project or get a external committer in git-sharp (when its done)
Code more than I code right now (+100 LOC a weekday, +150 LOC a weekend)
Learn a Database C API
Learn how to use CouchDB and write an app with it
Learn the Android API and write an app for it
Write in my blog at least 2 times a week

I'm a soo fanboi

2009-01-05T00:20:00.002-05:00

/me fanboy xD
Originally uploaded by igorgue

I was just started to get the feel of a fanboy programmer but, naa went back to my Linux box with VIM :)

Lot Of Activity These Days

2008-11-29T03:42:00.003-05:00

I've been pretty active these weekends able to put some projects to run:

Nicaraguan blogs aggregator: www.blogsnicaragua.org (Python planet)
My personal website: www.igorgue.info (Django)
A new social experiment (not ready yet): www.esclavosdelsistema.net (Django)

Those are the things I've been working these days :), pretty cool huh?

Also now I'm hosting the so cool site siqueres.com and a sites for future projects like: www.softwarelibre.org.ni

OLPC en Nicaragua

2008-10-30T01:47:00.003-04:00

Presidente Daniel Ortega presentando el proyecto OLPC, del cual se negociaron 3200 computadoras XO (con Sugar) financiadas por Claro, para 200 escuelas en Nicaragua.

Fuente: http://www.elpueblopresidente.com/ACTUALIDAD/3028.html

Android Phone - T-Mobile HTC G1 - RULZ!

2008-10-29T02:32:00.006-04:00

This is my review of the HTC G1 the first Android phone.

Three weeks ago I decided that it was about time to change my phone, and what's the very best phone out there? the Google phone, the T-Mobile G1.

What rocks!:

Android OS is pretty stable and fast
Able to run background process (apps)
Apps-tasks switcher
System integration is very cool
Google services integration is very well done
Copy&Paste
Calendar integration
Gmail integration
Youtube
Amazon mp3 (DRM-free music store)
Lots of third party apps
Open Source
Love the keyboard
Love the trackball
Touch screen rulz

What sucks!:

The phone is hot! (it gets hot when browsing the web or charging)
Camera sucks big time... I don't care since I have a real camera already
When you're charging it, its a bit awkward to type on it
Battery life... I need to get another battery :P
No 3D games yet :( (but the API is there)

What's AWESOME:

In less than 15 days... Banshee integration is in the latest released version:

Ubuntu New Theme And Wallpaper - All Hope Is Not Gone!

2008-10-11T01:06:00.008-04:00

What will you think if I tell you that soon there will be a new Ubuntu wallpaper and theme? replacing the ugly ones on the beta?

Igor the Ubuntu guru says:

Well apparently there is some changes in Kenneth Wimer PPA that are making me think that there will be a nice wallpaper and a nice theme in Ubuntu:

1. The default wallpaper is just different (see screenshot)
2. The "New Human" just changed its name to "Dark Room" (a real name)

1. I truly believe that is probably going to be the default wallpaper, and its very cool!

2. I just don't know, the human theme got just updated too so... I don't know :)

Kenneth's ChangeLog says:

ubuntu-wallpapers (0.28) intrepid; urgency=low

 * Adding new wallpaper, getting close to default now

-- Kenneth Wimer < kwwii@ubuntu.com>   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:26:20 +0200

human-theme (0.28) intrepid; urgency=low

 * Moving NewHuman theme to DarkRoom. Added panel background
   pics, gtkrc changes and metacity changes to both Human and DarkRoom

-- Kenneth Wimer < kwwii@ubuntu.com>   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:53:26 +0200

Lets see what is going to happen, the wallpaper looks pretty slick though, I like it!!!

Zeitgeist

2008-10-10T00:51:00.004-04:00

Zeitgeist is a series of activist movies about the problems we have right now in our society, that is wrongly based in a monetary system, after seeing this movie you *will* understand how wrong the system is, and why we have to change it.

See both movies in Zeitgeist site: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Join the Zeitgeist movement here: http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/

Django Pony

2008-10-08T23:14:00.002-04:00

Say no more!!! this is how we do!!!

UPDATE:

This is my current desktop screenshot:

Today is a Good Day

2008-10-08T10:45:00.003-04:00

Did I mention before I don't like OSX?

Apple patented the OSX 'Dock', that means Linux distributions can't include by default a "OSX Dock" wannabe :)...

Did I mention before I don't like OSX?

This is the document: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,434,177.PN.&OS=PN/7,434,177&RS=PN/7,434,177

Did I mention before I don't like OSX?

Now they have to patent (if they don't already) the "global menu" that is also a horrible idea ;)

Did I mention before I don't like OSX?

Now we (Linux users and Developers) can focus in *not* copying OSX and adding more innovation to the Linux desktop.

En Defensa del Software Libre y Otros Derechos Ciudadanos

2008-10-07T09:53:00.002-04:00

La Red de Software Libre y Código Abierto de Nicaragua (RSLCAN) y los Grupos de Usuarios Linux en Nicaragua (GUL-NIC), ambas organizaciones miembros de la comunidad de software libre y código abierto que aglutina a centenares de hombres y mujeres interesados en la defensa de los derechos ciudadanos en entornos mediados por tecnologías de información y comunicación y en la difusión del uso del software libre, hacemos uso de nuestro derecho a la réplica en relación con el artículo titulado “CSE vulnerable”, que fue publicado en El Nuevo Diario el día lunes 29 de septiembre del corriente, y firmado por Angélica Martínez.

Antes que nada, reconocemos y compartimos la preocupación de El Nuevo Diario por mejorar la eficiencia y seguridad de las instituciones, específicamente en lo referente a la información pública que
administran estas entidades, en tanto su uso inapropiado puede redundar en perjuicio para las y los ciudadanos.

En ese sentido, también reconocemos como válido el interés de ese medio escrito en destacar las potenciales vulnerabilidades del sitio de internet del Consejo Supremo Electoral, ya que de materializarse, podrían afectar el proceso electoral en marcha y, con ello, la institucionalidad del país y los derechos políticos de la ciudadanía.

Sin embargo, consideramos que el artículo en cuestión necesita de una mayor profundidad investigativa en su abordaje, considerando que el reportaje sobre temas tan complejos como la informática requiere de una recopilación de notas y consultas a expertos bastante exhaustivas, dado que la verificación de las fuentes de este tipo de reportajes se complica por el uso de insumos de carácter técnico muy especializados.

Para ilustrar lo anterior, señalamos que en el texto del artículo se presentan como verdades fehacientes opiniones de personas desconocidas en el ámbito informático, sin el sustento de evidencias que demuestren su veracidad. Por ello, trataremos de aclarar algunas de ellas. El entrevistado identificado como “Anónimo” asevera: “Yo recomendaría además que [el servidor CSE] no esté en software libre (Linux), digan lo que digan, que Windows es más inseguro, no es así.”

En primer lugar, la creencia de que el software libre es únicamente el sistema operativo Linux responde a una visión obtusa y limitada sobre las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación. Hoy en día existen centenares de aplicaciones de software libre y de código abierto que funcionan en diferentes plataformas como Java, FreeBSD y aún en el mismo Windows, que no es un sistema operativo libre.

Por otra parte, afirmar que Windows propietario es más seguro que Linux libre es poco serio y bastante irresponsable. Se han realizado muchas pruebas para comparar la seguridad de los diferentes sistemas operativos existentes, en las cuales las distribuciones de Linux han superado con creces a las de Windows ver artículo en línea en el sitio de The Inquirer:

http://www.theinquirer.es/2008/03/30/ni_mac_ni_vista_solo_ubuntu_sigue_en_pie.html

Más adelante, el mismo entrevistado “Anónimo” afirma: “Un hacker que conoce el software, cómo opera y cómo está codificado (característicasque lo hacen libre), tiene más oportunidad de que su ataque tenga éxito. / Yo he visto cómo aquí, en Nicaragua, los hackers se meten a varios lados, y la mayoría de los ataques están donde existe un servidor de software libre.”

La posibilidad de acceder al código fuente de una aplicación de software no significa de ninguna manera que se ofrezca públicamente la llave a los posibles intrusos. La lógica del código abierto más bien facilita la auditoría del software ante posibles fallos o deficiencias y su consecuente modificación para mejorarlo de manera ágil y sencilla.

Sin embargo, “Anónimo” reconoce de manera complementaria que “ahora, la seguridad de la base de datos del CSE debería estar bien definida para sólo consulta y no dejarla abierta, porque el hacker puede meter algo malicioso. / Como administrador, no dejés abierto para que el usuario escriba en un campo con los comodines existentes (caracteres usados en programación).”

Con esa afirmación, el entrevistado reconoce que los problemas de seguridad de la base de datos del CSE derivan de la aplicación utilizada para operativizar los datos y ponerlos a disposición del público a través del servidor libre. Además, reconoce que las fallas de seguridad tienen su origen en el factor humano (administrador de sistemas) cuando este hace configuraciones inapropiadas y deja abierta la puerta, facilitándole el trabajo a cualquier ciber-atacante malicioso”.

Cualquier sistema o aplicación de software en línea puede ser vulnerable, no se puede obviar ese punto, pero la medida de vulnerabilidad del mismo estará siempre dada por el nivel de competencia el que lo administra. Podría ser factible, incluso, que un sistema propietario del tipo Windows sea más seguro que uno con GNU/Linux, si la persona que lo administra basa su trabajo en las buenas prácticas de programación, depuración y administración de sistemas.

La RSLCAN y los GUL-NIC trabajamos y seguiremos trabajando voluntariamente todos los días aportando nuestro grano de arena al desarrollo tecnológico de este país, porque estamos convencidos que Nicaragua tiene el potencial espiritual y humano suficiente para construirse un futuro justo y libre para todas las personas que habitamos en ella.

A lo interno de nuestras organizaciones (RSLCAN, GUL-NIC) cotidianamente discutimos acerca de las implicaciones técnicas y, sobre todo, éticas, de los diferentes ataques realizados a sitios web de Nicaragua; colectivamente, tratamos de inferir las lecciones aprendidas y construimos propuestas para enfrentarlos y evitarlos en el futuro.

Estos ataques afectan no sólo a los sistemas del CSE, también han sido víctimas de los mismos los sitios de otras instituciones de gobierno, organismos no gubernamentales y entidades del sector privado, incluyendo a empresas proveedoras del servicio de internet en Nicaragua.

Consideramos también importante hacer ver que existen otros aspectos de las tecnologías de información y comunicación en Nicaragua que deben ser consultados y debatidos por los expertos y, principalmente, por los usuarios finales, que además de ser los que pagamos los platos rotos también somos los que menos acceso tenemos a la hora de reclamar nuestros derechos.

Tenemos muy claro, sin embargo, que hace falta mucho para alcanzar las metas que nos hemos propuesto y por ello mantenemos abierta nuestra invitación permanente a las personas e instituciones interesadas en las tecnologías de información y comunicación para colaborar y trabajar juntos, en función de intereses comunes y compartidos.

De manera particular, ponemos a disposición de El Nuevo Diario y resto de medios de comunicación nuestras experiencias y conocimientos alrededor de los temas de tecnologías información y comunicación, en aras de enriquecer el debate ciudadano abierto y transparente. Finalmente, invitamos al resto de personas que lean esta comunicación a participar en los debates y actividades de nuestras organizaciones. Pueden contactarnos a través de las direcciones de correo electrónico que aparecen a continuación.

Red de software Libre y Código Abierto de Nicaragua (RSLCAN):

softwarelibre@list2.enicaragua.org.ni

Grupos de Usuarios Linux de Nicaragua (GUL-NIC)

gul-nic@linux.org.ni

Octubre 5, 2008

Quote Of The Weekend

2008-10-06T00:53:00.003-04:00

"if you pay 1000 people to protest you can make it look like its the whole country protesting" - John Perkins

Barcamp 1.5

2008-09-26T13:51:00.001-04:00

Posiblemente la última parada de mi viaje a Nicaragua :)

Mañana! SFD Nicaragua!

2008-09-19T13:01:00.003-04:00

SFD in Nicaragua will be held this Saturday. I'll be in the instalation area.

Nicaragua Independence

2008-09-15T08:22:00.001-04:00

Nicaragua Independence
Originally uploaded by igorgue

Today's Google's .ni logo :)

All Hope Is Gone

2008-08-29T21:27:00.004-04:00

All Hope Is Gone
Originally uploaded by igorgue

Slipknot new album :), the best band with their best album(in my opinion), new style(Heavy Metal + Trash + Alternative + Groove + Nu Metal) its just amazing!!!

Highly recommended tracks:

.execurte. + Gematria (The Killing Name)
Snuff
Dead Memories
Wherein Lies Continue

Long time no blog!

2008-08-24T22:43:00.004-04:00

UPDATE: My friends qualify this as a "EMO post" and I think it is! :D, funny.

Well its been a while since I blog last time, there are things that happened in my life, like Google summer of code, learning a lot of stuff in that, I got really good mid-year evaluation at work at Mertech(unfortunately that(and a lot more stuff) helped me to get a bad performance in Google summer of code :(... anyway, you can't have it all).

In my life, nothing really happened, no school, no girls, no nothing... just work, work and work, I got really bored lately... Ah I'm going to Nicaragua September 12 :), its pretty cool to see my mum, family and friends again, after 1.5 years, I'm really happy about that.

Also I have a lot of new books I have to read:

Beautiful Code
GTK+ Development
Professional Linux Programming
The C++ Programming Language
The Last Lecture

Almost all technical related, and one(The Last Lecture(reading this at lunch)) its for find more motivation at work and at hobbies, also I'm getting "The Dragon Book" about compilers!, this is a topic that always got my atention but I haven't really get into.

I hope to blog more in the next couple of days...

WWDC rant!

2008-06-13T21:02:00.004-04:00

This is a rant, if you're an Apple fanboy please stop reading :)

WWDC stands for World Wide Developer Conference, but after seeing the video podcast, I want to say, are those(the people that went to that conference) really developers?

I want to point out a couple things of the people that went there:

They said WOW with the crappy Google services wannabe(mobileme)
They clap even more with the hardware improvements than the software improvements
They really loved the price(poor developers?)
They laugh(and this really pissed me off) of the guy from Spain name(even though he presented the nicer app)

Its funny I saw in Twitter guys saying that the WWDC is the Super Bowl of developers... ORLY? if you want to go to a real developers conference then go to GUADEC or ApacheCon or Any of Microsoft conferences.

AppStore

Jobs described this ripoff as a innovative solution to every developer, the second coming of Christ without any doubt, I have some words for you Jobs... A P T and Add/Remove applications in Ubuntu | GNOME.

Cons about background running applications

*sigh*, ok, meanwhile I agree that running apps in background can be evil, I can see some controversy(they run their platform in background, and some apps too like Music(or Ipod, don't know what the name is)).

I have to say it, OS X does this all the time! it runs a crappy file browser in background all the time, and all applications you close, guess what, they go as a background process too. So this guy is full of bullshit, and what Apple wants is you not running a server in your iPhone that runs a DAAP share so every user can download your fully DRM music :)

And off course this means, no Mono, no Firefox, no Java... and so on!, and this lead me to my next point.

We are releasing this SDK we use to develop all the built-in applications in the iPhone, so you can develop the same apps

BullllSSSSHHhh... then I gonna write a Download manager... you can?, or a Amazon MP3 downloader that copy your music to your library, can you do this? hell no!.

Jobs explaining how fast is 3G

This is a developers conference, you have to say that? I mean, don't you guys think that we KNOW THIS FACT? I mean, tell me that is fast, if Jobs develop this 3G thingy, but the thing is more than 100 year old.

Things missing

Even though I consider the iPhone platform very buggy(Safari crashes and the music app does not play some of my songs). There wasn't announcements on how many bugs were fixed, and|or improvements of the things that we use every day. Again, was this a developers conference? ORLY?

And, since this was a non-developers presentation(or conference) what about the At&t contract? price information?

Conclusions

About the conference IMHO this is not for developers, and I don't know why this "developers" where so happy of being there.

I have to say, I'm sold, I'm going to buy this new update(since I own a iPod touch... I really dislike phones), and I might be developing apps for that platform, I believe is great to bring this to the mobile platform, BUT, is not innovative and is not perfect and Jobs is WRONG so WRONG!.

I'm powered by Ubuntu

2008-06-11T21:00:00.002-04:00

My newest Ubuntu sticker it replaces the Vista one :)... thanks datalizing

The old one, thanks Canonical

Severed Fifth

2008-06-09T20:37:00.001-04:00

Buying a laptop?

2008-06-09T20:12:00.003-04:00

I just want to point out what Matthew Garrett said about buying your next laptop:

Is everything made by Intel? no? try again... yes Success*

* Success is not guaranteed

He also said something really funny and interesting(that I completely agree of course):

Don't install Linux on Apple's hardware, don't be stupid

Check the whole talk at LugRadio USA 2008: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7753780993269800999

A&O 2008-06-09: GitSharp low level API

2008-06-09T20:10:00.001-04:00

Achievements
~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Design work [DONE]
* Index [DONE]
* Trivial Merge [DONE]
* IndexEntry [DONE]
* ObjectStore [DONE]
* Core [DONE]
* Objects [DONE]
* Tree [DONE]
* Blob [DONE]
* Commit [DONE]
* Tag [DONE]
* HASH [DONE]

* Work on Core [IN PROGRESS]

Objectives
~~~~~~~~~~

I'll work in these topics:

* Core Objects
* Read Objects
* Write Objects
* ObjectStore

Love
~~~~

* mdx4ever and sontek: They point me to System.IO.Compression that will help me to write and read objects in the git repository

Zombie meme

2008-06-07T13:52:00.005-04:00

I saw this in Brandon Perry's blog. This is funny :):

You are in a mall when zombies attack. You have:
1. One weapon
2. One song blasting on the speakers
3. One famous person to fight along side you.

#100

2008-06-07T13:50:00.001-04:00

A hundred posts
Cien entradas

:)

Guido's Quote Of The Day

2008-06-03T02:04:00.003-04:00

Guido van Rossum(Python programming language BDFL):
but in practice the difference between practice and theory is larger than in theory
Source: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/079994.html

Posted in twitter by @ceronman

A&O 2008-06-02: GitSharp low level API

2008-06-03T01:58:00.001-04:00

Objectives
~~~~~~~~

* Finish design [IN PROGRESS]

* Somethings have to be figured out first:
* Create a base for Hector work(so he can develop the high level part) [FIGURED OUT]
* How does Index works and how are we going to implement it(its different on every implementation) [FIGURED OUT]

* Continue working on "Core" which is Object, Tree, Commit, Blob and Tag [SOME WORK DONE]

* Start work in Index [NOT DONE]

Objectives
~~~~~~~~~~

* Design work
* Index
* Trivial Merge
* IndexEntry
* ObjectStore
* Core
* Objects
* Tree
* TreeEntry
* Blob
* Commit
* Tag
* HASH

* Work on Core

Love
~~~~

* miguel: he pointed me to nice documentation, the author is really good explaining git concepts(http://s3.amazonaws.com/chacon/git-talk.pdf)

A&O 2008-05-26: GitSharp low level API

2008-05-26T17:53:00.004-04:00

Achievements
~~~~~~~~~~~

* Setup our development infrastructure:
* http://github.com/igorgue/git-sharp
* http://devel.unionccs.net/projects/show/git-sharp

* Define our approach with mentor and fellow student(Hector, the guy that will be doing the high level API)

* Study some the git implementation(work in progress):
* CGit (commonly known as plain git)
* jGit (implementation created by a CGit developer)
* ruby-git ruby implementation
* git-ruby another ruby implementation

* Initial work on Git core, some classes infrastructure defined, also Hashing is done with the help of Hector, check github repo(git clone git://github.com/igorgue/git-sharp.git).

* Core diagram: http://devel.unionccs.net/projects/git-sharp/documents missing Index API

* Some work done on the API Design: http://devel.unionccs.net/wiki/git-sharp

Objectives
~~~~~~~~

* Finish design... we just have to do this to continue

* Somethings have to be figured out first:
* Create a base for Hector work(so he can develop the high level part)
* How does Index works and how are we going to implement it(its different on every implementation)

* Continue working on "Core" which is Object, Tree, Commit, Blob and Tag

* Start work in Index

Bonus
~~~~~

* I have been getting dirty with 'unsafe' code, anyway we are not going to use any unsafe code if its not needed(and it should not be needed)

* Learned how to correctly use Mono's encryption API to allow me to create the SHA1

Love
~~~~

* massi: Even though we have talked just a little, he gave us very nice tips :)

* spouliot: He told us to use SHA1.Create() instead of SHA1Managed or SHA1CryptoServiceProvider

* alan(monotorrent guy): This guy did some cool stuff in Mono's SHA1 :) thanks

Notes
~~~~~

* Everybody twitts these days... even Git#: http://twitter.com/gitsharp like I twitt before he is a lonely guy... so he will not follow anybody :) or even reply to anybody

My place

2008-05-24T23:02:00.003-04:00

my place(its not an after party
Originally uploaded by igorgue

This is what happens when you put 4 single guys in a very small house!

PS: It was worst but, we _threw_ away the _trash_, some pizza boxes was pissing me off so we got rid of those... but, still unorganized|dirty

Anyway... I still can hack in that place hehe.

Installing VMware Server 1.0.5 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

2008-05-03T02:20:00.007-04:00

It's me again with another how-to VMware in Ubuntu...

Well as you might know, VMware have not updated their VMware versions to the latest kernel(nor GCC nor Gnome libs), so the task is kinda hard... the best advice for newbies is to wait, wait, and wait for VMware to release a supported version.

Steps:

1. Get VMware Server from www.vmware.com(don't forget to get the serial too) since we're using Ubuntu you should get the tar.gz file.

2. Install build-essential linux-kernel-devel and linux-headers-generic(or the one you're using), extract the vmware tar.gz file right click -> "extract here" or:

tar xvvzf VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.tar.gz

3. Run the installer:

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

follow all the instructions... but DO NOT RUN vmware-config.pl

4. Get vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz from http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/files?hl=en ~~actually you can get vmware-any-any-update-116-bridge-wireless.tgz that includes wireless support(I believe).~~

5. Run the any-any updates:

tar xvvf vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz
cd vmware-any-any-update116
sudo ./runme.pl

And select yes on run vmware-config.pl

6. Select your favorite options :)

7. Now, you have it installed... then RUN IT :)

vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

Nice error... I like that hehe, we're screw... are we?... well nop actually.

8. VMware is complaining about some missing libraries, and these are mainly GUI libraries(libcairo)... so what we do? we copy them to the VMware libs directory:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/
sudo mv libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0.disabled
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0
sudo mv libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1.disabled
sudo ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1

9. Try to run your VMware again... and yes, we see the light at the end of the tunel :):

vmware

I'm in!

2008-04-21T20:05:00.005-04:00

[Victory]

I got accepted in the Google Summer Of Code :) which means that this is probably my best accomplishment in my short life, I can't describe how I feel I think this is real happiness!

I'll be working on the Git# implementation, a very hard project but I really like it. Thanks Mono Project for putting their trust on me.

What is Ubuntu still missing

2008-04-19T13:02:00.004-04:00

Ubuntu is just days ahead(test the RC: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/), I have been using it for about 2 months now, and its really hard to tell "What is Ubuntu missing". So I'll try to list some of the "missing features" and|or "improvements".

Updates and integration with proprietary drivers: For me there's no need of having software like Envy, Ubuntu should update this already-released-drivers, just like Windows(via notification) and OSX do.
Improve hardware support: This is like a dog following its tail, but I think Ubuntu will potentially do better.
Improve compiz support: OpenSuSE does this thing very good, Ubuntu should not allow people even try to activate compiz if their video card is not in the database. The im-trying-but-no-workee is not cool.
A nice One-click-install: no comment, is very needed and we already have the architecture to do it.
Make some smart software-to-be-included-by-default decisions: We want Banshee, Beagle, Monsoon, Cheese, Elisa and Inkscape.
Install ndiswrapper by default: You know there is a wireless problem and in lots of cases can be resolved installing ndiswrapper, well INCLUDE THE THING BY DEFAULT THEN :)
Improvements in Pidgin: Add video-conference IM, is the future.
Improve system configurations via a GUI: Not everything should be configurable by a GUI, but things like Samba, Grub, drivers and partitions should be fully configurable using a GUI.
Include a pulse audio based volume control: In other words just include the one on Fedora and make it better.
Make more metapackages: mono-development, rails-development, java-development, django-development, gamers-stack, officeusers-stack, web2.0-stack etc.

If all of these features or improvements are included I'll be very happy :)

Command history meme

2008-04-13T11:35:00.002-04:00

igor@igorlaptop:~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
242 git
101 ls
28 cd
24 vi
22 gitk
16 gedit
15 rm
11 man
10 tree
6 e
igor@igorlaptop:~$

Pretty cool commands... I type ls more than I need to though.

Application for Google Summer of Code 2008, Mono Project

2008-03-24T23:00:00.005-04:00

Git# a fully managed Git implementation
=======================================

Igor Guerrero Fonseca <igfgt1@gmail.com>

Summary
~~~~~~~

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system, that is used in fairly big projects, one of the biggest problems of Git is his inclusion in tools(mostly IDE's), GUI clients, CLI applications and non-Unix platform like Windows. A very good way to solve this problems is making a Git implementation in managed code that can run on multiple platforms.

Benefits
~~~~~~~~

In my opinion Git is very good doing his job, the benefits of making a fully managed implementation are very interesting. With Git# a lot of paths will be open to Git, a Monodevelop plugin and also Visual Studio can benefits with this. Also Git can be used as a storage system to build rich desktop distributed applications, I can see software like Tomboy using Git# to handle notes remotely and in a distributed way, the same can go for Banshee and F-spot. Having a complete distribute system is having endless possibilities.

Understanding Of The Project
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The project can be separated in operational levels, all of this aims to implement a low level API and a high level API:

* Contributor: In this level is the more typical level in any community people without developer access will download a copy of the repository or modules. Some features to be implemented: git-show-branch, git-log, git-checkout, git-diff, git-reset, git-tag.

* Developer: In this level we have the people that are part of the project, developing it constantly and are completely trusted persons to give them accesses to change the project tree, also he will take care of reviewing the code from a "Contributor". Some features to be implemented: git-add, git-commit, git-clone, git-pull, git-push, git-fetch, git-format-patch

* Integrator: This is the high level developer that takes responsibility of applying all the patches from a "Contributor" and resolving the conflicts between "Developers". Some features to be implemented: git-diff*, git-am, git-merge*, git-pull, git-revert, git-push.

* Repository Administration: This is a level where all the other levels are involved because in Git we all manage a branch in our local repository. Some features to be implemented: git-fsck, git-init, git-init-db, git-clone.

Organization
~~~~~~~~~~~~

I and another fellow student will work in this project spliting it in two parts:

* Low level API: This includes the filesystem operations and the object model. This includes git-fsck, git-init, git-init-db, git-clone, git-cat-file, update-index, .

* High level API: This includes operational task to be able to manipulate the content in the branch. This includes git-merge, git-pull, git-push.

Plan
~~~~

* Week 1 May 26 - June 1: Automate using Nant and Nunit the creation, running and logging of the tests. Begin work in basic filesystem operations.
* Week 2 June 2 - June 8:
Week 3 June 9 - June 15:
Implementation of low level filesystem.
* Week 4 June 17 - June 22:
Implementation of filesystem database, tag system, index(cache) system.
* Week 5 June 23 - June 29:
Week 6 June 30 - July 6:
Implementation of Objects API, tree operation can be done after this.
* Week 7 July 7 - July 13 (Mid-Term):
Milestone: Filesystem, object and tree operations done.
Begin merge of the low and high level branches, identification of missing features to get a successful merge.
Begin work on basic merge low level api
* Week 8 July 14 - July 20:
Week 9 July 21 - July 27:
Begin work on checkout functionality
* Week 10 July 28 - August 3:
Week 11 August 4 - August 10:
checkout functionality done, implement missing tests
* Week 12 August 11 - August 17:
Final Milestone: Successful merge of both layers. Low level
features to manage the database objects indexes and basic merge operations and high level ones like merge, pull and push.
August 18 (Pencils Down)

Deliverables
~~~~~~~~~~~~

* Project plan
* Fully managed Git# implementation
* Set of tests to the Git# API
* Full set of documentation

Qualifications
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'm sure that I can manage to finish this task, because I always exited about making developer tools, I work in a software company that makes developer tools for database connectivity(mertechdata.com) using C++, C# and a high level language called Dataflex. Also I have worked in Java using Cocoon for writing web applications with ASF member Antonio Gallardo.

I have used in all my experience SCM tools including SVN, CVS, Bazar and Sourcegear producs. Able to understand the process.

Personal Info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have over 2 years of professional experience on various areas of Software Development and System Administration, includes job experience in ASF Member Antonio Gallardo's ISV company in Nicaragua writing web applications using Cocoon, developing desktop applications using Visual Basic .NET for a educational institution, being a member of the CC of UbuntuNI local users group of Ubuntu in Nicaragua and part of the QA team in Mertech Data Systems in Florida able to test their products in Unix and Windows platforms and with all types of database engines. More info, read my online resumé: http://igordevlog.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-resum.html

References
~~~~~~~~~~

* http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/files
* http://git.or.cz/#documentation

Updated Resumé

2008-03-23T23:02:00.000-04:00

My Resumé has been updated check it out here: http://igordevlog.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-resum.html

NIN Right where it belongs

2008-03-23T15:24:00.001-04:00

Heck of a song men!:

The rhythm is kinda how I feel sometimes ;)

VMware 6.0.3 in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 kernel 2.6.24

2008-03-23T02:56:00.008-04:00

Hi, its me again with another howto VMware :), this time the task is harder :(. Based on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Beta

Steps:

1. Get VMware from www.vmware.com(I used VMware Workstation because I have the licence for that version) since we're using Ubuntu you should get the tar.gz file.

2. Install build-essential linux-kernel-devel and linux-headers-generic(or the one you're using), extract the vmware tar.gz file right click -> "extract here" or:

tar xvvzf dir/VMware-workstation-6.0.3-80004.i386.tar.gz

3. Run the installer:

cd vmware-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

follow all the instructions... but DO NOT RUN vmware-config.pl

4. Copy vmware drivers source code in a directory:

mkdir $HOME/temp
cd $HOME/temp
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar .
cp /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar .

5. Get the patches, save them in $HOME/temp/:

vmmon-2.6.24.patch: http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f58553c1f
vmnet-2.6.24.patch: http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f681c5c13

File downloads: vmmon: http://www.mediafire.com/?zizfzmutmnp, vmnet: http://www.mediafire.com/?yign2immy0m

Also for the any-update: http://groups.google.com/group/vmkernelnewbies/files?hl=en

6. Apply the patches:

cd $HOME/temp

tar xf vmmon.tar
cd vmmon-only
patch -p1 < ../vmmon-2.6.24.patch
cd ..
mv vmmon.tar vmmon.tar.orig
tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
sudo cp vmmon.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

tar xf vmnet.tar
cd vmnet-only
patch -p1 < ../vmnet-2.6.24.patch
cd ..
mv vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.orig
tar cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
sudo cp vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

7. Run vmware-config.pl

sudo vmware-config.pl

Read the instructions and when it says "Compile drivers" you type yes to compile your patched modules.

Get lost DRM!

2008-03-20T00:20:00.002-04:00

100_2179
Originally uploaded by Naufragio

See this thing should disappear people from Apple and the music industry pushed this so hard in the last couple of years, but its so unfair with the users... I just hate it.

Defective by design for sure!

>:( DRM get lost right now!

Banshee 1.0pre screenshots

2008-03-19T23:20:00.000-04:00

Banshee is going to hit 1.0 soon, these are some screenshots:

[iTunes-like view]

[Banshee cover view]

Going to college... again?

2008-03-18T21:13:00.000-04:00

I'm starting on thinking about going to college again... and this time is serious, I'll do it for a number of reasons:

Its been a year since I came to this country and... I have no friends :(, I'm really piss off with this situation, going really crazy! :@. I hate people here, nobody is friendable for me, at least I know that Miami sucks! yeah, its a nice place to party but, who can make real friends in a party? that's why I need people to have intellectual relationships not just "hey I like Hip Hop... and you?"... WTF!!!, really this place is for losers, and I'm not a looser!
Google Summer Of Code deadline(for enrollment) is April 14th so... I need to be enrolled by that time.
Fuck it... I'll like to have the paper that says "graduated".
And... my mom would like to be proud of me.

Ok, so the plan is have my previous documents translated by Saturday(or at least in progress of translation), even though I have some things that want to stop me, I'll go trough them as I usually do... life haven't been easy for me... AT ALL, but I have been in tougher situations and I always win.

Super weekend!

2008-03-17T02:41:00.001-04:00

This weekend was very cool, on the news we got:

Banshee hits 1.0 alpha: http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.98.1
Monodevelop hits 1.0: http://monodevelop.com/MonoDevelop_1.0_Released
Mono hits 2.0 Beta: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.9/

On my personal improvements:

I finally manage to install Banshee from trunk(for me it was broken weeks ago) :)
I installed Monodevelop 1.0 :)
I submitted a patch to gTwiter: http://code.google.com/p/gtwitter/issues/detail?id=51
Also I read about .NET and C++ development :)

Document Freedom Day @ Nicaragua

2008-03-16T01:21:00.000-04:00

Ubuntu Hardy, damn it's cool

2008-03-10T22:28:00.001-04:00

As usual I begin to test Ubuntu months before is ready, but, for my surprise this release, is the best ever, because as I use to say: "if it works for you then is ok" then I'm so happy to say that "IT WORKS FOR ME".

Everything in my laptop works: suspend, hibernate, volume control, compiz, video card(an Intel chipset), all the apps, it also bringing the latest Mono version and a preview of Monodevelop :), Pidgin, Banshee the very latest(not from trunk), as I suggest to the people of deskbar-applet they now allow me to change the gui to be stick it to the panel.

A screenshot:

Announcing my retirement from blogging

2008-03-10T20:35:00.001-04:00

J/K, I'm just trying Twitter, even though I think it's still a very stupid way of blogging, still I feel so alone these days that I need something to do :P, and quickly. The problem with blogging is that you tempt to post interesting stuff, and not crap, but in Twitter, it really doesn't matter at all :D

Linux do inflicts Microsoft patents

2008-03-03T23:27:00.003-05:00

Since Microsoft does not want to show up their 200+ patents that they say that Linux inflicts(or violate), I searched them for Microsoft.

Patent No. 6727830(2002): Double click is an innovation from Microsoft, Linux do have double click in Gnome and KDE.
Patent No. 6,618,857(2000): Dependency resolvers installers. Linux have debs, rpms, ebuilds, etc.
Patent No. 6,606,101(1999): Tooltips, Linux have those in KDE and Gnome
Patent No. 6,594,674(2000): Compressed files. Linux have tar, tar.gz, etc.
Patent No. 6,748,582(2000): Source code version control systems. We have SVN, CVS, etc.
Patent No. 7,139,883(2002): Transactional file systems. We implement FAT32, ext3 is also considered transactional.
Patent No. 7,093,267(2002): Buttons on Windows, like X, Minimize, Maximize. We have that too in KDE and Gnome.

Microsoft owns 5834 patents(and counting), that's why they need a lot of developers.

[digg it]

What is a "software developer" for me

2008-02-05T23:33:00.000-05:00

Reading this article I realize how does my relatives see how I am and what I do for living:

http://www.jonandnic.com/topics/ravings/embracing-my-inner-geek-part-2-the-job

I highly recommend you(a developer) read that article it's pretty cool the way that he writes about a computer science related career.

Who I am: I'm a software developer, computer programmer, systems engineer, IT guy... even for me its hard to find the right term. But I really like the "software developer" term seams to be the only one that describe the whole concept of being a "people that makes computer software possible".

What I do: I'm the person that make your software, the person that is breaking it's head to get your software done.

What I don't do: I don't repair computers(even though I have some knowledge to do it), I'm not at phone all the day doing support(even though I do some support), I'm not playing with hardware, I'm not an user I'm a innovator.

Is it bored or not fun? Not a single moment!, every day of a software developer is a different one, where its allowed to do research about how to solve a problem(a different one every day).

For non-techi people its difficult to figure out what a software developer do, they can figure out what a accountant do because everybody do pays bills, they can figure out what a musician do because everybody can sing!, but what about programming? does somebody have seen code in their entire life?. I have problems explaining people what a software developer do, people should think: "Or this boy is lying or he is a really bad "software developer" that he don't even know what it is", the typical question "Just give me an example of what you do" its so difficult to answer!

People think that a developer is a extremely intelligent people, but that statement is completely unfair and false! practice and perseverance is what will lead you to get the skills that you need.

I think that being a software developer is like being a musician in some way, yes you need some talent but if you don't practice every day, you'll loose it and believe me, you forget code very easily.

I feel proud of doing something that helps people, people even smarter than me, successful people, wealthy and poor people, it's feels like everybody needs me and that's the feeling that makes me go always forward.

A message for TNS

2008-02-01T21:54:00.000-05:00

Hi my dear hackers I just bought this book for you guys:

More info here: http://informaticanicaragua.net/index.php/topic,752.msg5109/topicseen.html

Getting something out of my chest - My old job in Nicaragua

2008-01-21T21:56:00.001-05:00

This post goes in Spanish, sorry and will be posted in http://www.ubuntu.org.ni/planeta which has a link in http://planet.ubuntu.com/(Solar System).

Before everything... there's always people(some of them my friends) telling me that I SHOULD NOT talk bad about Java because I used to work with it, today I'm telling these people(yes, very good friends) that I DO NOT CARE!

Ok, read or translate and read, from Informatica Nicaragua forums:

Lo siento mucho, pero yo no uso el termino "Aplicaciones empresariales" porque no tiene definicion y en realidad es un termino muuuy tonto que se basa en la discriminacion(si asi se puede llamar) de tecnologias, en pocas palabras... mi lenguaje es "Enterpricy" el tuyo NO!.

Y te cuento... en esos dos libritos esta todo lo que contiene la pila de libros de Java, porque Rails incluye un lenguaje de plantillas, un testing framework(Junit en Java), un ORM(Hibernate), etc.

Y si, yo trabaje en Java[1] y te puedo afirmar que o soy un muy malo programando o la curva de aprendizaje de Java es demaciado larga y me fui muy mal de ese trabajo, me tomo mas de 6 meses aprender a medio usar un framework y eso que ya sabia Java(el lenguaje y la lib standard y algo de swing), mientras tanto aprendi Django por las noches... como 2 horas antes de dormir y los fines de semana. No pienso regresar a Java, sinceramente si todos los framework requieren el aprendizaje de otro framework(otro libro de 600 pags) no me apunto, ademas de el uso exesivo de XML para todo es increiblemente confuso.

Si les interesa el framework se llama Cocoon[2] y es un proyecto de Apache que se basa en transformaciones XSLT y el uso de OJB para hacer su trabajo, tambien jugue con otros pero sinceramente Cocoon es el mejorsito y lamentablemente no tan popular, talves el unico que tiene un disenio bien pragmatico y muy bien apegado al MVC.

[1]: La ves pasada me reclamaron que por que yo hablaba de mi trabajo anterior tan tranquilamente, y ahora les digo porque:

No firme ningun NDA(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreement), pero sinceramente si lo hubiese firmado(claro a mi nunca me ofrecieron un NDA en Nicaragua ni algo parecido o equibalente) no lo estaria rompiendo he visto mas revelacion de sospechosos secretos de companias en blogs como los de ASP.NET[3] que en mis escritos.

Falta de etica profesional? tampoco!, conoci a 5 de los mejores programadores[4] de Nicaragua que conosco, gente que desarrolla software de verdad y de gran calidad. Pero a mi si es de Java que se trata, no me consideren ya estoy retirado de Java(casi iniciando) por lo cual he rechasado algunas ofertas de trabajo por las razones que comente anteriormente.

Hablo de Java y me siento con autoridad de hacerlo porque ya lo use a nivel universitario[5] y a nivel profesional[4], no soy experto pero si lo conosco lo suficiente(para mi) para criticarlo.

Bueno, ya saben si me contratan haganme firmar un NDA

[2]: http://cocoon.apache.org/ con nuevo sitio, muy bonito!

[3]: http://weblogs.asp.net/

[4]: http://www.agssa.net/

[5]: http://elac.uca.edu.ni/fctya

Hired!

2008-01-16T20:29:00.000-05:00

Since January 1st I'm not a consultant, I'm a Mertech Data Systems employee :), and very happy about it, because it's not what I was used to do, Mertech is a very innovative company that create methods to serve as a bridge to new database technologies that I found amazing. Everyday at Mertech is a different day, and the people I work with is just amazing.

Want to learn more about Mertech visit our site at: www.mertechdata.com.

Rails is a Ghetto!

2008-01-08T23:26:00.000-05:00

Zed Shaw just save me a lot of time...

http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html

Men, I believe you!, I'm not learning Rails :)

Igor.AddCar("Scion Tc 2008");

2007-12-29T22:08:00.000-05:00

I just bought a Scion Tc 2008, this is my first car, and I'm very proud that it is a Scion and brand new!

Well, I love my car! because it have all that I need(or want), moonroof/sunroof, tinted windows, 17" rims, chrome head and tail lights, semi-racing seats, and a lot of space(unbelievable in such a small car), and a nice audio system that can use a iPod as a source... and it looks great!

Myself in ASCII Art

2007-11-26T22:22:00.000-05:00

This is a picture of myself using caca-utils(apt://caca-utils)... more: http://fitoria.blogspot.com/2007/11/tutorial-como-ver-videos-y-fotos-desde.html

Big BTW: Banshee is going to get new interface and more!

2007-11-26T00:10:00.000-05:00

[http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page]

Great news in banshee community, because Banshee has been almost rewritten in the last couple of weeks!

Banshee LastFM radio support

2007-11-04T10:54:00.000-05:00

LastFM radio has just been added to Banshee:

It works pretty cool, but still need some love, here is the TODO list:

The following items are on the radar. Feel free to work on them.

Bugs:
• provide better UI feedback when switching stations/fetching songs
• disable shuffle, sorting, and already played tracks (that won't work if
you manually try to play them again)
• sometimes tracks simply don't play. sometimes pressing pause/play helps this.

Features:
• discovery mode (subscribers only, only plays new music)
• support songs w/ free download URL
• love/hate support
• obscure/popular for recommendation station
• combined stations - mix of several other stations
• event info (part of recommendations plugin?)

I'm looking forward to add some nice features to it, to make it better, but I still have to read some of the LastFM radio API.

Get it from here:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/banshee/branches/banshee/stable

New feature in Banshee... and more yet to come!

2007-10-30T20:21:00.000-04:00

Let say that we are too lazy to open Banshee whole interface, why just don't skip the song? with one click? well we just got it :)

Try this new feauture using Banshee from svn:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/banshee/branches/banshee/stable

In other news trunk is now broken in order to include the brand new library track view control.

Azureus(Vuze) in Linux

2007-10-27T20:39:00.000-04:00

After more than a year that Azureus 3.0 Vuze bittorrent client released, we got Azureus 3.0 in Linux, what I call the big lie... JAVA IS NOT THAT CROSSPLATFORM we have been seeing this type of projects that have more features or different behavior in Linux(or Windows or MacOS X), look Frostwire, Limewire, Netbeans... all those Java apps.

Well but the good part about this is that we can try Vuze that I think is a very good piece of software :)

[http://www.vuze.com]

A very "Mono IS NOT Free Software" quote

2007-10-23T22:47:00.000-04:00

" I value freedom so i refuse to use mono, oh look, a new ipod!"
from #banshee at irc.gimp.org

Evolution is very clever :)

2007-10-22T23:13:00.000-04:00

Another very good feature of Ubuntu is a new version of Evolution "The Linux Email Client", it's actually very smart identifying if you want to send an attachment with your email.

Don't believe it? take a look at it:

Dear Lazy Web I need a html button!

2007-10-21T19:29:00.000-04:00

I need a html button to post one of the new features of Ubuntu the apt url's:

This is a very good feature that allow you to just click a url like these in your browser:

apt://ubuntu-restricted-extras
apt://banshee
apt://gftp

etc... this is cool but we need a button just like the OpenSuSE one-click-install service:

Glipper - Thanks KDE for the idea :P

2007-10-21T19:02:00.000-04:00

Glipper is a Gnome clipboard manager, that helps you manages your... clipboard :P.

It's a copy of the very good idea of KDE called Klipper, thanks KDE for the nice idea.

Homepage: http://glipper.sourceforge.net/
Ubuntu Glipper: install

My screenshot:

Unleash the Monkey - Ubuntu 7.10 is here!

2007-10-21T18:32:00.000-04:00

Ubuntu 2007.10.18 Gutsy Gibbon(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon) released last Thursday, is the latest Ubuntu Linux distribution release.

Includes a lot of new features, like compiz-fusion by default, a new Gnome version(2.20), Deskbar desktop search applet, a new printer manager (taken from RedHat), Tracker indexed desktop search, Pidgin... and a lot more.

My very own screenshot:

Wanna get it?: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Wanna support?: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport
Wanna help?: https://launchpad.net/