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History meme

robert | 10 April, 2008 15:08

Everyone is doing this on Planet GNOME, so I wanted to see the results too:

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
150 cd
135 ll
105 hg
89 vi
39 less
39 find
37 sed
35 rm
35 tail
35 cat

ll = ls -al.

Addicted to Mercurial SCM

robert | 10 April, 2008 00:19

While I was learning how to use Mercurial in order to contribute to the Mozilla platform, I became addicted to it, and with the migration tools now I have access to my repositories with full history on the go, without need of permanent connection to the CVS or SVN server. I can even do offline commits to my local copies.

I had not found a nice GUI for it yet, but being restricted to the command line is not a big reason to not use the powerful offline features. ummmm OpenJDK is stored on Mercurial, and Netbeans 6.1 finall will have support for it.

Folding@home Petaflop Barrier Crossed

robert | 26 September, 2007 13:23

Amazing.... just look at the comparison with the other platforms, I am happy to have contributed at least a small part of it. This achievement is just only an example of how well made is the PlayStation 3 that its owners do not hesitate to left it turned on for continuous days doing CPU intensive calculations, with the fans working at maximum speed to reduce the machine temperature.

Nokia - do you know what is Exif?

robert | 08 August, 2007 10:36

Maybe I will have the luck that someday some Nokia developer visit this remote page, so I will ask them a little favor, please take your time to learn what is Exif. A long time ago I decided to not use more Nokia phones, but still sometimes when I meet with friends they take photos with their phones and sent them to me, I classify all of them by folders and dates so I have a chronological structure on disk. Yesterday I imported all my photos to my Playstation 3 to be able to show them more easily to family and friends and what i found, no Nokia phone I have received photos store complete Exif information, specially the date and time the photo was taken, and the PS3 uses a lot that info. The workaround was to add the metadata using exiv2 to all those photos

Why Smalltalk

robert | 02 May, 2007 10:38

Reading the onsmalltalk.com, found the article named Why Smalltalk, and I share the feelings of the author, you must try Smalltalk to understand why we Smalltalkers think that way. I still dream with an opportunity to teach Smalltalk in an academic environment, because as the article says "Object oriented programming means something entirely different to a Smalltalker than to someone doing OO in another language"

Do anyone need a seasoned Smalltalker demonstration?... hahahaha

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