It is very rewarding to coordinate a team of developers, that are able to migrate a third-party application to Linux, working without access to the central Host the application requires, and that when We deploy it to the testing site every module works amazingly well, no major bug found yet,...

Development

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...

Development, Open Source

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...

Development, On the Net

According to Mykzilla , according to Bernzilla , according to SimpleBits , according to MTV Labs , mtv.com has switched back to an HTML-based site from the Flash-based site they implemented nine months ago. I am not a big fan of Flash based sites for a lot of reasons, I just only hope web...

Development, On the Net

I am using a fully 3D accelerated desktop, easy to activate and deactivate with a simple preferences applet, thanks to AIGLX , Compiz and Fedora Core 6 , that, in my opinion, is better integrated than the Xgl X server (using OpenGL APIs) running over the traditional X server solution....

Development