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

Soon, the Mono runtime will have a Portability Layer or what I call the Welcome Bad Coders Layer . This is not the correct way to do things, fix the application if you have those problems and do not hack the runtime to allow bad coding practices. What will we see next?, a new patch to the...

Development, Open Source

I am begining to experiment with Ruby on Rails , until now I found the first thing I dislike about it,  the RubyGems packaging system. I do not want to use another packaging system different that the one provided by the OS, be it RPM or Debian packages, or any other option; I do not want...

Linux, Development, Open Source

After approval I added Subclipse (Subversion Eclipse plugin) to the Fedora Extras repository. :-P The news reached Fedora People and Planet GCC .

Java, Linux, Development, Open Source

I have found a list of free books about the Smalltalk programming language. The first one of the list is one of the books that has influenced more in the way I develop software.

Development, On the Net