https://blog.invisivel.net Escrito a tinta invisível porque, o essencial, é invisível ao olhar. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:36:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just stumbled on this post by Danilo Sato and remembered what a great time we had on the Kake Coding Dojo last August, at Agile 2009. Want to know what a Kake Coding Dojo is? Hugo Corbucci explains it on his blog, and so does Danilo (note that this Coding ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2009/11/15/the-kake-coding-dojo-format/ Today I'm going go to sleep with this song on my mind (read it thinking on the melody of On the First Day of Christmas). On the first day of EuroPLoP, my workshop said to me: "Delete everything on page 3" On the second day of EuroPLoP, my workshop said to me: "Too many ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2009/05/19/just-finished-submitting-one-more-paper/ While helping a friend dealing with a professional crossroad, I started wondering which universities are considered to be the top ones nowadays. I had ran some searches about this matter some time ago, helping one of my brothers to select a school where to apply for the ERASMUS programme, but ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2009/01/29/rankings-of-european-universities/ I finally found some time to install Ubuntu on my Eee pc 901, and it's a good thing I've waited for the holidays (if I can call them holidays --- despite what some lady friends tell me, hunting for Christmas presents in shopping malls is hard work), because the entire ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/12/23/installing-ubuntu-on-eee-pc-901/ I find jhead quite useful for keeping some order on my file-system based photos organization "system". For my own reference, here's how to rename a bunch of jpegs according to their EXIF information: jhead -n%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.jpg https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/11/30/jhead-usage/ I was back by Saturday 25th actually, but haven't found the time to post about this until now. It was a great week in Nashville, attending PLoP and OOPSLA, while helping out as a student volunteer. The entire environment was very nice, a lot of interesting people (including some big-name ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/11/09/back-from-plop-and-oopsla/ Bought myself an Eee PC 901 yesterday. Buying a netbook is something I have been considering for a while now. I found that getting a real laptop would be too much of a burden (on my pocket on the short-run, and on my back on the long-run), but I can find ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/10/13/the-need-for-mobility-and-the-netbook-frenzy/ I could really use one of these new toys everyone is calling netbooks. I've been looking at some options, and I'm quite liking the new Dell Inspiration Mini 9. One big plus for me is that it's available on a Ubuntu flavor, in which I will be much ... https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/09/20/considering-netbook-aquisition-options/ Esta uma pergunta que me ponho recorrentemente. Há uma regra, mas como em qualquer regra gramatical, também há excepções, e são estas que me costumam deixar em dúvida. Eis duas referências que explicam as excepções convenientemente: [1] [2]. https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/08/23/quando-usar-a-ou-an-em-ingles/ Acabo de promover a beta o Page2Docbook; o plugin para o Trac que referi recentemente. https://blog.invisivel.net/2008/08/11/trac-page2docbook-plugin-06/