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Unprompted

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unprompted

The summer I taught my mom’s friends English with a boombox and a song from the radio.

It was Spring 1994 and I was wrapping up my first year of college and my mind was already making a thousand different plans for the summer. I felt that I had to make up for time I had “wasted away” taking a bunch of science classes and being way too busy with school work and missing out on all the fun things my friends back home were doing without me.

Binge-Watching The Other Bennet Sister

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Binge-Watching The Other Bennet Sister

How a show about the most overlooked Bennet sister became my feel-good obsession of the week

Photo by Noah Silliman on Unsplash

I think it was this past Thursday evening, during the time I had been trying to establish as a new family game night tradition, but that recently fell by the wayside, that my oldest daughter asked me to call my oldest sister to see if we could use her BritBox account. She had watched the first episode of The Other Bennet Sister, a freebie from one of the many streaming services out there, and she liked it so much that she wanted to watch the remaining nine episodes of the series.

Uncle Bau

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Uncle Bau

On my Uncle Bau, and the bonds that survive even when the visits don’t.

By Raphael Toledo - Own work, Public Domain

Right before I turned 10, most likely around the age of 8, still living in the old country, my family took a trip to the shore so we could visit our relatives, which is something we tried to do maybe every two years or so. It was an opportunity to see my cousins, uncles and aunts, and grandparents, and it was mostly a great time for me. That specific trip was a bit more memorable than the previous ones, maybe not only because I had been much younger the previous times to remember much, but because it was the first time I had ever seen and played a video game.

Lend Me Your Ears

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lend Me Your Ears

A long-overdue update on the whole household, prompted by a friend’s

A friend from work sent me a long message yesterday on Slack to give me an update about all things. Even though we’ve known each other for maybe two years now, there are still things about his life that I don’t quite know well enough. That is not to say that I don’t care, or that he doesn’t trust me with personal things — it’s just a normal part of having friends who are also our teammates. In this specific case, this person used to report to me, so I guess the whole manager-versus-associate relationship may have also played a role. He’s also very quiet and keeps his personal life to himself, but has slowly shared some things with me and our teammates.

Where’s My Saddle?

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Where’s My Saddle?

A conversation about AI, engineering axioms, and why “throw more people at it” was always a myth

Photo by Roger van de Kimmenade on Unsplash

Today I had a really great chat with a coworker and friend I’ll call John, just to protect his identity. John and I met, I want to say, more than seven years ago — I believe the first time we actually talked was when he was interviewing for a position on one of my teams. I was very impressed by his work ethic, his intelligence, and the fact that he seemed like one of those serious, analytical people. He struck me as a software engineer who wasn’t just good at what he did, but genuinely steeped in the technology — someone who could talk your ear off about why certain programming languages were better than others, or different coding paradigms, or why one code structure beat another.

Shield Fatigue, Part Two

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Shield Fatigue, Part Two

Not Empathy Fatigue

Photo by Anna Saveleva on Unsplash

The other day, I wrote a note about coming up with a term to describe some of what I’ve been feeling at work. That term was Shield Fatigue. In that note, I promised I’d come back with more — especially since I was still digesting the fact that I’d finally found a word, a label, that helped explain something a lot of people I’ve talked to could sense but couldn’t quite put their finger on.

The Oinking Incident

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Oinking Incident

A summer memory involving a Mazda, a cop, and a sound no one saw coming

Photo by Szymonek Pograniczny on Unsplash

It was the late ‘90s and longtime readers of “Life in Rough Draft” might remember me mentioning, a while back, that one particular friend from my teenage years was a heavy influence on one of the characters in my novel I.C.Q. I’ve never used his real name in that note, and I’m not going to start now — so from here on, I’ll call him by that character’s name: Barret.

Not Yet

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Not Yet

On sleep schedules, my sister’s terrifying morning energy, and the house I’m not ready for

Photo by Belov Sergey on Unsplash

My oldest sister and her family are visiting from New Jersey this week, and this morning she showed up alone, bright and early, for a cup of coffee. She and my wife were on their way to spend the day organizing my wife’s classroom before the new school year starts. I say “bright” not necessarily because it was already bright outside, but because I have yet to meet anyone who wakes up as full of energy and as perky as she does. I know this because she calls me almost every morning as she commutes to work, and I get to hear her greeting her teammates when she arrives. I joke with my wife that my sister’s coworkers must either love her for the energy she brings that early in the morning, or absolutely hate her. :)

Swedish Meatballs

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Swedish Meatballs

A weekend in Charlotte, and the question I still can’t answer.

Qamaria Yemeni cafe

My oldest daughter needed a new bed and mattress for her room, and since we all needed a few things for the house—including a replacement for our slightly overused couch—we decided to make the yearly pilgrimage to Ikea for a good dose of Swedish meatballs (which have gotten pricier since our last visit) and some decoration ideas. The fact that my wife wanted to see a few things at UNC Charlotte sealed the plan: we’d spend the weekend and make a family trip out of it.

Eighty Letters

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Eighty Letters

On firstborns, hard-earned lessons, and watching your kid walk your own road

Photo by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash

There’s a saying I only became aware of when our first child was born: that the firstborn of any family is highly likely to resemble one or both of their parents. Most often the saying is meant to be about physical appearance—how they share similar traits and features with their parents—but the version I’m most familiar with is that “every firstborn daughter resembles her father,” also in temperament and behavior.

Living in Notes

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Living in Notes

Why most of my writing lately has skipped your inbox

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

If you’ve noticed fewer emails from me lately, there’s a reason: I’ve been living in Notes.

For the last little while, most of what I’ve written has landed there instead of here in your inbox. And I’ll be honest about why. Notes feel liberating in a way a full post doesn’t. I can catch whatever happens to be crossing my mind — a memory, a small mishap, a song I’d forgotten I loved — and just put it down, without turning it into an event. No subject line, no “new post” fanfare, no feeling that I’m knocking on your door yet again.

More Than Words

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

More Than Words

My own declaration of independence didn’t come on a Fourth of July — it came on an ordinary November afternoon

Hanging out with friends of different nationalities (circa 1993)

Now that school is finally over and summer has officially started, my family and I took our yearly trip—almost a tradition by now—of spending the first day of summer at the beach, usually somewhere in North Carolina. Mostly because it’s a short drive from home, and it spares us hours stuck in traffic just to reach a place that’s bound to be crowded anyway.

What I've Been Up To

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What I’ve Been Up To

52th Birthday Edition

Photo by Liana Mikah on Unsplash

The title for this post was shamelessly “borrowed” from Neal Stephenson’s, though my subtitle is at least 14 years younger than his :)

For the first couple of months of 2026, I felt like I had a solid plan for how I wanted to manage my personal time, with a heavy bias toward the gym, toward writing more often—even when it wasn’t one of my THREE in-flight scripts or a Substack post—toward learning Latin, and toward studying and practicing chess. On top of that were the things that still mean a lot to me: reading, a weekly date night with my wife, and time set aside to play games with my daughters. Scrabble is still the family favorite, though we’ve added a few new ones to the rotation.

Reorganization Fatigue

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Reorganization Fatigue

A few thoughts on change that never seems to settle

Photo by Orgalux on Unsplash

I can’t believe it is June already, and if you’ve spent any real time in software engineering, you probably know the word that tends to surface around this time of year: reorganization. It’s the season when entire groups—sometimes entire organizations—get put through the wringer, shuffling people and teams around in a complete reorganization, as it were, of how they organize themselves, all in order to address some gap that was identified somewhere, by someone, at some point.

Defeatism at Work

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Defeatism at Work

AI, anxiety, and the quiet erosion of trust in engineering culture

Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

Earlier today I had a meaningful conversation with a close friend from a previous job, and as we shared some of the challenges we’ve both been experiencing professionally, he introduced me to a term that immediately resonated with me. It perfectly captured not only the atmosphere I’ve been observing since the beginning of 2026, but also a feeling I’ve struggled to articulate in myself: defeatism.

Ollama Drama

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ollama Drama

Where Engineers Herd LLMs and Wrangle Prompts

Ollama Drama Workshop

So, let me tell you about this thing called Ollama Drama and why it exists.

Last spring, I ran an internal workshop at work because I had been noticing the same thing over and over again: a lot of people were curious about LLMs, a lot of people had opinions about AI, a lot of people had maybe played with ChatGPT once or twice, but not that many people had actually sat down and gotten their hands dirty with the tooling in a way that felt practical, safe, and not too scary.

The Characters Are Still Knocking

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Characters Are Still Knocking

Why some stories refuse to let go, even when life leaves little room for them

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Yesterday was a balmy 68-degree day in North Carolina.

In the morning, after coming back from the gym, taking a quick shower, and sneaking a peek at Slack to gauge how the day was going at work, I got back in the car to take my daughter to school so she could take the final exam for one of her classes. Then I sat there in the parking lot, waiting for her, with a lot of time on my hands.

Learning to Swim in a Very Large Pool

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Learning to Swim in a Very Large Pool

These were the early days of learning how teams operate at scale, how influence is built through action rather than position, and how leadership often shows up before the title ever does.

Photo by Brandon Byars on Unsplash

Over the weekend, my dad came over for breakfast with my mom. They had just returned from a three-week tour of the southeast of the United States in their RV, and we hadn’t really seen each other since they left. This Saturday, they came over for breakfast, and as we sat around the kitchen table while my kids were still asleep, we started talking about how the trip went and about all the other things that had happened since they were gone. One thing led to another, and I mentioned to my dad that I had to go to Southpoint Mall to replace my glasses. One of the lenses had somehow gotten scratched, and I was hoping that the warranty was still valid—it wasn’t.

The Week the Mill Ran Ahead of Its Keepers

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Week the Mill Ran Ahead of Its Keepers

When the machine moved faster than the people around it

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

The week began with movement that led nowhere.

The belts turned.

The gears engaged.

Yet nothing new would hold.

Not in the dramatic way the tower liked to describe in meetings, but in the quieter way machinery sometimes resists—belts turning without carrying anything forward, gears waiting for instructions that never arrived. The conveyors that fed the Night Lantern Circuit refused to accept new patterns, leaving both the working mill and the frozen winter frame standing still.

How a Biochemist Ended Up Writing Engineering Parables

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How a Biochemist Ended Up Writing Engineering Parables

The unexpected path that led to the Mill series

Photo by Marcin Kolodziejczak on Unsplash

Anyone who knows me personally or has worked with me knows that I don’t have a background in computer science, and the fact that I’ve been working in software engineering for close to two decades might surprise anyone hearing this for the first time. That’s because I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry back in the late 90s.

The Week the Lanterns Turned Green

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Week the Lanterns Turned Green

Progress, pressure, and the quiet sound of the estate shifting

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

The week began with a gate.

Not a physical one, but an old checkpoint buried deep in the mill’s machinery—one that no other neighboring mill required, yet one that had once been implemented at this mill to halt carts for reasons few remembered.

Looking Back at the Boy Who Was Angry

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Looking Back at the Boy Who Was Angry

What a teenage argument with God taught me about acceptance and persistence

My young mother with me and my two sisters.

Acceptance arrived quietly, long after I stopped looking for it.

A few days ago, a friend and I were chatting — the kind of casual conversation that starts light and slowly drifts into something deeper.

He joked that his family was doing well, but that he was the one falling apart. The humor was still there, but beneath it sat something heavier: years of medical tests, uncertainty, and the quiet suspicion that this might simply be how life was going to be now.

The Week the Mill Began Watching Itself

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Week the Mill Began Watching Itself

When the Mill Learned to Watch Itself

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

The inflection point arrived sooner than anyone expected.

The tower had spoken of automation as an expectation. The mill, quietly and without ceremony, chose to treat it as an opportunity.

The plan was no longer ink on a map. It was motion.

The mill would no longer rely solely on lantern-bearing craftspeople walking its floors by hand to detect issues or anomalies. It would learn, if possible, to inspect itself.

The Winter When the Mill Would Not Ship

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Winter When the Mill Would Not Ship

A quiet accounting of effort, debt, and the cost of deferred work

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

The trouble began during a quiet season.

The estate was celebrating. Fires were low, halls were sparsely staffed, and most of the craftspeople had finally stepped away from the mill to rest. It was understood—unspoken, but widely accepted—that nothing truly urgent would be asked of the machinery during those days. The mill had earned its pause.

The Mandate and the Mill

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Mandate and the Mill

(A parable, or so I’m told)

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

In a large mill at the edge of a sprawling estate, a group of craftspeople worked tirelessly to refine a machine they had spent years building. The mill was not flashy, but it was essential to the estate’s economic health and well-being. It produced reliable goods, shipped on a predictable cadence, and—most importantly—could be trusted not to fail when demand surged.

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What You Can Be Paid For

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What You Can Be Paid For

What it means when your paycheck no longer reflects what you’re building

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

“I need you to give me a date for your last day.”

There was nothing subtle about it. I had already told my manager—clearly and more than once—that I didn’t have anything else lined up yet, and that I was still looking for something that aligned with my values and the kind of work I wanted to do next. That didn’t seem to matter. The pressure continued anyway.

Hire Like a Founder

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hire Like a Founder

Applying the founder’s mentality to recruit self-aware, creative people who act like owners of the mission.

Illustration generated using AI image tools, prompted and directed by the author.

What I actually listen for in interviews (and why I rarely start with technical questions)

Below the paywall, I share the kinds of questions I’ve collected over years of interviewing—questions that help me understand how someone thinks, reflects, creates, struggles, and grows. These aren’t trick questions or gotchas. They’re conversation starters I use to explore character, curiosity, and what I think of as a founder’s mentality.

Built To Last

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Built To Last

On learning by building, lowering the bar to entry, and the quiet legacy of useful work

Built To Last

From the very beginning, when I first got my first computer—around the age of 11 or 12—I felt inclined toward building things that were helpful and useful to others. Like many of my friends who eventually went into the computer industry and became software engineers, it all started with games. The thrill of writing your own game—something other people could use and that you could show off to your friends—was incredibly exciting to me.

The Day I Didn't Quit

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Day I Didn’t Quit

On Ego, Alignment, and the Power of Pausing Before You Leap

The Day I Didn’t Quit

After working for 2.5 years as a consultant at a governmental agency in New York as a software engineer, I took advantage of the fact that my position was eliminated after a silly argument with my then-manager and started looking for something new. My wife and I were expecting our second daughter, and the thought of continuing with the same schedule and routine I’d had for the last 2.5 years felt unbearable—something I simply wasn’t willing to do anymore.

Not a Pitch

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Not a Pitch

The Best Teams Form Around Truth, Not Persuasion

Not a Pitch

It was February 2019 when I was offered the opportunity to become Director of Quality Engineering for the organization where I worked—a role I had spent nearly eight years working toward. It should have felt triumphant. Instead, it felt complicated.

At the time, Quality Engineering was a pillar of its own, separate from Software Engineering, which had its own pillars, directors, senior directors, and vice presidents. The Quality Engineering organization stood alone, and I was one of four or five directors. Above us was a Senior Director—soon to become a Vice President—overseeing a team of roughly 1,300–1,400 software quality engineers.

Questions for a Happier 2026

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Questions for a Happier 2026

Not resolutions, but reflections on what actually mattered

Questions for a Happier 2026

This is my final post of 2025.

I want to start by saying thank you. Truly.Life in Rough Draft exists because you read, reply, reflect, and occasionally tell me that something here landed at the right moment. That quiet exchange—writer to reader—is what keeps this space alive.

If these essays have resonated with you this year, the simplest way to support this work is also the easiest: share a post with a friend, tap the ❤️, or restack it with a few words of your own. Those small gestures help these pieces find the people who might need them—and they let me know what’s connecting.

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What the World Needs, and What We Miss

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What the World Needs, and What We Miss

An Ikigai reflection on people, systems, and wasted potential

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: Where I Feel Needed

I’ve been circling four Ikigai questions lately: what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. The framework has four overlapping parts, and I’m writing through them one at a time, in the order they’re actually showing up for me.

Nineteen Years Ago, I Shipped a Reminder

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nineteen Years Ago, I Shipped a Reminder

How BillReminder, Glade, and a stubborn love of simplification shaped my early years in open source.

BillReminder screens

I recently wrote about some of the reasons why I do what I do, especially when it comes to the professional path I’ve taken. It started long before software, back when I wanted to be a scientist—working in genetic recombination and gene therapy, trying to help people overcome genetic conditions as early as possible, ideally before they ever had to live with the consequences of them.

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What I'm Good At

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai: What I’m Good At

Lessons from feedback, fire drills, and the quiet work of helping people find clarity

What I’m Good At

I’m officially done with work for the year.

This past Friday wrapped things up cleanly—no loose ends, no unfinished tasks—and I now have two full weeks ahead of me. Some of that time comes from the usual year-end shutdown, some from time off I’d accumulated. All of it feels intentionally quiet.

The Gift You Don't Open Right Away

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Gift You Don’t Open Right Away

Finding the truth inside hard feedback

I’ve noticed a slight increase in the number of people reaching out to me for “one last call” before the end of the year. It wouldn’t quite qualify as a surge, but it’s definitely a shift—not just in volume, but in who is reaching out and why.

My calendar is usually full of the expected things: project meetings, team conversations, or discussions with people interested in using the work we’re building. That’s normal. But lately, more people have been asking to talk about something else entirely.

The Role I Wanted—and the One I Left

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Role I Wanted—and the One I Left

This is a cartoonized rendering of a real photograph. All names and identifying details on the shirts have been removed to respect the privacy of the individuals involved.

It was July 16th, 2019. In the photo above, I’m standing with the quality engineering managers who reported to me at the time. Together, we represented what I believed—earnestly—to be the future of quality engineering at the company.

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Tracing the Edges of My Ikigai

Photo by Acy Ian Malimban on Unsplash

The end of the year is quickly approaching, and this is the season when people managers get busy completing performance reviews for the engineers who report to them. Some organizations do this once a year; here, we do it every quarter. As I’ve been having these conversations—talking with my team about what excites them about the year ahead, what their goals might be, and what their aspirations look like—the word Ikigai has surfaced more than once.

Confessions of a Teenage Emblem Thief

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Confessions of a Teenage Emblem Thief

“The Big Score” by Og Maciel

I was fourteen when I first heard about people who “harvested” car emblems for the thrill of it. Nobody in my small coastal town had even imagined such a thing—which, in my mind, meant I had the advantage of being the first to try. Over the next four or five months, I taught a handful of trusted friends the quiet finesse required to pry an emblem loose without leaving a scratch. I became something of a connoisseur, only going after the really special ones—novelty emblems, rare designs, or the irresistible shield-shaped badge on the Ford Del Rey Ghia. I could never have too many of those.

November 2025 Reading Wrap-Up

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

November 2025 Reading Wrap-Up

Photo by Andreea Avramescu on Unsplash

Another month in the books—though it’s funny to say that, because for most of November I felt like I should have read more. I tried to read more. But the first two weeks dragged, and reading felt like a slog. I’ve written elsewhere about why this month was unusually tough, so I won’t rehash all that here. The short version: work was heavy, stress was high, and my mind was everywhere except on the page.

A Reader's Take on The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Reader’s Take on The Subtle Art Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

It’s been a while since I’ve written any kind of book review, and mostly it’s because I often feel that when I try, I don’t have the right framework to offer a solid commentary on what I liked, what I didn’t, and why I would—or wouldn’t—recommend a book. When I talk about books that mattered to me or touched me in some way, I usually end up describing them through how they made me feel. I don’t always know how to break things down in a more “literary” way—structure, motifs, themes, and all that—so I tend to refrain from reviewing books at all.

What We Carry

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What We Carry

Photo by Tino Rischawy on Unsplash

I ran my fingers across the table’s surface, gathering a thick crust of ash that crumbled and slipped off once I reached the edge. I wiped the residue on my trousers, adding one more stain to an eclectic collection that already included blood— not mine —snot, rust, and worse. Hard to believe the fires had been burning for nine straight months with no respite in sight—judging by the cloudless sky and the air’s almost nonexistent humidity.

Who Wrote This? (Spoiler: Apparently Me.)

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Who Wrote This? (Spoiler: Apparently Me.)

Photo by Ali Bakhtiari on Unsplash

I’m not a pack rat. At least, not in the way people usually mean it. But the first memory I have of being interested in collecting anything goes back to when I was around eight or nine, and I first learned about stamp collecting—philately. I was fascinated by the idea that these tiny pieces of paper had traveled through towns, across states, over oceans. They were carried by people, planes, and ships, and each one arrived with a little bit of another place attached to it. Through stamps, I felt like I could glimpse other cultures and countries in a way books hadn’t yet offered me.

The Day in 1997 When the World Went Quiet

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Day in 1997 When the World Went Quiet

Actual correspondence from 1997

Yesterday, when I wrote about the time I used to go fishing with a friend in that very polluted lake in New Jersey as a way to have something to do and hang out after long hours of studying and waiting for my friends to be done with work, it reminded me of another similar story that happened to me. I know the exact date because, while going through some of my old notes and writings from before I was even married, I found a letter I wrote to someone telling this story.

Fishing, 90s Style: Banana Boats and Questionable Lakes

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Fishing, 90s Style: Banana Boats and Questionable Lakes

Photo by Jed Owen on Unsplash

There was a time in the 90s when my favorite hobby—other than playing video games—was fishing. I actually owned several tackle boxes, a multitude of lures and hooks, and all the paraphernalia you’d expect: nets, rods, you name it. I had it.

Back then, most of my friends were working part-time jobs—delivery boys, stockroom helpers—anything to make some cash for gas or to keep up with the car payments for the “fancy” cars they thought they could afford. Meanwhile, I was busy with school, studying hard, and trying to keep my grades up because I thought I wanted to pursue an MD/PhD program. By the time I was done studying and my friends were done working, it was already past 10 or 11 at night.

Confessions of a Horror Lover Who's Scared of Horror

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Confessions of a Horror Lover Who’s Afraid of Horror

Photo by m wrona on Unsplash

Okay, I have a confession to make. Maybe it’s a confession and a fact. I’ll start with the fact first: I probably own around a hundred or more books that fall into the category of horror or weird fiction.

That’s mostly because, years ago, a good friend of mine was transitioning from married life to single life and moving to a smaller place. He needed to downsize, and very reluctantly decided to part with some of his books. He sent me a message with a long list of titles and asked if I might be interested in buying a few to help him out.

Crunching the Numbers of a Slow Reading Month

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Crunching the Numbers of a “Slow” Reading Month

]Photo by Aaron Lefler on Unsplash

I got curious. The other day I mentioned that I haven’t really been reading a lot lately, and I tried to pin it on being too busy and too exhausted by the end of the day. Yes, there’s some truth to that — I havebeen very busy — but I still wanted to figure out whether this was an unusual reading year for me or not.

Murder Hornet: Chapter Seven

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Murder Hornet: Chapter Seven

Photo byTatiana Tochilova on Unsplash

💡 This story is part of my ongoing series,Murder Hornet, a novel-in-progress unfolding one imperfect chapter at a time.

Chapter VII

I’d known Derrick all my life, best friends since I could remember. Come to think of it, there’s no single memory of my childhood without him in it. Derrick and Allen; Allen and Derrick, we were always together, inseparable friends.

Sorting Through a Hard Week

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Sorting Through a Hard Week

Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash

This Saturday, I’m accompanying my wife to a workshop she’s helping put together here in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The event is at the public library, and while she’ll be busy for a few hours, I decided to carve out some quiet time for myself—find a corner, gather my thoughts, and get some reading done. I’m nearly finished with one of the books I’ve been slowly working through over the last few days, but my mind has also been very preoccupied with work. That shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been reading my posts lately.

Trying to Read While Life Happens

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Trying to Read While Life Happens

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Yesterday, after the long day I had, my wife, one of my daughters, and I went to a jazz concert at UNC, something my daughter needed to attend for one of her classes. It was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m., with the UNC Jazz Band performing alongside special guest Alex Graham. Turns out the North Carolina Symphony was also in town performing in the larger, more modern adjacent theater, which meant it took us extra time to get there. Finding parking was especially hard, but thanks to the kindness of one attendant protecting the neighborhood lots from concert-goers, we managed to find a spot only a few minutes’ walk from the Moeser Auditorium.

Finding My Feet Again

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Finding My Feet Again

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Dear reader and friends,

It’s been a chaotic last three days at work, the kind where I can barely find time to breathe or do anything personal beyond being with my family. Work has consumed every single minute, and I’ve faced challenges that pushed me to the brink more than once. I’d be lying if I said the easier route — throwing in the towel — didn’t cross my mind. The comfort of giving up can be surprisingly tempting. There were moments when I had to talk myself off the ledge, reminding myself not to stop caring, not to disconnect, not to shut down.

When the Armor Slips

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When the Armor Slips

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Yesterday, I wrote about how my day began with the very difficult task of letting someone go. Even though that meeting lasted only fifteen minutes, it took a lot out of me. Little did I know, that was just the beginning of what turned into a chaotic day filled with multitasking, back-to-back calls (both scheduled and ad hoc), and trying to balance competing priorities and distractions from morning to night.

The Quiet Side of Management

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Quiet Side of Management

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April 22nd, 2016.

This was the first time in my career, as a manager of software engineers, that I had to let someone go. Not that I hadn’t dealt with performance issues before—there had been engineers and associates who struggled, and a few who ultimately decided to leave rather than continue on a performance improvement plan—but this was the first time I actually had to make the call to terminate someone’s employment.

Murder Hornet: Chapter Six

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Murder Hornet: Chapter Six

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💡 This story is part of my ongoing series,Murder Hornet, a novel-in-progress unfolding one imperfect chapter at a time.

Chapter VI

“So, it was already close to the very end of the second half–”

“How many halves are there again?”

I gave her a look of disbelief. “Are you kidding me you don’t know how many halves there are in a game?”

Locked Out of the Kitchen: A Software Engineer's Tale

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Locked Out of the Kitchen: A Software Engineer’s Saturday

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It’s a Saturday afternoon in early November, and instead of daydreaming about the holidays or planning what I’ll do during our annual office shutdown—a much-appreciated week off right before the end of the year—I find myself working. Babysitting, really. I’m watching over our build system for one of the projects we’re trying to wrap up in the next few days.

My Origin Story: The Job That Broke Me

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

My Origin Story: The Job That Broke Me

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You can now read My Origin Story in order — from the very beginning — on its dedicated page:

👉 Read the full series here

There are moments in life when you don’t notice the ground shifting beneath you until it finally cracks. Leaving Synaptic wasn’t a dramatic exit. Nobody threw a chair. There were no fireworks, no screaming matches, no dramatic firings. It was quieter than that. Heavier than that. It was a slow unraveling.

The Day I Was Rescued by Firefighters

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Day I Was “Rescued” by Firefighters While Learning to Code

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I guess I must be going through a nostalgic spree or something, because yesterday, as I wrote about keyboards and my experience with Linux — and even the project I’ve been working on, trying to write a few words every night — is also part of a memory from my childhood. And today, I find myself thinking of the day when I had to be, quote-unquote, rescued by the firemen after being stuck in a hotel room once.

A Writer's Best Friend: A Proper Keyboard

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Writer’s Best Friend? A Proper Keyboard

I’m a bona fide computer geek and have been one for quite some time. I guess the fact that I started using Linux back when just getting the X Window Server up and running (for those who don’t know, that’s what lets you have a graphical interface instead of a blinking command line) was considered unnecessary—but still required what felt like a PhD to configure—instead of simply using Windows “like everyone else,” might have been a dead giveaway.

NaNoWriMo, We Meet Again

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NaNoWriMo, We Meet Again

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It is November, and one of the traditions this time of year is to take part in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), where people are encouraged to attempt writing a novel—or roughly 30,000 words—during the month. The idea is simple: if you write a little bit (or a lot) every day for 30 days, and you average around 1,000 words a day, you’ll end the month with a solid draft of a novel.

I Asked AI to Analyze My Reading Habits. My Wallet Almost Didn’t Survive.

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I Asked AI to Analyze My Reading Habits. My Wallet Almost Didn’t Survive.

Okay, I confess—I was bored, somewhere between watching an episode of Such Brave Girls and reading, so I opened ChatGPT and asked:

Based on the titles below representing the last digital books I purchased from Amazon, what could be inferred about my reading style and preferences?

Skinbreaker #1
Alchemised
Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Murder Hornet: Chapter Five

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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If you’re new here, this is part of my ongoing experiment where I’m publishing raw, completely unedited chapters of a novel I’ve been writing (and rewriting… deleting… swearing at… and rewriting again) for the past couple of years.

If you’d like to catch up first:

This week, I’m sharing Chapter 5. As always, your feedback keeps this little experiment alive—so if you’re still enjoying the story, please let me know.

No Is a Complete Sentence

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Google Calendar says I spend an average of 20 hours a week in meetings. Add to that the fact that I have to block my own lunch just to prevent people from scheduling over it, and suddenly 25 hours of a 40-hour week are already spoken for. Then there are the ad-hoc calls that pop up out of nowhere and don’t even show up on the calendar. So I’m pretty convinced I actually spend close to 30 hours a week on Zoom/Meet/Teams/whatever-video-conferencing-platform-is-ruining-my-neck-that-day.

October Reading Wrap-Up: A Month of Chaos, Comics & Quiet Pages

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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This month of October has been… a very busy one at work, and as a result, I didn’t spend nearly as much time reading as I usually do. Between all the additional stress and prep work required to handle some unexpected complications, I also managed to do a fair amount of writing, so something had to give.

When I wrapped up September, I said I wanted to read some scary books, maybe lean more into sci-fi and less into non-fiction, mostly because I felt like I needed a break from the real world. And if that was true in September, oh boy was it even more true in October.

The Student in Me Never Left

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Library in the morning hours

This morning I started work late because I had to run a couple of errands. First, I was supposed to pick up my dad and take him to the mechanic so he could get his car, but it turns out the place only opened later and I couldn’t wait for it. So it was on to the second task of the day: taking my 18-year-old daughter to her school for an in-person exam.

Crawl, Walk, Run—Rest

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday was a day of quiet time and reflection for me—a forced slowdown after my body decided it had had enough of my constant multitasking and ignored warnings. This entire year has been a relentless stretch of challenges and tight deadlines. Every time someone said it would be impossible to complete a project by a certain date, my response was always the same: hold my beer. Yes, the chaos was self-inflicted. I own that. But what can I say—I have an almost reckless amount of belief in what can be achieved when a group of capable, autonomous engineers who trust each other come together around a shared purpose.

Why Christmas Music Gets Me Every Time

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I know it may sound weird to start talking about Christmas when Halloween hasn’t even come up yet. But last night, while my oldest daughter was making dinner, she put on a Christmas station on Pandora—and just like that, I was transported straight into my first Christmas memory.

I must have been maybe five or six. And when I say I “remember” it, I’m not 100% sure if it’s a real memory or something I pieced together from old photos—but it feels real. Someone dressed as Santa Claus came to our house. To this day I don’t know if it was my dad, a friend of his, or someone my parents hired—but “Santa” showed up. And to my absolute shock, I got a G.I. Joe dressed in full camouflage, plus a yellow helicopter and a Jeep with some kind of weapon mounted in the back. This was the early 80s, so getting war-themed toys was totally normal. That’s the first Christmas I can truly recall.

My Origin Story: Baptism by Fire

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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When I walked into Synaptic Pharmaceuticals for my first official software developer job interview, I had never written a line of professional code. I had no GitHub profile (it didn’t even exist yet), no computer science degree, and just a vague idea of what a design pattern was.

But I had something far more dangerous: momentum and an unlimited supply of hubris.

A few weeks earlier, I had built a working software system from scratch in a pharmaceutical lab despite having zero formal training. If I could do that, what couldn’t I do?

Murder Hornet: Chapter Four

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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If you’d like to catch up first:

This week, I’m sharing Chapter 4. As always, your feedback keeps this little experiment alive—so if you’re still enjoying the story (or even if you’re just here for the chaos), drop a comment. Should I keep going? Post more frequently? Stop immediately for the sake of literature as a whole? You tell me.

Week in Review — Week 43 of 2025

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Another week in the books, and this one was a reminder that life is a balancing act between chaos and comfort—between AWS meltdowns and Japanese takeout, between one-on-one meetings and long overdue naps. Somehow I made it through with my sanity mostly intact, a few small wins along the way, and plenty of caffeine to prevent a total system crash. Here’s how the week unfolded, one day at a time.

A Book, a Backyard War, and a Lifetime of Friendship

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Reading has always been part of my family for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are of my parents buying books from those traveling salespeople who used to go door to door selling encyclopedias—Brittanica, Barsa, Larousse, you name it. We always had a room dedicated to books, where we kept the dictionaries, classic literature, and those giant encyclopedia volumes that made you feel smarter just by being in the same room with them.

Planning My Escape (Sort of)

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Today I stumbled across an article claiming that the magic number you need to save for a “comfortable” retirement is $1.5 million. I only skimmed the article, but I’m pretty sure it was written for people living in the U.S. who plan to retire around 67. And by “comfortable,” I’m guessing they mean having a roof that doesn’t leak, food that isn’t ramen, and health insurance that doesn’t send you straight into bankruptcy.

If You Want to Grow, Get on the Bull

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I can’t remember exactly when I first heard the advice about taking ownership of your own career and destiny instead of leaving it up to chance. Maybe it came from a book, maybe a talk—I can’t remember. But I do know the exact day when it finally hit me.

It was around 2008, during a really hard phase at work. Back then, I blamed all my career woes on external forces—unsupportive teammates, bad leadership decisions, bad luck. None of it was ever my fault, of course. I was convinced I was doing everything right and the universe was conspiring against me.

The Great Couch Debate (and Why My Office Survived)

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Over the weekend, my wife and I were talking about how good it would be to finally replace our old, beat-up couch in the living room. I don’t even remember where we originally got it—I just know we hated it from the very first day we assembled it. It’s too small, the back cushions are too soft, and if you lean back for more than twenty minutes, you end up pressed against the hard frame and needing a chiropractor. Most of the time we double up the cushions to make it usable, which also means there’s now a silent competition in our house: whoever grabs the extra cushion gets an additional twenty minutes of comfort.

My Origin Story: From Syringes to Software

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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“Sometimes the path finds you long before you recognize you’re walking it.”

I didn’t plan on becoming a software engineer. In fact, if you had met me as a teenager in Brazil—hunched over one of the many Encyclopedia Britannica volumes we had at home or scribbling chemical equations on scratch paper—I would have told you I was going to cure genetic diseases and start my own research lab in Australia. People from all over the world would fly there to be treated. All free of charge. That was the dream. Technology wasn’t even in the picture.

Murder Hornet: Chapter Three

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re new here, this is part of an ongoing experiment where I’m publishing raw, completely unedited chapters of a novel I’ve been writing (and rewriting… and doubting… and rewriting again) for the past couple of years.

If you’d like to catch up first:

Prelude + Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:

This week, I’m sharing Chapter 3. As before, I’d really like to hear what you think—should I keep posting new chapters every week? Drop a comment and let me know what’s working, what isn’t, and whether I should keep going or retire quietly into a cave somewhere with coffee and doubt.

Week in Review - Week 42 of 2025

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Some weeks test your patience. Others your stamina. This week? It tested my calendar, my caffeine intake, my emotional bandwidth—and somehow still managed to remind me why I do what I do. Between last-minute presentations, sprint planning chaos, infrastructure headaches, and keeping my team sane, I also got to celebrate something far more meaningful: 25 years of marriage to the quiet girl who changed my life. Here’s how Week 42 unfolded.

The Quiet Girl Who Changed My Life

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

My wife and I couldn’t be more different from each other. She’s sweet, and I’m savory. She’s calm and easygoing, while I’m hyped up and intense. I talk a thousand miles an hour but am very much an introvert, whereas she chooses her words carefully and is a social butterfly.

I remember when I first met her. It was April 1999, and I had just agreed to go on a blind date with my friend’s sister’s best friend. I was going through a rough phase in my life—one where I’d pretty much given up on romance and decided to focus entirely on work. One of my sisters kept insisting that I should start dating again. She even set me up with someone she swore would be a good match, telling me we were both Geminis and that I’d just been “looking for the right person in the wrong places.” I wasn’t sure what to think of that at the time, but I went along with it. The date was pleasant enough—she was kind, we had a good time—but there were no sparks.

Back to the Page: Finding My Way Into the ICQ Sequel

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of days ago, I wrote about getting back into the writing swing of things and adding a few paragraphs to a novel I want to write—a sequel to my book ICQ. It’s kind of funny because when I went to save what I’d written, I started looking for a place to put it and discovered that I had already put something together, probably earlier this year. It was a pleasant surprise to realize that I had already captured some ideas, but it also shows just how much is going on in my life lately that I couldn’t even remember starting it.

Why I’m Trading SMART Goals for HEART Goals

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I was having coffee in my kitchen and browsing Substack when I came across a note from Courtney Cunningham, where she declared that she was done with the so-called SMART goals.

SMART, as you probably know, is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Time-bound — a framework for structuring professional and personal goals. If you’re in a leadership position and responsible for helping others achieve their aspirations or close knowledge or behavioral gaps, chances are you’ve heard of SMART goals.

From LAMP Stacks to Large Language Models

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

According to the whois command, I’ve owned the domain ogmaciel.com since January 21, 2001, and I believe it was the very first domain I ever bought. Since then, I’ve purchased multiple domains for all sorts of ideas and projects, but this one I’ve kept — and renewed faithfully — since day one.

Over the years, I’ve self-hosted (cutting my teeth on Linux by building and maintaining LAMP stacks) and used paid hosting services to run my personal blog. I used WordPress back when it was the coolest blogging platform out there, and I’ve hand-crafted HTML sites — and everything in between. I wrote prolifically about anything and everything for many years, and I’ve lost more posts than I care to admit as I switched platforms (and occasionally forgot to back things up).

All Things Open, Except My Calendar

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today marks the first day of All Things Open 2025, a technology conference that takes place every year right here in my backyard. I remember attending the first few editions and loving the chance to meet people and friends — some I only knew from online interactions — while listening to great speakers and getting my mind blown by their enthusiasm for their craft.

After unsuccessfully submitting talk proposals for several years, I eventually decided to skip the event altogether. But this year, I decided to give it another shot — to see if it could win back my patronage. I even bought my tickets months in advance and made plans to meet some teammates and hang out outside of work.

Murder Hornet: Chapter Two

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This post continues from the previous installment, where I shared the Prelude and Chapter 1 of Murder Hornet. If you haven’t read it yet, I’d recommend starting there to get the full story so far. As always, I’d love to hear your thoughts — let me know in the comments if you’d like me to keep posting more of the unpublished chapters.

Chapter II

“Hey, what’s up, Roddy?” I said nonchalantly, trying to hide the fact that he scared the crap out of me.

Week in Review — Week 41 of 2025

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This week was a mix of meetings, milestones, and moments that mattered: reconnecting with my parents, rediscovering patience, and remembering that a good round of Scrabble can fix just about anything.

Monday

I made it through an RCA call where I barely had to speak a word, even though I’d spent plenty of time behind the scenes making sure last week’s issue was fully investigated and the remediation was already in motion. Some of the discussion was productive; some felt a bit nitpicky—but overall, it went well.

How a Thumb Drive Saved My Sanity

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the early 2000s, I worked for a government agency in New York as a software engineer using Visual Basic .NET and Crystal Reports — which, in retrospect, was probably one of the less brilliant ideas of my career. I was young, overconfident in my programming skills, and let my ego and emotions take the wheel. I ended up leaving the company I’d worked for nearly four years to become a consultant.

Too Much Spanglish, Not Enough Story

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Call it a pet peeve of mine, but I see absolutely no point in writing paragraph after paragraph sprinkled with words from another language—liberally, even proudly—when it adds nothing to the story or style. A word or two here and there, especially terms of endearment, sure.

But when every paragraph has a handful of non-English words dropped in—say, five to ten per page—that’s hundreds of instances across a typical 300-page novel. It starts to feel less like creative flair and more like a recurring speed bump, pulling you out of the story every few lines just to reorient yourself. The constant code-switching becomes the story’s background noise, making you aware of the language instead of the emotion, pacing, or plot.

My Google Calendar Tried to Kill Me Today

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Today was one of those days when I barely had time to get up between meetings — to use the restroom, grab a cup of coffee, or just breathe. It was meeting after meeting after meeting, and even during the few blocks when I didn’t have anything scheduled, I still found myself hopping on calls to help someone who needed support.

I’ve been working from home since 2012, and before COVID, there was always a bit of a buffer between meetings — time that actually allowed me to get work done. As a senior manager of engineers, I do spend an enormous amount of time in meetings, but I’m usually the first to suggest canceling one if a Slack message or email would do the trick.

The Night I Became a Man (Musically Speaking)

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I first became aware of music when I was around eleven or twelve years old. I remember a party being held at a sports arena in the small town where I lived, and at some point, they started playing an upbeat rock ’n’ roll song. Up until then, I don’t recall ever being interested in music—or even dancing or knowing any dance moves—but that night, something happened. I found myself incapable of not moving and shaking my body, which to everyone else probably looked like I was having an epileptic seizure (not that those are fun or funny). Eventually, I started observing the people around me and copying their moves, and I’m glad to say that night I became a man—musically speaking, at least.

Because Reading Counts as Self-Care

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Busy day at work, so naturally I had to “blow off some steam” and buy new books, purely for balance, of course ;)

“Alchemised” by SenLinYu
“The Cemetery of Untold Stories” by Julia Alvarez
“Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work” by Melissa Valentine, Michael Bernstein (publishes tomorrow)

And as if that weren’t enough temptation, I just got notified that my library hold, “Prodigal Summer” by Barbara Kingsolver, is ready for pick up.

Introducing Murder Hornet: Prelude + Chapter One

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Author’s Note: This is a work in progress that I’ve been writing sporadically over the past couple of years. I’m sharing it unedited and unfinished. The story follows Thomas Conrad, a new student in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and his encounter with a mysterious girl on a yellow Vespa.

Prelude

I knew I was going to regret what I was about to do. The certainty of it sat heavy in my chest, a weight I couldn’t shake. But knowing didn’t stop me. It never does.

Week in Review — Week 40 of 2025

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This was a pretty intense week at work, but I managed to balance it out with intentional time at home with my family. I maintained my gym routine every morning and continued my reading streak, now at 2,134 days.

Monday

Monday was packed with meetings, including a scheduling mishap where two meetings with the same invite list were double-booked. “We joined one for 15 minutes, then dropped into the other while everyone else waited for us.”

Do They Need Advice — or Just a Hug?

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A few days ago, I encountered a note with a simple message: “Don’t give a lecture to someone who needs a hug.”

This simple phrase resonated deeply with me and sparked reflection on how I communicate with the people I care about most.

The Power of Listening

Often, people don’t want solutions when they’re upset; they want to be heard. I’ve learned this lesson the hard way through experiences with my daughters and in my marriage. When someone is struggling, my instinct is to jump in with advice, to fix the problem. But I’ve discovered that rushing to give advice often backfires.

Nods, Lightbulbs, and Why I Still Love Being a Builder

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Over the last month and a half, I’ve spent considerable time giving presentations at work on how AI tools can help people in their day-to-day activities. Most of these sessions focus on software engineering tasks like writing code, automated testing, setting standards, and using tools like Jira more effectively.

The Art of Presenting

Whenever I’m asked to present, I try to imagine what I’d want as an audience member. My core principle is simple: “if someone asks me to sit through a presentation, they’d better capture my attention quickly and show me what’s in it for me.”

The Books That Carried Me Through September 2025

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I had told my wife and kids that this September was going to be the month where I’d read all of Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Comedies, Histories, and Romances, starting with “The Tempest” which I’ve read a few times before. It started out slow, as I reacquainted myself with the “thous,” “wonders” and “wherefores,” but after a few pages I was back in the swing of things.

An Unexpected Detour

Instead of moving to “Hamlet” as planned, my wife suggested I read “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell. She didn’t like it much, but I gave it 5 stars. The novel’s exploration of Shakespeare’s family life and the death of his son Hamnet was deeply moving.

Oops… Did I Really Say That?

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever had one of those days when you say one thing, hear yourself say that one thing, but later realize that you had been saying something completely different all along?

A Gloomy Day, A Bigger Mistake

Today, another gloomy and rainy day, and after my morning routine of exercising and showering, I was full of energy and ready to go carpe some diem, right? Well, let’s just say that things took a weird turn when I realized a deadline I had been communicating all along (this is the thing I heard myself verbally telling everyone) was off by eight days (the thing everyone else heard me say). Eight days off.

Rainy Day

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It was 66°F this morning when I woke up, and by the time I finished breakfast with my wife and started making my way to the gym, I realized that it was going to be a cloudy, gloomy, rainy day.

Finding Beauty in Gray Skies

Now, I know that some people don’t appreciate these cloudy, gloomy days of the Fall, which I admit can get you feeling down, especially when you’re not having a good time at work, school, or whatever it is that you need to push yourself to do in the mornings.

I Should Have Known That!

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Trying Something New

Yesterday, I resisted the urge to work on a desktop app and instead went shopping with my wife. While browsing, we discovered the “I Should Have Known That!” trivia game.

Childhood Memories

This discovery brought back memories of childhood when I would play board games with my sisters. We’d spend hours playing Monopoly and Canasta, creating memories that I’ve cherished for decades.

I’ve long held a desire to create a similar tradition with my own family—a regular game night where we could all disconnect from screens and connect with each other.

The "Don't Break the Chain" App?

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

After writing about the “Don’t Break the Chain” technique, the software engineering side of me got thinking: is there a “Don’t Break the Chain” app similar to the “National Novel Writing Month” (NaNoWriMo) website that lets you track goals on your phone?

Exploring Existing Options

A quick ChatGPT session revealed two potential apps:

“Don’t Break the Chain” - a free iOS app with in-app purchases
Streams - a more modern app with Apple Health integration

Both looked promising for tracking daily habits and maintaining motivation through visual chains of completed days.

Don't Break the Chain

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t remember exactly when I first heard of the Don’t Break the Chain method (or technique, if that’s even what it is), but I remember that it was something people said would help me establish a habit that would stick and also keep me motivated to keep going.

The Origin Story

I asked ChatGPT–who still uses search engines these days?–to show me when it was first mentioned anywhere and it claimed that it was in an article by Brad Isaac for Lifehacker from 2007. I can tell you that I definitely did not read that article and it must’ve been in a book or maybe another article online? I don’t remember.

Hello 2023

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:03:29 -0500

It seems that my last post was from September 03, 2021, so perhaps at the “risk” of starting up this blogging thing once again, here’s what I wrote down as I sat down to ponder on what I’ve accomplished this past 2022. In no particular order:

2022 in Retrospective

Writing
- Both “I.C.Q.” and “The Big Score” were translated and published by Brazilian publisher Editora InVerso and can be found at my Books page.
- I started writing another Young Adult novel tentatively titled “Murder Hornet” (around 7,000 words so far).
Reading

The Big Score Barnes Noble

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:54:55 -0400

I’m still trying to come to grasps with the knowledge that my upcoming YA book “The Big Score” is now available on BARNES AND NOBLE (and Amazon too, but still, BARNES AND NOBLE!!!) for preorder!!!

The Big Score Pre Order

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 14:52:11 -0400

I’m pleased to announce that you can now pre-order the ebook for my latest Young Adult novel “The Big Score” at the following places:

I hope to have the print version available very soon!

The Big Score - First Draft

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 12:07:20 -0400

This past May 31st, I added the final touches to the first draft for what should become my third book and second Young Adult novel.

Temporarily titled The Big Score and currently, at approximately 44,000 words, you could say that this book was the hardest I’ve written so far. While my previous book, “I.C.Q.,” took me around thirty contiguous days to complete the first draft, The Big Score started our back in November 1st as part of National Novel Writing Month 2020, and was only completed seven months later.

Pre-Order My Book "I.C.Q." on Amazon

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This past July of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I managed to finally get started on a project that had been shelved for a while: write my second book.

From July 13th to the middle of August, I wrote fevereshly every day, working on what became “I.C.Q.,” my very first piece of fiction, which you can pre-order right now.

“Auggie Benson is a high school senior boy who freelances as a software developer and hacker after school to improve his skills and make some money on the side. Expanding his clientele from AOL to I.C.Q. users led him to meet Clarissa, a high school senior from nearby Scarsdale, NY, beginning a love story that took place in the summer of 1997.

Writing a Book: Check!

Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Growing up my dad used to tell me that there are three important milestones on a man’s life (though I feel that the same could be said about any gender):

Plant a tree
Have a child
Write a book

Through my life, I have planted quite a few trees, including a lemon and papaya tree I used to treat as my imaginary friends :)

I have also had the highest honor to be the father to three amazing girls!

Software Quality Engineering: Tales From The Trenches

Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

First of all, I have to say that I absolutely love being a Quality Engineer, something that I have been doing for a living for the last 11 years of my life! During these 11 years, I have had the pleasure (yes, pleasure!) of being tossed around, torn to pieces and thrown at a lot of scary and difficult situations in the world of software testing!

Armed only with a strong desire to learn and excel at my profession, I have seen, heard and gone through a multitude of experiences, challenges, and opportunities. Have I ever been scared shitless or doubted my decision to become a Quality Engineer? Heck yeah! Have I ever felt like the dumbest person in the companies I have worked on? The answer to that question is a resounding “yes!” Have I ever cried? You can bet your bottom dollar I have!

The Gift

Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

It was June 8th,1974 and on a warm evening in the territory of Amapá, now a state in the northern part of Brazil, a baby boy was born. Other than being a couple of months premature, the one thing that made this birth a bit more interesting than any premature birth was the fact that this baby had its hands and feet completely bent inwards, almost fused into his arms and legs.

Just What Is A Quality Engineer? Part 2

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The last time I wrote about Quality Engineering, I mentioned that some of the reasons why people are not familiar with this term are, in no particular order:

'Quality' is usually something that is added as an after thought and doesn't really come into the picture, if ever, until the very end of the release process
Nobody outside of a QA team really knows what they do. It has something to do with testing...
Engineering is usually identified with skills related to writing code and designing algorithms, usually by a developer and not by QA

A quick search on Google shows the following results:

Just What Is A Quality Engineer? Part 1

Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Whenever I meet someone for the first time, after we get past the initial niceties typically involved when you meet someone for the first time, eventually the conversation shifts to work and what one does for a living. Inevitably I'm faced with what, at a first glance, may sound like a simple question and the conversation goes like this:

New acquaintance: "What do you do at Red Hat?"
Me: "I manage a team of quality engineers for a couple of different products."
New acquaintance: "Oh, you mean quality assurance, right? QA?"
Me: "No, quality engineers. QE."

What usually followed then was a lengthy monologue whereby I spent usually around ten to fifteen minutes explaining what the difference between QA and QE is and what, in my opinion, sets these two professions apart. Now, before I get too deep into this topic, I have to add a disclaimer here so not to give folks the impression that what I'm talking about is backed by any official definition or some type of professional trade organization! The following are my own definitions and conclusions, none of which were pulled out of thin air, but backed by (so far) 10 years of experience working on the field of delivering quality products. If there are formal definitions out there, and they match with my own, it is by pure coincidence.

On Reading and writing

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This week I started reading On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King, a book that has been mentioned a few times by people I usually interview for my weekly podcast as something that is both inspiring and has had a major impact on their lives and careers. After the third or forth time someone mentioned I finally broke down and got myself a copy at the local bookstore.

Podcasts I've Been Listening To Lately

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

For someone who has run his own podcast for several years (albeit not generating a lot of content lately), it took me quite some time to actually start listening to podcasts myself. Ironic, I know, but I guess the main reason behind this was because I was always reading code at work and eventually, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't pay attention to what was being said! No matter how interesting the topic being discussed was or how engaging the hosts (or hosts) were, my brain would be so focused on reading code that everything else just turned into white noise.

End of Year - 2015

Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Another year has gone by and I guess it is time to review the things I set out to do and grade myself on how well (or poorly) I fared. Here are some of my goals for 2015:

Read 70 Books

Grade: PASS

Even though I had a very, very busy year at work, with many releases of Red Hat Satellite 5 and Red Hat Satellite 6 shipped to our customers, I managed to surpass my goal of reading 70 books, finishing the year with a whopping 79 books read! You can see the books I read here: Year in Books

Books - September 2015

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Read

Selected Short Stories by Franz Kafka (review)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (review)
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (review)
Buddha, Vol. 1\: Kapilavastu by Osamu Tezuka (review)
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (review)

Reading

Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville

Gift

Auto da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuma
O Lustre by Clarice Lispector
O Santo Inquerito by Dias Gomes
Dona Sinha e o Filho Padre by Gilberto Freire
A Moreninha by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
Todos os Nomes by Jose Saramago
O Guarani by Jose de Alencar
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Contos Fluminenses by Machado de Assis
Helena by Machado de Assis
Quincas Borda by Machado de Assis
Bufo & Spallanzani by Rubem Fonseca
O Buraco na Parece by Rubem Fonseca
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Books - August 2015

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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This August 2015 I took a break from work and spent about 6 days enjoying some R&R down the North Carolina shore with my family. I managed to get through some of the books that were waiting for a long time for me to get to them, as well as try some new authors.

Read

The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke

I forgot where I read about how the short story "The Sentinel" was the inspiration for "2001: A Space Odyssey", but being that I have always considered the latter a great book and movie, I managed to grab a copy of the anthology "The Sentinel" just so that I could read the short story by the same name and see what else Arthur C. Clarke "had to offer." Interestingly enough (to me), most if not all the other short stories included in this collection could easily be published today and still feel just as futuristic as they probably were back when they were first published! This was yet another one of the books that I read by the beach this Summer and though it didn't blow me away, it was still a very relaxing read.

Books - July 2015

Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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This July 2015 I travelled to the Red Hat office in Brno, Czech Republic to spend some time with my teammates there, and I managed to get a lot of reading done between long plane rides and being jet lagged for many nights :) So I finally managed to finish up some of the books that had been lingering on my ToDo list and even managed to finally read a few of the books that together make up the Chronicles of Narnia, since I had never read them as a kid.

Books - June 2015

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Those of you who know me know that I am a huge book reader and spend most of my free time reading several books at the same time. One could say that reading is one of my passions, and having wasted so many years after high school completely ignoring this passion (in exchange for spending most of my time trying to learn about Linux, get an education, a job and, let's be frank, chasing after girls), I decided that something had to be done about it, and starting around 2008 I 'forced' myself to dedicate at least one solid hour of reading for fun every day.

2014 in Book Covers

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:26:00 +0000

For my last post of 2014 I wanted to show, with pictures, the books I read and spent so much time with this year.

Back in January of 2014 I set out to read 30 books as part of my Reading Challenge. I wanted to focus on reading Brazilian authors early on as I felt that I really needed to learn more about Brazilian literature and this time, read books for fun and not because I was told to back when I was much younger.

Three Years and Counting!

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:49:00 +0000

Making a quick pit stop to mark this milestone in my professional career: today is my 3-year anniversary at Red Hat! Time has certainly flown by and I really cannot believe that it has been three years since I joined this company.

I know it is sort of cliche to say "I can not believe that it has been this long..." and so on and so forth, but it is so true. Back then I joined a relatively new project with very high ambitions, and the first few months had me swimming way out in the deepest part of the pool, trying to learn all 'Red Hat-things' and Clojure for the existing automation framework (now we are fully using Python).

Books

Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:07:00 +0000

Woke up this morning and, as usual, sat down to read the Books section of The New York Times while drinking my coffee. This has become sort of a 'tradition' for me and because of it I have been able to learn about many interesting books, some of which I would not have found out on my own. I also 'blame' this activity to turning my nightstand into a mini-library on its own.

The End For Pylyglot

Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:20:00 +0000

Background

It was around 2005 when I started doing translations for Free and Open-Source Software. Back then I was warmly welcomed to the Ubuntu family and quickly learned all there was to know about using their Rosetta online tool to translate and/or review existing translations for the Brazilian Portuguese language. I spent so much time doing it, even during working hours, that eventually I sort of "made a name for myself" and made my way up to the upper layers of the Ubuntu Community echelon.

FauxFactory 0.3.0

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:00:00 +0000

Took some time from my vacation and released FauxFactory 0.3.0 to make it Python 3 compatible and to add a new generate_utf8 method (plus some nice tweaks and code clean up).

As always, the package is available on Pypi and can be installed via pip install fauxfactory.

If you have any constructive feedback, suggestions, or file a bug report or feature request, please use the Github page.

Twenty Three Years

Wed, 28 May 2014 18:32:00 +0000

My parents were eagerly awaiting our arrival on an early Spring morning, and when our plane finally landed after the almost 10 1/2 hours flight and we made our way to the luggage claim area, the reunion was filled with a lot of hugging, laughter and a huge sigh of relief. For someone who had spent most of their entire lives in a small and sleepy town in the East coast of Brazil, waking up and finding yourself at JFK Airport was nothing short of a major event! I had never seen so many people of so many different races and speaking so many different dialects in my entire life, all 16 years of them! Everywhere I looked, everything was so different from what I was used to… even signs (so many of them) were in a different language! Eventually we grabbed our luggage and made our way to the parking lot looking for our car.

FauxFactory 0.2.1

Fri, 09 May 2014 17:00:00 +0000

Short on its heels, today I'm releasing FauxFactory 0.2.1 to fix a brown paper bag bug I encountered last night before going to bed.

Basically, the new "Lorem Ipsum" generator was not honoring the words parameter if you asked for a string longer than 70 characters. I have fixed the issue as well as added a new test to make sure that the generator does the right thing.

The package is available on Pypi (sadly the page is still not rendering correctly... suggestions welcome) and can be installed via pip install fauxfactory.

FauxFactory 0.2.0

Thu, 08 May 2014 19:12:00 +0000

Today I'm releasing FauxFactory 0.2.0 with a new feature, a "Lorem Ipsum" generator. I confess that I did not look around for any existing implementation in python out there and just started writing code. My idea was to create a method that would:

Return a "Lorem Ipsum" string if I passed no arguments:

In [1]: from fauxfactory import FauxFactory

In [2]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum()
Out[2]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut
enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi
ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in
reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in
culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.'

Return a single paragraph with a fixed number of words if I passed a numeric words=x argument. If words was a large number, the text would 'wrap around' as many times as needed:

Hiring is Tough!

Thu, 01 May 2014 18:05:45 +0000

So I've been trying to hire two python developers to join my automation team here at Red Hat since last November, 2013... and believe it or not, so far I've had absolutely zero success in finding good, strong, with real world experience candidates in North Carolina! I either find really smart people, who do have relevant backgrounds or could 'hit the ground running' but are way out of my current budget, or they lack real world experience and fall into more of an entry level position.

Emacs + Rope for Python Development

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Disclaimer: This is more of a note for myself than a proper tutorial or howto, so I make no promises that this will work for you. The setup used through this post was a Mac OS laptop upgraded to the very latest version of the OS.

Ever since I started doing Python development using Emacs, I have unsuccessfully tried to configure Rope, “a python refactoring library”… until last Friday. Turns out I wasn’t too far off the mark during the many iterations I went through to get it done, but the following post was tremendously helpful to me: http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/05/my-emacs-python-environment/

Using Python to Control Katello

Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I usually like to use python to script my day to day tests against Katello (you may have seen some of my previous posts about using the Katello CLI for the same purpose) and I figured I’d start showing some basic examples for anyone else out there who may be interested.

Assuming you have already installed and configured your Katello instance (learn how to do this here) with the default configurations, we now have a few options to proceed:

ANÚNCIO: Final do Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Em 2008, depois de algumas discussões sobre o tipo de conteúdo que meu blog estava gerando em alguns agregadores nacionais, eu tomei a decisāo de criar meu próprio agregador com o seguinte objetivo:

“O Planeta GNU/Linux* nasceu da minha necessidade de querer ler blogs de pessoas relacionadas ao movimento Brasileiro de software livre, mas sem a censura bitolada que outros agregadores de blogs usam para filtrar o conteúdo que é publicado.*

Castálio Podcast - Enrico Nicoletto e Rafael Ferreira: Projeto GNOME

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de vários meses sem “fora do ar”, tenho o grande prazer em trazer mais um episódio sobre o projeto GNOME! Desta vez convidei o Enrico Nicoletto e *Rafael Ferreira* para conversar sobre o processo de traduçōes, que mais uma vez promete entregar mais uma versão completamente traduzida para o nosso bom português!

A entrevista aconteceu “na estrada” quando eu estava voltando de viagem, e acabei gravando o episódio de um hotel lá em Richmond no estado da Virgínia. Mesmo com alguns problemas iniciais (teve uma hora que minha conexão caiu, mas eu consegui voltar logo), eu consegui bater um papo super legal com o Enrico e Rafael sobre como todo o processo de traduçōes, desde como eles entraram para a equipe oficial, até como chegaram a ser os administradores da equipe brasileira.

Populating a Katello instance using the CLI

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Lately I have been asked a lot about my previous script to automatically populate a Katello server instance with real data (hi reyc!) I wrote that a while back and though it still does contain some helpful commands, I figured it was about time I updated it. Well, it took me longer than I expected to find some time and clean it up, but I think I can now show you a brand new script which also includes the extra feature of downloading a manifest file directly from Red Hat's portal and importing it as part of the process.

Adventures in the Music Streaming World

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

These last couple of years have brought (along with some new wrinkles and occasional grey hairs) some interesting changes on how I manage and maintain my “digital belongings”. For a long while I used to worry about backing up and storing in a safe place all the files, photos, books, movies and music I’ve collected through the years. I have also managed to collect a variety of different external USB hard drives to keep up with this digital sprawl, where for each iteration the next device would increase in size and sometimes in speed compared to the current one. It got to a point where I got tired of the backup/restore game and found myself paying less and less attention to the things I had spent so much time maintaining.

Another Concert For My Oldest Kid The Best Part

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Another concert for my oldest kid. The best part: she really likes to play the violin; it is not something we pushed her to do.

Perks of being a polyglot

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I had one of those “once in a a lifetime” opportunities, thanks to my wife who dragged me to a presentation hosted by the University of North Carolina. The presentation by Dr. Eduardo Torres Cuevas, titled “Preserving Cuba’s Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century” attracted a small gathering, apparently mostly made up of UNC staff and students who are currently enrolled in one of their languages courses. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from it, but being the supportive husband that I am, I signed off from work a bit earlier and together with our 2 kids we drove to the main campus.

Castálio Podcast: Everaldo Canuto: Toca do Canuto

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Eu conheci o Everaldo em uma tarde super calorenta durante a abertura do evento GUADEC nas *Ilhas Canárias*. O mais interessante foi que não demorou mais que um dia para que nossa amizade se tornasse igual aquelas amizades que fazemos quando criança… aquelas pessoas que não importa o tempo ou a distância, você sempre fica feliz de encontrar e bater um papo!

O Everaldo teve uma das oportunidades que eu sempre sonhei em ter: trabalhar lado a lado com o Miguel de Icaza, um dos fundadores do Projeto GNOME, figura quase que mitológica do mundo do software livre e hoje empresário com várias companhias de sucesso em seu histórico! Ele também trabalhava com a tecnologia .NET numa época quando qualquer coisa que fosse remotamente relacianada à Microsoft era motivo para perseguição e “trollage” pelos apoiadores mais zelosos do Linux. Durante grande parte de nosso bate-papo, conversamos sobre como que ele foi parar na Novell trabalhando para a equipe do Miguel, como era o dia-a-dia lidando com o sentimento anti- Microsoft, quais tecnologias ele recomenda para quem está começando a trabalhar na área de TI, o “problema” do Java, e sobre seu mais novo projeto,Toca do Canuto.

Castálio Podcast: Alexandre Gaigalas: Yahoo

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Seja bem-vindo à mais um episódio, desta vez com o Alexandre Gaigalas que trabalha como engenheiro de software da *Yahoo* no Brasil! Durante nosso bate-papo conversamos sobre o que ele faz na Yahoo, em quais projetos que trabalha, e acabei descobrindo que ele é mais um exemplo de uma pessoa que teve seu trabalho perante uma comunidade de software livre reconhecido, levando-o a ser indicado para trabalhar em uma companhia de nome! Conversamos sobre o recente anúncio que a CEO Marissa Mayer fez, declatando que não se poderá mais trabalhar remotamente na Yahoo, sobre o efeito que isso teve na moral dos empregados, e como que a sua vinda está transformando a companhia em uma empresa mais moderna e com mais atenção à qualidade de seus produtos e bem-estar de seus empregados.

Castálio Podcast: Og Maciel: Red Hat

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Passados 51 episódios, neste último sábado o Castálio Podcast completou 2 anos! Foram muitas entrevistas super divertidas, animadas e prá lá de interessantes com pessoas representando vários projetos e áreas de trabalho! Para comemorar, decidi atender aos pedidos de alguns ouvintes e fazer mais uma entrevista… comigo mesmo! A primeira vez foi quando ainda não havia um formato definido e, para falar a verdade, eu não pesava que ia conseguir levar o projeto para frente por tanto tempo.

Castálio Podcast: Luciano Ramalho: Oficinas Turing

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Um dias destes eu estava procurando documentação sobre umas coisas da linguagem python quando me deparei com uma apresentação do *Luciano Ramalho*, o entrevistado deste episódio deste episódio. O que me chamou atenção não foi nem tanto a qualidade do material ou a didática do mesmo, mas sim o fato do autor ser brasileiro E por ter feito tudo em inglês. Claro que, se você vive no Brasil e trabalha ou convive com quem trabalha com python, o nome do Luciano não lhe deve ser estranho. Mas para mim, que moro há 21 anos no exterior, foi uma descoberta super maneira!

Castálio Podcast: Fabiano Fidêncio: Red Hat

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Para o primeiro episódio de 2013 eu tive o prazer de entrevistar o Fabiano Fidêncio, recém contratado pela Red Hat! Durante nosso bate-papo o Fabiano conta como que ele aprendeu a programar “de verdade” na ProFUSION e como que de usuário GNOME, ele se transformou em desenvolvedor quando começou a trabalhar no GNOME Boxes e libosinfo pelo *Google Summer of Code*. Sua participação neste projeto foi muito interessante, já que ele teve de aproveitar um código base escrito por uma pessoa da Red Hat e refatorar para que ficasse mais limpo e genérico, algo que não é super fácil de fazer. O projeto acabou virando mais que um hobby, e devido ao seu trabalho o Fabiano acabou sendo contratado para trabalhar na Red Hat a partir de março! Não vou revelar qual o projeto que ele vai trabalhar (você vai ter de escutar o episódio), mas além de trabalho novo, ele também vai se mudar do Brasil para uma cidade européia, onde cerveja é mais barato que água!

Red Hat: 366 days later (and counting)

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Woke up to the following email this morning:

Dear Og Maciel,

Congratulations on your one-year anniversary with Red Hat! Thank you for your commitment and work over the past year. We hope that it has been everything you expected it to be and look forward to celebrating your future success with the company.

Time sure flies when you’re having too much fun! I can’t believe it’s been one whole year since I joined Red Hat as a Senior QA Engineer to work on their CloudForms project! So much has happened since then that it is a bit hard to remember all the new and exciting things I had the pleasure of being a part of! It is absolutely grate to be able to work on such a cool and challenging environment, and to experience first hand what open source and meritocracy really means!

Castálio Podcast: Julian Fernandes: Ubuntu BR SC

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Demorou mais chegou!!! Devido a problemas pessoais eu infelizmente fiquei um pouco sem tempo para agendar as minhas entrevistas, mas te garanto que foi super difícil para mim deixar de publicar a cada 2 semanas. Mas nada como um pouco de tempo para colocar a vida de novo nos trilhos, e eu quero agradecer a todos que me enviaram mensagems de apoio aqui, por e-mail e pelas várias redes sociais que uso!

Extending the default EC2 root partition: Follow up

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Just wanted to follow up on my previous post in regards to how to resize the root partition of an EC2 instance. Turns out that, once you’ve edited the root partition while in the launch panel, you can then perform the resize command right away, as soon as the instance is up and running and you have ssh’ed to it.

[root@ip-aa-bb-cc-dd ~]# resize2fs /dev/xvde1

This is definitely better than what I thought one had to do to get a bigger root partition.

Extending the default EC2 root partition for an instance

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Today I was playing with EC2, trying to launch a RHEL 6.3 instance so that I could then install the latest version of Katello and beat a bit on it… just for fun, you know? Using the EC2 Management Console web interface I used the “classical” wizard to select all the components I wanted for a m1.large instance, making sure to edit the default 7.5 GB root partition they give you so that I could have more space available to synchronize content… but when the instance finally came up I realized that my disk space was still showing the default value:

Tough Times

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

These last few days have been rough for my family due to a very unfortunate event. About 10 weeks ago my wife and I learned that she was pregnant, something that we both wanted very much since our last child was born in 2007. So for the last 10 weeks we have been taking all the necessary steps to prepare our daughters, our house and our work schedules to welcome another child into our family. We also decided that we would break the news very slowly at first, making sure to share the news with immediate family and close friends and planning to tell everyone else after we had our first ultrasound.

Castálio Podcast: Carlos Brando e Rafael Rosa Fu: GrokPodcast - Part 1

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam muito bem vindos ao primeiro episódio de outubro! Desta vez eu tive a oportunidade de conversar pelo Google Hangout com o Carlos Brando e *Rafael Rosa Fu* do **GrokPodcast**! Foi super divertido conversar com eles, e o bate-papo foi tão bom que eu decidi dividir a entrevista em duas partes para ficar mais conveninente para vocês escutarem.

Nesta primeira parte conversamos sobre como que a idéia de criar o podcast surgiu em um barzinho em São Paulo, quando o Brando e Rafael conversavam com o Fábio Akita depois de um RubyConf. Logo depois do primeiro episódio eles resolveram mudar um pouco o foco (que tinha começado falando sobre livros) e desde então os tópicos e entrevistados ficaram mais e mais interessantes. Já são mais de 77 episódios nos ensinando a “grokar” mais sobre vários temas e o futuro promete novas aventuras!

Castálio Podcast: Licio Fonseca - Google

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Nesta última quinta-feira tive o prazer em entrevistar o Licio Fonseca da *Google! Eu e o Licio nos conhecemos nos saudosos tempos do Ubuntu Brasil, mas não conversávamos desde 2006 se não me engano. Desde então muita coisa aconteceu, e hoje ele trabalha na Google, fazendo toda a manutenção e administração da infra estrutura de toda a América do Sul*!

Durante nosso bate-papo, conversamos sobre o que ele faz por lá, sobre o seu dia a dia, como que conseguiu este trabalho, e sobre o processo de entrevistas e seleção para trabalhar na Google.

Castálio Podcast: Bruno Gonçalves - BigLinux

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Na semana passada eu tive o grande prazer e honra de participar do Opencast em um episódio onde discutimos várias coisas relacionadas à distribuições Linux! Por coincidência, meu amigo Vladimir Melo tinha me recomendando entrevistar uma pessoa que por muito tempo tinha criado e mantido uma distribuição nacional, e recentemente decidiu parar o projeto!

Neste último episódio então tive o grande prazer de conversar com o Bruno Gonçalves, criador e mantenedor do BigLinux! Até este nosso bate-papo eu confesso que não conhecia este projeto, o que é realmente uma pena. O BigLinux nasceu de uma “remasterização” do Kurumin Linux e em pouquíssimo tempo fez bastante barulho ao adicionar vários recursos super avançados para a sua época! O número de recursos e tecnologias utilizados pelo Bruno é realmente impressionante e quando terminamos nossa entrevista eu fiquei literalmente fã número 1 dele! :)

Error: uninitialized constant Heroku::API (NameError)

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Got stuck with this error on Fedora 17 while trying to get a project onto Heroku:

Error: uninitialized constant Heroku::API (NameError)

After some quick back and forth with the Heroku guys I finally got it fixed:

$ rvm uninstall 1.9.3 $ rvm reset $ sudo yum reinstall openssl openssl-devel $ rvm install 1.9.3 $ rvm use 1.9.3 —default $ heroku login

Hope this helps someone else :)

Castálio Podcast: Felipe Borges: Google Summer of Code

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Finalzinho do verão americano e no ar já se sente um pouco a vinda do outono e a volta às aulas. Nada melhor então que bater um papo com o Felipe Borges que está participando do Google Summer of Code pelo projeto GNOME!

Durante estes últimos meses o Felipe tem trabalhado no GNOME Documents, adicionando suporte para administrar e visualizar arquivos em dispositivos removíveis, e tendo como mentor o italiano Cosimo Cecchi. Mesmo com suas classes na universidade e as tarefas do próprio projeto, o Felipe ainda assim conseguiu trabalhar e implementar o que tinha sugerido com sua proposta, e ainda teve a oportunidade de apresentar seu trabalho no evento GUADEC 2012 que aconteceu em A Coruña na *Espanha* no mês de julho!

Castálio Podcast: Episódio 43 hoje a noite!

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje vou gravar o episódio 43 do Castálio Podcast que será transmitido ao vivo pelo Youtube lá pelas 19:00 horário do Brasil. O entrevistado será o Felipe Borges que está participando do Google Summer of Code pelo Projeto GNOME. O link do vídeo será anunciado mais tarde e se você quizer participar com perguntas, basta acompanhar o podcast pelo Twitter!

Pylyglot: Open Source Translation Search

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I wrote about Pylyglot, my translation searching tool that I use whenever I translate open source applications. Have not heard about Pylyglot? Read the About page for more info!

The reasons for the long hiatus are too many to enumerate, but suffice to say that the project is very much alive and I intend to keep updating the translations database as often as possible.

So, what’s new? For starters, there’s a new and fancy language selector that let’s you also search for a language as you type:

Script to populate a Katello instance with valid data

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Every now and then I need to populate a brand new Katello installation with some valid organizations, users and products to test certain areas… and after a while I developed a script which I find very handy that does just that and may be of use for someone else. If you also find it useful, feel free to fork it and contribute with your own tricks. :)

PyCarolinas 2012

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve seen the (yet unpublished draft) schedule and it looks great!

WHEN:

| | October 20-21, 2012

WHERE:

| | Kerr Hall | UNC School of Pharmacy | Chapel Hill, NC

Castálio Podcast: Cristiano Costa - Hora do Mac

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Mais um dia de calor aqui na Carolina do Norte, e mesmo na correria desta semana eu consegui achar um pouco de tempo para entrevistar o Cristiano Costa, aka @caccac, do podcast Hora do Mac (HDM)! Quem ainda não conhece o HDM não sabe o que está perdendo!

O HDM começou à quase 4 anos no fimzinho de 2008 lá em Porto Alegre e desde então o podcast já publicou 82 episódios e só tem aumentado em tamanho de equipe (divertidíssima diga-se de passagem), qualidade de assuntos, e popularidade. Hoje em dia conta com uma base de usuários super fiéis e até mesmo aparece dentre os podcasts mais destacados no iTunes!

Meet Some Of The Guys Behind The Katello Project

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Meet some of the guys behind the Katello project!

Castálio Podcast: Fábio Nogueira - Ubuntu Brasil

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam muito bem-vindos à mais um episódio! No começo deste ano eu tinha prometido fazer uma série especial sobre os primeiros membros do Ubuntu Brasil e como tudo começou (quem ainda não escutou o episódio com o Rodrigo Belém?), mas nem sempre é fácil conseguir arrumar um tempinho para bater um papo com estas pessoas. Felizmente, nesta última semana, consegui bater um papo com o Fábio Nogueira, um dos primeiros integrantes e membro das primeiras “safras” de pioneiros da comunidade Ubuntu Brasil!

Life Update: July 15th, 2012

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I actually blogged or wrote much that wasn’t work related… so here’s a list, in no particular order, of what I have been doing these days for those who were wondering what had happened to me:

I have been asked to step into a new role at work, and for the last 2-3 months I have been acting as the team lead (no job title change yet). As such, my day to day routine has changed dramatically, and I now spend most of my time planning, organizing and building up our team.

Castálio Podcast: Danilo Resende - Facebook

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam muito bem-vindos à mais um episódio, mais uma vez com uma novidade: uma participação especial do Ivan Brasil Fuzzer, criador e mantenedor do web site de dicas e tutoriais Ubuntero! Com uma conexão Carolina do Norte - *Rio Grande do Sul* - *Califórnia, batemos um papo muito legal com o Danilo Resende* do *Facebook*!

Durante nosso bate-papo, conversamos sobre como que o Danilo começou sua carreira no Facebook, começando como estagiário ainda na faculdade, quais os projetos que ele trabalha, sobre sua vinda do Brasil e se acostumando à vida nos Estados Unidos, como que ele mata saudade da família e onde que ele encontra arroz com feijão na Califórnia!

Castálio Podcast: Djavan Fagundes: GNOME Brasil

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam muito bem-vindos à mais um episódio, desta vez com uma novidade: vídeo com os bastidores e a prórpria entrevista pelo Youtube! Deixa eu explicar melhor! Depois que vi o último episódio do Hora do Mac (HDM) sendo gravado ao vivo pelo Youtube usando o Google Hangout, decidi tentar fazer a mesma coisa para que as pessoas possam ver como que as entrevistas acontecem e poderem também participar com perguntas durante a gravação. Foi uma pena que na última hora meu convidado não pode usar um computador e acabou que o primeiro vídeo só tem uma pessoa: eu! :) Mas beleza, acho que já para o próximo episódio dá para fazer da forma que eu quero! Então depois não se esqueçam de adicionar este podcast aqui noGoogle Plus e Twitter para saberem quando a próxima gravação será feita.

Castálio Podcast: Felipe Ribeiro - Spotify

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam muito bem-vindos à mais um episódio! Desta vez para comemorar o meu aniversário (que foi no dia 8 de junho, mas ainda há tempo para comprar o meu presente hehehe) tive a chance de conversar com o Felipe Ribeiro, o único Brasileiro que trabalha na companhia `Spotify <http://www.spotify.com/>`__! O Felipe é irmão do Flávio Ribeiro que eu entrevistei no último episódio, o que me leva a pensar que existe um movimento muito forte na Paraíba nas áreas de educação e software livre, já que foram várias pessoas da região que passaram por aqui. :)

Castálio Podcast: Flávio Ribeiro: Globo.com

Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Eu gosto muito quando alguém me sugere um livro, filme, música ou pessoa para conhecer, e depois de trocar uns e-mails com meu amigo Yuri Malheiros na semana passada, decidi convidar o Flávio Ribeiro para uma entrevista! O Flávio é um engenheiro de software que trabalha na Globo.com no Rio de Janeiro (na entrevista parecia que ele estava sentado bem no meio de Interlagos hehehe) e está na equipe responsável por toda a área de streaming de conteúdo pela net!

Setting up Vim for Clojure development notes

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Started the process of getting jiggy with Clojure at work and didn’t like the idea of using Eclipse for my day to day work… so I started looking at how to make vim and clojure get along and came across a great post! Here are the distilled notes plus minor tweaks to get anyone out there trying to do the same thing going:

Download VimClojure (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2501)
Download VimSlime (https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime)
Extract these files into your ~/.vim folder
Add the following lines to ~/.vimrc:
- " Settings for VimClojure
- let vimclojure#HighlightBuiltins = 1
- let vimclojure#ParenRainbow = 1
- " Send entire file to repl
- nmap <C-m> ggVG<C-c><C-c>
Start a repl session inside screen:
- screen -S clojure
- lein repl
Open a clojure file with vim and highlight the method you want to evaluate
Press ctrl + c twice
- For session name prompt, enter ‘clojure’ which is the name of the screen session
- For window name prompt, accept the default number displayed
The selected code should be evaluated in the screen session
Press ctrl + c, v to get prompt again

Castálio Podcast: Caike Souza - Envy Labs

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Nem parece que já passaram duas semanas desde o último episódio, mas mais uma vez tive o prazer de entrevistar uma pessoa prá lá de interessante e divertida: o Caike Souza! Foi durante a minha entrevista com o Henrique Bastos que eu fiquei sabendo sobre ele, mas foi somente esta semana que eu fui saber que ele trabalha na Envy Labs desde 2009 lá em Orlando, na Flórida. A companhia parece ser super bacana e está por trás de vários projetos bacanas, como o Rails for Zombies, Code School e TryRuby.org.

Now My Adopted State Has Chosen To Turn Its Back

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Now my adopted state has chosen to turn its back on its tradition of welcoming immigrants, and of tolerance and freedom to all its citizens, with a proposed amendment to the NC State Constitution no less, that hangs a great banner across the entrances to the state saying to a whole bunch of American citizens: You are not welcome here.

Bob Young

English My Red Hat Took Me And The Kids To The Nc

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

English: My Red Hat took me and the kids to the NC Museum of Art this last Sunday! It was perfect too as we got to see a lot of the exhibits and still managed to find time to eat at Lilly’s. Did you know that the entrance is free and the museum is sponsored by the State of North Carolina for our viewing and learning pleasure? Take that NYC and your extremely expensive entrance fees! :P

Castálio Podcast: Fábio Kung e Pedro Belo: Heroku

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Mais um episódio, desta vez com dois convidados: Fábio Kung e *Pedro Belo, que atualmente trabalham na companhia Californiana Heroku*! Se você escutou os dois últimos episódios, você deve se lembrar que eu mencionei sobre esta companhia com o Henrique Bastos e Júlio Monteiro, e como que eu tenho usado os serviços que eles oferecem para hospedar e rodar alguns dos meus projetos. Então quando o Júlio se ofereceu para me apresentar ao pessoal da Heroku eu aceitei na mesma hora!

How to import WordPress XML files

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

… or, how I brought an old python code back from the dead!

Inspired by Kenneth Reitz's recent post and spurred by recent events, I decided to turn an old python code I wrote a while back into something that can be (hopefully) easier to get to than by sheer luck.

I’m talking about ChoppedPress, my script that let’s you split WordPress exported XML files into smaller files that can be easily imported into new WordPress installations. I’m sure that some of you have experienced the frustration of not being able to import this xml file due to size upload constraints on your host providers… One of my close friends who provides mostly support for WordPress gave me the idea a while back and that is how the script came about. Little did I know that other people have find it useful too, specially for migrating away from WordPress! As a matter of fact, I too used it when I moved to Tumblr, but that another story.

Uma Sessao Gravando Um Episodio Do Castalio

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Uma sessão gravando um episódio do Castálio Podcast é mais ou menos assim. Dependendo da hora, ou tem um cafezinho ou uma breja gelada. :)

Castálio Podcast: Júlio Monteiro - JobScore

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de ter falado um pouco com pessoas que usam Python ou Django no seu dia-a-dia, eu decidi entrevistar alguém que trabalha com o framework Ruby on Rails para este episódio! Dentre as pessoas que eu conheço (online e pessoalmente) o nome do Júlio Monteiro foi o primeiro que passou pela minha cabeça.

Eu e o Júlio nos conhecemos na época que participávamos da comunidade Ubuntu Brasil, mas desde então eu tinha perdido um pouco de contato com ele, até descobrir que ele estava trabalhando para a JobScore com Ruby on Rails. A JobScore que tem sua sede em San Francisco na Califórnia, fornece um serviço de gestão de currículos, trabalhos e candidatos para aquelas companhias que querem contratar alguém mas não querem lidar com o processo de publicar as ofertas de trabalho ou gerenciar todos os e-mails que sejam enviados.

If You Hire People Just Because They Can Do A

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Simon Sinek

I consider myself very lucky for having gotten to a point in my professional career where I can chose where I want to work, a place where I can try to make a difference, and more than anything, a place where I believe in what I do! Thanks my good friend Joe Baltimore for sharing this video today, a great way to kick off the weekend! Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Home Office Taken With Instagram

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Home Office (Taken with instagram)

Castálio Podcast: Henrique Bastos - Welcome to the Django

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Há mais ou menos 1 anos e meio atrás eu tinha começado a aprender a programar com o framework Django e durante minhas pesquisas pela net encontrei o projeto do Henrique Bastos: Welcome to the Django. Não demorou muito para ver a qualidade e o potencial que este curso oferece, e desde então eu tenho acompanhado o trabalho que o Henrique tem feito! Nesta última quinta eu tive a oportunidade de bater um bate-papo com ele via Skype, e entrevistá-lo para este episódio!

Alternatives to NY Times\' Book section

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The NY Times' restriction of 10 articles/month for non-subscribers, online viewers means I won't be reading their Books section anymore. It sort of became a good habit for me and something I look forward to on Sunday mornings: as I drink my coffee and enjoy some peace and quietness as the kids are still asleep, I enjoy catching up with the latest books and reviews. This weekend ritual usually ends with a trip down to the public library with the whole family. Both of my kids are already checking out more books and movies than my wife and I together.

Mad Props To The Pragmatic Programmers

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this morning I received the following email from The Pragmatic Programmers:

Dear Og Maciel,

This is just to let you know that Pragmatic Guide to Git (eBook) has recently been updated. You own an electronic version of this book, and so you’ll be able to download this latest version. We have also sent it to Amazon.com for delivery to your kindle.

Changes in This Release

Third printing: includes a few minor errata fixes.

You can get the update either by logging in to your Bookshelf Home Page, or (if you’re already logged in) by downloading it from here.

Castálio Podcast: Gabriel Falcão: Yipit

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A história do Gabriel é um excelente exemplo de como o mundo do software livre pode abrir as portas do mundo profissional para aqueles que são trabalhadores e competentes no que fazem! Começando pela universidade, quando o Gabriel escreveu o programa Guake para mostrar ao seu professor que haviam ferramentas bacanas para o GNOME, passando por sua estadia na Globo.com até chegar na Yipit em *New York* onde hoje trabalha com automatização de processos, este episódio é garantido de te deixar super animado (“ou eu não me chamo Raimundo Donato!!!”)!

Red Hat: Os Primeiros 3 Meses

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Este último dia 5 de fevereiro recebi a seguinte mensagem por e-mail:

Congratulations for reaching 90 days of service with Red Hat!

É difícil de acreditar que já se passaram 3 meses desde que eu comecei este novo capítulo na minha carreira! Meus dias têm sido preenchidos com tantas novidades que isso talvez ajude a explicar porque parece que foi somente ontem que eu sai da rPath para ingressar na equipe CloudForms QE aqui na Red Hat!

Red Hat: The First 3 Months

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This past Feb. 5th I was greeted early in the morning with the following email:

Congratulations for reaching 90 days of service with Red Hat!

It is hard for me to believe that it has been 3 months already since I started this new chapter in my career! My days have been filled with so many new things that it may explain why it literally feels like it was only yesterday that I left rPath to join the CloudForms QE Team here at Red Hat!

Castálio Podcast - Ivan Brasil Fuzzer: Ubuntero

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam bem-vindos ao segundo episódio de 2012! Esta última semana tive a oportunidade de conversar com o Ivan Brasil Fuzzer, criador e mantenedor do web site de dicas e tutoriais Ubuntero! Junto com uma equipe de colaboradores, o Ivan escreve artigos sobre todas as áreas relacionadas à tecnologia e tutorias, focando na área de software livre!

A história do Ubuntero me lembra um pouco a história do BR-Linux, começando como um catálogo de informações úteis para o Ivan e eventualmente tornando-se em um ponto de parada para todos aqueles usuários de Linux que procuram dicas e truques para lidarem com suas configurações. Com o passar dos tempos seu projeto deixou de ser somente “mais um blog sobre Linux” e expandiu para outras vias de comunicação, como um canal de vídeos no Youtube e seu mais recente projeto, o Opencast podcast!

Castálio Podcast - Rodrigo Belém: Ubuntu Brasil

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam mais uma vez muito bem-vindos a mais um novo episódio, este comemorando nosso primeiro ano no ar! Aproveitei a oportunidade então para dar o pontapé inicial em uma nova série, desta vez focada na criação do Ubuntu Brasil!!! Ame-a ou não, a distribuição Ubuntu teve uma história meteórica dentre os usuários de Linux brasileiros, e hoje em dia ainda continua liderando dentre as distribuições mais usadas no país. Mas como foi que tudo começou? Quem foram os responsáveis por “trazer” o Ubuntu ao Brasil e como que eles conseguiram atrair tantos usuários e apoiadores em tão pouco tempo?

Desculpe Pela Bagunça...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Recentemente eu comecei o processo de migrar o meu blog para o Tumblr, e ao importar os posts antigos do WordPress eu sem querer iniciei uma enxurrada onde certos agregadores estão mostrando posts de 2007… Ontem eu também causei um problema similar no Twitter e Facebook…

Por favor aceite os meus mais sinceros pedidos de desculpas pelo incoveniente… depois escrevo mais sobre a migração para o Tumblr!

Sorry for the noise...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve just recently started migrating my blog to Tumblr, and in the process of importing my archives from WordPress I seem to have caused some issues with certain aggregators that are now picking up posts from 2007… Yesterday I also triggered a massive torrent on both Twitter and Facebook…

Please accept my apologies for the incovenience… more on the Tumblr migration to follow!

Castálio Podcast: Primeiro Ano e Bastidores

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

No dia 16 de fevereiro de 2011, de forma simples e despretenciosa, foi publicado o primeiro episódio do Castálio Podcast! Veterano de alguns podcast nos últimos anos (quem ainda se lembra do Ubuntu Brasil e Foocast podcasts?), foi com um pouco de incerteza que eu decidi iniciar este projeto “com o objetivo de entrevistar e ao mesmo tempo apresentar pessoas e projetos que sejam fonte de inspiração para os ouvintes”.

"O Castalio é sensacional e muito bem feito. O Og conduz tudo muito bem e as entrevistas são descontraídas, de uma forma bem natural. Os entrevistados também são sempre especiais e interessantes, pois são parte da grupo que realmente fazem algo para a comunidade.

Castálio Podcast -- Ana Cristina Fricke Matte: Text Livre

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal! Sejam muito bem-vindos a mais um episódio, que quase não saiu devido a problemas técnicos de última hora! Mas felizmente consegui resgatar e editar um bate-papo muito interessante que tive com a Ana Cristina Fricke Matte, ou “a acrisdo Texto Livre”, como ele prefere.

A acris conta sobre como a idéia do Texto Livre nasceu depois de uma reunião com a equipe do Ubuntu Brasil em 2006, os problemas que enfrentou no começo, o progama de “beta testers” para professores, e os objetivos para as próximas fases do projeto. Ela conta como que a palavra “kernel” acabou sendo traduzida como “semente”, como que largou 10 computadores usando Windows por um sistema rodando Fedora Linux, suas preferências musicais, e a forma mais fácil que um estudante da UFMG pode tirar uma nota 10!

Castálio Podcast - Marcelo Hashimoto: Polly Twitter Client

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal! Sejam muito bem-vindos a mais um episódio, o segundo deste ano! O convidado de hoje é o Marcelo Hashimoto, desenvolvedor do cliente de Twitter chamado Polly! Se você curte programar com Gtk e Python, ou tem interesse em conhecer um aplicativo específico para o seu sistem Linux para acessar o Twitter, então dê uma olhadinho no programa do Marcelo. Ultimamente o Polly tem atraído bastante atenção, especialmente depois de ter saído em sites como o OMG! Ubuntu, Ubuntu Dicas e Ubuntero Brasil! Durante nosso bate-papo, o Marcelo conta porque decidiu criar “mais um cliente para o Twitter”, o que faz ele destacar dos outros, a história do nome do projeto (você sabia que o nome original do projeto era schizobird?), como lidar com usuários nos forums de pergunta, sobre seu doutorado, e o seu Top 5!

Castálio Podcast - Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira: UFRJ

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e sejam muito bem-vindos ao primeiro episódio de 2012! Desta vez entrevistei o Rodrigo Padula, amigo de algum tempo pela internet nas traduções do projeto GNOME. O Rodrigo tem um currículo bastante extensivo trabalhando em vários dos projetos de software livre, e durante nosso bate-papo ele conta sobre como tudo começou. Usuário de Linux desde 1997, ele participou da formação e organização do Projeto Fedora no Brasil, participando de várias conferências e iniciativas visando o crescimento do projeto na América Latina. Sua participação e desempenho não passou despercebido pela Red Hat, companhia por trás do projeto Fedora, o que eventualmente o levou a trabalhar para esta companhia Americana por um período na área de marketing e comunidades. O Rodrigo também participa ativamente de outros projetos de software livre, como o Mozilla e GNOME, dos quais hoje faz parte de forma oficial. Aproveitei então para perguntar para ele sua opinião sobre o último lançamento do GNOME Shell e a escolha da nova diretora da Fundação GNOME! Por último, conversamos sobre o Laboratório de Open Source na UFRJ onde trabalha, por que ele faz Jiu-Jitsu, planos para 2012, e seu Top 5!

Meu Top 10: Livros

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Desde que eu comecei a fazer o meu programa de podcasts (para quem ainda não conhece, chama-se Castálio) que eu tenho pensado em escrever este post, mas por um motivo ou outro, nunca chegou a passar da idéia. O lance é que quando o podcast começou, eu ainda não tinha um formato concreto de como iria fazer as entrevistas, e como o primeiro episódio foi uma entrevista comigo mesmo, eu não tive uma oportunidade de falar sobre o meu Top 5, que é uma coisa que hoje eu pergunto a todos os meus entrevistados já no finalzinho das entrevistas. O Top 5 é uma das minhas partes favoritas, porque me deixa conhecer sobre quais músicas, filmes, livros, histórias, artistas e pessoas que influenciaram a vida das pessoas com quem estou conversando! Então, acabou que eu nunca tive a oportunidade de falar sobre as coisas que influenciaram a minha vida… e em vez de fazer um novo episódio sobre mim mesmo (mas a possibilidade ainda existe, quem sabe?), decidi compartilhar aqui com você, leitor do meu blog, seja pelo Planeta Ubuntu Brasil, Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil, Planeta GNOME Brasil, ou qualquer outra forma.

Castálio Podcast - Rodrigo Novo: Conectiva Linux

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal e seja muito bem-vindo à este episódio de natal (e o último de 2011)! Dando continuidade à proposta de trazer mais uma entrevista com uma personalidade do Conectiva Linux, desta vez tenho o prazer de apresentar a vocês o Rodrigo Novo! Durante nosso bate-papo ele conta como que largou a faculdade para entrar no Conectiva Linux em 1997, trabalhando com o Aurélio “verde” Jargas, Marcelo Tosatti, entre outros na área de suporte, como que ele “graduou” para a equipe da distribuição, KDE 0.11, a história do “easter egg” que nunca foi publicado, onde será a próxima “Silicon Valley” brasileira, e seu interesse por poker e filmes clássicos! Escute agora!

Castálio Podcast - João Fernando Costa Junior: Revista Espírito Livre

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

O entrevistado deste episódio é o João Fernando Costa Junior, criador e mantenedor da Revista Espírito Livre, “uma publicação em formato digital, a ser distribuída em PDF, gratuita e com foco em tecnologia, cultura livre, Internet, sempre tendo como plano de fundo o iniciativas como o software livre.”

Durante o nosso bate-papo, tive a oportunidade de aprender sobre como que o projeto foi iniciado, o seu objetivo, e perguntei tudo aquilo que você sempre quiz saber sobre a revista, mas tinha medo de perguntar! O João relata como é o dia-a-dia no processo da criação de cada edição, quais as ferramentas usadas, quantas pessoas participam, e seus planos para o futuro.

Castálio Podcast - Rudá Moura: Conectiva Linux

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Dando continuidade ao plano de trazer mais uma entrevista com um membro do Conectiva Linux, desta vez conversei com o Rudá Moura que trabalhou na área de suporte e empacotamento da distribuição! Durante o nosso bate-papo conversamos sobre como que entrar no Conectiva Linux foi para ele aquela famosa frase “estar no local certo, na hora certa!” Também falamos sobre como o Conectiva foi o equivalente da “Canonical Brasileira”, problemas comuns de suporte dos usuários e o mantra “Use o X Configurator”, as críticas que sofreram dos usuários brasileiros, rock stars, dia a dia no escritório. os manobristas de garagem e, é claro, o seu Top 5!

Castálio Podcast - Elvis Pfutzenreuter: Conectiva Linux

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

O episódio de hoje marca o início de um mini-projeto que estou planejando há algum tempo: conversar com o pessoal que iniciou e trabalhou nos primeiros anos da distribuição Conectiva Linux! Ao longo das próximas semanas vou tentar entrevistar um membro desta distribuição que foi tão importante nos primeiros anos de internet no Brasil, e publicar um novo episódio fora da agenda, assim que sair do forno!

Para dar o pontapé inicial, bati um papo com o Elvis Pfutzenreuter, que trabalhou inicialmente como documentador e depois mantenedor nos primeiros anos de 2000. Durante nossa entrevista conversamos como foi que ele foi parar na Conectiva, como que era o dia-a-dia no escritório, a sua saída prematura, e sobre como o Brasil precisa de mais autoria e menos ideologia!

Starting a New Chapter: To Infinity, and Beyond!

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Last October I celebrated a couple of milestones in my life:

5 years living in North Carolina;
2 years since I bought my first house;
11 years married to my wife;
5 years working for rPath;

Needless to say, each one of those milestones were very important to me as they mark important decision points in my life! Every single one of them changed my life for the better and I can’t help but feel blessed that I have so many things to look forward to at end of the year that remind me how lucky I have been!

Um Novo Capítulo: To Infinity, and Beyond!

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Outubro do ano passado eu comemorei alguns marcos na minha vida:

5 anos morando na Carolina do Norte;
2 anos desde que eu comprei minha primeira casa;
11 anos casado com minha esposa;
5 anos trabalhando para rPath;

Te garanto que cada um desses marcos foram muito importantes para mim, já que marcam decisões importante na minha vida! Cada um deles mudou a minha vida para melhor e eu me sinto abençoado por ter tantas coisas para celebrar no final do ano que me fazem lembrar o quão sortudo eu tenho sido!

Castálio Podcast: Alexandre Coster - Asobo Studio

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

No episódio de hoje conversei com o Alexandre Coster, um Game Programmer trabalhando para a Asobo Studio em Bordeaux, na França em um projeto que ainda não foi anunciado para um console next generation. Durante os 60 minutos que batemos papo, conversamos sobre sua experiência vivendo com somente 550 euros por semana na Alemanha, como começou sua carrera em companhias de jogos, vivendo em Israel com um chefe Russo, se perdendo na Palestina, fazendo renderizador de jogos “no braço”, seu ódio pelo Eclipse, e muito mais!

Em Memória de André Gondim

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal! Foi com um enorme pezar que eu recebi a notícia sobre o falecimento de André Gondim, uma figura do software livre Brasileiro que, infelizmente, nos deixou na semana passada… O meu relacionamento com o André começou em 2005 quando eu ainda administrava a equipe de traduções do Ubuntu Brasil. Assim como o Fábio Nogueira e André Noel, pessoas que eventualmente também ocuparam o cardo de coordenador desta equipe, o André Gondim foi uma das pessoas com quem eu tive o prazer de trabalhar e instruir no processo de traduções. Durante o nosso dia-a-dia, vi o trabalho e dedicação que ele sempre trazia e pude acompanhar o seu desenvolvimento e crescimento dentro da equipe. Mesmo depois que eu parei de contribuir com o Ubuntu e parti para traduções para o GNOME, Xfce e LXDE, com a ajuda do André foi possível sincronizar o trabalho entre as equipes e assim garantir que o Ubuntu tivesse uma tradução de qualidade e ao mesmo tempo respeitar o trabalho dos tradutores das equipes GNOME, etc, etc.

Castálio Podcast - Guilherme Salgado: Canonical e Linaro

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

O convidado de hoje é o Guilherme Salgado. Durante nosso bate-papo, conversamos sobre como que ele começou a usar computadores e Linux, sobre sua passagem pela companhia ASync e trabalhando no Launchpad, e sua ida para a Canonical, a companhia por trás da distribuição Ubuntu Linux! Também conversamos sobre o trabalho que ele tem feito na Linaro para melhorar e facilitar o desenvolvimento em dispositivos ARM, sobre integração contínua, suas aventuras no mundo de bodyboarding, nova experiência vivendo na Argentina e sobre as criticas que a Canonical tem sofrido nos últimos anos!

Castálio Podcast: Evandro Pastor - Quarto Estudio

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

No episódio de hoje vocês vão ter a oportunidade de conhecer um pouco melhor o Evandro Pastor, co-fundador deste podcast e amigo de guerra de vários anos! Vocês vão aprender sobre como nasceu a sua companhia de web design, Quarto Estudio, sobre o tempo que ele passou trabalhando no parque de diversões do Gugu, o que ele pensa sobre os cursos de web design no Brasil, sua paixão por video games, sua mudança para o interiorrrr de São Paulo e o começo de seu Plano C.

For Those \"Celebrating\" Columbus Day

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World

Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolomé de las Casas in *Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima*. [1]

Castálio Podcast: Augusto Campos - BR-Linux, BR-Mac, Efetividade

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Em um dia de muita chuva em Florianópolis, SC finalmente consegui bater um bom papo com o Augusto Campos, fundador dos super populares sites BR-Linux, BR-Mac e Efetividade! Devido à conexão que estava sofrendo muita perda de pacotes (para cada 7 minutos de áudio, passei 60 minutos editando), mantivemos nossa entrevista por apenas 34 minutos, mas mesmo assim deu tempo para discutirmos sobre a criação dos web sites, as mudanças que aconteceram durante os anos, sobre a entrevista com GTalk Show do Karlisson, o mercado de trabalho em Santa Catarina, suas ferramentas de trabalho, livros, filmes e música. Uma novidade que também tenho é a participação mais que especial do Evandro Pastor, que literalmente casou, mudou e não me convidou! :) Mas ele já está bem melhor e quem sabe não volta no próximo episódio?

Podcast: Pete Savage

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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For those who follow my many different projects and enterprises, you probably already know that I have been hosting a podcast called Castálio Podcast, a bi-weekly show where I interview people from the Brazilian FOSS world and talk about their likes, dislikes and what events and factors shaped their lives!

When I asked my listeners if they would be interested in an episode in English with someone new and exciting, the answer was an overwhelming ‘Yes!’

Primeiro Episódio do Castálio Podcast em Inglês!

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Como prometido aos ouvintes do Castálio Podcast, eu gostária de anunciar o primeiro episódio completamente em inglês!!! O convidado deste episódio é Pete Savage, amigo de alguns anos que começou sua empreitada no mundo do software livre pelo projeto Edubuntu, criador de vários programas de notícias como o ProgBox, GeekDeck, e escritor de alguns livros, como “Emblem Divide” e “Git In The Trenches”. Durante 58 minutos conversamos sobre sua evolução pelo mundo do software livre, sobre o processo de escrever livros de ficção e educacionais, e sobre o papel que a cultura japonesa tem no seu dia a dia! Para os ouvintes que não se sentem confortáveis com o inglês, use o serviço de traduções do Google para traduzir a transcrição da nossa entrevista!

Django DevKit Appliance 1.3.1

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I rebuilt the appliance to use the latest Django 1.3.1 release to deliver the security fixes found in the previous version. There are also several other updated packages included.

If you want to play with this appliance, feel free to download it in the following formats:

Django DevKit Raw Filesystem x86 (390 MB - SHA1: 3ae0ab73477be3308011735aac5b33908700a82d)
Django DevKit Raw Filesystem x86_64 (411 MB - SHA1: 3fb040a9b48b0dc248e5424271d4ea9274605530)
Django DevKit ISO x86 (517 MB - SHA1: 88d5f1065bf5646d7cd952e8ccac435a40176fef)
Django DevKit ISO x86_64 (537 MB - SHA1: cee9f5f584261d69baca09efeb58278d23cab410)

Speaking of Raw Filesystem images, here’s how I currently use it with QEMU. In my .bashrc file I have an alias that will boot them and redirect it’s internal ports 80 and 22 (apache and ssh) to my system’s port 8080 and 2222 respectively. I also forward port 3389 for Windows systems.

Sixth Annual Packt Open Source Awards

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

!Packt Publishing

The 2011 Open Source Awards was launched on the 1st week of August by Packt, inviting people to submit nominations for their favorite Open Source project. Now in its sixth year, the Awards continue in its aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all Open Source projects.

The 2010 Open Source Award Winners included the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award winner CMS Made Simple, Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award winner jQuery and Pimcore the winner of the Most Promising Open Source Project Award.

Castálio Podcast: Álvaro \"Turicas\" Justin - Arduino

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

No episódio de hoje conversei com o Álvaro “Turicas” Justen sobre um monte de coisas relacionadas ao Arduino, e como usá-lo junto com vários outros adaptadores (shields) para fazer um monte de coisas bacanas, como controlar a cor de um abajour pelo seu telefone Android e usar uma guitarra para jogar Frets on Fire! Também falamos do Turiquinhas, o carro controlado por luz cheio de firulas que ele desenvolveu junto com uns amigos. Depois que terminamos a entrevista, ele também me contou sobre o TweetLamp, uma forma super interessante de controlar uma lâmpada pelo Twitter! É só mandar uma mensagem “lâmpada on” que o arduino liga a lâmpada, e “lâmpada off” para desligá-la! Falamos de sua participação no FISL 2011, sobre sua viagem à Bolivia, terminando com o seu Top 5!

Castálio Podcast: Carlos Ribeiro do projeto Radio Tray

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

O entrevistado desta vez é o português Carlos Ribeiro, desenvolvedor do projeto RadioTray, um programa bem leve e simples para escutar estações de rádio online. Durante nosso bate-papo conversamos sobre a criação e o crescimento de seu projeto, sobre aprendendo a programar com python, como o software livre é visto em Portugal, a falta de livros técnicos em português em Portugal e o seu Top 5!

Baixe já o episódio e não se esqueça de acompanhar o podcast pelo Twitter!

Participe do Próximo Castálio Podcast!

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Olá pessoal! Só queria avisar que o meu próximo convidado será o Carlos Ribeiro do projeto RadioTray! O Carlos vai estar falando direto de Portugal comigo pelo Skype, e eu estou interessadíssimo em saber um pouco mais sobre o seu projeto e como é a cultura de ser um programador na Europa! Caso vocês queiram participar deste episódio, deixe suas perguntas aqui nos comentários.

Castálio Podcast: Hugo Dória - Arch Linux

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Mais um episódio do Castálio Podcast! O meu entrevistado de hoje é o Hugo Dória, que para mim foi por muito tempo sinônimo do Arch Linux no Brasil. Durante nosso bate-papo conversamos sobre sua história pelo Arch, alguns dos seus projetos de segurança e alerta de atualizações, e como que ele deixou de querer ser um hacker, invadir a NASA e FBI, e acabou se especializando em segurança de sistemas! Também conversamos sobre a emoção de ser pai pela primeira vez, como que funciona o Tribunal de Justiça de Sergipe, o processo para iniciar a sua startup chamada POPCode, gostando de música a partir do joguinho Rock N’ Roll Racing, e é claro seu Top 5!!! Escute agora mesmo!

Lost in Translation

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

!Deformed Man Toilet]

!Strange Juice

Icons on menus for Openbox

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Openbox 3.5.0 was released yesterday, and with it several bugs got fixed and a few new features were added. Out of these features the one that I liked most was the ability to add icons to menus (and submenus as well)! Yeah, I know some other managers already do this but for someone who enjoys running Openbox because of its simplicity and keyboard binding limitless possibilities, I was sure glad to see some eye candy make its way to it.

Menu com ícones no Openbox

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

O Openbox 3.5.0 foi lançado ontem, e com ele vários problemas (bugs) foram resolvidos e alguns novos recursos foram adicionados. Dentre estes novos recursos, o que eu gostei mais foi poder adicionar ícones aos menus (e submenus também)! Tá, eu sei que outros gerenciadores fazem isso, mas para alguém que como eu curto o Openbox por sua simplicidade e possibilidades ilimitadas de atalhos de teclado, eu fiquei super empolgado de ver um pouco de “eye candy” ser adicionado ao projeto.

Castálio Podcast: Aline Duarte Bessa - Accerciser

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Mais um episódio do Castálio Podcast, desta vez com um bate-papo com a Aline Duarte Bessa, mais uma Brasileira que está participando do GNOME Women Outreach Program (GWOP). Mesmo com um pouco de febre, gripe, e problemas técnicos com 2 de seus computadores, ela tirou um pouco do seu tempo para me contar como que ela está atualizando a documentação do Accerciser para desenvolvedores para implementação de acessibilidade.

Escute ou baixe o episódio aqui. E não se esqueça de votar no Castálio para o Prêmio Frida!

Podcast: Aline Duarte Bessa - Accerciser

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

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Another episode of my Castálio Podcast, this time with Aline Duarte Bessa, another Brazilian who is participating of the GNOME Women Outreach Program (GWOP). Even with a fever, cold e technical issues getting a working system to record this show, she was gracious to spend some of her free time and tell me about her current task of updating the developer’s documentation for Accerciser.

Castálio Podcast, or Three Times is a Charm

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The idea of doing a podcast is something that has tickled my [STRIKEOUT:curiosity] fancy for quite some time. As a matter of fact, I am already the survivor of 2 other mildly successful attempts, which sadly, died prematurely due to commitment issues from my partners and my inability to record and edit audio using Linux.

About 6 months ago the need to scratch this itch came back in full power, and thanks to the support of my friend Evandro Pastor, Castálio Podcast was born! Instead of getting together with a couple of friends and discussing about technology and current events, I wanted to do something a bit more different and avoid the typical routine by turning it into a talk show-like interview program. Every other week I’d invite someone from the Brazilian Free and Open Source world and have a chat about their childhood, upbringing, and the tv shows, movies, books and music that shaped them into who they are now. To quote my good friend Kurt, it would be “the equivalent to opening a friend’s MP3 collection and seeing what that person was like”! :)

O Objetivo do Castálio Podcast

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A idéia de fazer um podcast é algo que vem me cutucando há muito tempo. Para falar a verdade, eu sou um sobrevivente de 2 tentativas mais ou menos fracassadas que, infelizmente, morreram prematuramente devido à falta de compromisso de terceiros e da minha inabilidade de saber como gravar e editar arquivos de áudio usando o Linux.

Mais ou menos 6 meses atrás o desejo de fazer um podcast me pegou com força total, e graças ao apoio do amigo Evandro Pastor, nasceu o Castálio Podcast! Invés de juntar com uns amigos e discutir sobre tecnologia e assuntos do dia, eu queria fazer algo um pouco mais diferente e evitar aquela rotina típica, e fazer um programa no estilo entrevistas, igual aos “talk shows” que passam tarde da noite na televisão. O plano era de duas em duas semanas convidar alguém da comunidade brasileira do mundo do software livre e bater um papo bem descontraído sobre sua infância, história, e quais programas de televisão, filmes, livros e músicas que marcaram e formaram a pessoa que eles são hoje. Como meu amigo Kurt um dia me falou, seria “o equivalente a abrir a pasta de MP3 da pessoa e ver exatamente como que ela é”! :)

Faxina

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de debater por alguns meses sobre re-organizar os meus dois blogs de uma forma mais intuitiva (quem sabe até mesmo mais lógica?), finalmente aproveitei uma trégua que tive no fim de semana para fazer algumas modificações. De hoje em diante, o site www.ogmaciel.com não vai ser mais o meu blog em inglês, mas servirá de “cartão de visitas/vitrine” do meu mundo. Meu blog em inglês agora será hospedado em en.ogmaciel.com e meu blog em português do Brasil ficará em pt.ogmaciel.com.

Summer Cleaning

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

After debating for the last couple of months about re-organizing my two blogs into a more intuitive (perhaps logical even?) format, I finally took advantage of some down time over the weekend and made a few changes. From now on, www.ogmaciel.com will no longer be my blog written in English, but instead will serve as a “business card/window” into my world. My “English” blog is now hosted on en.ogmaciel.com and my “Brazilian Portuguese" blog lives on pt.ogmaciel.com.

Castálio Podcast: Igor Pires Soares - Projeto Fedora

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

No episódio de hoje tive o privilégio de conversar com o Igor Pires Soares, ex-coordenador da equipe de traduções do Fedora para o Português do Brasil, colaborador da equipe de garantia de qualidade para internacionalização, membro do Comitê Diretor de Embaixadores do Fedora e mais uma pessoa do mundo do software livre que começou fazendo traduções! Durante nosso bate-papo conversamos sobre como foi o início de sua carreira dentro do projeto Fedora, viagems pelo exterior, perdas de bagagem, aprendendo a falar espanhol, e Bono do U2 cantando música do Pixinguinha!

Podcast: Igor Pires Soares - Fedora Project

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I had a chance to interview Igor Pires Soares from the Fedora Project and chat about how he got started with translations, participating on several organizing committees and his travels around the world! He talks about getting lost in Chile, learning English and Spanish, the role his university played on his career, his top 5 books, movies and his interest in music, including a very special moment during a U2 show in São Paulo. The interview is in Brazilian Portuguese, but anyone who can speak Portuguese or Spanish should be able to enjoy it!

Castálio Podcast: Lucas Rocha - The Board (Parte 1)

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Neste episódio tive o prazer de conversar (por um bom tempo) com o Lucas Rocha, contribuinte super conhecido do projeto GNOME. Durante quase 2 horas conversamos sobre milhões de coisas, como que aos 13 anos de idade ele já participava de uma banda cover do Guns and Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden e Nirvana e sobre sua vida acadêmica super intensa, iniciando e organizando vários grupos de estudo e eventos socio-etílico-culturais na UFBA. Também conversamos sobre projetos do mundo de sofware livre, vida, e a influência de seus pais durante sua infância. Por ter sido uma conversa muito boa, decidi publicar hoje a primera parte desta conversa, e publicar a segunda parte na semana que vem! Divirtam-se!

GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting: June 15th, 2011

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Howdy fellow GNOMErs!

I’d like to invite you all to join us once again for another GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting!

When: Wednesday, June 15th, from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC (your local time) Where: irc.gnome.org, #foundation

Foundation IRC meetings are just that, meetings held on #foundation in irc.gimp.org to discuss current matters related to the GNOME Foundation. Any GNOME Foundation member or non member are welcome. As long as you contribute positively to the discussion you are welcome.

Castálio Podcast: Johan Dahlin

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Neste novo episódio conversei com o Johan Dahlin, um dos programadores do mundo do software livre que eu mais admiro! O Johan nasceu na Suécia mas mora no Brasil desde 2004. No currículo dele temos participações em várias companhias de nome no mundo do software livre, como a Fluendo, Litl, e a Async onde ele hoje trabalha e é um dos sócios. Neste episódio conversamos sobre como a adaptação Suécia -Brasil, sua primeira contribuição com software livre, vários de seus projetos como o Stoq, um software de gestão comercial livre, e é claro que não podia faltar o top 5! Baixe já o novo episódio!

Nova Edição da Revista Espírito Livre \"Nas Bancas\"!

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Saiu a mais nova edição da Revista Espírito Livre! Parabéns ao João Fernando por colocar mais uma super edição no ar, mesmo com os problemas que teve com seu HD e backup! Tive o prazer de contribuir mais uma vez com um artigo sobre “crowdsourcing" no mundo de traduções de software livre! Eu já baixei a minha cópia! E você, está esperando o que? :)

Procura-se: Irani de Castro

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de ter gravado mais de 9 episódios do Castálio Podcast (se você ainda não escutou, não sabe o que está acontecendo), e conversar sobre os acontecimentos, músicas, livros e filmes que moldaram a vida dos meus convidados, comecei a meditar sobre alguns dos livros que eu curtia ler quando garoto. Quando eu ainda morava no Brasil, nós tínhamos uma biblioteca bem variada na minha casa, com livro para tudo quanto é gosto… mas quando me mudei para os Estados Unidos em 1991 (para ler um pouco mais sobre esta história, leia a minha coluna na edição 25 da revista Espírito Livre) eu tive de deixar tudo para trás para trazer somente o que cabia na mala (até parece aquela música do Engenheiros do Hawaii). Foram caixas e caixas de livros que eu tive de doar e eu tenho certeza que nunca mais vou poder recuperar todos eles.

Castálio Podcast: Yuri Malheiros

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Se você ainda não acompanha o podcast, dê uma conferida no site!

"Desta vez o convidado deste episódio não é de Belo Horizonte! :) Durante uma quinta-feira nublada em North Carolina, tive uma chance de conversar com o Yuri Malheiros, professor do IFPB, pesquisador em engenharia de software e inteligência artificial, e criador de vários projetos feitos com software livre."

20 Years

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Tomorrow marks the 20th year that I have been living in the United States. Not to use an old cliché, but it definitely feels like it wasn’t too long ago that I embarked on the greatest and most dramatic adventure of my life: at the young age of 16 (only a handful of weeks shy of my 17th birthday) I said goodbye to most of my friends back in the small town of Conceição da Barra, Brazil and got on a plane with my youngest sister bound to New York City.

Book Expo America 2011

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Taking a day off tomorrow to fly to NYC with my oldest daughter so we can both attend this year’s Book Expo America (BEA) at the Javits Center. We’re both very excited about this chance of seeing so many books and the possibility of meeting some of the authors, such as Mo Willems! Unfortunately I’m going to miss meeting James Dashner as he’s scheduled to give out sample chapters of his upcoming book only on Wednesday.

Django DevKit Appliance 1.3

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I pimped my Django Dev Kit Appliance, mostly because I have been really busy with work, projects and my kid’s end of the school year. Anyhow, I rebuilt the appliance to use the latest Django 1.3 release plus several other updated packages such as git and mercurial. I have also stopped building Amazon EC2 images and will from now on only provide ISOs and Raw Filesystem images.

Castálio Podcast: Frederico Gonçalves Guimaraes

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Não resisti esperar até segunda-feira para publicar o mais novo episódio do Castálio Podcast, então lá vai!

Neste episódio conversei com o Frederico Gonçalves Guimaraes do projeto Software Livre Educacional, que tem como objetivo principal organizar documentação e traduzir softwares livres que possam ser utilizados por educadores. Durante nosso bate-papo o Frederico me explica o quanto é importante difundir o software livre entre os educadores do Brasil, por que participar do processo de traduções é super importante, sobre filmes do Jerry Lewis e como que um amigo egoísta o incentivou a compartilhar tudo que aprendia com os outros!

Eleições da Mesa Diretora da Fundação GNOME

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Está aberto o período de inscrição para aqueles interessados a se candidatar para um dos 7 cargos para a mesa diretora da Fundação GNOME! Como eu sou um dos diretores atuais e por ter passado os últimos 12 meses organizando e tomando, junto com os outros diretores, as decisões que ajudaram o GNOME a chegar onde está hoje, quero então convidar a qualquer um com o tempo e dedicação para se candidatar este ano! Para mais informação sobre o processo, por favor leia o anúncio oficial aqui. Algumas datas importantes:

GNOME Board of Directors Elections 2011

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t believe it’s been this long already, but it is time for yet another Board of Directors Election! Having had the opportunity to serve on the Board for these last 12 months, I want to encourage anyone who have the time and interest to improve the GNOME project to run for one of the seven spots on the Board of Directors! For more information on this, please read the official announcement here! A few important dates to keep in mind:

Revista Espiríto Livre Nº25

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Para começar esta nova semana, que tal fazer o download da nova edição da Revista Espiríto Livre? Além de estar comemorando 2 anos de existência, esta edição está recheiada de matéria bem interessantes e até mesmo uma das minhas estórias onde conto como foi a minha vinda para os Estados Unidos aos 16 anos de idade. Qualquer comentário, dúvida ou bronca, deixe um recado lá na seção de comentários da revista. :)

Castálio Podcast: Diego Búrigo Zacarão

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Neste episódio, depois de semanas de muito suor, sangue e lágrimas (todas minhas, te garanto), consegui finalmente raptar o Diego Búrigo Zacarão, desenvolvedor líder do projeto Transifex, uma ferramente que nasceu durante uma das edições do Google Summer of Code. Durante nosso bate-papo o Diego explica como que ele, um garoto que preferia brincar na rua e bater bola, veio a aprender a gostar de computadores, entrou no projeto Fedora e hoje é membro do Fedora Localization Project Steering Committee – FLSCo e do Fedora Localization Infrastructure Team. Além de discutirmos sobre os benefícions e como que o Transifex funciona, o Diego também nos conta sobre o período que ele passou “encarcerado” na Grécia trabalhando no Google Summer of Code, e o que fazer “quando a água bate na bunda”! ;) Escute agora!

Last But Not Least

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

With all the blog posts, newsfeeds and social media channels abuzz with the latest and greatest releases these past 2 days I just wanted to take the time to add one more thank you note:

Thank You all developers, translators, document writers, graphic designers, bug trackers, release engineers and everyone else involved in working directly with the upstream projects and for making all of the moving pieces that compose a Linux distribution readily available for anyone to use! There are just too many to mention, but if you spent the last few months working your butt off on an upstream project, I salute you!

Castálio Podcast: Murilo Queiroz

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Neste último episódio tive um bate-papo super divertido com o Murilo Queiroz, sobre “Em Busca dos Tesouros”, um joguinho de computador feito por um garoto Brasileiro de 16 anos há mais de 20 anos, e como que um passeio por um museo em Londres foi o catalista de uma nova amizade. Também conversamos sobre microcomputadores como o TK-85, ZX-81 e open source nos anos 80! Confira!

Patriotism x Nationalism

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Quote:

"Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others." Johannes Rau

PackageKit Progress on Foresight

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

For a while Foresight Linux users had no graphical interface for managing their systems packages and/or updates, mainly because the development for the conary backend fell out of scope and our radar (this is a nicer way to say that we didn’t have someone to maintain it). But thanks to the work of zodman, jesse and others PackageKit is making its way back to our desktop.

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Looking For A Platform Engineer

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

My employer is currently looking for a Platform Engineer to join our team at our new office in Raleigh, NC! We have a great team working on some really cool and bleeding edge technology here, so if you have significant system administration experience, and have experience creating and maintaining RPMs as well as understanding their dependencies, then you may consider us! Check the full description for this role here and feel free to shoot me your CV.

GNOME 3.0, Banshee 2.0 and Foresight Linux

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

First off, congratulations to everyone involved in the release of GNOME 3.0! In the past, my contributions were mostly related to translating applications to Brazilian Portuguese, but my role on that front was very minimal this time and consisted of a handful of translations and several commits of the awesome work done by others. Most of my contributions for 3.0 are related to the work I do for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, but I won’t bore you to tears!

Mais Um Episódio do Castálio Podcast

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Desta vez tive o prazer de conversar com a Luciana Fujii Pontelo, uma das brasileiras que participou do GNOME Women Outreach Program! Neste episódio conversamos um pouco sobre o programa, a “responsabilidade” em representar mulheres no mundo do software livre e fonte de inspirações. Dê uma conferida!

Now That You've Found Love What Are You Gonna Do?

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Now that you have downloaded and installed the latest Foresight Linux 2.5 release, here are a couple of things you may want to do:

Update Your System: Since Foresight has a rolling release schedule, we already have updates for you, including and newer MPlayer with support for Blue-Ray!

Run sudo conary updateall
Install Chromium web browser: Try this pretty cool web browser made by Google. Got a gMail account? Take advantage of the bookmarks and password synchronization feature and have it all seamlessly integrated!

Foresight Linux 2.5.0!

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

At last, after a long hiatus, I can shout out for the whole world to hear: Foresight Linux 2.5.0 is out and about! This is our first official release in almost 2 years (2.1.1 was released May 15th, 2009!!!) and it is filled to the brim with the very latest stable applications out there!

A lot of work, sweat, and tears by a lot of different people went into getting this release out the door, and to all of you out there who stood by us through thick and thin, I thank you and salute you! Foresight Linux was the first Linux distribution to have a rolling release schedule and bring all the coolest new applications to your desktop! Expect to hear a lot from us from now on… Because your distro should be cool!

Feel Good Friday

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This is more of a “feel good” post, mostly for me! Through my life I have come across a fork on the road many times, and for the last 4+ years I have always chosen the path to the right. Even when the left side sometimes looked a bit more “paved” and less difficult to walk through, I still chose the right path! The reasons are many, but I think I can distill them into one single sentence: I believe!

Reunião do GNOME Foundation: Março 23, 2011

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Bom dia pessoal! Só queria avisar que nesta quarta-feira tem a reunião do GNOME Foundation pelo irc. A reunião é aberta e qualquer pessoa pode aparecer e conversar diretamente com alguns dos membros da mesa diretora do GNOME Foundation. Para participar, apareça no canal #foundation da rede irc.gnome.org às 14:00 UTC (converta para o seu fuso horário) e participe!

Novo Episódio do Castálio Podcast

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Está no ar o mais novo episódio do Castálio Podcast, desta vez com uma entrevista do KurtKraut, usuario de BBS e IRC desde 1994, autodidata nas áreas de psicologia, sociologia, filosofia e conhecido professor de Biologia geek (por que assim você tem permissao de falar sobre sexo, drogas e rock’n’roll)! Vale a pena checar!

GNOME 3.0 Translations

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, are you feverishly working on the translation for the upcoming GNOME 3.0 release? Do you find yourself often wondering how a certain word was translated across the entire desktop applications? Well, I do and this is why I developed Pylyglot, a Django-driven localization tool that let’s you search for a word and see how it has been translated for a given language. The plan is to have fresh data straight from the GNOME git repositories every Monday for now, eventually switching to a more frequent update schedule.

Foresight Linux 2.5.0 Release Candidate Galore!

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Foresight 2.5.0 RC! This time, we have updated images for GNOME, Xfce and KDE! Things are shaping up quite nicely and thanks to all the feedback we’ve received from our users, we should be releasing our GA images pretty soon!

Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.32, KDE 4.6.0, Xfce 4.8, a newer Linux kernel 2.6.35.11, Xorg-Server 1.8, Conary 2.2.13 and a ton of updated applications!

Reunião do GNOME Foundation: Março 9, 2011

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Bom dia pessoal! Só queria avisar que amanhã tem a reunião do GNOME Foundation pelo irc. A reunião é aberta e qualquer pessoa pode aparecer e conversar diretamente com alguns dos membros da mesa diretora do GNOME Foundation. Para participar, apareça no canal #foundation da rede irc.gnome.org às 09:00 UTC (converta para o seu fuso horário) e participe!

Não consegue ver o vídeo? Clique aqui! por omaciel no Vimeo.

PS: O vídeo foi feito no trabalho, sem microfone e sem conhecimento nenhum de como usar o Openshot, programa que usei para “editar” o troço. :)

Life at rPath: 4+ Years And Counting

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It was around the end of 2006. Having spent most of my life living in the New Jersey - New York axis and close to my family, I bought a one-way ticket to RDU, packed my bag (yeah, one bag) and came down to North Carolina looking for a new job. Leaving my wife (who was expecting our second child) and young daughter while I went “job spelunking” wasn’t easy for me, but I was determined to quit the rat race once and for all!

Novo Episódio do Castálio Podcast

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Está no ar o mais novo episódio do Castálio Podcast, desta vez com uma entrevista do Karlisson Bezerra, designer web e ilustrador da tirinha Nerdson não vai à escola! Descubra um pouco mais sobre como que o Karlisson se inspira para escrever suas historinhas e sobre o seu plano de conquista do universon. Vale a pena checar!

Git In The Trenches

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Git In The Trenches, or GITT is a pretty cool project by my friend Peter Savage, “designed to be a book that focusses on teaching people to use Git by associating with scenarios that are experienced by a fictional company called Tamagoyaki Inc. Through reading about their day to day lives, the reader will learn not only how to use Git, but why version control systems are important and how to implement them within an organisation.”

Barrabin Barrabash: Penal Process

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Barrabin Barrabash, the Great, yearns for his freedom and digs deep into his magic tricks to scape prison, in another one of my translations from the original by Karlisson Bezerra.

Apresentando o Castálio Podcast

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Só queria anunciar mais um novo projeto que iniciei com o meu amigo Evandro Pastor. Trata-se do Castálio Podcast.

No primeiro episódio (Episódio Zero) o Evandro armou uma emboscada e me entrevistou, com direito a perguntas sobre como ingressei no mundo do software livre, meu passado junto à comunidade Ubuntu Brasil, distribuições e aplicativos favoritos.

Interessado? Quer saver o motivo do nome do podcast? Dê uma conferida e passe a dica para os amigos. ;)

Barrabin Barrabash: Abra Unix Cadabra

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Barrabin Barrabash, the great is once again up to no good with his tricks in yet another one of my translations of Karlisson Bezerra's original work. Enjoy it and have a wonderful weekend!

Moving WordPress Blog to Amazon's EC2

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

You probably remember reading about my issues with running my WordPress-based blog on Dreamhost's environment, and how frustrated I was with the experience of using their Private Server services. The short version is that I eventually migrated my blog back to their shared hosting environment, turned off most of the plugins and cried myself to sleep.

The very next day, after reading (and replying to) the comments I received, one in particular caught my eye: Amazon’s Free Usage Tier offering new customers the following EC2 services each month for one year:

Barrabin Barrabash: SQL Inception

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Remember my last post about the comic strip my friend Karlisson Bezerra created to explain how Creative Commons licenses work? Well, over this weekend I was talking to him and offered to translate one of my favorite strips to English (here’s the original in Brazilian Portuguese). I always get a kick out of this one and hope you’ll enjoy it too!

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Creative Commons Licenses But Was Afraid To Ask

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

A while back my friend Karlisson Bezerra, author of the Brazilian comic (all using open source tools such as Inkscape, etc) Nerdson, created a pretty nifty story explaining how to use the Creative Commons license. The original strip was written in Brazilian Portuguese but someone took the time to do a quick translation into English (as the translator is not a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, some things got lost in the translation, but the end result is still worth checking). So here is the finished work, enjoy it!

Book Review: Stories of Your Life: and Others

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out. :)*

Announcing Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA 2 GNOME Edition

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Who said that lightening doesn’t strike twice on the same spot? I’m proud to announce the release of Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA 2 GNOME Edition!

Once again, this alpha release is from our QA branch, and is intended mostly to receive feedback on brand new installs from end-users, specially in relation to the overall behavior of X.org on first boot! Obviously, if you’re already running Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA1, simply update your system from the command line: *sudo conary updateall*

Book Review: Emblem Divide

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out. :)*

Disappointed With Dreamhost Private Server Service

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This year I decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time: get my own private Linux server! A place where I could have total control (i.e. root access) and be able to install or run anything I wanted! Better yet, I wanted a conary managed system that could leverage all the packaging that I have already done for Foresight Linux and be dead simple to maintain!

Book Review: Mockingjay

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out. :)*

Because Your Distro Should Be Cool!

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It is with my Community Manager hat and as a Linux enthusiast that I bring you this post about the Foresight Linux distribution, literally born and brewed where I work and filled to the brim with the technology developed at rPath. However, this is not yet another article about yet another Linux distribution with arguments about how great it is compared to other popular ones out there. No siree Bob! In fact, if you are happy with the platform or distribution that you are running, then kudos to you! I will not bore you to tears comparing lists of packages, what kernel or why you should drop everything you’re doing and grab a copy of Foresight. No (32-bit)!!! No (64-bit)!!! For a while Foresight was indeed a trail blazer and if you wanted to get the latest and coolest applications or features for Linux, that’s where you’d go! But nowadays I feel that a lot of the popular distributions are pretty much shipping the same set of things plus or minus a feature here or there.

Book Review: Catching Fire

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out. :)*

Announcing Foresight Linux 2.5.0 ALPHA 1 GNOME Edition

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

After a very, very, very long time I can finally announce another Foresight Linux release! We have gone through a lot of changes and it took us a while to rebuild our developer/maintainer/user base, but here we are! The goal is to go back to having a rolling release schedule and keep bringing the latest and greatest mix of GNOME and applications!

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Book Review: The Hunger Games

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

*Disclaimer: My book reviews are my own impressions from my daily readings and are by no means “sponsored” or “influenced” by any company, organization or individuals. I don’t even get money through any referral program, so rest assured that my review is not biased. If you do, however, want me to review a book for your company or organization, feel free to contact me via the comments section and we can work something out. :)*

Kindle

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Over the holidays I got a second-hand Kindle DX from my sister. As I have been doing some serious reading these last couple of years, an EBook reader was something that both excited and scared me at the same time. Let me explain.

Being able to carry several books, often pretty thick and heavy, in one simple and light device has its advantages. Add to that the massive number of free EBooks and regular plain text books available on web sites such as the Internet Archive, Open Library, Project Gutenberg, and all of a sudden we’re talking about having your own private and portable library on the go! Even Amazon.com has several classic books completely FREE of charge for those who have a Kindle!

BillReminder "Keep Their Heads Ringing" Released

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just in time before the new year, it is with great pleasure that I announce the release of BillReminder “Keep Their Heads Ringing" 0.4.0 after a 27-month hiatus! During this period I tried many different approaches and techniques to both improve the user interface as well as the overall experience. Many of the “core” changes were performed only to satisfy my own curiosity and experimentation with other technologies out there, but overall you should have a good time playing with it.

Looking For a Graphic Designer

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Foresight Linux team is looking for a good graphic designer to help them with a splash screen!

**Foresight Linux,**a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software" is now gearing for a major release with all the latest and greatest applications out there!

Would you like to see your art work distributed and displayed whenever someone boots Foresight Linux? If so, please drop me a line for more information!

31 Books, 13360 Pages and Counting

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

One of my New Year’s resolution for 2010 was the ambitious goal of reading one book for every week of the year! In other words, to read a total of 52 books for 2010! I knew that it would be very hard to complete this resolution without cheating and choosing thin books but I figured: “Aim for the moon, that way, even if you miss you’ll still be amongst the stars!”, right?

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Spent a good chunk of my free time reading all 9 (out of 10) parts of Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Organist this weekend! I don’t know where to begin to describe how incredibly awesome this comic is! The graphics, the clever writing and jokes, even the sometimes absurd plot twists all combine for delivering a fantastic, fun reading experience!

I highly recommend that you read at least a few episodes and allow yourself to wander around the many links and tidbits about Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Quasiamicable Pair, musical instruments, math and many other items in the notes section!

GNOME Foundation New Members: December 2010

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just passing along the information sent by Andre Veri on behalf of the GNOME Membership Committee to announce our new members (in no particular order):

Zachary Goldberg (PyGi, Zhaan, Bug Filing, UPnP Hacking)
Sebastian Dröge (GStreamer, Debian packaging)
Sumana Harihareswara (Marketing, GNOME Journal, Empathy)
Jelle de Jong (Bugreporting, Debian packaging, Marketing, Testing)
Christer Edwards (Sysadmin Team)
Pablo Castellano (Buoh maintainer, Bug fixing and Triaging for Seahorse and JHbuild)
José Aliste (Gedit-plugins, Evince)
Daniël van Eeden (Dutch Translations and GUADEC 2010)
Francisco Diéguez Souto (Translation to Galician language, Coordination of Galician language)
Jeremy Perry (GNOME Shell design)

Thank you all for the splendid work, dedication and support you have shown and welcome to the GNOME Foundation! Please make sure to congratulate them next time you chat or see them!

When Hard Work Pays Off: rBuilder 5.8 for Linux and Windows

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything here, mainly because I have been working very hard on a very cool project for work that I can now finally talk about it. rPath, the place where I have been working for the last 4+ years has just announced the release of rBuilder 5.8, bringing “model-driven, version-controlled system automation deeper into the enterprise with active inventory management and support for Windows”.

Boston Summit 2010: Day 2

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I got back from the Boston Summit around 22:00 Sunday evening and by the time I arrived home from the airport I was too tired to write up a blog post. Then Monday morning came and after all the meetings, work and side projects, I decided to spend some quality time with my kids, as I had not seen them since Friday evening.

The second day was very busy and full of things to do and interesting discussions. So much so that I barely had time to do some of the things I had on my plate from the Friends of GNOME session on Saturday. It was worthy though, as the conversations in and out of the sessions were, in my humble opinion, the best part of it all! The level of camaradaries that takes place during these types of events is something that it is hard to explain. Where else could you get a bunch of strangers who share a single common goal (make GNOME kick ass!) and are very passionate about what they do to give up their weekend to discuss and plan the future of an open source project? My only regret was to have missed the Beer Summit, which from Jason's pictures, looked to have been pretty cool!

Boston Summit 2010: Day 1

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Finally sat down to write down about my first day attending the Boston Summit 2010 but Paul [1] and Jason[1,2,3] already beat me to it. From my perspective, it was really nice to finally meet face to face with some of my fellow Board members and make new friends!

I want to thank Novell for hosting us at their office for our Board meeting (there should be a picture of us posing in front of a Novell logo) and our gracious host. Also, everyone involved in organizing the Summit and making sure things worked smoothly!

Let Me Hear Your Voices

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend I’ll be attending my first Boston Summit, courtesy of theGNOME Travel Committee! It will also be my very first time meeting my fellow members of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, which makes me very excited!

I wanted to ask you, readers of my blog, what kind of questions would you like me to ask on your behalf? Do you have any constructive comments or feedback for us? What are the areas you feel that we should invest more of our resources on and which ones should we spend less?

Ending Another Chapter

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Woke up this morning to find the following email in my inbox:

Renew membership of Og Maciel in Ubuntu Members

It’s been a while since I last thought about this membership so this email had me thinking for a bit. Ubuntu is where everything started for me, and even though I have not seen eye to eye with Canonical, I harbor no ill feelings toward the distribution itself.

So for the last 5 years I’ve been associated with the Ubuntu ecosystems and dedicated a large chunk of my time trying to get the distro properly translated into Brazilian Portuguese and doing a lot of advocating along the way. I even got to attend the very first UDS-MTV and meet some of those guys and gals I had spent so much time talking/working online. It was a bitter sweet moment and an eye opener, as I was able to see first hand the direction that the distribution was heading to. Not too long after that I started moving away from my involvement, resigning from several groups I had belonged to to a very minimum core associations.

Are You Planning a GNOME 3.0 Launch Party?

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

In order to promote the GNOME 3.0 launch and spread the idea amongst the GNOME community members, I’m sharing the following message! Please translate it and share it with your friends and help us organize the biggest GNOME Launch ever!

Dear GNOME friends,

The GNOME.Asia committee is working on making a big launch party (whichÂ includes a 5 days hackfest) to celebrate, promote and work on the GNOMEÂ 3.0 release as part of our effort to promote GNOME in Asia. Potential venues are in India, Indonesia or Hong Kong.

Boston Summit 2010

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’m also coming to the Boston Summit for the first time! I’m looking forward to hanging out with my fellow Board members, meeting some of them for the very first time. I’m also looking forward to attending the Snowy Hackfest and other sessions related to GNOME 3.0!

Think you can join us? Take a look at the GNOME Foundation blog for more.

Transifex Appliance 1.0 (Proteus) Release

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A newer version of the Transifex Appliance has been released with all the latest, juicy bits! In fact, this release is the mother of all releases with so many new features and goodies that it would take me a while to jot them down here! A few impressive nuggets are:

Brand New Translation Storage Engine
QT (TS) translation file format support
Source language file tracking over HTTP
Translation file metadata auto-updating
Clone language
Non-English Source Languages
Lotte: Multiple Source Languages, Suggestions, Keyboard Shortcuts, Translation Memory
Application Programmable Interface

Can you believe that Transifex has reached the 1.0 mark???

Helping the Belarusian and Esperanto Translations

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to comments by booxter and Patrick Niedzielski, I have added support for 2 more languages to Pylyglot: Belarusian and Esperanto! So far I had been adding languages according to their translation percentage, starting from the top and slowly moving down the list, but it probably makes sense to add some of the languages that need a bit of help catching up with the other teams and provide them with a means to check their standardization. So I’m glad to welcome these two new “members” and kindly ask anyone who speaks either one of these languages to lend a helping hand with their translation by contacting their respective GNOME team coordinators:

Pylyglot, Now With More Translations

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

What a difference a day makes! Thanks to some feedback I got both here and in private, and thanks to a contributor with some extra free cycles at hand, Pylyglot got anotherÂ face liftÂ today.

So what’s new? There are now 245 total packages and 3,165,335 translations from yesterday’s 61 packages and 954,884 translations! You can also now link to a query using the resulting url from your searches using the format language=FOO&query=BAR, where FOO is the language’s ISO code and BAR is the term you’re searching.

Pylyglot, Now With More Languages

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Managed to update Pylyglot, my Django-based translations tool to include 22 new languages and the very latest GNOME 3.0 packages. Hope you guys find it useful!

Languages: 52
Packages: 61
Translations: 954,884

Pylyglot

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Been working on a pet project to help out with theÂ GNOME translations (as well as have a chance to learn more about Django) and the end product is now available at www.pylyglot.org. Basically, it is a database of all strings from all available GNOME packages parsed to (hopefully) help open source translators with their effort by providing suggestions based on existing translations.

But wait, there’s more! Since the entire collection of GNOME packages is available for your perusal, you can check how a certain word was translated across all packages and use this information to standardize the translation for the entire project.

Disgusted

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Disgusted

Announcing: Foresight based Django Developer Kit Appliance RC1

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

If you remember one of my last posts, I wanted to eventually migrate my Django Developer Kit Appliance to use Foresight Linux as the underlying operating system… and I am proud to announce that I have made huge strides toward this goal!

Thanks to the guidance of some fellow rPathians, I managed to get an almost ready for production Django 1.2.3 + PostgreSQL 8.4 + Python 2.6.2 and lots of Django modules and latest versions for Git, Mercurial, Bzr, and Subversion ready to be used!

Django Devel Kit Appliance 1.2.3

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

No, this is not a repeat from yesterday’s post. Turns out there was another security release for Django yesterday (thanks Zygmunt for the heads up), so here’s the release of Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.3.

As always, choose from the following image types:

Amazon EC2 AMI Large (ami-ba996cd3)
Amazon EC2 AMI Small (ami-a0996cc9)
ISO x86 (SHA1 11811571ee8f8f2a0d7778c9e4275060de73f271)
ISO x86_64 (SHA1 065b1c5dfa410cffeec9950d577cddd15f369bad)
Raw Filesystem x86 (SHA1 141427d7c84449ccc7eacbee7d527b8ba6f7ca48)
Raw Filesystem x86_64 (SHA1 482ecbbd2c177e3fdc33b18dc0ee65c83d681956)
VMware ESX x86 (SHA1 10757fd1f0ec119fe236f3402bf38dfde25cb40a)
VMware ESX x86 OVF 1.0 (SHA1 7c535f1514a969118f08f4bdf9c9559b492c72d6)
VMware ESX x86_64 (SHA1 a710d469e74124f2988591362b6943cee9589e46)
VMware ESX x86_64 OVF 1.0 (SHA1 c7a11c380f2d5e0cfc96220cbfe81a88876eb201)
VMware Desktop x86 (SHA1 29eb739b88d90a172815c2274aafb0b1ffe4228a)
VMware Desktop x86_64 (SHA1 f3ba1c95fc04260bf60ad3fef8552eda6be5f12d)

Remember that the appliance comes with its own management system that can be accessed by pointing your browser to https://YOUR-APPLIANCE-IP:8003 and logging in as the admin user (the default password the first time you boot your appliance is password, but you will immediately be asked to change it during the 1-step setup wizard). From there you can also configure backups, updates, and manage system services.

Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.2

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today I’m releasing my Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.2 due to the recent security release of Django 1.2.2. Other than a newer version of Django, you’ll also get newer versions of several packages already included by default in the appliance.

I have been working hard (time permitting, off course) on migrating the appliance to a slim Foresight Linux base in order to upgrade the underlying python from 2.4 to latest 2.6.x, plus other goodies such as a newer kernel and the very latest versions of your favorite versioning control systems! This will also mean that I won’t have to maintain several packages on different places and will be able to leverage of the work being done on Foresight!

Running On Empty

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This post has been sitting in my Drafts folder for a while now, as I wasn’t sure when the right time would be to publish it. It is basically my personal reflection on the last 5 years I have worked doing translations for free and open source software (FOSS) and a few lessons I learned along the way. It is also a rant against those who took my labor for granted. Hopefully this quick summary will help you decide whether you want to continue reading the rest of the post or not.

Translations.xfce.org is 1 year old

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Received the following email this morning:

Last night our Transifex installation turned 1 year old. I think with
101 users and 4012 submissions in 45 languages it has been quite a
step forward compared to the previous mailing list-based submission
system. For that I'd like to thank all the people involved, most
noticeably Jannis for the initial setup, the Transifex guys for help
and fixing bugs, Og for the appliance we've been running for the last
half year and of course the Translators with all their patience and
effort to make it a success.

Cheers,
The Xfce development team.

This has an extra special meaning for me, not only because I am one of the 101 users contributing translations to the Xfce project, or because I’m a huge supporter of the work the Transifex guys have been doing, but because of their use of the Transifex Appliance!

Book Review: Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t claim to have looked hard for a Python book on object oriented programming (OOP) but I was immediately attracted to the title of this book. Sure, you can find small tutorials here and there about some specific facet of OOP but I don’t recall ever reading something that covers designing public interfaces using abstraction, encapsulation, etc, etc with good and practical examples! If you have, please drop me a link in the comments. :)

Back from the Tropics

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I last posted anything new. That’s because I took some time off from work and headed down to my old stomping grounds… Brazil! It had been 5 years since I visited my friends and relatives and since I couldn’t make it to GUADEC and take my family on vacation at the same time, we hoped on a straight flight to Rio de Janeiro from Charlotte's international airport.

Bota água no feijão!

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de quase 5 anos estarei voltando à pátria amada! É isso aí! Como não vai dar para ir na Holanda na conferência GUADEC 2010 (muuuuito caro) este ano, vou então com a família toda para o Brasil.

Vou ficar no norte do Espirito Santo por quase 2 semanas, vegetando e apresentando os primos, tios, tias, avós, etc para a minha filha mais nova (a minha esposa e filha mais velha já estiveram no Brasil antes).

More Coffee Noise

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A while back I wrote about how I first got hooked on coffee and received some really good comments and suggestions for new coffees to try. I was immediately attracted to one coffee in particular: Zoka! Don’t ask me what it was but there was something about the name that tickled my fancy. So I sent their customer service department an email and asked if they would send me a few samples. The very next day I received a reply and the promisse that they would send me a couple of bags. Since I had also received 2 other bags of coffee from friends to try I figured I’d report here how the “coffee experiment” went.

GNOME Board of Directors: First Meeting

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today I attended my very first GNOME Board of Directors meeting. Though I won’t be able to vote on issues until July 1st, it was great to witness how the process works and be able to ask questions and receive answers directly from current and former board members.

I must say that the entire meeting felt very streamlined and ran smoothly, partially because of people like Vincent, Brian, German and Paul who seem to be on top of everything and juggling several balls at the same time! Stormy must sleep very well at night knowing she can count on people of this caliber to steer the project.

Review: Django 1.2 E-Commerce

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

“Django 1.2 E-Commerce” starts with a very ambitious goal: design, develop and deploy a functional ecommerce web site for the fictional CranStore.com company. Sounds great, doesn’t it?

I started flipping through the usual introductory pages explaining what Django is and why use it for a project like this. It was all fairly brief which already led me to believe that knowledge of Django’s inner works and basic setup and configuration was required to follow along.

Week in Review: June 14th â€" June 18th, 2010

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Another busy week at work means a quiet week here…

Heck of a week and GNOME Foundation Board of Directors

137 issues resolved and counting!

One important piece of news is that I have beenÂ elected to theÂ GNOME Foundation Board of Directors together with other 6 members! Thank you all of you who voted for me! I intent to devote a bigger chunk of my time to be a proactive[…]

Heck of a week and GNOME Foundation Board of Directors

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been another crazy/hectic week for me at work, so blogging and pretty much all other activities had to take the back seat.

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One important piece of news is that I have been elected to the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors together with other 6 members! Thank you all of you who voted for me! I intent to devote a bigger chunk of my time to be a proactive, hands on and very vocal member of this group and will strive to blog about my experience as much as I can!

Week in Review: June 7th - June 11th, 2010

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Three more days until my birthday! Want to take a look at my wish list? ;)

It was a very busy week, so I didn’t spend the same amount of time writing as the previous weeks. Thank you for the kind wishes on my birthday! :)

Also, thank you Conzar, Aigars Mahinovs, Paulo Dias, Tassos Bassoukos and Rodney Dyer for the awesome tips related to playing World of Warcraft on Linux! :)

Playing World of Warcraft on Linux with Wine

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Yes, I’m still alive and kicking. Been really busy at work and haven’t had the time or energy to write anything here. I have however kept my New Year’s resolution of reading a book during lunch break every day! I’m currently reading 2 books at the same time (check what other books I have read and those I have still waiting on my queue in the front page of my blog):

Week in Review: May 31st â€" June 4th, 2010

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Three more days until my birthday! Want to take a look at my wish list? ;)

ï»¿ï»¿Hereâ€™s what happened this week:

Not Going to GUADEC 2010

After several weeks agonizing over how to afford a trip to attendÂ GUADEC 2010, I have finally arrived at the conclusion that I wonâ€™t be able to make it. Due to my current financial situation[…]

Emmaâ€™s Very Busy Week

Iâ€™m the proud father of two voracious young readers! From very early on I was able to instill into my daughters the pleasure of reading books. They also happen to be girly girls, so while most kids ask for toys and video games for their birthdays[…]

Emma\'s Very Busy Week

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’m the proud father of two voracious young readers! From very early on I was able to instill into my daughters the pleasure of reading books. They also happen to be girly girls, so while most kids ask for toys and video games for their birthdays, mine ask for books and clothes/shoes!

During thirdÂ grade my oldest daughterÂ happened to pick up “Emma’s very busy week" by Heather Dakota from herÂ school’s library and just couldn’t put it down! I believe thatÂ throughout the entire third grade she must have borrowed this book atÂ least 6 times! As a young kid, I remember I could read some books that I really enjoyed over and over, enjoying it every single time as if I were reading it for the first time. She must have gotten this from me. :)

Not Going to GUADEC 2010

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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After several weeks agonizing over how to afford a trip to attend GUADEC 2010, I have finally arrived at the conclusion that I won’t be able to make it. Due to my current financial situation and obligations as a father of two, it would be unrealistic to hop on a plane and go to this event right now for me. Unfortunately none of the organizations I approached were able to offer me any type of financial support, understandable due to today’s economy issues.

Week in Review: May 24th â€" May 28th, 2010

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

ï»¿ï»¿Hereâ€™s what happened this week:

The Maze Runner

This past March I started a new routine to my Sunday mornings: shortly after breakfast with the kids, I flip my laptop open and start reading theÂ Books section[…]

Django Developer Kit 1.2.1

I have just released theÂ Django Developer Kit 1.2.1 appliance to match with the release ofÂ Django 1.2.1! Check thisÂ page for[…]

For The Win!

Sunday I was lucky enough to have the chance of attending a book reading (well, a passage actually) byÂ Cory Doctorow! The event took place atÂ Flyleaf Books right here inChapel Hill, a charming independent book store[…]

Django 1.2 E-Commerce

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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ï»¿ï»¿Just received my complimentary copy of the book “Django 1.2 E-Commerce" from Packt Publishing! From the book’s overview page:

Build all the components for an e-commerce store, from product catalog to shopping cart to checkout processor
Build a high quality e-commerce site quickly and start making money
All the examples in the book will run smoothly for all the versions of Django 1.x
Follow a tutorial format to build many components from scratch while leveraging the open-source community to enhance functionality

You can expect a book review by next week, but in the meantime, here’s a free chapter to whet your appetite, “Setting up Shop in 30 Minutes”!

For The Win!

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Sunday I was lucky enough to have the chance of attending a book reading (well, a passage actually) by Cory Doctorow! The event took place at Flyleaf Books right here in Chapel Hill, a charming independent book store that will most definitely see me and my kids more often from now on (plus, they’re right next to Foster’s Market and Flying Burrito)!

Cory came across as a very humble, down to earth kind of guy and it didn’t take long for the crowed to feel right at home. He took the time to answer random questions while we waited for some of the late arrivals, and once the clock struck 13:00 he proceeded to read a passage from his new book, “For The Win”.

Django Developer Kit 1.2.1

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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I have just released the Django Developer Kit 1.2.1 appliance to match with the release of Django 1.2.1! Check this page for more information about this release!

There are several ways for you to play with the Django Developer Kit appliance, so just head on down to the download page and pick from the following image types:

x86 Amazon Machine Image (EC2)
x86 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance
x86 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance OVF 0.9
x86 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance OVF 1.0
x86 VMware (R) Virtual Appliance
x86 Appliance Installable ISO
x86 Mountable Filesystem: Raw Filesystem Image
x86_64 Amazon Machine Image (EC2)
x86_64 Mountable Filesystem: Raw Filesystem Image
x86_64 Appliance Installable ISO
x86_64 VMware (R) Virtual Appliance
x86_64 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance
x86_64 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance OVF 0.9
x86_64 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance OVF 1.0

Once you’ve installed it (or launched it if using the ESX, OVF or Amazon Machine Image), point your browser to the appliance’s IP address plus port 8003 (i.e. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8003, but this information will be displayed in the console too), login as admin with the default password of password and finish the wizard. You can then use the root password plugin to set the password of the root user to ssh into the box and start hacking.

The Maze Runner

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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This past March I started a new routine to my Sunday mornings: shortly after breakfast with the kids, I flip my laptop open and start reading the Books section of the NY Times online. I wanted to get the real deal, dead tree “version” of it for quite some time, but at USD$6 just for the Sunday paper I figured that reading it online would have to do it.

Week in Review: May 17th â€" May 21th, 2010

Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

ï»¿ï»¿Hereâ€™s what happened this week:

ï»¿ï»¿

Should you go to college straight out of high school?

Over the weekend I came across an interesting article in theÂ New York Timescalled â€œPlan B: Skip Collegeâ€œ. According to theÂ Department of Education, â€œno more than half of those who began a four-year[…]

Django Developer Kit 1.2

Iâ€™m really excited to announce the release of myÂ Django Developer Kit 1.2! Setting up a Django-based project in the appliance is a piece of cake! Some of the Django modules included[…]

A volta dos que não foram

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

E aí pessoal, tudo bem? Sei que faz muito tempo que não escrevo nada aqui no blog, mas é que para variar, estou metido em vários projetos diferentes e o tempo está curtíssimo! O meu trabalho também tem me mantido muito ocupado… e minhas filhas já estão me deixando de cabelo branco… e…

Bem, chega de choro… só passei aqui para dizer que apesar de não estar atualizando este blog aqui, eu continuo escrevendo em inglês no meu outro blog: Journal of an Open Sourcee

Want people to work harder? Give them an innovation bonus!

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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In True Motivation, my friend Vinny pointed to a very interesting video byÂ Dan Pink, “author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work.“Â This video talks about how research has come up with key factors to make people happier, successful and fulfilled: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose!

Ok, this shouldn’t really shock people, but how about this nice little nugget: when it comes down to tasks that require cognitive skills, offering more money as an incentive does not yield good results!Â So… given a task where one has to use a bit more of one’s gray matter, offering a bigger reward did not guarantee success! Pretty interesting, huh?

Book Review: Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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During this last weekend I finally managed to reserve a couple of hours of “me time” to finish reading my complimentary copy of the book â€œDjango 1.1 Testing and Debuggingâ€? from Packt Publishing!

Once again I felt completely absorbed by the style chosen for this Packt Publishing book, as it makes use of a complete application to reinforce all of the topics covered. You start with a brief explanation of the benefits of testing your code and immediately start building a market research application from scratch.

Django Developer Kit 1.2

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_1038” align=“alignleft” width=“117” caption=“Django”][/caption] I’m really excited to announce the release of my Django Developer Kit 1.2! Setting up a Django-based project in the appliance is a piece of cake! Some of the Django modules included are:

PIL=1.1.7-1-1
PyYAML=3.05-1-1
Pygments=1.3.1-1-1
bzr=2.0.0-1-1
bzrtools=2.0.1-1-1
cElementTree=1.0.5-1-1
coverage:source=3.3.1-2[]
django-ajax-selects:source=r24_patched-2[]
django-authopenid:source=0.9.6-1[]
django-authority:source=0.4-1[]
django-cache-memcached=1.2-1-1[is: x86]
django-contact-form=r61-1-1[is: x86]
django-db-mysql=1.2-1-1
django-db-sqlite3=1.2-1-1[is: x86]
django-evolution=r165-1-1[is: x86]
django-favorites=b145949-1-1[is: x86]
django-filter=0.5.0-1-1[is: x86]
django-notification=0.1.5-1-1[is: x86]
django-pagination=1.0.5-1-1[is: x86]
django-piston=0.2.2-1-1[is: x86]
django-profile=r452-1-1[is: x86]
django-ratings=9e32d33-1-1[is: x86]
django-sorting=0.1-1-1[is: x86]
django-tagging=0.3.1-1-1[is: x86]
django-threadedcomments=ded46fc5bfd9a9d37a15-1-1[is: x86]
django-tinymce=r98-1-1[is: x86]
django=1.2-1-1[is: x86]
git=1.6.6.2-1-1[is: x86]
httplib2=0.4.0-1-1
ipython=0.10-1-1
mercurial=1.4.3-1-1
mod_wsgi=3.2-1-1
mx=2.0.6-1-1
nginx=0.7.65-1-1
polib=0.5.1-1-1
psycopg2=2.2.0-1-1
pygooglechart=0.2.1-1-1
pysvn=1.7.0-2-1[~!bootstrap is: x86_64]
python-cssutils=0.9.6a1-1-1
python-ctypes=1.0.2-2-1
python-feedparser=4.1-3-1
python-hashlib=20081119-1-1
python-markdown=2.0.3-2-1
python-memcached=1.45-1-1
scgi=1.14-1-1
south=0.7-1-1

There are several ways for you to play with the Django Developer Kit appliance, so just head on down to the download page and pick from the following image types:

Should you go to college straight out of high school?

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Over the weekend I came across an interesting article in the New York Times called “Plan B: Skip College”. According to the Department of Education, “no more than half of those who began a four-year bachelorâ€™s degree program in the fall of 2006 will get that degree within six years.” Even more shocking, “fï»¿ï»¿or college students who ranked among the bottom quarter of their high school classes, the numbers are even more stark: 80 percent will probably never get a bachelorâ€™s degree or even a two-year associateâ€™s degree!”

Week in Review: May 10th - May 14th, 2010

Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

ï»¿ï»¿Hereâ€™s what happened this week:

Mother

Thank you Mom:

For being my very firstÂ true love!
For being strong enough, though only 24, when the doctors handed you on your birthday a tiny little boy with withÂ Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, a rareÂ congenital disorder that is characterized by multipleÂ joint contracturesand can includeÂ muscle weakness andÂ fibrosis (WikipediaÂ article).[…]

New version of the Transifex Appliance

A newer version of theÂ Transifex Appliance has been released with all the latest, juicy bits! There are several new translations, features and fixes in place. Thereâ€™s also a couple of new image types for your download pleasure[…]

Say Hello To My New Little Friend

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Had a great surprise when I arrived home from work last night! My good friends from MeeGo sent me a little something to help me with the translation work I have done for them.

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Since my in-laws were also at my house I decided to wait until they had left to properly enjoy opening it. A couple of agonizing hours later I finally shredded the box to pieces to reveal: a HP Mini N470!

New version of the Transifex Appliance

Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

A newer version of the Transifex Appliance has been released with all the latest, juicy bits! There are several new translations, features and fixes in place. There’s also a couple of new image types for your download pleasure:

ï»¿x86 Installable CD/DVD
x86_64 Installable CD/DVD
x86 VMware (R) Virtual Appliance
x86_64 VMware (R) Virtual Appliance
x86 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance
x86_64 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance
x86 Amazon Machine Image (EC2) (DomU)
x86_64 Amazon Machine Image (EC2) (DomU)

Once you have it running, login to your appliance with the following credentials:

Mother

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Thank you Mom:

For being my very first true love!
For being strong enough, though only 24, when the doctors handed you on your birthday a tiny little boy with withÂ Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, a rareÂ congenital disorder that is characterized by multipleÂ joint contracturesand can includeÂ muscle weakness andÂ fibrosis (WikipediaÂ article).
For seeing hope where others saw despair!
For going against everyone and everything that told you to conform and give up on me!
For the many hours you spent travelling by bus with me on your lap so you could bring me to a specialist!
For choosing not to believe when they also told you there was no cure for me!
For the many times you’ve gone hungry so I could eat!
For being strong enough and hold back your tears when you heard me cry as you forced me to do physical therapy!
For teaching me to never feel sorry for myself!
For teaching me to never give up!
For teaching me to be strong!
For teaching me to dream!
For teaching me to laugh but also to cry!
For being there for me when things got tough!
For teaching me how to dance and swim!
For the many hours you spent making sure I did my homework and understood the subjects!
For helping me mend a broken heart during the teenage years!
For teaching me to respect all forms of life!
For teaching me to be open minded!
For teaching me to count my blessings!
For never letting me sit on my butt and acceptÂ mediocrity!
For being such a great mother-in-law to my wife!
For being an amazing grandmother to my kids!
For being such an inspirational person and a role model for our family!
For shaping my entire life and for bringing these tears of joy I have right now just to thing how blessed I am for having you as my mom!

Happy Mothers Day Mom!

Week in Review: May 3rd - 7th, 2010

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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ï»¿ï»¿Here’s what happened this week:

ï»¿

Whatâ€™s new with Radio Tray?
- http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=1016 Radio Tray, your favorite light weight online radio streaming application, has gone under some more development churn since its last release. Namely, there is now aÂ dbus interface to allow other applications to interact with it!
When the movie is better than the book
- Over this past weekend I found just enough time to finish readingÂ Band of Brothers byÂ Stephen E. Ambrose, a book about the story of the men ofÂ E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, U.S. Army infantry.
The Road to GUADEC 2010
- This past April 16th I had the pleasure of receiving the following email:

Django Developer Kit 1.2 Release Candidate 1

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’m really excited to announce the release of my Django Developer Kit 1.2 RC1! The highlights for this release include the first Release Candidate for the upcoming Django 1.2, as well as a switch of the underlying platform, from CentOS to rPath Linux 2. All kinks have been worked out and setting up a Django-based project in the appliance is a piece of cake! Some of the Django modules included are:

Can a plugin help you improve your writing skills?

Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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My good friend Vinny introduced me toÂ After the Deadline, aÂ nifty WordPress and Firefox plugin that promises to “ï»¿help you write better by adding spell, style, and grammar checking to web applications.”

As some of you know I have been on a writing rampage these last few weeks, and as in everything that I ever do, I try my best to write concise, clear and well written articles. For someone who didn’t start learning (i.e. reading, writing and speaking) the American English language until I was 17 years old, I feel that I’ve done a decent job here on my blog, but one can never be too careful.

The Road to GUADEC 2010

Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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This past April 16th I had the pleasure of receiving the following email:

Congratulations, your submission Making easier for companies to give back to GNOME has been accepted for presentation at GUADEC which is being held from 2010-07-26 to 2010-07-30 at Den Haag.

I was ecstatic!!! Having had the opportunity to attend GUADEC 2009 at Las Palmas, Gran Canary last year,Â I was thrilled with the possibility of attending my second one and presenting my ideas on how to facilitate the collaboration between downstream and GNOME. There’s also the fact that this year the event will be held in the Netherlands, a country that I have always wanted to visit!

When the movie is better than the book

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Over this past weekend I found just enough time to finish reading Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, a book about the story of the men ofÂ E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, U.S. Army infantry. Back in 2006 HBO had turned this book into a 10-episodes mini series which I avidly watched in one shot one day while visiting my friend Vinny in Massachusetts. He had a pretty nice home theater system hook up at his place and since there was nobody else around, we were able to watch it all with the volume turned way up.

What\'s new with Radio Tray?

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/

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Radio Tray, your favorite light weight online radio streaming application, has gone under some more development churn since its last release. Namely, there is now a dbus interface to allow other applications to interact with it! So you write a “remote control” for Radio Tray and change the volume, change stations, extract metadata from the stream being played, etc. Here’s what’s currently supported:

listRadios()
getCurrentRadio()
playRadio(name)
turnOff()
volumeUp()
volumeDown()
getCurrentMetaData()

Fancy learning a bit about adding a dbus interface to your own application? Want to add new features to Radio Tray? A new “testdbus.py" script has been added to the repository to help you understand how things work and get you to hit the ground running! Just clone the repository and take a peek:

Week in Review: April 26th - 30th, 2010

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_963” align=“aligncenter” width=“279” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Hereâ€™s what happened this week:

Coffee, a personal history
- I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (canâ€™t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady […]
A Pig, an Elephant and a Yellow Dog
- From the â€œRead a Book to a Childâ€? department, Iâ€™d like to recommend two amazing books that will be a sure hit for any kid, even the one inside you! â€œWatch Me Throw the Ballâ€? An Elephant & Piggie Book by Mo Willems is a wonderful […]
RESTful Web Services, Beautiful Soup and Launchpad
- Last night I attended two short presentation by Leonard Richardson, author of the Oâ€™Reilly book RESTful Web Services and developer on Launchpad.net. Unfortunately it took me a while to find a parking spot […]
Splitting WordPress Export File with ChoppedPress
- Youâ€™re all probably tired of hearing me talking about my script to split the XML-like file that WordPress generates when you use the Export feature. Tonight I have finally added the final touches […]
A Hamster, a Lynx and The Princess Brideâ€¦ What???
- Got a couple of interesting bits for you today, starting with some really great news from the Hamster Project, a time tracking application. My friend Tom wrote about his recent work […]

A Hamster, a Lynx and The Princess Bride\... What???

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Got a couple of interesting bits for you today, starting with some really great news from the Hamster Project, a time tracking application. My friend Tom wrote about his recent work decoupling the communication layer from the client and the back-end, which will now be handled by dbus. What that really means is that it will be easier to script against hamster and tap into the data that it captures. Here’s a simple code sample from Tom’s page:

Splitting WordPress Export File with ChoppedPress

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

You’re all probably tired of hearing me talking about my script to split the XML-like file that WordPress generates when you use the Export feature. Tonight I have finally added the final touches to it and can now share it here with you.

If you don’t remember, I wrote it because my good friend Evandro from QuartoEstudio.com is always getting asked by some of his clients to migrate an existing web blog to a new host/domain and hands him a tarball containing the exported content of a WordPress blog in XML format. The problem resides on the issue that some web hosting providers will limit how big a file can be uploaded via a POST method, and depending on how big this XML file is, you may have to manually break it into smaller files first.

RESTful Web Services, Beautiful Soup and Launchpad

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Last night I attended two short presentation by Leonard Richardson, author of the O’Reilly book RESTful Web Services and developer on Launchpad.net. Unfortunately it took me a while to find a parking spot near UNC’s Chapman Hall, so I missed 90% of the first one, titled “A Spotter’s Guide to RESTful Web Services”. Based on the number of questions that were asked at the end, it seemed to me that this is an area where there are way too many possible ways people can get lost attempting to implement it…

A Pig, an Elephant and a Yellow Dog

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

From the “Read a Book to a Child" department, I’d like to recommend two amazing books that will be a sure hit for any kid, even the one inside you!

[caption id=“attachment_969” align=“alignleft” width=“216” caption=“Watch me throw the ball by Mo Willems”][/caption]

“Watch Me Throw the Ball" An Elephant & Piggie Book by Mo Willems is a wonderful book! I simply love the way Mo Willems writes the dialogs between Gerald, the always cautious and pessimistic elephant and Piggie, an optimistic, lovable pig. This time Piggie wants to show Gerald how he can throw a ball and have fun at the same time, but Gerald is quick to tell him that to properly do that, one needs lots and lots of practice and hard work. Best if read out loud, there is no way your audience won’t fall in love with these two goofballs!

Coffee, a personal history

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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I first got hooked on drinking coffee back in the Spring of 1994 while attending a Microbiology class at Pace University. Our class started way too early for me and our professor (can’t remember her name right now) was this tiny old lady who barely raised her voice over the decibel level that dogs can hear. The class and subject were very interesting and by the end of the semester I felt very confident about my laboratory skills (and developed a phobia about anything that was not coated with some type of anti bacterial product).Â But it was extremely hard to stay awake listening to that monotonous voice that early… so coffee became my best friend and probably indirectly responsible for the good grade I received for that class!

Week in Review: April 18th - 23rd, 2010

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Hereâ€™s what happened this week:

Quotes to brighten your day
- Kind of ironic how my post titled â€œStop whining and improve your lifeâ€? attracted so much negativity in the comments area.
From the â€œUseful Django Tipâ€? Department: Reset The Admin Password
- This comes straight from the Useful Django Tip department: How do you reset the admin password for a Django project when youâ€™ve forgotten it?
Helping downstream translations swim upstream: Part 1
- Sometimes, contributing back to upstream open source projects is not as straight forward as one may think. â€œHelping downstream translations swim upstreamâ€? will be a new series of articles where I intend to explain the issues contributors may face when attempting to send translations back to upstream projects, and hopefully, devise a couple of possible solutions.
Help sponsor Mercurial development!
- Anyone who has ever added a project to BitBucket already knows what Mercurial is, but for those who have never heard about it…
Transifex adds new features, wins more hearts
- It has been a great Spring for Transifex.net, everyoneâ€™s favorite open source translation portal!
Book Preview: Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
- What a great day to kick of the day! Just received my complimentary copy of the book â€œDjango 1.1 Testing and Debuggingâ€? from Packt Publishing!

Book Preview: Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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What a great day to kick of the day! Just received my complimentary copy of the book “Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging" from Packt Publishing! From the book’s overview page:

Develop Django applications quickly with fewer bugs through effective use of automated testing and debugging tools.
Ensure your code is accurate and stable throughout development and production by using Django’s test framework.
Understand the working of code and its generated output with the help of debugging tools.
Packed with detailed working examples that illustrate the techniques and tools for debugging.

I think I know what I’m doing this weekend! :) There’s a FREE chapter you can download too to whet your appetite in case you’re interested.

Transifex adds new features, wins more hearts

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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It has been a great Spring for Transifex.net, everyone’s favorite open source translation portal! Things felt a bit quiet since their latest release, but the Transifex guys were secretly working on some really nifty features!!! This Tuesday they lifted their shroud of secrecy to reveal to the world these yummy new features:

Team Discussion Board: Each translation team now has a discussion board. Get organized better and more efficiently. No need to setup separate mailing lists for each translation team! Just talk to each other from inside Transifex itself and get informed when new messages appear.

Help sponsor Mercurial development!

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Anyone who has ever added a project to BitBucket already knows what Mercurial is, but for those who have never heard about it, “it is a free, distributed source control managemt tool that can efficiently handle projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.” In other words, in the world of Distributed Version Control (Systems), or DVCS or short, Mercurial is the bee’s knees! This is not to say that I don’t like Git or Bzr, but when I have to recommend a revision control solution to someone who just needs to get the job done, I don’t think twice! In my humble opinion, Mercurial is by far the easiest and most intuitive of them all!

Helping downstream translations swim upstream: Part 1

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

*Sometimes, contributing back to upstream open source projects is not as straight forward as one may think. “Helping downstream translations swim upstream” will be a new series of articles where I intend to explain the issues contributors may face when attempting to send translations back to upstream projects, and hopefully, devise a couple of possible solutions.*

In the past few years we have seen an astonishing growth of companies that started using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) bits and pieces in their products. From netbooks, desktops, handheld and infotainment devices, televisions, and cellular phones, FOSS applications have become the founding blocks for several companies trying to leverage its power and stability.

From the \"Useful Django Tip\" Department: Reset The Admin Password

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This comes straight from the Useful Django Tip department: How do you reset the admin password for a Django project when you’ve forgotten it?

Bruce Kroeze suggested using Django’s shell to resolve this common issue and one of the comments his post received nailed it:

[omaciel@crutches souschef]$ python manage.py shell
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 22 2010, 10:30:12)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
helpÂ Â Â Â Â  -> Python's own help system.
object?Â Â  -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

In [1]: from django.contrib.auth.models import User

In [2]: u = User.objects.get(username__exact="admin")

In [3]: u.set_password('whatever');

In [4]: u.save()

Thatâ€™s it!

Quotes to brighten your day

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Kind of ironic how my post titled “Stop whining and improve your life" attracted so much negativity in the comments area. It became very clear to me, however, that most were just too eager to make assumptions about my intention or probably wanted to vent a bit. Those who know me personally or have followed my blog for a while know that I don’t live in a fantasy world (though sometimes Chapel Hill can feel that way) filled with unicorn and cotton candy clouds. I’ll save myself the hassle and will just point the naysayers to what Vinny and Paul had to say.

Week in Review: April 12 - 16th, 2010

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s what happened this week:

Radio Tray 0.5.1
- "It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Radio Tray 0.5.1! I have been following the development of this tiny streaming media player from the very start and even cloned it so that I could play with it on BitBucket."
Stop whining and improve your life
- "During your day to day conversation with your friends and family members, do you find yourself talking about work or life in general in a negative manner?"
Learning Inkscape?
- "Lately I have found myself spending more and more time playing with Inkscape, the amazing open source vector graphic editor! The main reason being that my oldest daughter has shown interest in drawing and graphic design."
Command Line Tools with Python OptParse
- "It is not very uncommon for me to receive some code requests from friends looking for a little help to â€œmake something easierâ€?. Iâ€™m talking about those pesky day to day things that after a while makes you go: â€œIf I could only push a button and have it done!â€?"
From the â€œBetter Than Sliced Breadâ€? Department: Terminator
- "Basically, think about opening a single terminal (console) window and then splitting it down the middle (vertically) to get now two separate and independent terminalsâ€¦ and then splitting the left terminal horizontally, giving you now three terminalsâ€¦ and thenâ€¦ well, you probably get the drift by now."

From the \"Better Than Sliced Bread\" Department: Terminator

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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From the “better than sliced bread” department, I bring you Terminator! No, not that terminator. This Terminator:

“Terminator is a program that allows users to set up flexible arrangements of GNOME terminals. It is aimed at those who normally arrange lots of terminals near each other, but don’t want to use a frame based window manager.”

Command Line Tools with Python OptParse

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It is not very uncommon for me to receive some code requests from friends looking for a little help to “make something easier”. I’m talking about those pesky day to day things that after a while makes you go: “If I could only push a button and have it done!”

This week I was chit-chatting with my good friend Evandro Pastor when he mentioned one of these situations that, according to him, makes his existence miserable. You see, Evandro is the brain, muscle and talent behind QuartoStudio, “a small studio located in the state of SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil” specialized in creating websites and blogs for small to medium sized companies. We have worked together many times on several different projects, and through the years have become great friends.

Learning Inkscape?

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Lately I have found myself spending more and more time playing with Inkscape, the amazing open source vector graphic editor! The main reason being that my oldest daughter has shown interest in drawing and graphic design.Â Since we only run GNU/Linux at our house, I had to choose something that was open source and available for my distribution.

My last attempt at anything remotely close to “art” was way back when in the early 1990s when a friend gave me a copy of Paint Shop Pro. This is when it was still distributed by Jasc Software. Back then I was very proud of being able to create small and colorful geometric shapes and felt very at home with Paint Shop Pro. However, the day they decided to add new features and turned it into a Photoshop with all the floating windows and advanced plugins was the day I gave up on doing graphic design for good!

Stop whining and improve your life

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

During your day to day conversation with your friends and family members, do you find yourself talking about work or life in general in a negative manner?
Do you tell others that something or someone is preventing you from moving ahead and fulfilling your dreams?
Do you tend to hang out with people who share your (negative) opinion about work and life?
Can you keep a conversation with anyone without eventually dragging your audience into the “painful state” that your life is?

If you’ve managed to go through these questions and answered “no” to all of them, then congratulations for being such an optimistic person (or maybe all of your friends have left you?)! Now, if you’ve answered “yes” to any or several of these questions, then my friend… you’re a whiner!

Django Debug Toolbar

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I meant to write about the Django Debug Toolbar before but other things kept getting on the way. Basically, if you work with Django then you’ll appreciate this “configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response and when clicked, display more details about the panel’s content.”

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Imagine working on your application and being able to get a list of all of its settings, HTTP headers, display GET/POST/cookie/session variables, templates and context used and their template paths, SQL queries including time to execute and links to EXPLAIN each query, list of signals, their arguments and receivers,… want more? There is also the super nifty debugsqlshell command that outputs the sql statements that gets executed when you work with your models in the Python interactive shell.

Radio Tray 0.5.1

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Radio Tray 0.5.1! I have been following the development of this tiny streaming media player from the very start and even cloned it so that I could play with it on BitBucket. After a while I approached the developer, Carlos Ribeiro, and asked him to take a look and all of the stuff I had done. I also suggested that he starts using Mercurial instead of Subversion to make easier for people to clone the code and submit patches in the near future.

Beer Heaven

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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There is a place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. It is true! I have seen it with my own eyes! No, it is not Aspen, CO. It’s a little Russian liquor around the block from where my dad lives, with walls completely covered with… you guessed it, beer!

Armed with a plastic basket and the eagerness of a kid turned loose in a candy store, I worked my way through the aisles, jaw dropped to the floor and eyes fixated on the smorgasbord of colored bottles of different shapes and colors, trying to figure out the optimal battle plan.

Book Review: Django 1.0 Website Development

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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Back when I purchased my ebook version of â€œPython Testing: Beginnerâ€™s Guideâ€œby Daniel Arbuckle, I also snagged a copy of “Django 1.0 Website Development" by Ayman Hourieh.

Once again, I have to tip my head to the folks at Packt Publishing for their decision of selling ebooks and not password protecting them, giving you complete control over your purchase!!! You can alsocopy text from it, which makes your life really easy when youâ€™re following along and want to copy some of the code being described!

Selenium and Sauce presentation

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Crayon Test by PauS

It was with great anticipation that I headed down to Duke University North Pavillion to listen to Frank Wierzbicki's, lead committer for Jython, presentation on Selenium and Sauce for this month’s TriZPUG meeting. Having used a few other tools to automate web application testing/QA, I felt that it was time to revisit Selenium and see if there was anything new worth checking.

I must say that the combination of Selenium and Sauce make up for a killer toolset for anyone who has to deal with supporting a web application across multiple platforms and browsers! Some of the features related to strictly writing Python code and driving testes from the command line had me salivating, but what really made a difference for me was Frank Wierzbicki himself!

Wish list: Distutils best practice guide

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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When it comes to distributing source code, specially python code, I really wish there was a concise and detailed best practice guide for using distutils! Don’t get me wrong, the documentation is pretty good and covers a lot of ground, but what I really want is a standard “template” if you will, that python developers can take and do some minimal modifications to customize it to their needs.

Appliances Updates

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Work has kept me really busy these days but I still managed to update the following appliances:

http://bit.ly/Transifex

Transifex (Devel):

transifex revision **1453 **(log)

http://bit.ly/DjangoDevKit

Django Developer Kit (Devel):

django 1.2 revision **12842 **(log)
mod_wsgi version 3.2

Just update your existing appliances to get these updates and feel free to drop me a line if you need anything or, better yet, want to land a hand. :)

Book Review: Python Testing: Beginner\'s Guide

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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It is very rare to find a book that covers testing in the software world. Testing is something that authors will briefly mention on programming books and if you’re lucky you may even find a couple of lines of code related to the subject. So it was with great excitement that I purchasedÂ “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide"by Daniel Arbuckle!.

LXDE and the Google Summer of Code

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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In case you missed it, the LXDE project is taking part of this year’s Google Summer of Code! I’m also very excited for the invitation to participate for the first time in the capacity of mentor!

"LXDE is an energy saving and extremely fast and performing desktop solution. It works well with computers on the low end of the performance spectrum such as new generation netbooks and other small mobile computers. LXDE is designed for cloud networks such as local freifunk clouds or the global Internet cloud. It can be built on top of various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Debian. It provides a fast desktop experience connecting easily with applications in the cloud and supports a wealth of programs, that can be installed with Linux systems locally. LXDE already supports many computer processor architectures including Intel, MIPS and ARM."

Radio Tray gives \"light listening\" a whole new meaning!

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The need to be thin!

I don’t consider myself a “power user” when it comes to how I listen to music in general, and most of the time I’ll use whatever media player is installed by default with my distribution. Only recently I started actively tagging and editing metadata about the songs I own, so you could safely say that if I can listen to music while I work, I’m a happy camper! Music has become an important part of my daily activities, whether at work, driving or at home. As a matter of fact, much like “Rob Gordon" played by John Cusack in “High Fidelity”, I can come up with a soundtrack for several different times of my life.

Django Developer Kit Appliance: First Steps

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll make it quick so I can go back to watching TV:

Announcing my first attempt at a generic Django Developer Kit, a CentOS (powered by rPath's conary) based software appliance with all you'd need to run a Django project.

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The current images are built on the development stage, which means it includes the very latest Django 1.2 code line straight from the subversion repository. Currently, the following packages make up the base appliance:

GNOME Developer Kit, follow up

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just wanted to update everyone who showed interest in the new release of GNOME Developer Kit I announced yesterday. Based on some preliminary statistics I collected in the (less than) last 24 hours, it seems that the VMware image type got the most download, followed closely by the installable ISO format. I guess that was due to VirtualBox being able to use *.vmdk files and some people opting for the free virtualization tool.

GNOME Developer Kit, agora \"Fat Free\"!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE: Obrigado Alberto Ruiz por indicar que o VirtualBox pode usar arquivos .vmdk, então as imagens VMware podem ser usadas para esta finalidade.

Graças ao incrivel trabalho de `Zhang “Jesse” Sen <http://blog.zhangsen.org/>`__ e Vladimir Melo, um novo lançamento do **GNOME Developer Kit** foi publicado! “O que há de novo”, você pergunta? Tudo, já que todos os pacotes são compilados direto do git.gnome.org! :) Mas isso por si mesmo não é o mais bacana da notícia, mas sim o fato que a imagem final passou por uma “dieta” super rigorosa e no processo perdeu bastante “peso”, passando de 1.4GB monstruosos para menos de 700MB de puro GNOME!!!

GNOME Developer Kit, now with less fat!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

UPDATE: Thanks Alberto Ruiz for pointing out that VirtualBox can use .vmdk files, so the VMware image can be used for that purpose.

Thanks to the incredible work of `Zhang “Jesse” Sen <http://blog.zhangsen.org/>`__ and Vladimir Melo, a brand new release of the **GNOME Developer Kit** has been published! “What’s new”, you may ask? Everything, since all packages are built directly from git.gnome.org! :) But that alone is not what makes this release so cool, but the fact that the final image went through a dramatic “diet”, shedding a lot of its “weight” and going from a 1.4GB monster to less than 700MB of pure GNOME goodness!!!

Book Preview: Python Testing: Beginner\'s Guide

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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I was looking for some material on proper python testing in order to improve my QA skills and after some “Googling” came across “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”. My first impulse was to hit Amazon and see if they had it and if I could buy an ebook version. Sadly, they only had the “dead tree” version, so I decided to check if the publisher, PackT Publishing, had an alternative.

Preview: Python Testing: Beginner\'s Guide

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Estava eu procurando por algum material sobre testes com python para melhorar meu desempenho no trabalho quando, depois de dar uma “Google-ada encontrei o livro “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”. Meu primeiro impulso foi de entrar no site da Amazon para checar se eles já o tinham e se era possível comprá-lo no formato ebook. Infelizmente eles só o tinham no formato “dead tree”… então eu decidi checar o site da publicadora , PackT Publishing, para ver se eles tinham alguma alternativa.

Transifex \"Magneto\" Appliance 0.8 is out!

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Following the tradition of releasing simultaneously with the Transifex project, I’m pleased to present you the Transifex “Magneto” Appliance 0.8! There are just too many cool features to mention here… so I won’t! Just go ahead and read the release notes instead.

From Transifex v8.0 featutes

As far as the appliance goes, the most important thing to know is that I dropped MySQL and replaced it with Postgresql, so if you’re thinking of updating an existing deployment, you’ll have to backup your data and handle the restoration process. If you’re installing for the first time, choose from the following image types:

GNOME 2.30 Translations for the Faint of Heart

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

With the GNOME 2.30 release just around the corner, translators are feverishly working hard to get the desktop completely translated into a multitude of different languages! But unless you’re comfortable building the application you’re trying to translate on your own (or perhaps the entire desktop), you’re pretty much doing what I call “blind translations.”

From Screenshots

The good news is that you don’t have to do any compiling to play with the very latest GNOME applications! Just download the GNOME Developer Kit and start translating knowing that you can actually see what you’re translating!

TriZPUG, Fabric, epdb, oh my!

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I attended my first TriZPUG meeting to check out Kurt Grandis' talk on Fabric, “a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.”

It was pretty cool to see a bunch of guys who share the same interests take some time on a Thursday to hang out, drink beers, and chat about python, django, zope, and other stuff. After the original talk was over and some of the other lightening talks that succeeded it was over, a couple of things became very clear to me:

Transifex Upcoming Feature: Translation Review

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Just wanted to tease you guys out there about a new feature that the Transifex guys are working on these days: Translation Reviews! Have you ever wandered if your translations conform to the standard vocabulary that your team uses? Have you ever wanted someone to take a look at what you’ve done before sending in your final work for commit approval?

From Transifex v8.0 featutes

Now, mind you this is still very alpha code but that is probably a good thing since you can play with it and give your feedback on how to improve it. As always, you can get this in an easy to consume format by using the Transifex Appliance Developer edition… or you can join the Xfce translators who are already enjoying Transifex latest code! :)

Xfce using Transifex

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

In case you’ve missed it, the Xfce project has been using their own installation of Transifex to manage their translations online! Translators can now visit http://translations.xfce.org and keep up with the action!

From Transifex v8.0 featutes

I’ve been contributing with translations for the Brazilian Portuguese language for quite some time now, and have been a strong supporter for the Transifex project as well, so I was thrilled to learn they were “working together”! But there is a second reason why I’m mentioning this on my blog:

Re: is Foresight Linux dead?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

On his latest post titled “Foresight Linux is dead?”, Thilo Pfennigs rightly asks the question that many of the current Foresight Linux users may be asking themselves. With the current stable release dated as of May 2009 and no explicit roadmap stating when the next release will be published, is it really safe to say that Foresight Linux is indeed dead?

In order to properly answer this question, one must first take a look at what the year of 2009 reserved for this young distribution. Born out of Ken Vandine's desire to follow the GNOME project as close to the upstream source as possible and introduce all the latest and coolest applications out there to the desktop before anyone else, Foresight was for a while synonymous to bleeding edge Linux done right!

Ditching MySQL for PostgreSQL

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In order to better follow what the Transifex guys are doing with their development and deployment of Transifex.net, I have finally made the switch from MySQL to PostgreSQL for the Transifex Appliance. Luckly I was able to corral diegobz during my lunch break and together we worked out the necessary changes to get things to work (and caught and fixed a minor issue along the way too!).

In the meantime, the appliance seems to be getting some nice and steady traffic, which I suspect will only increase, specially when a new version of Transifex hits the streets.

RHEL 5 Appliance sneak peak

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve already mentioned on my Twitter account about our latest feat here at rPath, namely, “rPath Expands Operating System Coverage with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.” But the more I play with our technology, the more gaga I get at how simple we can make things!

So today I built a plain vanilla appliance based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 withjust enough operating system and launched it on VMware vSphere 4. I then ssh’ed into this system and ran:

My Own Personal Translation Portal in the Cloud

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Had some time today during lunch to work on the Transifex Appliance and decided to play with the newly added feature of supporting subversion over https. So I launched thedevel EC2 instance on Amazon Web Service and proceeded to add PCMan File Manager so that I could translate it online. Before you ask, yes: I do have commit access to the project and could have checked out the code locally and done the work as I usually do, but that’s not fun! Besides, being the good citizen that I am, I felt like testing this new feature (remember: this is only available on tip!) and providing some feedback.

BillReminder: Still Kicking

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

If you still remember my pet project BillReminder and want to learn what’s going on with it, go check the project’s latest post!

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A huge thanks toÂ nosklo,Â Patryk, andÂ Toms for their help, and if you’re looking for a young python project to help out, please consider looking at BillReminder!

Heard it through the grapevine

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Interesting:

I’ve heard that when the Red Hat developers present new open-source packages to their local Linux User-Group, before the meeting is over one of the Foresight people will have downloaded the source, created a Foresight package, uploaded it to the repository for folks to get, and it will be available for anyone to use. It’s explicitly designed as a package management system with very little overhead to creating new packages.

What do Moblin, Xfce, Fedora plus a few other projects have in common?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just to follow up on one of my earlier messages to Twitter/Identi.ca today, here’s a little trivia for you:

"What do Moblin, Xfce, Fedora plus a few other projects have in common? They all use Transifex for their translations!"

There’s quite a few other projects out there already toying with Transifex to see if it fits their needs too, which goes to show that the word is getting out about the benefits of using it as a platform for managing translations. I, for one, am very excited to see all the hard work being poured into it coming to fruition! It definitely validates their vision and it definitely must feel really good to work for Indifex, the startup behind Transifex!

Emblem Divide coming to your web!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I was extremely thrilled to learn that my good friend Pete Savagedecided to publish his novel “Emblem Divide" online! I had the honor of getting a copy of his work last month and have enjoyed reading it a lot!

The novel will be available completely free of charge, no strings attached! To top it off, being the nice guy that he is, he’s also setting up a donation system to take advantage of the traffic that his web site will most like generate so that you can support a charity of your choice! More details on that will be available soon from his site, but feel free to recommend a charity to him directly via a comment.

Foresight Linux quickie

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

For those of you out there who are Foresight Linux users wondering when the next major software update will hit the stable branch, your wait is almost over! We’ve been feverishly making all the latest bits to play nice with each other so that we can also release newer ISO images of what will be Foresight 2.1.2. Some of the issues we’re facing right now are:

Issues with latest *goocanvas/pycairo mess [0][1][2];
Epiphany issues with latest WebKit in x86_64;
Exotic side effects of kernel changes that make audio CDs not easilly playable (not a Foresight exclusive issue);
Mono is somehow partly busted (part of gnome bindings) in x86_64
- hits latest banshee;
Getting Anaconda to play nicely with newer kernel drivers for some motherboards;

Some of the cool things we’re cooking in the development branch are: latest KDE, GNOME, Chromium/Firefox/Opera web browser, gst streamer bits, latest kernel, Banshee 1.5.1, F-Spot, and many, many more applications!

Looking back on looking back

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Reading today’s post by Miguel about the 10 years anniversary of Ximian’s incorporation brought back memories of a time when I wasn’t as involved with open source… a time when I hated my job and would do anything to score a job with a Linux company. I had decided to attend a Microsoft boot camp in Massachusetts and since I was going to be around Boston, for some reason I decided to send Miguel an email asking him if he would mind meeting with me and maybe grabbing a cup of coffee. It was back in early 2005 (I blogged about it here) and I was such a huge fanboy of Miguel and all that he represented.

Reunião da equipe de traduções do GNOME Brasil

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Na noite de outubro 16 de 2009 aconteceu a primeira reunião da equipe de traduções do GNOME Brasil já sobre a nova coordenação do Rodrigo Flores. Infelizmente perdi o início da reunião mas o Rodrigo fez um excelente trabalho em resumir os pontos discutidos e enviou para todos da lista de discussão. O que segue abaixo é o conteúdo deste e-mail, formatado por mim para (espero) melhor destacar os assuntos discutidos:

To the Transifex Appliance users out there

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Some time around the middle of 2008 I was asked if I would be interested in joining the very young QA department for rPath. I had already been working as a software engineer for them since late 2006, spending a larger chunk of my time working on a single project and not being able to experiment with the cool technology we were developing outside of my project. Somehow the idea of doing QA felt very appealing to me as I would then be able to see, first hand, what type of products we were publishing, as well as experience what our customers and users were going through. I jumped on the opportunity and the rest is history.

Using WordPress as a blog aggregator

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

One of the many things I maintain outside work is a blog aggregator (aka “planet”) for blogs about open source and technology from the Brazilian community. I try to invite new authors to this “planet” who have something interesting to share about their lives, regardless of what Linux distribution they use, gender, political views or religious beliefs. It is not as popular as some of the other Brazilian news sites, but I think it has a good number of subscribers.

Você se lembra da minha voz?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Nossa, quanto tempo que não escrevia no meu blog em português!!! Muitas coisas aconteceram desde o meu último post, mas invés de descrever tudo aqui, convido a todos os interessados a dar uma “bizoiada” no meu blog em inglês!

Então, a vida está uma correria só e depois eu volto aqui prá falar mais detalhes sobre a correria toda. Só queria mesmo avisar a todos que o Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil ficou fora do ar por um tempo devido a problemas com o planetplanet, o programa responsável por gerar as notícias e agregar tudo na página web. O problema foi com uns feeds que não estavam mais validando e o código do planetplanet “quebreva”!

SmÃ¶rgÃ¥sbord News for September 2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything on my blog so here are some interesting nuggets:

I’ve been house hunting for the last 3-4 months and I can honestly say that it is a very intense experience! There are so many things to learn and remember and so many different things to consider! Wouldn’t be nice if you knew right up front all the costs and fees involved in purchasing a house, the same way you know how much it costs to purchase a pair of sneakers (cost of sneakers plus sales tax)? Alas, the hard work has paid off and in about 3 weeks I’ll be a home owner for the first time!
Work has kept me very busy these last few months but thanks to some new goals and new hires, the future is looking pretty bright for rPath and I’m very excited to be a part of it all! I managed to hack on a proof of concept for a Django-based tool for our QA department which received a good deal of good feedback! I’ve also spent some time cleaning up our wiki and getting things ready for the new QA engineer who’s starting in a few weeks.
Foresight Linux, my distribution of choice for the last 3 years, has undergone a lot of updates and changes these last few weeks, including a new sub-project called “Boots”, a Fedora remix. Basically, “Boots is proposed to be as faithful as possible an import of the upstream binary platform packages, within the constraints of being repackaged for Conary using Conary best practices.” Also, as Foresight follows a rolling release model, I’m enjoying having latest Firefox, Chromium, kernel 2.6.30.x, Xorg 7.4, OpenOffice 3.1.1 only an update away. GNOME 2.28 is already in our development label and should be hitting the stable branch soon!
Speaking about GNOME, the Brazilian translation team went through a (much needed) last minute change in the coordination and the entire team rallied to deliver, once again, a completely translated desktop! Though the new coordinator lacks experience using git and managing a translation team, he makes up with a good attitude and humility.
Still talking about translations, I’ve been keeping the Transifex Appliance up to date on both development and stable fronts. Thanks to the power of having a system version controlled management modelÂ under my finger prints, maintaining and delivering the appliance in synchrony with the development and release schedule of the the Transifex project is child’s play!
I spent some time playing with Mallard and using it to implement a new User Guide for Foresight Linux! In the next few weeks I will also port Cheese to mallard so that they can also enjoy of this great documentation tool! Speaking of Cheese, I had the pleasure of lending a helping hand proofreading the tour page and was honored that Daniel Siegel asked my permission to use my daughter’s pictures to show off the new 2.28 features! Thanks dude! :)
When not going nuts over the many different inspections needed for purchasing a house, reviewing and committing translations, maintaining packages and software appliances or spending quality time with my family, I try to keep up with my new year’s resolution from last year of reading a book every day during my lunch break. I’ve read quite a few books this year, some times juggling more than one book at a time. Lately I’ve been finishing up “The Last of the Mohicans" and am gearing up to start reading Â "Emblem Divide”, a novel by my good friend Pete Savage. My curiosity got the best of me and I just had to read the first page! :) The best part of the book in my opinion is not as much as all the “easter eggs” he sprinkled here and there, but the reason why he wrote it! Want to know about it? Check out the web site for the book! :)

I guess this is about it for now. If I haven’t replied to your email, please accept my apologies. I have a pretty lengthy cue of emails to reply and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible. Feel free to ping me on IRC (nick is OgMaciel in pretty much all servers, including Freenode and GimpNet) as your chances of getting a reply will be much higher. :)

Get your oven mittens on because Transifex Pyro is out!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Last weekend the Indifex developers released the new version of Transifex, “anÂ open service allowing people toÂ collaboratively translate software, documentation and other types of projects.” Codenamed “Pyro" (all releases are named after a X-Men villains), Transifex 0.7 has a pretty lengthy list of new features and bug fixes to make any translator worth his/her salt cry with joy!

The one feature sure to turn people’s head is the ability to do their translations online using their Lotte Translation Editor. “Its main features are still under heavy development, but following the â€˜Release early, Release oftenâ€™ principle, weâ€™ve unleashed this lady out in the wild to get some feedback and improve”, says Dimitris Glezos,Â all time mountain climber and Indifex's head honcho.

I got your latest GNOME right here!

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just wanted to re-enforce what Zhang said earlier today about the bleeding edge GNOME Developer’s Kit, now with extra sauce!

What is it? It is a continuous build of GNOME packages all bundled up into a distribution (in this case, Foresight Linux) and distributed in a few different formats, such as ISO and VMware.

"What’s so special about it", you ask? Is it the fact that different image types can be generated at will? Nah, generating images is children’s play, just ask the Suse Studio guys. What is special is the sauce used to not only allow the quick and painless releases but also managing it as if the entire system was under a version control. Did I say “as if”? I meant to say, “manage it under a version control”! If you want to try this succulent sauce, ask your favorite release and management provider for conary!

Late Post-GUADEC\... Post?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, my apologies for not having written up a post on my trip to the Canary Islands and the whole experience of attending the Gran Canary Desktop Summit 2009! I think I can summarize it in one word: AWESOME! I can honestly say that I had a blast meeting a lot of the people that I only knew from irc conversations, emails and blog posts! A lot of the presentations were very interesting, some of them having that special je ne sais quoi that triggered an avalanche of new ideas for my existing projects!

Hack and Slash and lose your computer while you\'re at it!

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I was browsing through my favorite Linux magazine (it’s Linux Format by the way… I wonder if I mention it several times here on my blog if someone will send me a free subscription? What? A guy can dream, can’t he?) at a certain book store today when I came across a quick review of the game Ardentryst.

Ardentryst is an action/RPG sidescoller, focused not just on fighting, but on story, and character development. Strategy as well as reflexes will be needed to overcome the game. The game is set in another world. It is somewhat a cross between Donkey Kong Country, Mario, Castlevania and Kingdom Hearts. Ardentryst is focused on a fantasy world. The player is guided through a storyline which he or her must act in and play a major role in keeping peace and order in Ardentryst. It features two playable characters and a variety of weapons, items, armour, monsters, and beautiful level scenery and graphics.

Cute Git Tip

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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I was hanging out in the lobby of the Catalina Park Appartments last week writing some code when I was approached by Diederik van der Boor (of KMess fame) who was also hacking away and had a question about Git.

Diederik: are you an expert on git by any chance?
Me: hardly, but what is the question?
Diederik: I just made a few changes to a single file and was wondering if it is possible to commit specific chunks?
Me: hmmmm… don’t think so but that would be really cool!!!

He went back to his chair and I immediately starting scouring the web for more information about this. Luckly, one of the very first hits I got back was Ryan Tomayko's post called “The Thing About Git”! I had barely read the entire article when I shouted to Diederik: “I think I found a solution! You better come over here and sit down!" What followed then were several minutes of more reading, sprinkled with a lot of drooling and happy exclamations from both of us!

Thanks a Lotte! Transifex development in full motion!

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’m back from GUADEC 2009 (a blog post dedicated to this will be posted soon, I promise) and am now trying to get caught up with everything that has happened at work and projects I follow. Manage to spend some time today to check what’s new with the Transifex project and am very impressed with the direction it is going.

What you see above is the new tool/feature being added for inline, online translation of projects, codenamed Lotte! In other words, project maintainers can allow translators to do their translations using the web as its editor! Off course you can still do uploads of translated files as before.

Going to GUADEC

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to the amazing support from the GNOME Travel Committee, I will be attending my first GUADEC this year in Gran Canaria! I am very thankful for their commitment to accomodate my needs and I’ll try to make the most of it!

I’ll be arriving July 3rd around lunch time and will stay until the 11th, so there will be plenty of time to meet up and discuss. I’m mostly interested in localization, accessibility, and tests automation but am equaly interested in community building and the organization toward GNOME 3.0!

Mande uma mensagem para o Planeta pelo Twitter

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Este fim de semana adicionei um novo recurso ao Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil que permite você enviar uma mensagem ao Planeta pelo Twitter! Como que funciona? Basta você enviar a sua mensagem pelo Twitter usando a tag #planetagnulinux e depois carregar a página do Planeta. Toda vez que você carregar a página, uma mensagem aleatória com esta tag será exibida na seção superior! Quem sabe não vai ser a sua mensagem?

Ah, aproveite e receba o feed do Planeta pelo Twitter ou Identi.ca!

Planeta de cara nova

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Graças ao meu amigo Evandro Pastor do QuartoStudio, o Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil agora está com um visual novo! Alias, o Evandro também criou o layout ganhador para substituir o site atual do Foresight Linux, que deve ser lançado até a semana que vem (realmente ficou muito bom, vocês vão ver!)

A idéia é adicionar mais uns retoques finais, mas já temos uma página só para quem usa o Internet Explorer!

GeekDeck Issue 3 Published

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

GeekDeck has just released Issue 3, including;

What are you waiting for? Go read it now! :)

Three Dot Five

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Celebrating my 35th birthday today! A year older, a year (hopefully) wiser, and every day glad to have the life I have! Can’t wait to see what the next year will bring! :)

A Fistfull of News

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Been quite busy at work these days, as well as playing the host to my parents during the holidays. I did keep up with what was happening around the world, thanks to my G1 (I love this gadget!), and wanted to share a few nice nuggets.

First of all, the birth of Lotte, the online translation editor! This new feature will help the Transifex guys deliver a fatal 1,2 punch combination in the fight against bad translation tools and processes!

Transifex to provide translation platform for LXDE

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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The LXDE project has announced that it will use the Transifex platform to allow their users to better manage their workflow, provide up to the minute data and statistics, and lower their administrative workload. The full announcement can be found here.

It was a real pleasure to work along side Martin Bagge, Mario Behling, Dimitris Glezos, Diego BÃºrigo ZacarÃ£o and Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams and get this partnership in place. Expect a lot of good things coming from both projects!

Announcing the Transifex Appliance

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Does your role within a project have you asking the following questions?

How do I provide an interface for translators to submit translations to multiple projects, regardless of the type of the underlying VCS?
How do I reduce the overhead a project maintainer usually undertakes to administrate accounts for translators?
How do I help translators do more by eliminating the need to subscribe to each VCS and learn its commands and tricks?
How do I encourage collaboration between developers and maintainers and thus, increase the language coverage of the participant projects?

Then boy, have I got some good news for you. I’d like to announce the birth of the Transifex Appliance! That’s right, your own translation platformat your fingertips! Designed from the ground up to serve as a bridge between source code repositories and translators starving to flex their multilingual skills, it completely obliterates all the initial administrative and infra structural needs and allows you to just get it done!

Smell the flowers

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I never really considered any of my photos to be anything out of the ordinary (excluding those I take of my kids, off course :)Â ), but the one below came out pretty decent if you ask me.

This was taken last Sunday at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in the best place to live in the world, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I’ve been using it as my computer’s desktop wallpaper. Every time I see it, it makes me realize how majestic Spring can be! If you liked it, download it here.

Foresight Linux 2.1.1 is out and about!

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Foresight 2.1.1. Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.26.1 release, a newer Linux kernel 2.6.29, a revamped notification area, and a ton of Xorg improvements!

As always, you can read the complete release notes for a detailed list of all changes. The following images are available for download right now:

Check out GeekDeck Issue 2

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

GeekDeck has just released Issue 2, including;

Go on and take a peek at the articles and let us know what you think.

Friday at the office

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just another Friday at work. “Wearing my colors” today.

New arrival in the kitchen seems to have been approved by everyone.

Now, repeat after me: TGIF!

Sexta-feira no trabalho

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Mais uma sexta-feira no trampo. “Mostrando minhas cores” hoje.

A nova “safra” de bebidas que chegou parece ter sido aprovada por todos.

Agora, repita comigo: TGIF (Thank God Is Friday)!!

Living La Vida Geek

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I was very pleased when my good friend Pete asked me to be a contributor to his new project, GeekDeck, “a new zine/blog thingy that (he is) hoping will wet your appetite for all things geek.” Pete and I have been friends for some time already and find his projects very stimulating and fun. Whoever hasn’t watched his old web show Prog8ox doesn’t missed out big time!

As Pete wanted to publish something fairly quick and gave us all a very tight schedule (he’s a slave driver I tell you), and we went into code release mode at work, I didn’t manage to write my article about GNU/Linux Appliances and Cloud Computing. Instead, I decided to start a regular column called “Cherry Picks of the Month”, where I intend to write about cool applications and write up a super mini review about them. Take a look at the first edition here and do send me any application you may want me to review or pimp. As long as I can get my hands on the source code (don’t give me packages, etc as I do not run any of the popular distros out there) I’ll take it for a whirl.

Life Is a Gift

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I just had to share this with everyone. Have a great weekend!

Life Is a Gift Today before you say an unkind word - Think of someone who can’t speak. Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat. Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who’s crying out to GOD for a companion. Today before you complain about life - Think of someone who died too early on this earth. Before you complain about your children - Think of someone who desires children but they’re barren. Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn’t clean or sweep - Think of the people who are living in the streets. Before whining about the distance you drive Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet. And when you are tired and complain about your job - Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job. But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another - Remember that not one of us is without sin. And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - Put a smile on your face and think: you’re alive and still around.

Hall of Fame

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just nominated who I think should be “inducted” into the Ubuntu Hall of Fame:Â AndrÃ© Gondim from the Ubuntu Brazilian translations team!

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Andre started contributing with translations quite some time ago, but for whatever reason stopped contributing for a while. One day, completely out of the blue, he approached me and asked me to lend him a hand to get started again… fast forward a few years later, and Andre is without a doubt the most active and interested translator for the entire Ubuntu Brazilian team! From a timid pupil he’s become someone who can inspire and a role model for anyone who wants to contribute with the translation of open source software. After “suffering” my pestering for so long, he is also very active with the translation of upstream GNOME and maybe, with some more pestering, he may join other projects as well.

Burn Motherfucker, burn!

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Mais uma excelente tira do Rodrigo Leão. Finalmente alguém entende porque não frequento sites como o Orkut.

TweetStats

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

My Twitter stats as per TweetStats:

Cloud:

Stats:

Seu típico bate-papo de sexta-feira

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

13:02:50 <devnet> DUDE
13:03:15 <devnet> got something cool to show you (video) when u get back
13:03:47 <OgMaciel> does it involve you, a bottle of baby oil and a chupacabra?
13:03:57 <devnet> naughty boy
13:04:00 <devnet> of course it DOES!
13:04:03 <devnet> :D

Para os pervertidos lendo isso, ele estava se referindo a estes vídeo mash. Olhe todos eles!

Your typical Friday afternoon chat

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

13:02:50 <devnet> DUDE 13:03:15 <devnet> got something cool to show you (video) when u get back 13:03:47 <OgMaciel> does it involve you, a bottle of baby oil and a chupacabra? 13:03:57 <devnet> naughty boy 13:04:00 <devnet> of course it DOES! 13:04:03 <devnet> :D

For all you naughty people out there, he was talking about this pretty cool video mash. Check them all out!

Another open source project 100% translated

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to the incredible work of Henrique P. Machado, Brazilian Portuguese speaking open source users will now be able to run LXDE completely translated! Yeah, another 100% Brazilian Portuguese translation available! I will spend the next few days making sure everything is following the same guidelines we’ve used for GNOME and Xfce, so if you speak the language and got time to review/send sugestions, your help will be appreciated. :)

Mais outro projeto de software livre 100% traduzido

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Graças ao excelente trabalho do Henrique P. Machado, usuários Brasileiros de software livre poderão agora usar o LXDE completamente traduzido! É isso mesmo, mais outro projeto de software livre 100% traduzido! Nos próximos dias eu estarei revisando tudo e certificando que os mesmos guidelines usados nas traduções do GNOME e Xfce foram usados… então, se você estiver interessado em ajudar ou enviar sugestões, sua ajuda será muito apreciada. :)

So you want to sell open source

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to write about the concept of selling open source ideas and what are some of the required criteria for being successful in doing it for quite some time, and Stormy's comment on my last post sort of pushed me to it.

I use the word “sell” here not strictly in the sense of a financial transaction but also in the sense of getting your open source product to be adopted and have a better chance at standing out from the huge pool of available open source software. These last 3 years have showed me that what we today call “popular” open source software display a couple of distinct patterns, some of which seem to also be shared with other open source products that are distributed with some type of financial payback. So, without much further ado, here are some of my observations:

Atualizações de traduções

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Orgulhoso de ter participado da entrega dos seguintes projetos upstream 100% traduzidos para o Português Brasileiro:

GNOME 2.26 UI: 100% traduzido.
Xfce 4.6 UI: 100% traduzido
Openbox: 100% traduzido

Também ajudei a fazer os commits para a equipe GNOME Italiana.

Agora, rumo ao LXDE e alguns módulos do Fedora.

Your translations update

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Proud to have been a part of delivering the following upstream projects 100% translated to Brazilian Portuguese:

GNOME 2.26 UI: 100% translated.
Xfce 4.6 UI: 100% translated
Openbox: 100% translated

I also helped the GNOME Italian team with their commits.

Now, onto LXDE and some modules for Fedora.

Videocast: Usando o Dropbox

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

No começo do ano eu tinha escrito um post sobre como usar o programa Dropbox junto com o gerenciador de janelas Openbox para criar um mecanismo de armazenamento, backup e sincronização de arquivos com outros sistemas. Como meu sistema do trabalho é diferente do sistema que uso em casa, o dropbox me ajuda a sincronizar de forma super rápida e simples o conteudo de meus arquivos entre os sistemas, o que me permite ter a mesma configuração de um programa não importa qual computador eu esteja usando.

If I had a dollar\...

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

… for everytime a heard a pediatrician say:

It is probably some virus;
There is something going around;
I’ll prescribe some amoxicillin…;
It will go away in 6 to 8 weeks;
I’ll ask my colleagues;
We’ve been seeing that in the office a lot… it is probably some type of infection or virus;

I’d be rich! Growing up in Brazil, there was never a time that my parents took me to a doctor that we didn’t come home knowing precisely what was affliciting me… and nothing that wasn’t cured by some type of shot and a day of rest.

Blog posts pelo Twitter

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem adicionei um recurso para publicar os artigos que aparecem no Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil pelo Twitter para quem usa algum dispositivo portátil com acesso a internet. É só você acompanhar o usuário @planetagnulinux pelo Twitter

Por falar no Planeta, dois novos autores foram adicionados à lista dos autores:

Marcelo C. Rocha, um usuário do ArchLinux que promete nos mostrar um pouco mais sobre esta excelente distribuição!
Guilherme Cunha, mestre da arte de documentação da saudosa equipe de documentadores do Ubuntu Brasil com suas dicas e truques!

Algumas pessoas me perguntam qual é o critério para ter seu blog agregado ao Planeta. Pois então vamos lá:

Dia de neve

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje nevou aqui em Chapel Hill pela primeira vez desde que me mudei para cá. Não sou grande fã de neve, já que hoje em dia isso significa limpar o carro, dirigir pelo gelo e ficar todo molhado, mas as meninas adoraram, principalmente a Yv que aproveitou para fazer um snow angel.

Foi a primeira neve da Kate e apesar de sua tosse, decidimos levá-la (usando um casaco super grosso) lá fora para brincar um pouco.

Snowy Day

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Today we had snow in Chapel Hill for the first time since I moved from Northern New Jersey. I not a big fan of the white stuff since it used to mean cleaning up the car, drive to the slush, and get all wet. But my girls loved it, specially Yv who seized the opportunity to make snow angels.

It was also Kate's first snow and eventhough she's been coffing lately, we decided to bring her outside (wearing a heavy coat) to play for a while.

ROTFL

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

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To my fallen comrades

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Quote:

"Life is never more fun than when you’re the underdog competing against the giants."

Through the years our relationship changed and as with a good wine (I want to believe) it improved. Some of you became really good friends to me and it was painful for me to watch you pack and leave. I can assure you that you’ll be missed...

Hang in there and may your 2009 turn out to be the beginning of a great and new adventure!

Meet Elephant Gerald and Piggie

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Got back home tonight to find our dining table covered by books that Yv got at the library today. This is something that happens quite often and it never stops amazing me just how much she loves to read! So even though it was almost 21:00 and I had just walked in from work, we set by the table and started reading some of her books.

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Elephant and Piggie books must be some of the most amazingly funny books to read to your kids! No matter how many times we read them, the stories never lose their power to make us laugh out loud. This works best if you act out the book and try to make funny voices. Fun for the entire family for sure! :)

O elefante Gerald e Piggie

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Cheguei em casa hoje a noite e encontrei a mesa de jantar completamente empanturrada de livros que a Yv trouxe da biblioteca. Este tipo de coisa acontece com muita frequência e nunca deixa de me surpreender o quanto a Yv gosta de ler! Então, apesar que eu tinha acabado de chegar em casa do trabalho às 21:00 e estava esfomiado, sentamos na sala e fomos ler juntos.

Os livros do Elephant e Piggie são sem dúvida nenhuma uns dos livros mais gostosos e divertidos de se ler com seus filhos! Esbanjando um humor super simples mas cheio de carisma, as histórias não perdem o poder de te fazer rir não importa quantas vezes forem lidos! Estes livros são excelentes quando atuados (eu, como o elefante Gerald e a Yv como a pequena Piggie) em vozes engraçadas. Com certeza diversão garantida para a família toda! :)

Metas para 2009

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Assim como muitas pessoas já fizeram, decidi escrever no formato de um post (quase) todas as minhas metas para o ano de 2009. Não só porque quero ter um histórico para checar se estou realmente cumprindo com minhas metas, mas porque creio que algumas coisas podem ser úteis para outras pessoas. Então, sem mais delongas:

Ser mais organizado! Todo ano esta meta aparece na minha lista, e todo ano sinto que estou me aproximando cada vez mais de um modo de vida mais organizado. Algumas coisas que estou usando para me ajudar a planejar meu dia-a-dia são:

Aprendendo Django no Planeta Terra

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A dica veio do meu amigo Elyezer quando me enviou na semana passada um e-mail com o título “Presente de Natal”. Trata-se do site Aprendendo Django no Planeta Terra, uma forma bem divertida e ilustrada que o José Mário Neiva Marinho Brandão inventou para ensinar Django para pessoas “comuns”. E o que é uma pessoa comum, você pergunta? Segundo o José Marinho Brandão, seriam

pessoas que gostam de passear com a família, ouvir música, conhecer gente legal e ganhar dinheiro.

Usando o Dropbox com o Openbox

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Dando continuidade ao post do Vladimir Melo, gostaria de compartilhar minha experiência usando o programa Dropbox.

Mesmo sendo um usuário do GNU/Linux por tanto tempo, foi somente 2 anos atrás que comecei a usá-lo o tempo todo. Como eu antes trabalhava como um desenvolvedor de .NET e Oracle durante o dia para o Departamento de Educação da cidade de New York, eu tinha um ambiente padrão de desenvolvedor instalado em meu sistema e nada mais. Isto significa que eu não podia instalar nenhum outro programa em meu sistema devido as políticas super atiquadas adotadas pela gerência. Para você ter uma idéia, eu não podia nem mesmo pesquisar por informações online e fui aconselhado a fazer tudo isso de casa e trazer o resultado no dia seguinte para o trabalho, mas isto é material para um outro post.

Servidor de músicas Bailout MT-Daapd

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

No finalzinho do ano passado eu passei alguns dias trabalhando para configurar um servidor de músicas bem simples para usar em casa. Como eu estou sempre fazendo algo maluco no meu desktop/laptop que eventualmente sempre me leva a re-instalar o meu sistema operacional, eu estou constantemente movendo meus arquivos de música entre computadores e discos externos. Quando você tem uma coleção de tamanho considerado, este exercício se torna um pé no saco. Foi por isso que tive a idéia de criar um servidor de músicas usando o mt-daapd como minha ferramente principal. O mt-daapd é tão fácil de usar que eu imediatamente comecei o meu projeto.

Year of Translations?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

What a great month for open source translators this has been! The latest news is the marriage of GNOME’s Damn Lies with Vertimus. You can think of it as statistics and work flow in one interface! From the announcement email:

You like Damned Lies and Vertimus, we too, so we have merged both! The new Damned Lies offers a new reviewing workflow. If you’re a translator, you can join one or many teams and reserve a module for translation. Once your work is ready, you can upload the PO file onhttp://l10n.gnome.org and then a reviewer of this team will review yourwork for approval. A committer is still required to eventually commit the file in the GNOME SVN. DL is able to send an email to your team mailing list to notify about important actions. The goal is to promote good translations and to help newcomers with advices so the team coordinator is able to assign new roles to the team members (as reviewer or committer).

Rosetta takes a great step toward supporting upstream translations

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Danilo Å egan, lead developer for the Rosetta translation tool sent an email to the Ubuntu translators list yesterday with some great news related to the policy of how upstream translations are managed:

Launchpad Translations has changed the translation precedence policy with the December release: now upstream (“packaged”) translations will be given more priority in specific cases. Yet, Launchpad Translations keeps the ability to override any specific upstream translation if so is desired. To illustrate when upstream translations have precedence, here’s an example: 1. GNOME Panel, message “_Open”, untranslated 2. Ubuntu GNOME Panel message for “_Open” is untranslated 3. Someone translates Ubuntu message in Launchpad to “_Foo” 4. Upstream translates “_Open” to “_Bar” 5. When new upstream translation arrives, Launchpad makes “_Bar” active over “_Foo” (making “_Foo” a suggestion) Example case where Launchpad translation takes precedence is: 1. GNOME Panel, message “_Open”, translated to “Foow” 2. Ubuntu GNOME Panel translation for “_Open” is imported and is now “Foow” 3. Someone fixes translation in Ubuntu to “_Foo” 4. Upstream changes translation for “_Open” to “Foo” 5. When new upstream translation arrives, Launchpad keeps “_Foo” active over upstream’s “Foo”

A few reasons why Rosetta should not be considered as a translation platform for existing open source projects

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I received an invitation to join the LXDE project, “an extremely faster, performing and energy saving desktop environment maintained by an international community of developers”, to collaborate and help organize their translation effort. As I have maintained the Brazilian Portuguese translation for Openbox, one of the components that make up LXDE, and am very much involved with the translation of GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and other modules, I felt very compelled to accept the invitation.

Vivo Verde, um blog sobre assuntos ambientais

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A Daiane entrou em contado comigo esta semana para me apresentar ao seu blog, Vivo Verde, “destinado a todo e qualquer assunto de termos “ambientais”, seja ele voltado ao solo, mineração, vegetação, saneamento, hidrologia, geoprocessamento, meteorologia e mudanças climáticas, resíduos Sólidos, poluição, desmatamento dentre outros.”

Como muitos devem saber, moro em uma pequena e pacata cidade em North Carolina desde 2006. Antes disso passei mais de 15 anos morando no noroeste de New Jersey, tão perto de New York City que era dificial saber quando terminava um e começava o outro estado (não fosse pelo pedágio de US$10 para atravessar a ponte George Washington todos os dias quando ia trabalhar). Quando me mudei para North Carolina, deixei para trás toda correria e rítimo “cut throat” conhecidos de uma cidade como New York City, mas tamém troquei os arranha-céus por áreas mais verdes e uma comunidade que dava mais prioridade ao ambiente, família, qualidade de vida, e sussego.

Call for help: defining date ranges for a gtk.Calendar

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve re-designed the dialog for adding or editing a bill for my pet project BillReminder and am now in need of help to improve the user interface a bit more before releasing another version. I figured someone out there may either have the answer or have more free time at their disposal than me. :)

Here’s what the dialog looks like right now:

The issue is related to the option of adding recurring bills, which a user can do by changing the Repeat field to something other than Once (i.e. Monthly, Weekly). This will enable the End Date field, a customized widget that uses a gtk.Calendar to allow the user to define how far into the future to automatically create instances of the bill being entered. I want to be able to define a start and end date for the catalog, so that the user doesn’t pick a date which is prior to the Due Date. In other words, if the due date is tomorrow, don’t allow the user to set the end date to yesterday. A couple of use cases that have to be taken into consideration are:

Bailout MT-Daapd Appliance

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

For the past few days I’ve been working on setting up a minimalistic music server for home. As I am always doing some crazy things to my desktop/laptop that eventually leads me to re-install my operating system, I find myself constantly moving music files between computers and external media. When you have a decent sized music library, this excercise starts to become a major pain. That’s how I came up with the idea of creating a media server using mt-daapd as my tool of choice. mt-daapd is so easy to use that I wasted no time and got started right away.

News Update - Dec. 04, 2008

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Built a MT-Daapd Linux appliance to share my music at home. Installed it in a machine with 1GB of RAM and am now as happy as I can be. The whole thing weighs in at 237MB (I’ve included vim, openssh, libogg plus a few other nuggets) and off course everything is managed by the awesome conary technology. I’ve also added ushare (upnp support) and am hoping to make it so that sharing videos and music can be all done via a web interface. I haven’t made the installable ISO or VMWare image available yet but will do it soon.
Speaking of other technologies, I’ve been playing with a MacBook these last 2 days and am generally happy with the experience. Everything just… works! What? No need to tweak configuration files? With the exception of the lack of a right-click button, so far I give it 2 thumbs up.
Since we’re talking about operating systems, I was really glad to see that Foresight Linux has been awarded the 2008 Ovatio Award as the Distribution of the Year, and honor that is shared with its other green cousin, openSUSE. I have been running Foresight for over 2 years now and I just cannot imagine any other distribution that would give me the same flexibility, stability and coolness combo. You want to see a distribution that knows how to be a first citizen in the upstream world? Come talk to me on #foresight on Freenode.
Speaking of being a good citizen with upstream projects, if you speak Brazilian Portuguese you’ll be glad to know that the GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and Openbox desktop environments are in excelente shape as far as the localization effort goes. The Brazilian translation team for Fedora has also done a great job at delivering a localized desktop with their latest release! Now, I don’t know where you get your translations but if it isn’t being pulled (without modifications) from upstream, good luck pal!
Finally, between the many hours I have put into work these days (ever wonder why I haven’t blogged much? now you know) I have managed to mess around with Django to scratch a need. If I were to describe what I think about this framework using as few words as possible, w00t and teh aw3s0m3 comes to mind! By the way, writing code with 2 other guys while discussing ideas over Skype? Great XP experience for those who cannot afford to travel!

Experimente a versão Openbox 3.4.8-RC1

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Se você curte o Openbox e quer brincar com a versão 3.4.8 RC1, faça o download aqui: http://icculus.org/openbox/releases/openbox-3.4.8-rc1.tar.gz. Note que você vai ter de fazer uma modificação no obconf substituindo ‘obrender-3.0’ e ‘obparser-3.0’ por ‘obrender-4.0’ e ‘obparser-4.0’ respectivamente no arquivo configure.ac.

Ou se você usar uma distribuição baseada no systema conary, existe uma versão empacotada diretamente do repositório git que você pode instalar executando o comando sudo conary update openbox=foresightlinux.rpath.org@fl:2-devel.

Se você encontrar algum problema, por favor leia esta página para aprender como relatá-lo (isso também inclui traduções).

Try the upcoming Openbox 3.4.8

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

if you like Openbox and want to play with the upcoming 3.4.8 version, download the release candidate 1 here: http://icculus.org/openbox/releases/openbox-3.4.8-rc1.tar.gz. Keep in mind that you’ll have to patch obconf by basically replacing ‘obrender-3.0’ and ‘obparser-3.0’ to ‘obrender-4.0’ and ‘obparser-4.0’ respectively in the configure.ac file.

Or you use a conary-based system, there is a version packaged directly from their git repository which you can install by running sudo conary update openbox=foresightlinux.rpath.org@fl:2-devel.

If you find an issue, please read this page to learn how to report it (that goes for translations too).

Day of Remembrance

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’d like to second Davyd’s post about the 10th Day of Remembrance. It pains me to know that even today with all the technological and intellectual progress we’ve made, there are people out there who just cannot accept and/or respect other people’s choices.

For those hiding behind a bible to defend their actions, maybe your god should teach you more tolerance…

Yeah, comments will be turned off. I don’t plan to spend my day fending off any comment that will tell me that their rights are more important that somebody else’s.

Get out and vote!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If you are elligible to vote for the election taking place in the United States of America, please excercise your right to vote. Go out and vote to your candidate OR to whomever you feel will do their best to represent your community’s best interest!

Also, if you live in California and meet the requirements to vote, please consider voting against Proposition 8!

Today marks the first time I participated in any presidential election ever in my life! It feels specially nice for me as this is also the first time I vote for the leader of my adopted country! I don’t expect that things will improve a whole lot in the next 4 years, regardless of who wins tonight. But I voted not thinking of the present but the future of our nation and what opportunities it will offer for the next generation. There will be sacrifices to be made but it will all be worth if we can deliver a better world to our kids!

Porque traduções com QUALIDADE são importantes!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Meus parabéns para todos aqueles envolvidos com a tradução de software livre, especialmente para aqueles que entendem a diferença entre QUANTIDADE e QUALIDADE. Este post é para vocês!:

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”. (BBC News)

Why QUALITY translations are important!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Kudos for everyone involved with the translation of open source software out there, specially for those understand the different between QUANTITY and QUALITY! The following is for your enjoyment:

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”. (BBC News)

Get notifed about translation commit messages on IRC

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A few years back I created the irc channel #tradutores (translators in Brazilian Portuguese) on the Freenode server, a place where anyone involved with the translation process of open source software could hang out, chat, ask questions and share their experience with other fellow translators. A place with no association to a given project or distribution, where you could find people working for several groups such as GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Fedora, Foresight, Ubuntu, all sharing the same goal: improve the quality of open source translations for Brazilian Portuguese!

Atualizações de traduções pelo IRC

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Algum tempo atrás eu criei o canal #tradutores na Freenode, um lugar onde pessoas que trabalham com traduções de software livre podem bater papo e tirar dúvidas, sem vínculos com nenhuma distribuição ou projeto em específico. Lá você encontrará pessoas que trabalham no GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Fedora, Foresight, Ubuntu, todos trabalhando com o mesmo intuito: melhorar a qualidade das traduções em nosso idioma!

Uma coisa que eu sempre quiz ter foi uma forma de ser notificado toda vez que algum projeto tivesse a tradução de algum programa (ou pacote no nosso “jargão”) atualizado. Ou seja, se o Amarok, Totem, Firefox, ou Thunar tiverem suas traduções (Português do Brasil) atualizadas, eu queria ser notificado. Um dia procurando por algo que pudesse fazer isso, encontrei o site CIA.vc, um enorme agregador de mensagens de commit de vários projetos do mundo open source! Eu imediatamente comecei a usar os seus serviços para acompanhar o commit de alguns projetos como o GNOME (ele inteiro, o que gera centenas de mensagens diariamente) e até mesmo o BillReminder. Depois adicionei um bot no canal #billreminder na Freenode para anunciar por lá toda vez que algum commit fosse enviado. Eu estava bem feliz com o serviço até que ontem descobri mais um recurso que completamente fez o meu dia: filtros!

Using Dropbox with Openbox

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been a GNU/Linux user for quite some time now, but it wasn’t until 2 years ago that I became a fulltime user. Being a .NET and Oracle developer by day working for the Department of Education of NYC, I had a standard developer environment at my desk and nothing else. That means that I could not install anything else on my system, due to some extremelly archaic policies put in place by the employer (I couldn’t even search for information online and was told I should do it from home and bring the results to work the next day!!!), but that’s material for a different post.

Fearmongering, Nuclear agreements and a US\$700B pork barrel

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

With last night’s VP debate still fresh in my memory and the entire “rescue plan” that is about to rape us all, I went through all the comments that people have added to my latest posts and wanted to make a few comments.

First off, I was one of those who up until 5 years ago wanted nothing to do with politics… not only that, I was also happy with being a green card holder and saw no advantages in becoming a citizen. Let me just make something clear: I’ve lived here in the United States of America for way too long and have always considered it to be my adopted home! Even though I did not have a piece of paper that stated that I was a citizen, I have always felt like one as I have always been a law abiding citizen and care about the future of our nation. The “problem” was more of an annoyance, for my experience dealing with immigration offices had been less than stellar… at least that is how it was back when I lived in Northern New Jersey, where you were pretty much treated like a criminal the moment you got within a certain range from an Immigration, err… Department of Home Land Security office, but that is not the subject of this post.

As the bailout bill comes back to the House\...

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

… let your US Congressmen know your opinion. I just did!

Also, a couple of interesting bits in the news:

Get your pork right here!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is disgusting! If you’re still one of those who think that the bailout plan is for the good of the entire nation with no hidden agendas, think again! Bundled in the bailout plan there are several ridiculous provisions that will cost you and me several billion dollars! Sure they’ve added a few sweetners to the deal, but why not then create a single, clean piece of legislation to deal with the major issue? Both Obama and MacCain approved this last night too… Disgusting!

My 5 a day

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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If you\'re from North Carolina, USA\...

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

… please consider contacting our representatives and voice your opinion about the current economic situation and the upcoming issue to be voted by the senate.

Don’t live in North Carolina but want to contact your representative? Look them up! You may want to drop a line to both candidates running for the presidency as well. I did!

If things could be resolved by our children

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Something interesting happened today. As my wife and I talked about the economic bailout during dinner, we didn’t notice that Yv, my soon-to-be-seven-year-old was paying close attention to what we were saying. The following is a pretty close description of the dialogue that followed:

Yv: … where are they getting US$700?
Me: They’re taking the mine from us and every other family.
Yv: Have they asked you if it is ok to do it?
Me: Not really…
Yv: But that’s stealing! Can they be arrested?

At which point I had no answer to give her…

Amazing Inkscape videocasts

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I felt compelled to blog about this great site full of amazingly professional Inkscape screencasts!

Screencasters.Heathenx.org is an amazing blog that I have been following for a while and I highly recommend it for those who want to learn a trick or two or for anyone who wants to see a well done screencast!

Screencasts do Inkscape de primeira classe

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Tive de tirar um tempinho para comentar sobre este site super maneiro cheio de screencasts do Inkscape muito bem feitos!

Screencasters.Heathenx.org é um blog que venho acompanhando há algum tempo que eu recomendo para aqueles que desejam aprender um truque novo ou para qualquer um interessado em ver como que um screencast profissional deve ser feito!

A few updates

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

BillReminder has attracted a new enthusiast who has brought a lot of interesting ideas to the mailing list. The coolest part is that we both share a lot of ideas in common and I have already started to write some code to pave the way to more reporting and some true home accounting features. After spending some time changing the charting module from the hamster-applet project to do what I needed, I came to learn about a pretty cool project for graphing with Cairo and Python called CairoPlot!
Thank you to all of you guys who voted for my Ubuntu Brainstorm idea! As of right now it has received 120 total votes! If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time. :)

GNOME 2.24

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to all parties involved!!! As always, you can count on a 100% translated Brazilian Portuguese edition!

Alguns updates

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

BillReminder atraiu um novo entusiasta que trouxe um monte de idéias interessantes para a lista de discussão. A melhor parte é que compartilhamos muitas de nossas idéias e eu já comecei a escreer código para preparar o caminho para mais recursos de relatórios e de um verdadeiro sistema de contabilidades doméstico. Depois de passar algum tempo modificando o módulo gráfico do projeto hamster-applet para fazer o que eu precisava, fiquei sabendo de um outro projeto muito bacana chamado CairoPlot!
Obrigado a todos que votaram para a minha idéa no Ubuntu Brainstorm! Neste exato momento a já recebi um total de 120 votos! Se você ainda não votou, ainda há tempo. :)

Ubuntu translations: let\'s make it work!

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Just created the following Ubuntu Brainstorm idea called “Translation workflow and collaboration with upstream”. It is based off the blueprint I created a while back in an attempt to improve the relationship between Ubuntu and upstream translation projects.

Everyone who knows me well knows how important translations are to me! How I strive to get people to always work with upstream and then let their work trickle down to distributions! Want to get me talking non stop? Ask me about translations! :)

3\... 2\... 1\... Say Cheese!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

With the soon to be released GNOME version 2.24, you’ll find the new version for Cheese, a pretty slick application that “allows you to take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.” My kids and I have spent quite some time playing with the special effects, often combining a bunch of them to see who could come up with the silliest shot.

When Daniel asked me if he could use some of my shots to create a tour for the new release, it gave us one more reason to play with Cheese.

Traduções no Ubuntu: tem de melhorar!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Acabei de criar a seguinte idéia no site Ubuntu Brainstorm chamada “Translation workflow and collaboration with upstream”. É baseada no blueprint que eu tinha criado há algum tempo na tentativa de melhorar o relacionamento entre o Ubuntu e as equipes de traduções upstream.

Todo mundo que me conhece sabe o quanto importante é importante para mim que todo software livre seja bem traduzido! E como eu sempre tento fazer que toda contribuição seja feita primeiro com as equipes upstream, e somente depois disso tê-las aparecer em distribuições! Quer me ver tagarelar sem parar? Me pergunte sobre traduções! :)

heh\... why not?

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Donâ€™t change your clothes, donâ€™t fix your hairâ€¦just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.

Me mi comigo

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Tire uma foto de você agora!
Não mude de roupa, ou arrume seu cabelo… só tire a foto.
Publique sua foto sem edição nenhuma.
Publique estas instruções com a sua foto.

When Dia saved my Day!

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone who knows me online or is used to seeing me hanging out on several IRC channels or posting messages in my Twitter/Identi.ca accounts may have noticed my absense these last few weeks. Work, family and school have really kept me on my toes and my “social” life had to take the back seat.

I want to believe that I have done a decent job at juggling all the tasks I have been assigned, even if it means to do my school assignments while I eat lunch, as I did today! The assignment for my database design class consisted in turning some user requirements of a pretend dog trainning business into a real entity relational diagram. Due to some factors which are not relevant right now, I have been forced to use Microsoft Access and Visio for this class and I had to install Windows XP on my old laptop. The tools are very shiny and well integrated, as they try to be smart enough to predict what you’re trying to do. I’m sure that under different circunstances I could appreciate that whole “AI” process taking place, but today… it cost me the 1 hour I had set aside to turn the rough draft I created during lunch into the final product which needs to be handed in tomorrow.

BillReminder \"Royale with cheese\" released

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It is with extreme pleasure that I annound the release of BillReminder "Royale with cheese" version 0.3.2! This released was concentrated on fixing bugs, adding more translations, and getting some work done for future reporting features.

Straight from the NEWS file, here’s what you’ll find in this release:

Bugs:

Paid/Not Paid entries exist in File and Edit menus; Make them toggle/untoggle appropriately (Bug #13)
Issues with date and time locale? (Bug #12)
Ambiguity with Alerts and Alarms in preferences dialog (Bug #11)
Make category names a unique field. (Bug #1)
Newly added categories should be selected automatically (Bug #2)
Make setting an alarm really optional. (Bug #4)

Backend:

Lançado o BillReminder \"Royale with cheese\" 0.3.2

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

É com um enorme prazer que venho anunciar o lançamento do BillReminder “Royale with cheese” versão 0.3.2! Este lançamento teve como foco principal consertar erros (bugs), adicionar mais traduções, e preparar o terreno para futuros recursos de relatórios.

Diretamente do arquivo NEWS:

Bugs:

Paid/Not Paid entries exist in File and Edit menus; Make them toggle/untoggle appropriately (Bug #13)
Issues with date and time locale? (Bug #12)
Ambiguity with Alerts and Alarms in preferences dialog (Bug #11)
Make category names a unique field. (Bug #1)
Newly added categories should be selected automatically (Bug #2)
Make setting an alarm really optional. (Bug #4)

Backend:

Novo feed para o Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de várias pessoas me alertarem sobre um problema no feed do Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil, hoje arrumei um tempinho e descobri o problema! Convido todos os leitores a atualizarem o seu feed, e caso você seja um autor e esteja notando algo errado, por favor entre em contato comigo.

Another coffee flavor moment

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

From the same people that brought you Frank Sumatra, I present you Bean Martin!

Mais outro café do dia

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Do mesmo pessoal que trouxe o Frank Sumatra, apresento o Bean Martin!

Coffee flavor of the day

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today’s coffee flavor of the day at work: Frank Sumatra! :)

Sabor do café do dia

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

O sabor do café do dia no trampo: Frank Sumatra! :)

Have you hugged your favorite open source tool today?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I have! I just recently got a hold of a US$30 Amazon gift certificate for participating of a 1-hour phone study. I could have used it and bought something for me, right? Instead, I decided to present it to Jacek Åšliwerski, the guy behind Open-Tran. There is not a day that I don’t use it for my translations, as I can use its awesome comparisson tools to QA my work!

How about you? Have you hugged your favorite open source tool today?

A resposta é X, mas fala diferente

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Há vários meses, quando eu ainda era parte do Conselho do Ubuntu Brasil, eu convoquei uma reunião com todos os membros oficiais do Ubuntu Brasil para decidirmos o que fazer para melhorar a situação do nosso servidor. Dentre as minhas sugestões, eu propuz:

migrar os serviços (Planeta, wiki, web page, etc) para um servidor novo;
deixar a administração destes serviços por conta dos empregados da Canonical;
migrar as listas de discussão para serviços que não dependessem do servidor antigo, como o Google Groups;
migrar o Planeta para usar o software PlanetPlanet;

Na época eu mediei toda a discussão e dividi tarefas para que todas as coisas decididas durante a reunião pudessem ser acompanhadas por alguem. Infelizmente o assunto morreu naquele mesmo dia e coincidentalmente eu deixei o Conselho logo depois.

Lessons I learned as a translation guy

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This post is my 2 cents about Jad’s latest post trying to stir things up and attract more translators to the Ubuntu community! Having led the Brazilian team for a couple of years myself, I wanted to point out a couple of things Iâ€™ve learned along the way. Obviously advices are best taken when asked for, but here it goes anyway:

Beware that 300 volunteers working at the same time without a robust and clear way of knowing whoâ€™s doing what will make it impossible for your team to manage;
Also, with this many people contributing with single, hand picked strings is extremelly detrimental to the overal quality of the entire package, not to mention the entire suite;
I have always liked the idea of contributions being done upstream first, and then tricklying it down to distros and what not. It is my dream and goal to make sure that Ubuntu reverses this trend and start sending contributions upstream (translations). Check out my blueprint: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/rosetta/+spec/translation-workflow-and-notification-system

Well, back to work I go. :)

News Update

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything, mostly due to a few new changes that happened these last 3 weeks or so. Here’s a small list of some of the things that I can remember right now:

My pet project BillReminder is now hosted in the GNOME SVN repository! It took me a while to get the right resources and free time to migrate everything, but I believe that it is now completed. The source code can be checked out from here and issues can be filed in Bugzilla. There’s also a new web site theme to go along with the changes, courtesy of my good friend ElyÃ©zer Mendes Rezende.
With the move to GNOME SVN I was (obviously) granted commit access… and due to some schedule changes for the two current committers for the Brazilian translation team, I have now been performing translations reviews and commits. It is great to finally be able to do this as I already have been doing this type of work for the XFCE team.
Speaking of the XFCE team, I have been on top of the Brazilian Portuguese translations and the next release (coming soon I’m told) will be 100% translated!
I started attending one single class at the University of North Carolina (here in Chapel Hill) and this Tuesday was my first day. The class, “Database Design”, is listed as a graduate level class but so far it’s been fairly easy to follow. As I already have a bacchelors in BioChemistry, I’m looking forward to taking some bioinformatics classes in the near future.
I’ve done some travelling these last 2 weeks. Two weekends ago we went to the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. It was the first time I went to the Carolina beaches since I moved here and it was a great experience! We took lots of pictures and spent 2 great days soaking up in the sun!

Procura-se: conhecedor de geografia mundial

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Você gostaria de ajudar o projeto Brasileiro de traduções do GNOME? Você se considera um conhecedor de geografia mundial? Sabe inglês o suficiente para responder “the book is on the table” e “do you chupis cana?” Então eu gostaria de conversar com você!!! Existe um componente do GNOME que lista vários locais e cidades do mundo, chamado libweather. Para o próximo lançamento do GNOME, vários novos locais foram adicionados e seria muito bom ter alguém com um conhecimento avançado em geografia nos ajudar! Quer saber se você tem o que precisamos? Veja se você sabe o que está errado no seguinte exemplo:

Pandora swag

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today I received a mysterious package in the mail. Turns out it was some swag from Pandora: a hat and some stickers.

You know what the best part was? Not the cool hat or stickers, but the letter that accompanied the items in the envelope. It was actually manually signed (i.e. not a print out) by Lucia Willow, Community Manager, and Tim Westergren, Founder. It is the kind of attention to details that makes a huge difference!

Pandora: Tem bagulho bom aí

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje recebi um pacote misterioso pelo correio. Trata-se de uns bagulhos (swag) da Pandora: um chapel e alguns adesivos.

Sabe qual foi a melhor parte? Não foi o chapel bacana ou os adesivos, mas a carta que acompanhou os itens no envelope. Estava manualmente (ou seja, feito na mão mesmo) assinada pela Lucia Willow, Gerende da Comunidade, e Tim Westergren, Fundador. É justamente a atenção à estes pequenos detalhes que fazem uma diferença enorme!

Recipe for a good translation team

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A while back I was asked by a member of a Ubuntu translation team (who shall remain anonymous) about how the Brazilian team’s workflow worked and how we managed to maintain our position among the top translated teams in Rosetta. What follows was my reply to this person. I hope it will prove to be useful to any other team out there who may be struggling with the same issues. I’m also interested to learn how other teams managed to keep their members involved and/or how others can benefit from their experience.

Prá que complicar?

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Aug 04 12:06:15 —- gmazk has changed the topic to: Canal oficial brasileiro do Openbox | Nova versão 3.4.7.2 está filé! http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Openbox:Download | Comunidade Openbox-BR no Orkut: http://www.orkut.com.br/Community.aspx?cmm=54421833 | Seja bem vindo(a)!
Aug 04 12:06:37 —- ChanServ removes channel operator status from gmazk
Aug 04 12:12:41 gmazk: afff… Orkut irmao?
Aug 04 12:13:51 Por que não? Se usado de forma séria.. O ssantiago está colocando umas dicas legais sobre o Openbox nessa comunidade. Como ele está fazendo com seriedade, e me pediu pra adicionar, não vi problema.
Aug 04 12:14:08 * OgMaciel shrugs
Aug 04 12:14:27 É como qualquer rede social… Pode ser usada de forma séria ou com palhaçada. Até mesmo o IRC é assim (vide Ubuntu-br até pouco tempo atrás)
Aug 04 12:14:51 Orkut e’ coisa do seculo 18
Aug 04 12:16:06 OgMaciel: O que você sugere? Ele ta com bastante vontade de contribuir.
Aug 04 12:16:22 gmazk: a wiki oficial
Aug 04 12:17:34 Mas qual a vantagem de ter uma comunidade brasileira do Openbox se formos diponibilizar informação em inglês?
Aug 04 12:18:02 O objetivo não é justamente disponibilizar informação em português para os usuários interessados?
Aug 04 12:20:06 gmazk: quem disse que a wiki so’ tem coisa em ingles?
Aug 04 12:21:15 http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Pt_BR
Aug 04 12:21:18 gmazk: ^^
Aug 04 12:23:52 OgMaciel: Não disse que a wikki só tem conteudo em inglês… Mas a imensa maioria está em inglês… Essa pagins que você me mandou mesmo só tem um link, que é o “getting started guide”, e te joga novamente pra um guia em Inglês… Além disso, o conteúdo no site oficial do Openbox é, na minha opinião, dificil de vasculhar… É dificil encontrar a informação desejada.
Aug 04 12:24:43 Basta fazer qualquer busca com a ferramenta search do site e você percebe isso facilmente.
Aug 04 12:24:59 gmazk: pois e’… mas como e’ que outros sites adicionam conteudo em outro idioma? Quando alguem com muita vontade de ajudar, tipo o ssatiagdo, resolve arregacar as mangas e adiciona conteudo
Aug 04 12:25:20 o wiki nao tem de seguir os mesmos padroes do original
Aug 04 12:25:28 Se pra mim que uso openbox há anos é difícil de encontrar informação, imagina pra um cara que nunca usou e está querendo ter o primeiro contato.
Aug 04 12:25:51 faz muito mais sentido alguem ir procurar informacao no wiki oficial do que achar pelo orkut (ewww)
Aug 04 12:26:25 oxe!!! entao alguem que nunca usou o openbox vai procurar informacao no orkut e nao no site oficial?
Aug 04 12:26:34 Sim, sim… Concordo. Mas mesmo que o ssantiago adicione 500 páginas em português na wikki oficial, se um user iniciante fizer uma procura no search do site oficial, dificilmente irá conseguir encontrar o conteúdo em português.
Aug 04 12:27:03 e’ so’ adicionar um link no alto da pagina oficial dizendo: Portugues do Brasil
Aug 04 12:27:11 e divulgar
Aug 04 12:27:19 ou voce nao vai divulgar o lance do orkut
Aug 04 12:27:20 ?
Aug 04 12:27:33 garanto que nao vao aparecer la’ por osmosis :)
Aug 04 12:27:45 OgMaciel: A vantágem do Orkut não é servir de guia de referência, mas sim apresentar o Openbox pra quem nunca ouviu falar. Muitos users linux podem ver as comunidades do ssantiago por exemplo e ter a curiosidade de experimentar.
Aug 04 12:28:26 Penso nisso como “mais um display” pra que usuários iniciantes saibam que o Openbox exista.
Aug 04 12:29:03 existe*
Aug 04 12:29:08 gmazk: entao… divulga la’ mas mantenha a informacao no site oficial
Aug 04 12:29:39 <— even has quit (Remote closed the connection)
Aug 04 12:30:39 OgMaciel: Acho positivo acrescentar a informação também no site oficial, mas não vejo a necessidade de prender os possíveis contribuintes a uma única ferramenta de publicação… Pelo contrário, acho isso negativo.
Aug 04 12:31:15 gmazk: entao vamos la’… o pessoal do GNOME Brasil deveria entao colocar informacao em site proprio e nao no oficial?
Aug 04 12:31:46 Se o site oficial do Gnome fosse como o do Openbox, sim, devia sim.
Aug 04 12:31:53 hahahahaha
Aug 04 12:32:12 gmazk: a qualidade da documentacao so’ depende de voce
Aug 04 12:32:38 assim como eu fui traduzir o openbox, basta alguem querer mudar a documentacao
Aug 04 12:32:40 o status
Aug 04 12:32:48 OgMaciel: não tem como fazer essa comparação Og. São projetos de estrutura e magnitude absolutamente diferentes.
Aug 04 12:33:17 gmazk: sim, mas o meu ponto e’ sobre a localizacao (no pun intended) do conteudo
Aug 04 12:33:28 nao quantia/qualidade
Aug 04 12:35:05 OgMaciel: Mas meu ponto de vista é: Se o website oficial é uma fonte de informação relativamente desorganizada, e você pode disponibilizar informação de uma maneira melhor, porque não utilizar outras fontes de informação? Não vejo a necessidade de centralização de informação num único website.
Aug 04 12:35:45 gmazk: porque o lugar mais logico de se procurar este tipo de informacao e’ no site oficial
Aug 04 12:36:30 gmazk: imagina voce entrar num estabelecimento que tem um sinal enorme dizendo: Pizzaria e quando entra descobre que nao se vende/faz pizza la’?
Aug 04 12:38:25 Não.. O lugar mais lógico de se procurar esse tipo de informação é no Google! Que vai automaticamente dar preferência a apresentar páginas em português pra qualquer usuário que esteja procurando do Brasil.
Aug 04 12:38:47 O mais correto pode ser no site oficial.
Aug 04 12:38:54 Mas como bem sabemos, não é o que acontece.
Aug 04 12:39:01 As pessoas vão no Google e procuram.
Aug 04 12:39:02 gmazk: e a pesquisa do Google te levaria ao site oficial
Aug 04 12:39:36 Sim… Agora chegamos exatamente onde eu queria… entenda…
Aug 04 12:39:44 A pesquisa do Google te leva ao site oficial…
Aug 04 12:40:00 no site oficial temos 90% de conteúdo em inglês (se não for mais)…
Aug 04 12:40:47 Ou seja, o lance acaba ficando incompleto, a não ser que já tenhamos atingido uma base de usuários brasileiros grande o bastante pra contribuir com as traduções no site oficial e mudar esse quadro… mas por enquanto, estamos longe de isso acontecer…
Aug 04 12:41:06 Não seria melhor o cara procurar no Google e cair num website com 100% do conteúdo em português?
Aug 04 12:41:26 gmazk: tudo que precisa e’ comecar a traducao da documentacao… a pesquisa pelo Google te leva `a documentacao em portugues
Aug 04 12:41:33 check mate!
Aug 04 12:41:35 :)

BarCamp Raleigh 2008

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This weekend I’ll be attending BarCamp Raleigh for the second year in a row. Together with a couple of fellow rPathians, I’m planning to pitch in the following talks:

Building GNU/Linux appliances and deploying them in the clouds
How to participate and contribute with open source projects like GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Openbox, etc

If you’re one of the lucky ones who managed to register in time for the event, tomorrow there will be a get together (think drinks, snacks and all the trilug geeks you can fit in a bar) at Tyler’s Tap Room (map). Check out this post for more info.

Building a GNU/Linux Appliance: Step 1

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As some of you may know, I’ve been doing a great deal of testing for rBuilder Online, rPath’s online community service for all your GNU/Linux appliances needs. As a QA Enginner I have a chance to play with the most innovative technologies we create (and dare I say some of the coolest things in the system/package management world?) before it hits the general public.

It is because of this work and my recent super involvement with our products that I decided to create a videocast on how to create a virtual GNU/Linux appliance using rBuilder Online. My objective is to show just how easy it is to package your software and distribute it to as many different environments and architectures without having to do a lot of heavy lifting. This videocast is the first step toward this goal, recorded this morning with no script or preparation what so ever. Please be gentle. :)

Converse com seus filhos sobre o Linux

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Talk to your kids about Linux

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Snagged from the original “Cautionary" strip.

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Yv Scarlett Maciel: o primeiro ano

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Enquanto eu carregava 10,000 fotos no F-Spot ontem à noite, me perdi nas memórias de pessoas, lugares e eventos que vieram à tona… tudo começando com o nascimento da minha primeira filha Yv. Escolhei a dedo algumas fotos do primeiro ano dela e criei um álbum. É inacreditavel como o tempo realmente voa… ela vai completar 7 anos no final do ano!

Yv Scarlett Maciel: the first year

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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As I uploaded 10000 pictures into F-Spot tonight, I got lost in the memories of people, places and events that they brought back… everything starting with the birth of my first daughter Yv. I cherry picked a few pictures of her first year and created a set. It is amazing how time does fly… she’s going to be 7 at the end of the year!

Desktop client for Twitter and Identi.ca

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using Ping.FM to update my Twitter and Identi.ca accounts for the last 2 weeks. That is all good and great but I needed a way to read the replies and feeds from those 2 accounts as well! My “solution” was to keep 3 tabs open in my browser and periodically refresh those pages to see if there was anything new. In comes Gwibber. It wasn’t until last night that I found out we had it packaged in our repositories (the WebKit branch) so today I decided to give it a go.

De volta à escola

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Agora eu posso finalmente falar sobre minha grande novidade: Eu estou voltando à escola este outono! Todo mundo que me conhece sabe o quanto eu queria ser um Tar Heel! Existe algo sobre a Universidade de North Carolina e Chapel Hill (cidade onde moro) que me faz sentir que aqui é o meu lugar. Desde a primeira vez que eu vim aqui eu me apaixonei pela cidade, pessoas e lugares… e eu sabia então que um dia eu ainda iria chamá-lo de minha terra.

Going back to school

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I can finally talk about my great news: I’m going back to school this Fall! Everyone who knows me well knows how much I’ve wanted to be a Tar Heel! There is something about the University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill that makes me feel like this is where I belong. From the very first time I came here I fell in love with the place, people and places and I knew right there and then that one day I’d be calling it home some day.

Desktop no mês de julho

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Uma captura de tela do meu desktop no laptop do trabalho. A configuração atual tem o Openbox com uma tonelada de atalhos de teclado, PyPanel, Twitux, Glipper, Gajim e GNOME Xchat. Adicione o Terminator com vários paineis, Epiphany e Rhythmbox (ausentes na captura) e você tem todos os aplicativos que eu uso no dia a dia.

Desktop screenshot for July

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A screenshot of my work laptop. The current setup has Openbox for tons of keyboard keybindings, PyPanel, Twitux, Glipper, Gajim and GNOME Xchat. Add Terminator with lots of panels, Epiphany and Rhythmbox (not in screenshot) and you got the applications I use every day.

UPDATE: Link to a larger screenshot.

Acompanhando o desenvolvimento de projetos hospedados no Google Code

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Se você tem um projeto hospedado no Google Code (ou acompanha o desenvolvimento de um projeto) e não quer criar um Google Group somente para receber notificações (e-mail, rss) de commits ou relatórios de suporte/erro, existe um novo recurso que foi adicionado recentemente:

http://code.google.com/feeds/p/PROJETO/svnchanges/basic
http://code.google.com/feeds/p/PROJETO/issueupdates/basic

No primeiro url, substitua PROJETO pelo nome do projeto que você deseja acompanhar.

Depois é só adicionar o url no seu leitor de notícias preferido!

ATUALIZADO: Modifiquei o url para acompanhar commits do projeto, removendo o ?path=DIR.

Subscribe to feeds from projects hosted on Google Code

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If you have a project hosted on Google Code (or follow the development of a project) and don’t want to create a Google Group so that you can receive notifications (email, rss) for repository or issue tracking commits, here’s a new feature that has been added:

http://code.google.com/feeds/p/PROJECT/svnchanges/basic
http://code.google.com/feeds/p/PROJECT/issueupdates/basic

For the first url, change PROJECT to the project name you want to follow.

Then, add the url to your favorite news reader.

UPDATE: Adding ?path=DIR was not working so I changed the url for project commits.

Registering a gconf schema via setup.py?

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I spent a good chunk of my evening trying to implement the automatic registration of a gconf schema file via a setup.py and… got nowhere. Seems that most people who wanted to do the same ended up running gconftool-2 directly as such:

GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 —get-default-source` gconftool-2 —makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas

Has anyone got any advice (patches wouldÂ be awesome) to go with my code?

And now\... tabs\... on tabs!!!

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

C’mon! What is up with the tabs fetish?

** My inkscape skills need a lot of love!*

VideoCasts e Planetas

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Para vocês que querem aprender um pouco mais sobre como fazer coisas cotidianas no Linux, recomendo uma série de videocasts muito bem feitos por meu amigo Evandro, apropriadamente chamadas “Sobrevivendo com Linux”. Para quem usa o Mac, existe uma coleção de videocasts aqui.

Por falar no Mac, foi lançado o Mac Planeta! Vale a pena conferir!

A cereja que faltava!

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Um dos meus web services favoritos (Open-Tran.eu) anunciou hoje um recurso que eu considero ser melhor recurso de 2008! PONTO FINAL! O que estou falando? Estou falando sobre a possibilidade de ver a comparação de como uma palavra foi traduzida em vários projetos de software livre em uma tabela! Você simplesmente tem de ver com seus próprios olhos para compreender o quanto isso é bacana! O Jacek Śliwerski, cérebro por tras do projeto disse:

Got milk?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

One of my favorite web services ever (Open-Tran.eu) announced today what I consider to be the best feature of 2008! PERIOD! What am I talking about? I’m talking about the possibilty of viewing the comparison of how a single string was translated across several projects! You have to experience it to understand how great this is! To quote Jacek Åšliwerski, the brain behind this:

I added new functionality to the service. Now you can compare the translations of phrases between the projects. Right now, the only way to see the comparison table is to enter an appropriate URL (or use the API). Here is an example URL:

Stormy weekend in Chapel Hill

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This 3-day weekend (it was the Independence Day here in the US this Friday) turned out to be a 3-day stay indoors weekend for us. Due to a hurricane (don’t remember the name now) that is fast approaching the East coast, we were rocked by severe thunderstorms every single night.

We had planned to watch the new Indiana Jones movie at the outdoor movie night in Southern Village but managed to get inside the car right before the wind kicked in and the sky was lit with lightning. By the time we got home, it looked pretty bad outside.

Not going to GUADEC

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Been kind of stormy down here in North Carolina since last night, with some pretty serious thunder storms causing havok around the area. Woke up today to see some trees snapped in half and a car buried under some big branches. With the electricity flickering all the time I thought it would be safe to turn off the PC and wait it out. After yet another stormy period today, I think it is safe to surf the web now.

My first blueprint for Ubuntu

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today I created a blueprint I intend to promote for Launchpad's Rosetta workflow. Titled “The process by which translation teams can better handle collaboration" (and its matching full specification), it is my intent to describe a mechanism by which translation teams can better administrate the contributions sent by Rosetta users, provide useful feedback and take a first step toward a better relationship with upstream projects.

I kindly invite those interested in the same topic to subscribe to the blueprint and add their feedback to the specification page, specially those who like me have their feet in both upstream and Rosetta worlds.

A DVCS model that embraces your model?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My good friend Mario Ä?aniÄ‡ (pygi) wrote a very interesting article on what he calls a “broken on birth” attitude towards DVCS adoption in many open source groups. I was very intrigued as to how one would allow different developers use their own (i.e. favorite) DVCS to work on their project, and yet be able to pool everything together in order to release a given set? If you want to learn about his ideas, about GitoriousKDE or have some relevant feedback for him, drop him a line.

To post or not to post

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My latests posts have attracted a fair number of comments (thank every and each one of you for taking the time… really!), most of them in response to the issue at hand. Every now and then someone questions the validity of one of my chosen topics, claiming that it should be published on Planet X (my blog is syndicated on quite a few planets) because it doesn’t talk about technology. I understand that someone people may not enjoy reading every single topic that may be published (not only by me), for I am one of them… honest!

Where should your money go today?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

$162 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Gasoline

New war

Relief for the American people

Education

For some reason I can’t seem to be able to check the last 2 boxes.

PS: For those who don’t care or don’t want to read about this, exercise your mouse/keyboard and skip this post.

United States of Censorship

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

it is amazing just how little real information gets its way to the American public these days. What we Americans call news must be the equivalent of a soap opera or comic stand up everywhere else in the world! The problem is so serious that for those who were born here and never left the country that you end up becoming utterly unaware of what else is going on around the world or, even worse in my oppinion, not knowing what kind of terrorism (our government calls it Foreign Policy) we are perpetrating outside of our borders.

The things you write when you have the stomach flu

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Been suffering from a nasty stomach flu since yesterday and, needless to say, it hasn’t been fun for me. Spent the entire day trying to get some rest but was too restless to fall asleep. I don’t know how many times I checked my email or browsed my rss feeds! Out of the many tabs I opened and closed in my browser, one remained open at all times: a link to a book called Essential SQLAlchemy!

Almost 200% new translations for BillReminder

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Amazing! There’s no other better way to describe the turn around for the translation progress of BillReminder after yesterday’s post/pledge! In less than 24 hours there were 8 new translations available bringing the total of available translations now to 17! Awesome! I want to thank every single person who took the time to lend me a hand!

During the course of merging the new stuff into the repository, I was a bit confused as far as the work flow for people who have their projects hosted on Launchpad but not necessarily host the source codein their bzr servers. I immediately fired an email to the Launchpad mailing list but decided to also post it here for anyone who may be interested in the subject.

Help me translate BillReminder

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I need your help to get BillReminder translated into as many different languages as possible! Up until now I have relied on a list of collaborators who know how to work with a message catalog template (i.e. pot file) and use it to generate a translated message file (i.e. po file). I’m aware that a lot of people probably don’t know what I’m talking about and/or may feel uneasy about working with text files and what not… so I decided to set BillReminder up for translation via Rosetta, which can be reached here.

Vamos passar a sacolinha!

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Ajude a sustentar a Wikipédia e outros projetos, sem colocar a mão no bolso, e concorra a um Eee PC!

...e também a pen drives, card drives, camisetas geeks, livros e mais! O BR-Linux e o Efetividade lançaram uma campanha para ajudar a Wikimedia Foundation e outros mantenedores de projetos que usamos no dia-a-dia on-line. Se você puder doar diretamente, ou contribuir de outra forma, são sempre melhores opções. Mas se não puder, veja as regras da promoção e participe - quanto mais divulgação, maior será a doação do BR-Linux e do Efetividade, e você ainda concorre a diversos brindes!

Fresh material for all the professional Tweeters out there

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My friend devnet told me today as we got some coffee about what was possibly one of the very first micro bloggers in history… when he finally gave me the link to this guy’s site I laughed so hard I almost had coffee (my precioussss) coming out of my nose! With posts such as “Tidying some pencils”, “Standing in the middle of the room” and “Looking at a wall”, it was really hard not to laugh!

Brazil x Argentina online

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately the match between Brazil and Argentina was not broadcasted here in the United States (well, at least not here where I live). Out of nowhere my dad calls me from NY to tell me he had just seen this guy plug the TV in his pub to the net to watch the game. I quickly wrote down the url to the site: http://www.justin.tv

The feed wasn’t the greatest (quality-wise) from the Peruvian TV, but for those who really wanted to watch the game it was bliss! After several minutes the feed was blocked (apparently due to some legal BS)… but someone quickly created a new feed and off we went! For those reading this post in time for the second half, the direct url is: http://www.justin.tv/christianc226

Brasil x Argentina na internet

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Infelizmente o jogo de hoje entre Brasil e Argentina não foi televisionado aqui nos Estados Unidos (pelo menos não onde moro). Eis que meu pai me liga de NY para me dizer que viu um dono de bar plugando a sua televisão à internet para assistir a pelada. Rapidamente anotei o site: http://www.justin.tv

A imagem não era das melhores pela transmissão da televisão Peruana, mas para quem quer assistir, tava muito bom! Depois de alguns minutos o canal foi bloqueado (aparentemente devido a algum regulamento babaca)… mas logo alguém criou outro canal e lá fui eu! Para quem ler isso ainda hoje, o canal é: http://www.justin.tv/christianc226

Dedicated to Nixternal

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I would like to dedicate this book to my good friend nixternal.Â :)

Envelhecendo e traduções

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje é meu aniversário e agora tenho 34 anos. Também é o aniversário da minha mãe, e como ela tem tido problemas de saúde, decidi surpreendê-la e dirigi até NJ/NY. Pela primeira vez a viagem foi tranquila e levei somente 8 1/2 para chegar. A primeira coisa que fiz, e você vai rir disso, foi comprar comida Chinesa! Você nã acredita como que a comida Chinesa em North Carolina (ou talvez os lugares que fui?) é horrivel! Mas parece que isso não é tão incomum, já que outras pessoas com quem conversei também me falaram que a comida Chinesa na Florida e Massachussetts é ruim.

Getting older and keeping up with translations

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

So today is my birthday and I’m now 34. It is also my mother’s birthday, and as she’s been having some health issues, I decided to surprise her and drive up to NJ/NY. For the first time the trip went really smooth and it only took me 8 1/2 hours to get here. The very first thing I did, and you’re going to laugh at this, was to buy some Chinese food! You will not believe how bad the Chinese food is in North Carolina (or maybe all the places I’ve tried suck?)! This seems to be a regular trend, as some people who I talked about this also told me that it is really hard to get good Chinese in Florida and Massachussetts.

Introducing PyLyglot

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As everyone knows I’m very involved with the translation efforts of several upstream projects and try to keep up with what’s going on with every single one of them. Starting about 3 weeks ago I realized that I relied too much on statistical information that wasn’t always up to date and sometimes there would be a program that would get newer code (sometimes resulting in changes to the translation strings) and go unoticed. Since I was trying to get XFCE 100% translated, I decided to write up a simple python script to help me keep an eye on those packages… with every featured I added the script became more involved… and PyLyglot was born.

About Tweeters

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

[10:29:10 AM] Dude: there’s way too many “social” networks to keep track of nowadays [10:29:51 AM] Og Maciel: hehehe [10:30:01 AM] Og Maciel: I’ve been using Tweet these days [10:30:10 AM] Og Maciel: but not as aggressively as some people [10:30:22 AM] Dude: the one that says what you are doing every hour? [10:30:25 AM] Og Maciel: sheesh, they “tweet” for every &%^$&@ thing they do [10:30:32 AM] Dude: yeah… [10:30:34 AM] Og Maciel: every minute even [10:30:42 AM] Og Maciel: “taking a crap” [10:30:42 AM] Dude: people spend more time tweeting more than doing what they are tweeting about [10:30:51 AM] Og Maciel: “out of tp” [10:30:53 AM] Dude: “reaching for toilet paper” [10:30:59 AM] Dude: “toilet paper ripped” [10:31:04 AM] Dude: “reaching again” [10:31:07 AM] Og Maciel: “turd is too compact… blockage” [10:31:12 AM] Dude: rofl [10:31:17 AM] Og Maciel: :)

Let My Love Open the Door

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Dedicated to my wife…

"Let My Love Open The Door" Written by Pete Townshend

When people keep repeating That you’ll never fall in love When everybody keeps retreating But you can’t seem to get enough

Let my love open the door Let my love open the door Let my love open the door To your heart

When everything feels all over When everybody seems unkind I bring you a four leaf clover Take all the worry out of your mind

Sobre Tweet

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

[10:29:10 AM] Dude: there’s way too many “social” networks to keep track of nowadays [10:29:51 AM] Og Maciel: hehehe [10:30:01 AM] Og Maciel: I’ve been using Tweet these days [10:30:10 AM] Og Maciel: but not as aggressively as some people [10:30:22 AM] Dude: the one that says what you are doing every hour? [10:30:25 AM] Og Maciel: sheesh, they “tweet” for every fucking thing they do [10:30:32 AM] Dude: yeah… [10:30:34 AM] Og Maciel: every minute even [10:30:42 AM] Og Maciel: “taking a crap” [10:30:42 AM] Dude: people spend more time tweeting more than doing what they are tweeting about [10:30:51 AM] Og Maciel: “out of tp” [10:30:53 AM] Dude: “reaching for toilet paper” [10:30:59 AM] Dude: “toilet paper ripped” [10:31:04 AM] Dude: “reaching again” [10:31:07 AM] Og Maciel: “turd is too compact… blockage” [10:31:12 AM] Dude: rofl [10:31:17 AM] Og Maciel:

Wish List

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

With my 34th birthday fast approaching I figured I’d publish my wish list in the off chance someone wants to buy me a gift? wink You’ll notice that a subscription to Linux Format magazine is ranked as my highest priority… double wink It just takes forever for me to get a hold of them here in the US via the book stores.

FineTune: the \"mix tape\" evolved

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Give it a shot! pretty cool actually!

Mais um site de músicas online

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Descobri o Global Pandora depois de checar a dica anônima enviada no último artigo. Aparentemente trata-se de um site que te explica como ganhar acesso aos serviços do Pandora caso você não more nos Estados Unidos.

Como eu moro nos Estados Unidos, ainda não testei a dica, mas aproveitei para checar outros sites de música online que estão listados no Global Pandora. Dentre eles, o AnywhereFM chamou a atenção por ser um serviço onde você pode enviar sua coleção de músicas e armazená-las para depois poder acessar de qualquer lugar!

Still about music sites

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I came across Global Pandora after checking out the anonymous tip left on my previous post. Apparently it is a site that explains how you can gain access to the services provided by Pandora in case you live outside the United States. I was not aware of this, but due to some legal mambo jambo, Pandora is only available in the US, which is a shame!

Since I do live in the United States, I didn’t try out the tip, but took the time to check out some of the other music sites listed on Global Pandora. The one the attracted my attention was AnywhereFM for its claim that you can upload your entire musical collection to their servers and listen to it from anywhere!

Online music recommendation systems

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know how your work environment is, but where I work all the engineers spend their entire days with their headphones glued to their heads listening to music. Each one of us must own a couple of thousands music files (all legal copies, I can assure you) in our laptops, and since we all share our collections through the office, one could say that we have a pretty decent online selection of music for all genres and tastes. Still, there are times when you yearn for something new… what to do?

Sistemas de recomendação de músicas online

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Eu não sei como é o ambiente onde vocês trabalham, mas onde trabalho todos os engenheiros passam o dia todo com seus headphones grudados na cabeça escutando música! Cada um de nós deve possuir pelo menos 2000 arquivos de música (todos de forma legal, posso te garantir) em seus laptops, e como a grande maioria compartilha suas coleções pelo escritório, pode-se dizer que temos uma enorme coleção virtual de música de vários gêneros e para todos gostos. Mas mesmo assim existem aqueles dias quando você sente a falta de algo novo… e agora?

O novo Gerenciador de Exibição do GNOME (GDM)

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Comecei hoje a usar o novo Gerenciador de Exibição do GNOME, também conhecido como GDM, aquele programa que te permite iniciar uma seção de login na maioria das distribuições que usam o GNOME por padrão. Esta nova versão contém código que foi escrito ainda na versão anterior, mas que não foi liberado à tempo do lançamento do GNOME 2.22.

Algumas das novidades são:

Melhor suporte para a troca de sessão de usuários;
Forma mais inteligente de escolher a conta de usuários do sistema;
Melhor integração com o ConsoleKit;
Facilidade para criar temas mais bacanas e cheios de firulas;
Configuração dinâmica de tela;
Permite que agentes da sessão possam ser executados (como o gnome-power-manager, por exemplo);
A habilidade de executar somente um saudador por usuário;
Usa PolicyKit para reinicialização e autorização;

… entre outras coisas. Para ver a lista completa, dê uma olhadinha na página sobre o novo desenho.

The new GNOME Display Manager (GDM)

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I started today using the new GNOME Display Manager, aka GDM. This new version (under development) was initially written before the GNOME 2.22 release but never made it on time for that release.

Some of new features are:

Better fast-user-switching support (bug #343539 etc)
Enable a smarter people chooser in the greeter
Better ConsoleKit integration (seat awareness, coordination etc)
Facilitate creating a new blingier greeter
Dynamically configure displays
Allow session agents to run in the greeter session (gnome-power-manager etc)
Have the ability to only run a single greeter per seat (currently gdmflexiserver will start any number of them)
Use PolicyKit for reboot etc authorization/handling
Use a better configuration mechanism that is more compatible with a hypothetical systemwide D-Bus based GConf
Provide a D-Bus API so that agents like fast-user-switch applet can be written more easily and operate more efficiently
Fix all the horrible non-reentrant POSIX signal handling and various race conditions in the current code (bug #336549 etc)
Make it easier to do “hot desking” type things
Use a more modern design to simplify maintence and enhance flexibility (use of GObject etc)
Use a more robust, secure, and flexible IPC

… and many more. For a complete list, take a peak at their new design page.

Introducing Open-Tran.eu

Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone who works with the translation of free and open source software must know the web site Open-Tran.eu (if you don’t, I highly recommend it!), a translation repository online.

To quote Jacek, the brain behind the project:

Proprietary software vendors may (if they can afford it) use CAT or TM software in order to ensure the consistency of their applications' terminology. Unfortunately, there are many different software vendors who are not willing to share their knowledge (which includes translation memory databases) with the others. And this is where the open source software could prove to be better than the proprietary. It could, but is not. Although everybody has full access to the translations of many open source programs, this opportunity is hardly ever used. The knowledge of hundreds (if not thousands) of people translating applications into their native languages is not centralized and thus hardly available to the others. This is the reason why the translations of even the most popular programs are not consistent with each other, which discourages people from using them. I’d like the Open-Tran.eu service to fill this gap and to provide the translators with a useful tool, which may improve the quality of their translations and increase the consistency of terminology in the open source software.Â·

Open-Tran.eu agora traduzido para o Português do Brasil

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Toda a turma que trabalha com traduções de software livre deve conhecer o site Open-Tran.eu (quem não conhece, eu recomendo!), um repositório de traduções online. Mas para que serve o Open-Tran.eu?

Usando as próprias palavras do Jacek, criador deste serviço:

Vendedores de software proprietário podem (se lhes for viável) usar software como CAT ou TM para garantir a consistência da terminologia de seus aplicativos. Infelizmente, existem muitos vendedores de software diferentes que não estão interessados em compartilhar o seu conhecimento (que inclui bancos de dados de traduções) com outros. É aí que o software livre poderia provar que é melhor que o proprietário. Poderia, mas não é. Apesar que todos têm acesso completo às traduções de vários programas de software livre, esta oportunidade quase nunca é aproveitada. O conhecimento de centenas (se não milhares) de pessoas traduzindo aplicativos para o seu idioma não é centralizado e portanto dificilmente disponívels ao público. Este é o motivo porque mesmo as traduções dos programas mais populares não é consistente dentre eles, o que desencoraja muitos de usá-los. Eu espero que o serviço Open-Tran.eu prencha este vazio e providencie aos tradutores uma ferramenta útil, que possa melhorar a qualidade de suas traduções e aumentar a consistência da terminologia no software de código livre.

XFCE completely translated to Brazilian Portuguese

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’m extremely proud to announce that the XFCE desktop environment, well known for being a lighter alternative to GNOME or KDE, is completely translated (upstream) to Brazilian Portuguese!

A total of over 80 different programs and components off the XFCE and Goodies repositories, with over 6000 strings, I believe that XFCE is the first complex desktop environment to be completely translated to Brazilian Portuguese! The core components had been 100% translated for about 1 week now, as can be see in the stats page, mas yesterday I finished my research and noticed that all the other components were also finished. Now I get to keep my eye on any changes that may happen until the 4.4.6 release takes place.

XFCE Completamente Traduzido

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

É com um enorme orgulho que venho anunciar que o ambiente de de desktop XFCE, conhecido por ser uma alternativa mais leve ao GNOME ou KDE, está completamente traduzido para o Português do Brasil!

Formado por mais de 80 programas e componentes diferentes, totalizando mais de 6000 mensagens, o XFCE deve ser o primeiro ambiente de desktop complexo a ter todos seus componentes traduzidos para o nosso idioma! Os componentes principais já estavam traduzidos por completo há 1 semana, como pode ser visto na página de estatísticas oficial, mas hoje terminei minha investigação e notei que todos os outros componentes também estão concluídos. Agora é esperar pelo lançamento da versão 4.4.6 que deve ser anunciada ainda este ano.

BillReminder featured on ProgBox

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My pet project BillReminder was featured in the third episode of ProgBox, kicking off the brand new section “Pimp My Project”! It was also featured as an exemple onÂ packaging software for Arch Linux (sorry, Brazilian Portuguese only) written by Hugo DÃ³ria.

So, watch the show, read the guide if you can, and use BillReminder! :)

BillReminder no ProgBox

Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

O meu programa BillReminder foi demonstrado no terceiro episódio do ProgBox, inaugurando a nova seção “Pimp My Project”! Isso depois do Hugo Dória ter usado o BillReminder como exemplo em seu guia de empacotamento de software.

Assistam o programa, leiam o guia do Hugo, e usem o BillReminder! :)

Perguntas e Respostas

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Os meus artigos com os dois vídeo aula (1, 2) me trouxeram bastante comentários de pessoas me parabenizando e/ou me perguntando sobre alguma coisa. Devido ao grande número de perguntas, e o teor de perguntas, decidi colocá-las em um novo artigo para que outras pessoas possam aproveitar também. Então vamos lá…

O Gercino Jr perguntou: “Gostaria de saber sua opinião sobre em qual linguagem começar” e “E se não for abuso de minha parte gostaria de lhe perguntar também em qual linguagem o seu aplicativo (BillReminder) foi escrito”

Opções em um mundo livre

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Observação importante: Este artigo não será publicado no Planeta Ubuntu Brasil para evitar qualquer consternação entre os autores do mesmo. O assunto aqui discutido é conteúdo de minhas idéias pessoais e de forma alguma representa a opinião de nenhum grupo.

Esta semana começou um pouco tumultuada para a turma do Planeta Ubuntu Brasil, devido a um artigo publicado pelo José Vitor. O artigo em si não tinha nada de grave na minha opinião, mas algumas dos autores que fazem parte do planeta o interpretaram como um ataque desnecessário à imagem do Ubuntu… outros, como eu, viram um artigo onde o autor relata a sua frustação com o que ele chama de “sistema obeso”.

BillReminder available for Ubuntu Hardy

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I finally have my pet project BillReminder packaged for Ubuntu Hardy and Debian, thanks to Diogo AutÃlio and Gabriel FalcÃ£o! The packages (*.deb) can be downloaded from the project’s downloads page, or for the lazy:

As always, constructive feedback, patchs, and sugestions can be provided via our support system.

BillReminder disponível para o Ubuntu Hardy

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Finalmente tenho o BillReminder empacotado para o Ubuntu Hardy e Debian, graças ao Diogo Autílio e Gabriel Falcão! Os pacotes (*.deb) podem ser baixados diretamente do site de downloads do projeto, ou para os preguiçosos:

Como sempre, comentários construtivos, patches, e sugestões podem ser feitos usando o sistema de suporte.

Atualização sobre o vídeo aula

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Graças ao meu amigo Laudeci, o vídeo da segunda aula, “Trabalhando com o Glade" está disponível para assistir pelo Google Video.

O vídeo pode ser encontrado aqui.

Vídeo Aula: Trabalhando com o Glade

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Atualização: O link do vídeo agora funciona. Isso é o que acontece quando você fica acordado até tarde. ;)

Dando continuidade à série de vídeo aula que iniciei na semana passada, gostaria de apresentar o novo episódio, Trabalhando com o Glade. Pode-se dizer que este episódio foi fruto de todos os comentários positivos que recebi na primeira vez, e gostaria então de agradecer a todos que tomaram o tempo para assistir e deixar seu feedback aqui no meu blog!

Another priceless moment

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Laundry basket: US$15
Shower curtain: US$10
15 gallons of water: a few bucks

A makeshift swimming pool in a hot Spring day: priceless!

Mais um momento Kodak

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Cesta de roupas: US$15
Cortina de banheiro: US$10
15 galões de água: alguns trocados

Uma piscina caseira em um dia quente de primavera: priceless!

Vídeo Aula: Programando com Python e Glade

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Quase todos dias converso com pessoas interessadas em aprender a programar com Python, perguntando a minha opinião sobre onde começar. A grande maioria deseja criar programas com uma interface gráfica, mas por ainda não saber programar, não conseguem visualizar a interface somente pelo código. Para estas pessoas eu recomendo uma combinação de Python e Glade, um construtor gráfico de interfaces que usa a biblioteca Gtk como sua paleta de componentes. É o objetivo deste vídeo mostrar como gerar um programa completamente funcional, construido com Glade e Python (PyGtk).

O misterioso sangramento do Lício

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Desde os dias do FISL comecei a acompanhar o bate-papo que rola pelo Twitter, e entre um comentário e outro, eis que vejo o nosso amigo Lício falar:

indo para a cirurgia, agora nem o darth vader me atrapalhará about 22 hours ago from web

Achei isso meio estranho e fiquei indagando o que poderia ter acontecido no FISL para que o Lício tivesse que fazer uma cirurgia? Mas continuei trabalhando e logo depois…

Janela Indiscreta

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Quando iniciei o Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil no ano passado, eu queria criar um canal de notícias com os meus blogs favoritos como protagonistas. Já que moro nos Estados Unidos há mais de 17 anos e meu envolvimento com a comunidade de software livre tem sido via listas de discussão, reuniões por Skype ou IRC, e troca de e-mails, eu sentia uma curiosidade de saber um pouco mais sobre as pessoas que dividiam seu tempo comigo. Mas eu queria saber mais coisas além dos assuntos ligados à traduções ou qual distribuição a pessoa usava… Queria saber outras coisas… um pouco mais de “intimidade.” E assim nasceu este planeta, uma verdadeira salada de frutas com autores (ou astronautas como eu gosto de chamar) representando várias distribuições e 2 países (também temos amigos de Portugal), debulhando a cada dia assuntos variados e super interessantes.

ShowMeDo

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today I subscribed to ShowMeDo, a web site dedicated to providing tutorials in the format of screencasts. The tutorials cover many programming topics with Python being the one that got me to get a paid subscription. I managed to watch a few episodes during my lunch break… and was blown away at how easy it is to follow the sessions!

Before anyone ask, I’m not getting paid for this plug… I know quite a few people who have shown interest in learning Python but didn’t know how to get started. If you follow a tutorial series, not only will you learn some valuable skills, but you’ll also have a working project to play with.

TextFlow

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

O TextFlow é um editor super bacana que o Yuri criou, todo escrito em Python com uma qualidade impressionante!

Hoje pela manhã eu empacotei a versão mais recente direto do repositório bzr e fiquei bem impressionado com o produto final!

Caso você esteja interessado em contribuir com o projeto ou quer ver um programa muito bem desenhado, procure o Yuri usando o contato que ele deixou na página do projeto.

Daddy\'s girls

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve finally found time to upload some of my pictures and movies to Flickr and Youtube.

Videos:

Yv singing something she learned at school from her friends (with a butterfly painted to her face).
Kate babling away!

Pictures:

More pictures here!

Pai coruja? Eu?

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Finalmente tive tempo para colocar novas fotos e vídeos da Yv e Kate no Flickr e Youtube.

Vídeos:

Yv cantando algo que ela aprendeu na escola (com uma borboleta pintada no rosto).
Kate “falando pelos cotovelos”!

Fotos:

Mais fotos aqui!

Openbox 3.4.7.1

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Openbox just keeps getting better and better! The new support for XDG files is just what the doctor recommended. See the full changelog here.

Forward

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday’s news about the Suse Appliance Program had me grinning all morning long… and I just had to forward what my co-worker wrote:

Billy Marshall, CEO, rPath (2006): The Standard OS is Virtually Gone Nat Friedman, CTO, Novell (2008): The Standalone OS is Dead Indeed, weâ€™re flattered.

Yes, indeed!

Continuidade

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem eu enviei um e-mail para os membros do Conselho Ubuntu Brasil (grupo o qual tenho participado por um bom tempo) informando sobre a minha decisão de sair da equipe. Pelos últimos 6 meses tenho estado extremamente ocupado no trabalho, como também trabalhado nas traduções do GNOME, XFCE, Ubuntu e no meu projeto BillReminder. E como se isso não fosse suficiente, a Kate, minha filha mais nova já tem 14 meses de idade e está andando pelo apartamento todo… e a Yv já tem quase 7 anos! :)

Moving on

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I sent out an email to the members of the Ubuntu Brazilian Council (of which I’ve been a member for quite some time now) informing of my decision to step down. For the last few months I have been extremely busy at work as well as keeping up with the translations for GNOME, XFCE, Ubuntu and my pet project BillReminder. As if this wasn’t enough, Kate, my youngest child is now 14 months old and walking all over the apartment… and Yv is almost 7 already! :)

Apresentando o Windmill Appliance

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Tenho um grande orgulho em apresentar o lançamento do Windmill Appliance! Construido com a tecnologia inovadora da rPath, está disponível para download como um ISO assim como também uma imagem VMWare para a sua alegria.

"Mas para que exatamente serve este windmill appliance?", você pergunta. Que bom que você perguntou… O Windmill é um framework de testes em AJAX para interfaces web de código livre. Pelos últimos meses eu tenho usado e abusado deste software para estar apropriadamente a interface web de um de nossos produtos, e os resultados tem sido muito agradaveis. Melhor ainda, a interação com os desenvolvedores principais (eu estou sempre pelo canal #windmill na Freenode) tem sido extremamente beneficial no meu ponto de vista.

The Windmill Appliance

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I’m proud to announce the release of the Windmill Appliance! Built with the technology provided by rPath, it is currently available as a downloadable installable ISO as well as a VMWare image for you pleasure.

Now, just what is the windmill appliance for, you may ask? Glad you did… Windmill is an Open Source AJAX Web UI Testing framework. For the last couple of months I have relied heavily on this software to properly test the web UI of one of our products, and the results have been quite pleasant. Moreover, the interaction that I have developed with the core developers (I’m always lurking on #windmill at Freenode) has proved to be extremely beneficial from my point of view.

Flattered

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This last Thursday I was surprised by Johan Dahlin when he showed me the new feature he’s adding to Stoq: colored coded categories.

He said he was inspired by the same feature I added to BillReminder. Wow! I couldn’t help but feel very flattered with this… after all, Stoq is a great piece of software developed by a very clever crew!

Lisonjeado

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Esta última quinta-feira fui surpreendido pelo Johan Dahlin quando ele me mostrou o novo recurso que ele está adicionando ao Stoq: categorias coloridas.

Ele disse que tinha se inspirado no mesmo recurso que eu adicionei no BillReminder. Wow! Claro que fiquei super lisonjeado com isso… afinal de contas, o Stoq é um excelente software desenvolvido por uma turma super inteligente!

Prelude to letting go?

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I meant to write this before but got really busy this past week. About 2 weeks ago I sent my oldest daughter Yv to spend her Spring break with my parents in New York. It was the very first time she went anywhere without my wife or me, and we were all very nervous about the whole thing.

I worked from home that day so I wouldn’t have to drive back from work and then to the airport. Yv was very excited and nervous at the same time, as she carefully packed her things into her school backpack. As I was trying to finish a couple of things before I finished my day I didn’t get caught up in the packaging process, but soon after lunch as we all set at the table it hit me: my daughter was leaving on a trip all by herself… and she’s only 6! Now, I don’t mean to sound dramatic, but those who do know me well know how attached I am to my kids. The remainder of the afternoon was spent explaining to her how the whole “flying-by-yourself” process worked and how she would have someone accompanying her during the flight.

Mini entrevista e review do BillReminder

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

O Júlio Neto publicou uma mini entrevista que ele fez comigo pelo IRC outro dia e um review do BillReminder com direito a screencast e tudo! :) A versão é a 0.3 e não a mais recente, mas mesmo assim da para ver o potencial do programa. Bom saber que ele foi considerado uma parte importante do desktop dele. :) Valeu Júlio!

What\'s the Big Idea?

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Starting this Thursday, April 3, 2008 I’ll be attending this year’s What’s the Big Idea?, a series of lectures given by UNC Chapel Hill scientists focusing on genetics, ethics and human health. For a mere 30 dollars I was able to register for all four lectures! The topics are very interesting and close to my personal interests in bioinformatics and gene therapy. Did you know I have a degree in biochemistry?

The series kicks off with a fairly interesting lecture: an introduction to stem cell research and genetic engineering. Then, for the next 3 weeks there will be lectures on gene and tissue engineering, genetic research and its medical applications, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics/genomics research. I can’t hardly wait.

Migrating to Google Code Follow up \#1

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

So I have finally migrated BillReminder to Google Code, thanks to the helping hand of a few gents from Google. I did expect a full, smooth migration process but, for better or worse, there are a lot of manual steps that you have to perform before you can have the same structure (well, not the same but something usefull) from SourceForge. I figured I’d mention here some of the things I had to do for those who may find themselves wanting to do the same thing.

Good news from the Epiphany front

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Very cool news from the land of the Epiphany web browser this morning. Their decision to go with WebKit plus the synchronization with GNOME’s release cycle should appeal to a lot of new developers and contributors! If we could finally get Firebug for Epiphany (this GSoC idea needs a mentor!!!) I could stop using two different browsers. :)

Migrando para o Google Code \#1

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Na semana passada eu tinha escrito no meu blog em Inglês sobre minha tentativa frustrada em migrar o meu projeto BillReminder para o Google Code. Bem, graças a algumas boas almas da Google, eu finalmente consegui migrar o projeto!

Eu realmente tinha a expectativa de um processo completo e tranquilo mas (felizmente?) existem vários passos manuais que você deve efetuar antes de ter a mesma estrutura (hmmm… não igual, mas algo útil) da SourceForge. Imaginei que isso serviria para mais alguém que esteja passando pela mesma situação e decidi escrever aqui os passos que tomei. Espero que seja útil.

Moving to Dreamhost

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

For more than 4 years I had been a happy customer of phpwebhosting.com. That was until last year when my domain (shared) and the entire server went down for no apparent reason! My emails were completely ignored and to this day I don’t know what really happened.

This morning was the last straw for me. I have already signed a contract with dreamhost and will be migrating my two blogs in the next few days. So if you have a hard time getting through… hang on.

BillReminder \"How Many is a Brazilian\" 0.3.1 Lançado

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

O codinome deste lançamento é uma brincadeira em Inglês. As unidades para milhão, bilhão, etc são million, billion… então a pergunta é: Se um milhão é million and um bilhão é billion, quanto é um Brazilian? :)

Este foi um pequeno lançamento onde alguns erros foram arrumados e algumas melhorias na parte gráfica para melhorar o workflow. Vale a pena mencionar as novas traduções para o Francês e Holandês, cortesia de Robert-André Mauchin e Daniel van Eeden, e o trabalho na interface gráfica feito pelo nosso hacker Brasileiro Laudeci Oliveira.

Switching from SourceForge to Google Code

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

For the last 2 weeks I have (unsuccesfully) tried to migrate BillReminder from SourceForge to Google Code project hosting. I have filled out the web form to register a new project on Google Code, but since this project already exists in SourceForge, I have to go through an extra step where a message should be sent to the project lead (which happens to be me) requesting approval for this migration. The problem is that I always get a 500 page when I click on the submit button!

BillReminder \"How Many is a Brazilian\" 0.3.1 Released

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is a minor release where a couple of bugs have been closed and some UI work was done to improve the workflow. It is worth to mention the new French translation, courtesy of Robert-AndrÃ© Mauchin, updated Dutch translation, courtesy of Daniel van Eeden, and some UI work done by Laudeci Oliveira.

Changelog:

#1906715 - New records can now be created by double-clicking a date in the main calendar. The due date for this new record will be set to the date selected upon double-clicking.
#1908445 - Fixed a bug that would cause recurring bills not to expand beyond the current year.
French translation added by Robert-AndrÃ© Mauchin
Dutch translation updated by Daniel van Eeden
Display categories by category name in ascending order in the categories dialog.
Display the colored tile for each category next to its name in the categories dropdown in the add/edit dialog.

Grab your tarball now!

Summer of Code 2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

So I submitted my idea for GNOME’s Summer of Code this year… aaaaaand, it doesn’t seem to be very popular as it is currently categorized as “Underground Ideas”. :)

Titled “Enhance Damned Lies and integrate it with open-tran.eu”, it basically tries to lure someone with time to add a little bit of pizzaz to a site that I regularly use in order to proceed with my translations. Now, no offense intended but how can something like “Individual Workspace Wallpapers" be considered as "Rockstar Ideas" compared to the benefits of improving the work flow of those who deliver a GNOME Desktop completely translated every single release cycle? sigh

Limitando o número de fileiras exibidas em um gtk.ComboBox

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Querida lazyweb, existe alguma forma de limitar o número de fileiras exibidas em um gtk.ComboBox? Eu sei que eu posso usar a propriedade set_wrap_width property para dividir os itens em várias colunas, mas eu acho isso tão “feio”. :)

Limiting the number of rows displayed in a gtk.ComboBox

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Dear lazyweb, is there a way to limit the number of rows displayed by a gtk.ComboBox? I know one can set the set_wrap_width property to spread out the items into multiple columns, but that is just so ugly. :)

Patinhos na Lagoa e Dedicatória

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje é um dia muito especial para todos aqueles envolvidos com o lançamento de mais uma versão do GNOME, versão 2.22. Também marca o lançamento de mais uma versão do Foresight Linux, versão 2, mantendo a tradição de sempre lançar uma nova versão junto com o GNOME! Um monte de 2! :) Eu quero parabenizar todo mundo que colaborou pelos últimos 6 meses, especialmente a equipe Brasileira de tradutores, que mais uma vez entregou um ambiente de GNOME 100% traduzido, e a galera do Foresight por entregarem uma excelente combinação de tecnologia de ponta (PulseAudio, PackageKit, Syslinux)!

Wild Deuces and a Bitter Sweet Moment

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today is a very special moment for all of those who were involved with the release of yet another stable GNOME, version 2.22. It also marks the release for another stable Foresight Linux, version 2, keeping the tradition of always releasing together with GNOME! That is a lot of number 2s! :) I want to congratulate everyone who’s helped for the last 6 months, specially the Brazilian translation team that once again delivered a 100% translated GNOME desktop, and the Foresight guys for delivering a great combination of bleeding edge technologies (PulseAudio, PackageKit, Syslinux)!

Prá quem você trabalha?

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Who do you work for?

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

BillReminder apareceu no LifeHacker

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Fiquei super surpreso quando me falaram que o BillReminder foi considerado como o Featured Linux Download no LifeHacker! Wow!!! TambÃ©m apareceram outros artigos no New Linux User e Productive Linux. Obrigado a todos por testarem o programa e pela recomendaÃ§Ã£o!

Algumas pessoas me perguntaram se Ã© necessÃ¡rio manter o BillReminder rodando o tempo todo para receber notificaÃ§Ãµes, e a resposta Ã©: nÃ£o. O BillReminder tem um serviÃ§o (daemon) que executa no segundo plano e somente te cutuca (com o taco de baseball) se houver algum conta atrasada ou quase lÃ¡.

BillReminder featured on Life Hacker

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Boy was I surprised when someone told me that BillReminder was a Featured Linux Download on LifeHacker! Wow!!! There were also articles on New Linux User and Productive Linux. Thank you all for taking the time to test it and recommend it too!

Some people have asked me if it is necessary to keep BillReminder running in order to get notifications, and the answer is: no. BillReminder has a daemon that runs in the background and will only poke you (with the baseball bat) if there’s something late or close to being late.

All of your Shuttle boxes are belong to us!

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Seguindo o novo trend de vender sistemas de computador com GNU/Linux prÃ©-instalado, a Shuttle anunciou ontem que eles tamb[em estar’ao vendendo seu modelo XPC com o Foresight GNU/Linux! A nota oficial pode ser encontrada aqui, assim como tamb[em alguns comentÃ¡rios provocantes sobre o motivo da escolha deste “sistemazinho desconhecido”.

Como eu jÃ¡ tive a oportunidade de ver um destes sistemas ao vivo e Ã cores, foi bacana ver um algo que funciona literalmente “out of the box”. Como eles (Shuttle) tem controle total sobre o hardware que Ã© incluÃdo, todos os recursos, incluindo compiz, funcionam sem problemas!

All of your Shuttle KPC are belong to us

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Following the trend of computer companies shipping GNU/Linux pre-installed hardware, Shuttle announced yesterday that they too will ship their XPC model with Foresight GNU/Linux! The official release note can be read here, as well as some provocative comments on the reason why they chose this “little known" distribution.

Having seen one of these boxes up and close already, it was fairly cool to see a system that just works out of the box. Since they have control over the hardware they ship, every single feature, including compiz just works!

BillReminder \"It Puts the Lotion in the Basket\" 0.3 lanÃ§ado

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Ã‰ com enorme orgulho que venho anunciar o lanÃ§amento do meu projeto hobby BillReminder! A estrada para chegar atÃ© a versÃ£o 0.3 mostrou ser algo muito educativo para mim, e hoje olhando com nostalgia no dia que decidi “portar” o cÃ³digo original escrito em C# para Python com o intuito de aprender um pouco mais sobre Python, eu posso dizer que aprendi muito. TambÃ©m conheci muita gente bacana pelo caminho, algumas delas responsÃ¡veis por me ajudarem a manter o projeto ativo. Eu posso honestamente dizer que toda vez que eu achava tempo livre para trabalhar neste projeto, eu simplesmente perdia a noÃ§Ã£o do tempo. Quando eu me sinto inseguro sobre meu conhecimento na Ã¡rea de programaÃ§Ã£o (ou quando algue me faz sentir assim) eu olho para o que eu fiz atÃ© agora… pode nÃ£o ser o melhor software por aÃ, mas ele Ã© meu… escrito do zero!

BillReminder \"It Puts the Lotion in the Basket\" 0.3 released

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It is with a great pleasure that I announce the release of my pet project BillReminder! The road to 0.3 has been a very educational journey for me, and looking back when I first decided to port my original code written in C# to Python just so that I could learn more about Python, I can say that I have learned quite a bit. I have also met some fabulous people along the way, some of them very responsible for me keeping the project going. I can trully say that whenever I find the time to work on this project, I lose track of time. Whenever I feel insecure about my own skills (or when people make me feel that way) I take a look at what I have done so far… it may not be the best piece of software out there, but it is mine… written from scratch!

Esperando pelo Openbox 3.4.7\...

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Waiting for Openbox 3.4.7\...

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

PulseAudio + Games and My Five Hundred

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Been using PulseAudio for several months now and was extremelly happy with the end result. The ability of controlling the volume for specific applications alone made it very worth the change. But there was one little issue that bothered me a lot: not being able to play my games with support for audio! Back when I started searching for a solution, I didn’t find anything that would resolve this issue and I eventually accepted that as a fact.

Ask and you shall receive

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

So last night’s post brought me quite a few replies, and I thank you all for taking the time to give me the feedback. I hope to find some time and work on the preferences dialog for BillReminder soon!

On the other front, I received a nice little present from the Openbox guys: a way to inspect and honor files found in /etc/xdg/autostart by default when starting Openbox. Now, I cannot claim that this is a done deal but I’m keeping my fingers crossed! :)

DiÃ¡logos e brincando com o wbar

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Nas Ãºltimas 2 semanas eu sÃ³ consegui trabalhar por 3 horas no BillReminder! O que posso dizer, Ã s vezes vocÃª tem de colocar seus hobbies de lado enquanto a vida real toma conta do seu tempo. :/

Uma das coisas que estava me incomodando era o antigo diÃ¡logo de preferÃªncias. Ele estava muito cheio de controles e informaÃ§Ã£o, e o que mais me incomodava era um ComboBox usado para escolher o horÃ¡rio preferido para receber um alarme. Haviam entradas para cada hora com intervalos de 30 minutos (ou seja, 01:00, 01:30, 02:00, etc), resultando em uma lista enorme que nem cabia na tela.

Dialog remodeling and playing with wbar

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I have spent a total of 3 hours working on BillReminder these last 2 weeks! What can I say, sometimes you have to put your pet projects in the back burner while real life takes over. :/

One of the things that annoyed me was the old, cluttered preferences dialog. It was just too bulky and with too many things going on, specially with the ComboBox for selecting the prefered time for an alarm. It had entries for every hour in intervals of 30 minutes (i.e. 01:00, 01:30, 02:00, etc) for a huge, scroll off your screen list.

Chiclete com Banana 2: A Revanche

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Que bela surpresa me deixaram no correio hoje pela manhÃ£.

Nada mais, nada menos que 4 volumes do Antologia do Chiclete com Banana, enviado por meu amigo AntÃ´nio “LedStyle” ClÃ¡udio! Com certeza isso valeu a semana dura que tive! E pode esperar que estou te enviando algo tambÃ©m! :)

Chegou meu Nokia N810

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Minha vida deu uma acelerada nas Ãºltimas 2 semanas e passei meu tempo no trabalho, com minhas filhas, e trabalhando em um projeto secreto que ainda nÃ£o posso contar. Enquanto isso, um monte de coisas aconteceu e eu sÃ³ queria mencionar que chegou o meu N810 na semana passada! Super maneiro e Ãºtil! Aproveito para agradecer o pessoal do Maemo e Nokia por esta oportunidade e espero poder escrever sobre mais notÃcias relacionadas ao aparelho em breve!

Long overdue post \#1

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Life has shifted to high gear these last 2 weeks and my time was mostly spent at work, with my kids, and working on a secret project I can’t talk about yet. In the meantime, lots have happened and I just wanted to mention the arrival of my N810 last week! It is shiny! It is cool! It is very useful! I want to thank the Maemo and Nokia guys for this opportunity and hope to deliver some good news about this device soon!

LanÃ§ados Openbox 3.4.6 e ObConf 2.0.3

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Leia tudo aqui. Espero que sua distribuiÃ§Ã£o GNU/Linux jÃ¡ os tenha empacotado. A minha jÃ¡ (eu mesmo que fiz)! :)

Openbox 3.4.6 and ObConf 2.0.3 released

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Read it all here. Hopefully your current GNU/Linux distribution has packaged them by now. Mine has (I did it myself)! :)

Chiclete com Banana

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

No verÃ£o de 1989 fui com minha famÃlia passear pela Bahia, passando por vÃ¡rias cidades pequenas, atÃ© chegar em Caravelas. Uma noite enquanto assistia minhas irmÃ£s jogando ping-pong na pousada, encontrei um exemplar da revista Chiclete com Banana. Achei o estilo dos desenhos bem diferente do que eu estava acostumado (revistinhas Marvel, DC, Tex, Zagor, Turma da MÃ´nica, etc) e comecei a folhear o que eventualmente virou uma jornada de muita rizada. Quando voltei para ConceiÃ§Ã£o da Barra, ES, junto com uma turma enorme, sentamos e comeÃ§amos a ler o gibi na praÃ§a. Aparentemente ninguÃ©m tambÃ©m conhecia a revista, e depois daquela noite muitos dos termos usados nas tirinhas acabaram virando parte do nosso vocabulÃ¡rio. A revista, depois de passar por milhÃµes de mÃ£os acabou desaparendo.

Ignorance is Strength

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Caskets at the reflecting pool by A-Wix

As I see our nation crumbling down before my eyes, the republican candidates to the presidency of the United States concentrated on spewing garbage about the war in Iraq and building a fence to protect us against illegal immigrants. I wish they would use their time more wisely talking about how to minimize the huge f*** up our current President has gotten us into.

Rumor has it\...

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

… that this (below) could be a Foresight Linux based distribution flavored with Openbox and friends. Interested in the idea? You know where to find me…

Rumores falam que\...

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

… que isso (abaixo) pode ser uma nova distribuiÃ§Ã£o GNU/Linux baseada no Foresight Linux, com Openbox e amigos. Interessado na idÃ©ia? VocÃªs sabem como me encontrar…

Enquanto isso\...

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Enquanto eu estava trabalhando duro esta semana, o Openbox 3.4.5 foi lanÃ§ado! Como sempre, eu jÃ¡ o empacotei para o Foresight Linux (o repositÃ³rio 2-devel) e vocÃª pode obtÃª-lo usando o conary ou PackageKit.

Aproveitei ontem a noite e melhorei o PyPanel com alguns patches e atualizei o Nitrogen para 1.2 (nÃ£o estÃ¡ no screenshot).

Por falar no Nitrogen, andei procurando por uma forma fÃ¡cil e direta de mudar o papel de fundo do ambiente de trabalho que nÃ£o fosse o GNOME, e fiquei adimirado como todos exemplos eram GNOME-cÃªntricos. Alguns hacks atÃ© mesmo usavam comandos com o gconf2… :/ AlguÃ©m sabe de uma forma pythÃ´nica, nÃ£o-GNOME-cÃªntrica de fazer isso? Quem sabe usando python-xlib?

Oh yeah\...

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

While I was busy at work, Openbox 3.4.5 was released! As always, I’ve packaged it for Foresight Linux (the 2-devel branch) and you can get it using conary or PackageKit.

I also took the time last night to pimp PyPanel with a few patches and bump Nitrogen to 1.2 (not shown in the screenshot).

Speaking of Nitrogen, I looked around for an easy and straight forward way to change the desktop wallpaper in a non-GNOME environment and was amazed at how GNOME-centric they all were. Some hacks involved issuing gconf2 commands… :/ Anyone know of a pythonic, non-GNOME-centric way of doing this? Maybe using python-xlib?

Revista Portuguesa sobre programaÃ§Ã£o

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A dica veio do meu amigo RedTuxer: Trata-se da revista Portuguesa “Programar”, uma excelente leitura para aqueles querendo aprender a programar e para os mais experientes. Chamo atenÃ§Ã£o especial para o artigo sobre C#. De primeira qualidade!

ApresentaÃ§Ã£o ao Planeta Mandriva Brasil

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Fui gentilmente convidado a participar do Planeta Mandriva Brasil, e pensei: Por que nÃ£o me apresentar entÃ£o?

Para os que nÃ£o me conhecem, meu nome Ã© Og Maciel e moro na Carolina do Norte, USA desde 1991. Sou formado em Engenharia GenÃ©tica e tenho vÃ¡rios cursos e certificados na Ã¡rea de GNU/Linux, sendo o RHCE uma delas. Sou casado hÃ¡ 7 anos e pai de duas filhas.

Minha participaÃ§Ã£o no mundo de software livre pode ser traduzida pelos seguintes itens:

The Biggest Loser

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Just watched the Republican debate on TV and was perplexed by the “quality” of “answers” that were given by the candidates… well, all except one failed to get my serious attention: Ron Paul. Just as Dennis Kucinich would have been my candidate of choice for the democrats, I must say that Ron Paul has left a very good impression in me. While the other candidates (and even the panel moderators) busied themselves by ridiculing him, he gave answers! Straight answers! Like it or not answers!

Newer packages of BillReminder for Gutsy

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Some people reported dependency errors when using one of the two .deb packages I announced today. Turns out it was due to python-sqlite2 and python-image… Our own Luiz Armesto has whipped up a newer package that can be downloaded here, now with all the right dependencies. Thanks to Diogo Autilio and Alex Bevilacqua again for sending me his packages as well (see comments)!

UPDATE: Just as I was about to submit this post, Diogo sent me a newer package with updates up to this second! Wow!

Novo pacote do BillReminder para o Gutsy

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Algumas pessoas relataram alguns problemas de dependÃªncias quando tentaram usar um dos dois pacotes .deb que eu tinha anunciado antes. O problema foi causado pela falta dos mÃ³dulos python-sqlite2 e python-image… O grande Luiz Armesto acabou de tirar um novo pacote do forno que pode ser baixado aqui, agora com todas as dependÃªncias corretas. Obrigado Diogo Autilio e Alex Bevilacqua mais uma vez por tambÃ©m enviarem outros pacotes (veja comentÃ¡rios)!

Hoje o dia foi bem pesado no trabalho e eu nÃ£o tive nenhuma oportunidade para trabalhar no cÃ³digo. Mas eu consegui criar novos relatÃ³rios baseados no feedback que recebi de das pessoas usando o BillReminder. Enquanto isso, o Luiz botou para quebrar, resolvendo estes mesmos relatÃ³rios mais rÃ¡pido que eu conseguia criÃ¡-los. :)

BillReminder keep on rocking

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

BillReminder now has inline searching and colored categories for (hopefully) easier sorting and some bling. :) A few more issues have been closed as well, bringing us closer and closer to a code freeze.

Also, thanks to Diogo Autilio and Alex Bevilacqua we now have BillReminder packaged for Ubuntu Gutsy! Please take them (there are 2 *.debs available) for a spin and relate any bugs or feature requests here.

Mais novidades sobre o BillReminder

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

O BillReminder agora tem um recurso de pesquisas inline e categorias coloridas para (espero) facilitar a organizaÃ§Ã£o e para adicionar um pouco de “bling”. :) Mais alguns relatÃ³rios de erros foram resolvidos, nos levando mais perto de um code freeze.

GraÃ§as ao Diogo Autilio e Alex Bevilacqua nÃ³s agora temos o BillReminder empacotado para o Ubuntu Gutsy! Por favor teste os pacotes (existem 2 *.debs disponÃveis) e relate qualquer erro ou pedidos de recursos aqui.

No meio da nata

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

As estatÃsticas do GNOME Bugzilla foram anunciadas e foi muito bacana ver meu nome nas categorias top 250 bug reporters e top 100 patch submitters de 2007. Se eu pudesse finalmente ter acesso de SVN agora…

Top Percentile

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

GNOME Bugzilla stats are out and what a nice surprise to see my name in the top 250 bug reporters and top 100 patch submitters from 2007. If could only have SVN access now…

BillReminder goes to Hollywood

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Not really… but I did create this small webcast to show it off so people know what I’m talking about. :) I hope to attract more contributors to the project with my “production”…

If the resolution is too crappy you may want to see the original file (approx. 6MB).

Oh!!! Before I forget, check out the spiffy Screenshots page! Thanks Luiz and VinÃƒÂcius for your hard work!

UPDATE: Fixed the URL for original file.

BillReminder vai para Hollywood

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Brincadeira… mas eu criei este pequeno webcast para mostrar para o pessoal do que estou falando. :) Espero poder atrair mais colaboradores para o projeto com esta minha “produÃ§Ã£o”…

Se a resoluÃ§Ã£o estiver muito ruim vocÃª pode querer baixar o arquivo original (aprox. 6MB).

Alguns problemas foram resolvidos neste fim de semana, e novos relatÃ³rios mais simples foram criados para nos manter concentrados em nossas metas.

Alguns dos relatÃ³rios de erros que foram resolvidos foram:

About gtk.SpinButton, my time widget and quick patches

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today I fixed issue 1864094 “Time widget for individual alarms are too long”. I ended up creating a brand new widget with gtk.SpinButtons instead of gtk.ComboBoxes, since we determined that it would be useful for a different dialog. This took me a bit longer than I expected because I insisted that the hours should be zero padded (i.e. display 01, 02 and not 1, 2, etc). After spending some time on this I finally gave him and asked Johan Dahlin if it was possible, to which I received a negative answer. I proceeded to code my widget only to receive the news several minutes later that a patch had already been created and is now awaiting for someone to review. Is this awesome or what?

No Bugs Left Behind and Rumors

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today I started a No Bugs Left Behind campaign to air out any kinks out of BillReminder. Though I was very busy at work, I managed to file a couple of issues with several of them being resolved by Luiz before the end of the day! I had some positive feedback from people who tried the Mandriva package and even a *.deb too. Hope to fix some other pending issues over the weekend.

BillReminder de casa nova!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Meu projeto BillReminder passou por vÃ¡rios ciclos de desenvolvimento nos Ãºltimos dias, grande parte graÃ§as ao trabalho feito por Luiz Armesto. Todo este “barulho” me fez finalmente mudar o web site, antes hospedadoÂ pela SourceForge, para um de meus domÃnios. Isso me darÃ¡ mais flexibilidade e controle sobre a organizaÃ§Ã£o geral e aparÃªncia.

Por falar em aparÃªncia, hoje eu recebi um material (para ser mais preciso, o cabeÃ§alho) feito pelo VinÃcius Amaral que estava super empolgado com o projeto. TÃ£o empolgado ele estava que ele Ã© agora responsÃ¡vel pela aparÃªncia do site. :)

BillReminder has a new house!

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My pet project BillReminder has gone through several iterations of new code these last few days, mainly thanks to the work done by Luiz Armesto. All this commotion made me finally move the project’s home page, then hosted by SourceForge, to one of my domains. This has given me more flexibility and control over the overall design and look and feel of it.

Speaking of look and feel, I have received some spiffy artwork (namely, the header) from VinÃƒÂcius Amaral who was fairly excited about the project. So much so that he is now in charge of this facet of the project. :)

End of 2007 and new beginnings

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s was the end of the year and my head has been spinning with ideas! The important thing is to know how to take advantage of this and try to turn them into reality. That’s why I’m planning on using online systems like Remember The Milk(RTM) to help me get more organized. Since I check my gMail at least a good 50 times a day, and RTM integrates well with it, I won’t have any excuses if I forget something now.

Fim de ano

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Fim de ano e a cabeÃ§a fervilhando de idÃ©ias! A sacada Ã© saber aproveitÃ¡-las e tornÃ¡-las realidades. Ã‰ por isso que pretendo utilizar sistemas como o Remember The Milk(RTM) para me manter mais organizado. Como checo meu gMail pelo menos umas 50 vezes por dia, e o fato que existe uma forma de integrar o RTM ao gMail, nÃ£o terei mais desculpas se me esquecer de algo.

Como minha companhia fecha na Ãºltima semana do ano, e como o aniversÃ¡rio da minha filha Yv Ã© no dia 22, fomos de (carro) mala e cuia para a casa da minha irmÃ£ em New Jersey para celebrar o aniversÃ¡rio e o natal com o resto da famÃlia. A viagem foi longa: 9 horas na ida e 11 na volta. Mas valeu a pena rever a famÃlia e ver como minhas filhas, as Ãºnicas netas da famÃlia, serem bajuladas por todos. :)

Google Highly Open Participation Contest e TraduÃ§Ãµes

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Se vocÃª estÃ¡ participando do Google Highly Open Participation Contest e estÃ¡ ajudando com o processo de traduÃ§Ãµes, ou estÃ¡ procurando por uma forma garantida de testar suas traduÃ§Ãµes com o GNOME mais recente (ainda em desenvolvimento), entÃ£o vÃ¡ buscar sua cÃ³pia do GNOME Developer Kit agora!

VocÃª poderÃ¡ entÃ£o baixar o catÃ¡logo de mensagens para a aplicaÃ§Ã£o que vocÃª deseja traduzir (no meu caso eu baixei o arquivo do Empathy) para o seu idioma e use o poEdit (jÃ¡ incluÃdo) para mandar bala na sua traduÃ§Ã£o. VocÃª poderÃ¡ tambÃ©m aproveitar o translate-toolkit e realmente fazer um excelente trabalho de QA!

Triple Threat

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Just in time for the holidays:

Google Highly Open Participation Contest and Translations

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest and is involved with the translation process, or just want a sure way to test your translations with the latest GNOME, then go get your copy of the GNOME Developer Kit now!

You could then download the message catalog file for the application you want to translate (in my case I got the Brazilian Portuguese file for Empathy) to your language and use poEdit (already included) to work on your translation. You can also take advantage of translate-toolkit to really do some serious QA work!

Openbox goodness!

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Finally caught up with my rss feeds and found out about some new sexyness coming up in Openbox. You’ll need to get Openbox(git) and Obconf(git) from their respective git repositories as well as this theme.

If you’re running Foresight and want to try this (since it is still in development, I didn’t bother to submit it to a repo yet), let me know and I’ll get you the changeset.

Taca perfume no Ubuntu

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Na hora de distribuir os CDs do Ubuntu aos seus amigos, nÃ£o seria bacana entregÃ¡-los em uma embalagem bem bolada? Foi justamente com isso em mente que alguns usuÃ¡rios criaram a pÃ¡gina DivulgaÃ§Ã£o. Tem tambÃ©m um excelente folheto com algumas explicaÃ§Ãµes bÃ¡sicas que seria o complemento perfeito para um bom presente de fim de ano!

Para os grandes eventos, o custo de imprimir estas capas coloridas podem deixar um grande buraco em seu bolso. Foi por isso que meu amigo Guilherme Paula criou umas capinhas bem simples, em preto e branco, ideais para serem copiadas por xerox.

Boring day

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a rather boring day for me… The funny thing is that it started out very promising, with many ideas going through my mind. Managed to create a rather simple “About” dialog for Foresight.

If I get the time I’ll finish it and commit it to the fl:1-devel repository.

Ajuda necessÃ¡ria no projeto de traduÃ§Ã£o e documentaÃ§Ã£o

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Aos usuÃ¡rios do Arch Linux Brasileiros:

Pessoal, O nosso wiki jÃ¡ estÃ¡ praticamente pronto e o projeto Arch Linux Brasil estÃ¡ precisando de contribuiÃ§Ãµes. ;) No momento ainda possuÃmos poucas pessoas documentando/traduzindo no nosso wiki e, por isso, convido a todos que queiram ajudar o Arch e o projeto de documentaÃ§Ã£o/traduÃ§Ã£o a se cadastrar no wiki e comeÃ§ar a contribuir. O pÃ¡gina abaixo contÃ©m instruÃ§Ãµes sobre como participar do nosso projeto: http://wiki.archlinux-br.org/index.php?title=Como_Participar As traduÃ§Ãµes que estÃ£o sendo feitas (e seus respectivos tradutores) podem ser encontrados aqui: http://wiki.archlinux-br.org/index.php?title=Tradu%C3%A7%C3%B5es Obviamente a tabela da pÃ¡gina acima nÃ£o estÃ¡ completa e existem vÃ¡rias outras documentaÃ§Ãµes e/ou traduÃ§Ãµes a serem feitas. Quem quiser trabalhar em cima de um documento que ainda nÃ£o estÃ¡ na tabela, Ã© sÃ³ adicionÃ¡-lo na mesma seguindo o padrÃ£o das outras entradas. Qualquer dÃºvida, sugestÃ£o e/ou crÃtica Ã© sÃ³ responder este email. AbraÃ§os. — []’s Hugo Doria http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org

Foresight and Conary Updates

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

First off, for those participating of the Google Highly Open Participation Contest, get your GNOME Developer Kit now! Download the VMWare image or the DVD and start hacking today! There will be continuous builds (the plan is to have them daily) so that you’ll always have the freshest GNOME code to play with. For the translators out there, I’ve recommended the inclusion of poEdit, intltool, translate-toolkit and gettext, all latest versions available. Feel free to let us know of any other application that could make your life easier.
To keep your GNOME Developer Kit up to date, take advantage of the awesome PackageKit or for those interested in the amazing Conary packaging and management system, run *sudo conary updateall*
Speaking of Conary, those who have ventured into the packaging world will be happy with the release of conary 1.2.10 and the new cvc explain command.

\"The weather outside is frightfull\...

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… but here in North Carolina is so delightfull!"

Want yet another reason to move to North Carolina? Here’s one… better yet, FIVE:

It was 81 F this afternoon! Awesome! :)

By the way, Flickr is sporting a newer upload interface… spiffy!

Comunicado Importante

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Nas Ãºltimas semanas o canal de apoio do #ubuntu-br (e fiquei sabendo que muitos outros tambÃ©m) estÃ£o sofrendo uma sÃ©rie eventos nada confortÃ¡veis para quem estÃ¡ iniciando no mundo do GNU/Linux. Trata-se de um bando de garotinhos que mal sabem usar um computador e ficam ensinando coisas erradas para os novatos. Semana passada mesmo houve um caso onde um destes debiloides falou para um iniciante para executar um comando pelo terminal. Este comando simplesmente destruiu o sistema do iniciante, e o debiloide ficou se gabando, achando-se o mÃ¡ximo por ter sabotado um iniciante.

GNOME Foundation update

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’d like to extend my (unofficial) congratulations to the new GNOME Foundation Board of Directors! (unofficial results) Nice to see Luis' charisma showing in the results! :) The new board can definitely count with my support!

I also want to thank all of those who voted for me! I feel very privileged that you guys believed in me and I can only hope to be able to continue pushing for my ideas and ideals. :)

Dennis Kucinich

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000

“one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Dennis Kucinich! ’nough said!

Update: A lot of people believed the quote above belonged to Mr. Kucinich, but that was me. Thanks Dan for the heads up on my formatting mistake. :)

The Online Desktop Question

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m glad Bryan Clark poked the candidates running for the GNOME Board about the Online Desktop question. The best part was that he took the time to sift through all the answers and derive a nice chart of what he understood from the answers and what he felt needed some further explanation. So, to answer his call…

When I said

I believe that it is not up to the Board to decide on the implementation or even which tools/languages to use, but serve as a facilitator and guiding light to make sure that the project stays on track and focused…

Ideas

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was really glad to see David Bolter's post today about transparency in community decisions! Olav and I had been talking about this (see comments section), related to blog aggregation requests, and it is nice to see that someone else also agrees. Some people may complain about having to create a user account (assuming we’re using bugzilla, for instance) to request that his blog be aggregated to the planet, but this would provide some sort of “receipt” and serve as a means to get a process going. Obviously, it is also necessary some kind of control so that tickets don’t just sit there and collect dust. :)

Clarification

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It seems that my post didn’t quite express what I really meant and some people (Olav Vitters has asked me to mention his name instead of making it generic) have even decided no to vote for me because of it. Wow… For instance, my good friend Luis quoted me on his last post and based on what he wrote one would think I’m telling people to shut up and just vote. This is not what I meant at all and I can only blame myself for not making it clear. So, just to clarify things, there are better ways to express your opinion and calling someone “a psychotic failure, obstructive and destructive” is not the correct and civil way. Does it make it any less valid if expressed “forcefully”? No. But look at it any way you want, there is no excuse. period!

Let us not lose our cool

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

About today’s outburst, I have the following to say: The GNOME Foundation has established a democratic process by which its members and directions can be chosen. If a process or person has not delivered that which was agreed upon or expected (due to a role), that is the price one pays for democracy. Please, let us not lose out cool and take advantage of the system to do what is right for the Foundation. By all means, voice your opinion… but let us all keep our cool.

Now that all the turkey is gone\...

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This last week has been but a blur to me due to the holidays (Thanksgiving here in the US) and my house being full of relatives who came to visit from upstate New York. With the exception of a patch I sent (and committed by Jonh, thanks!) to bugzilla, my time was spent doing the following:

Following and answering the questions that were asked for those running for the GNOME Board of Directors (I’m one of them). As someone pointed out, I believe I’m the only United States citizen running. If you care about the GNOME Project and its future direction, I highly recommend that you read these threads: 1,2,3.
Found some time to play with my N800 again! Vagalume rules and I can’t wait to get my hands on the new version for Canola!
Cleaning up my closet. I will have at least a good 50 computer books I’ll be donating by the end of the week, all less than 1 year old and in excellent conditions.
Enjoying the weather (until 3 days ago, when the temperature dropped noticeably) in North Carolina. I can never get enough of the North Carolina Botanical Garden here in Chapel Hill.

Running for the GNOME Board of Directors

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

So yesterday I finally managed to find some time to send in my application to run for the GNOME Board of Directors.Ã‚Â Now back to your regular program…

Foresight Linux KDE Edition: The start of the odyssey!

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

As I mentioned in my previous post, I decided to give KDE a chance on my home system. For the last 5 days I’ve been neck deep in KDE land, with some fairly minor trips to non-KDE applications when I can’t figure out how to get something done (more on the soon).

The first step was to download the brand spanking alpha ISO for Foresight Linux KDE Edition (x86 here and x86_64 here) and bring it home. I waited until everyone was asleep to backup my files and got ready for the long install… AND BOY WAS I DISAPPOINTED! The install, including formatting my 200GB hard drive took 4 MINUTES!

Weekend Update

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of updates before heading out to the weekend:

Been working hard together with FÃƒÂ¡bio Nogueira on the XFCE translations before the eminent 4.4.2 release. Things are looking really good!

Tonight I was feeling a bit adventurous and took the pre-alpha Foresight 2.0 KDE Edition and installed it at home. Like I said, I was really feeling adventurous and installed the x86_64 bit version too, and so far everything looks good! Amarok feels really good right now! :) The whole idea is to allow me to work on Brazilian Portuguese translations for KDE and be able to see my work in use.

Foresight Linux no The Linux Link Tech Show

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Escute o Ken Vandine falar sobre a futura versÃ£o 2.0 do Foresight Linux, novos “sabores” com KDE e XFCE , Conary, GNOME, Ubuntu, traduÃ§Ãµes e muito mais no The Linux Link Tech Show. (EpisÃ³dio #218, em InglÃªs)

Foresight Linux on The Linux Link Tech Show

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Listen to Ken Vandine talk about Foresight Linux's upcoming 2.0 version, new KDE and XFCE “flavors”, Conary, GNOME, Ubuntu, translations and more at The Linux Link Tech Show. (Episode #218)

Ajudando o projeto XFCE

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Em preparaÃ§Ã£o para o lanÃ§amento da nova versao do XFCE 4.4.2, estou agora na fase final das traduÃ§Ãµes para o PortuguÃªs do Brasil. Conforme minhas estatÃsticas, jÃ¡ estamos com os programas principais 100% traduzidos e com os programas adicionais (chamados de “goodies”) nos 98%! O melhor de tudo Ã© que junto com os outros tradutores, aplicamos o vocabulÃ¡rio tambÃ©m compartilhado pelo GNOME Brasil para que haja um padrÃ£o nestes dois ambientes de trabalho. Nos prÃ³ximos dias estarei efetuando uma operaÃ§Ã£o “pente-fino”, revisando todas as traduÃ§Ãµes e finalizando tudo para o dia 17 de novembro.

FossCamp 2007

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para aqueles que notaram o meu sumiÃ§o na semana passada, o motivo foi que eu estava atendendo a evento FossCamp em Boston como um representante do Foresight Linux (assim como tambÃ©m representando meus prÃ³prios interesses na Ã¡rea de localizaÃ§Ã£o e traduÃ§Ã£o. Infelizmente meu amigo Ken nÃ£o pode ir e eu fiquei encarregado da enorme tarefa de conversar com os desenvolvedores sobre o gerente de pacotes conary.

Meu voo foi super tranquilo com uma parada em NYC onde encontrei com minha irmÃ£ mais velha. Depois de comer algo e tomar umas geladas, pegamos o aviÃ£o para Boston onde chegamos depois das 17:00. O tempo nÃ£o estava nada bom com a temperature bem perto de zero graus quando chegamos no hotel.

For the little kid in you

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… or for the “real” kids, three fun educational games that are guaranteed to be a big hit!

GCompris (highly recommended for younger kids!)
Super Tux Kart
Tux Type 2 (highly recommended for younger kids!)

BE WARNED: Once your kids play these, there’s a great possibility that you won’t be able to use your computer for many hours! :)

Para a crianÃ§a em vocÃª

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… ou para a crianÃ§ada de verdade, trÃªs jogos super divertidos (e educativos) que com certeza terÃ£o um sucesso garantido!

GCompris (recomendo para crianÃ§as mais novas!)
Super Tux Kart
Tux Type 2 (recomendo para crianÃ§as mais novas!)

ESTEJA AVISADO: Uma vez suas crinÃ§as joguem estes joguinhos, existe uma grande possibilidade que vocÃª nÃ£o poderÃ¡ usar o seu computador por muitas horas! :)

Back from FossCamp

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

For those who noticed my sudden disappearance from the web late last week, I was attending FossCamp in Boston as a Foresight Linux representative as well as representing my own interests in the localization arena. Unfortunately Ken could not make it and I was left with the daunting task of talking to people about conary.

My flight was pretty peaceful with a quick stop in NYC where I met up with my older sister. After grabbing a bite to eat and a couple of cold ones, we boarded the plane to Boston where we arrived shortly after 17:00. The weather was pretty nasty with the temperature dropping to the low 40s as we checked in the hotel.

It\'s the big pumpking Charlie Brown!

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Quick series of small family related news. If you’re looking for tech stuff, skip this post. :)

Before flying to FossCamp, we carved a couple of small pumpkins in preparation for Halloween. This will be baby Kate’s first Halloween and it was also the first time I carved a pumpkin. Yv was very pleased with the final result, specially when we turned off the lights and lit some candles.

Novo visual no Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Finalmente sentei-me na frente do computador para dar uma garibada no visual do Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil, jÃ¡ que as pessoas que me prometeram pularam fora (nÃ£o Ã© VinÃcius? hehehe). Adicionei o blog dele para ver se assim ele se anima…Â ;) Aproveitei o embalo e criei um tema novo (todo em css) para celebrar o dia das bruxas que estÃ¡ se aproximando. ;) Por falar no Planeta, temos escritores de vÃ¡rias distribuiÃ§Ãµes que representam bem a comunidade Brasileira, mas a grande maioria usa o Ubuntu. AlguÃ©m tem alguma sugestÃ£o de algum blog que possa adicionar um novo ponto de vista ao Planeta?

Foresight Linux installation in 7 minutes!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

That is what the new version of Foresight Linux will offer with its new forthcoming version 2! I heard the news from Ken (Foresight’s leader and co-worker) last night and it has been confirmed by Elliot, our Anaconda tamer. Obviously your installation time may vary depending on your system, but I’m fairly sure they’ve used a standard PC for this. Another worthy mention is the addition of PackageKit as the graphical interface for our Conary package management system and we will definitely make a big splash with the addition of the Splashy boot splash! As always, you can expect the latest goodness from GNOME 2.20.1 and the latest versions of your favorite apps!

Instale o Foresight Linux em 7 minutos!

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Isso Ã© o que vocÃª pode esperar da nova versÃ£o do Foresight Linux que estÃ¡ por vir nos prÃ³ximos dias! Eu escutei a noticia do Ken (lider do Foresight e meu companheiro de trabalho) ontem a noite e confirmado mais tarde pelo Elliot, nosso domador do Anaconda. Obviamente seu tempo de instalaÃ§Ã£o vai variar dependendo do seu sistema, mas estou bem seguro que eles usaram um sistema padrÃ£o nestes testes. Outra novidade importante Ã© a adiÃ§Ã£o do gerente de iniciaÃ§Ã£o Splashy e o PackageKit, nossa interface grÃ¡fica para o sistema de gerenciamento de pacotes Conary. Claro que vocÃª pode esperar as novidades mais recentes do GNOME 2.20.1 e as versÃµes mais recentes dos seus programaas favoritos!

All you ever wanted to know about Conary and was afraid of asking

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ken has just announced the very first Conary BOF to be held at rPath this upcoming Oct. 23! If you want to learn all there is to know about the hottest technology out there, come over and talk to us!

PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.0 release!

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

PackageKit is DBUS packaging abstraction layer that makes use of a cross-distro, cross-architecture API to manage your system’s packages. In other words, it is a way for updating and administering software on a GNU/Linux system without worrying about the distro or underlying package management system.

Having gone from concept to release in inly 6 weeks of intensive collaborative work, version 0.1.0 already sports backends for conary, yum, apt, box, and alpm as well as comprehensive documentation and some translations (Vladimir Melo and I managed to get the Brazilian Portuguese translation done just in time!).

PackageKit e gnome-packagekit 0.1.0 lanÃ§ados!

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

PackageKit Ã© uma camada de empacotamento abstrata do DBUS que usa uma API cross-distro,Â e cross-arquitetura para gerenciar os programas em seu sistema. Em poucas palavras, Ã© uma forma para atualizar e administrar o software em um sistema GNU/Linux sem se preoculpar com qual a distribuiÃ§Ã£o ou sistema de gerenciamento de pacotes existente.

Tendo passado de conceito para lanÃ§amento em mÃseras 6 semanas de desenvolvimento colaborativo intensivo, a versÃ£o 0.1.0 jÃ¡ possui backends para conary, yum, apt, box, e alpm como tambÃ©m uma documentaÃ§Ã£o detalhada e algumas traduÃ§Ãµes (junto com o Vladimir Melo conseguimos terminar a traduÃ§Ã£o para o PortuguÃªs Brasileiro a tempo!).

Obrigado Raphael Higino Silva

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ã‰ com um grande peso no meu coraÃ§Ã£o que venho comunicar a trÃ¡gica notÃcia do falecimento de Raphael Higino Silva. Para quem nÃ£o o conheceu (estranho me referir a ele no passado), basta-se dizer que ele foi um dos membros mais ativos da equipe de traduÃ§Ã£o Brasileira do GNOME nos Ãºltimos tempos, e uma pessoa que esteve sempre disposto a ajudar qualquer pessoa!

"Ã‰ com enorme pesar que comunico que Raphael Higino Silva faleceu neste Ãºltimo dia 07, por volta das 22:00, apÃ³s dois dias em coma, devido a um trÃ¡gico acidente de moto. Todos estamos muito atordoados e tristes com a notÃcia."

Thank you Raphael Higino Silva

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the tragic news of the death of Raphael Higino Silva. For those who don’t know who he is, suffice to say that he had been a very active member of the GNOME Brazilian translation team for some time now! It is weird for me to refer to him in the past tense…

The news came to me via an email that was sent to the Brazilian mailing list just a few minutes ago by a close friend of the family. Though I have never met him in person, I considered him as a good friend and he will be missed!

Call me \"first prize winner\" please

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Over the weekend we had a Fall Festival in our neighborhood, with tons of food, drinks, and games for the kids. We stayed for about 2 hours and just as I was about to leave, Yv (my oldest daughter) decided she wanted to paint a pumpkin before heading back home. So we stayed a bit longer and that is when the DJ (yes, there was a DJ as well) announced there would be a pumpkin painting contest for the kids. All the kids were very excited and Yv decided to participate too. We waited and waited for the DJ to collect all the entries but he started some other games and we thought that this was going to take too long… So I again convince the girls to leave and as we get close to the car, we hear the DJ calling all the contestants. Needless to say we ran back to where all the pumpkins were and placed Yv’s along with them.

Python Magazine

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

As pointed out by Jonathan Carter, the first issue of Python Magazine has been published and can be freely downloaded. I took a fairly quick glimpse at the articles and was very pleased with the amount of (sample) code included! I would definitely pay for its subscription and have added it to my (short) list of things I’d like to have (but cannot afford to at the moment). My other item in this list? A subscription to the awesome Linux Format magazine! :)

Milestones and Events

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Quick post to mention a couple of personal milestones and events:

Today is my 1-year anniversary at rPath. It also marks 1 year since I stopped doing work with VB.NET/C# and PL/SQL and embarked in a brand new world of Python, and web-by programming… There is not a day that I don’t learn something new!
Sept. 29th marked 1 year since I left New Jersey for North Carolina! Besides the advantages of working with such a smart bunch (see above), I now get to spend quality time with my wife and two daughters. I get to see them grow and learn, and that is priceless!
October 16th will be my 7th wedding anniversary! Marrying Elizabeth was about the smartest thing I have ever done!
I will be attending this year’s FOSSCamp 2007, together with my friend Ken Vandine. Looking forward to seeing Jorge and Jono again!

Milestones e Eventos

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Um post rapidinho para anunciar alguns milestones e eventos pessoais:

Hoje completo um ano trabalhando na rPath. TambÃ©m completa um ano que parei de trabalhar com VB.NET/C# e PL/SQL e embarquei em um mundo novinho de Python, e pragramaÃ§Ã£o com web… NÃ£o tem um dia que passa que nÃ£o aprendo algo novo!
Setembro 29 marcou 1 ano desde que saÃ de New Jersey e me mudei para North Carolina! AlÃ©m das vantagens de trabalhar com uma galera super esperta (mencionado acima), eu agora posso passar mais tempo com minha esposa e duas filhas. Agora eu posso acompanhÃ¡-las crescer e isso nÃ£o tem preÃ§o!
Dia 16 de outubro serÃ¡ meu sÃ©timo aniversÃ¡rio de casamento! Casar com a Elizabeth foi com certeza a coisa mais inteligente que fiz na minha vida!
Estarei no evento FOSSCamp 2007, junto com meu amigo Ken Vandine. Vai ser muito legal rever meus amigos Jorge e Jono!

Expondo-se via Web 2.0

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Interessante como Ã© relativamente fÃ¡cil acompanhar o que alguÃ©m estÃ¡ lendo, escutando, indo/vendo, tudo via RSS. Se vocÃª tiver uma conta no Mugshot e usar o cliente deles, aÃ fica mais fÃ¡cil ainda. JÃ¡ conheci muitas bandas e mÃºsicas novas atravÃ©s destas fontes de notÃcias. Eu sÃ³ uso alguns destes sites “social networking”, entÃ£o vocÃª pode imaginar o quanto mais informaÃ§Ã£o vocÃª pode obter por ai.

Exposing yourself via Web 2.0

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Interesting how it is relatively easy to follow what someone is reading, listening, going/seeing, all via RSS. If you have a Mugshot account and their client installed, then it is even easier to follow this information. I’ve learned of different bands/music thanks to these feeds. I only use a couple of these “social networking” sites, so you could only imagine how much more information is available out there.

Talk like a pirate!

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para as pessoas que nÃ£o acompanham o Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil usando um leitor de notÃcias, e ficaram confusos com o monte de fotos de piratas na pÃ¡gina, eis a explicaÃ§Ã£o!

Ontem foi o International Talk Like a Pirate Day… Aqui onde trabalho temos uma rede de IRC interna e todos mudamos nossos nicks para nomes de piratas… Tinha atÃ© gente usando camisas de pirata, etc. :)

Antigamente eu fazia estas coisas no Planeta Ubuntu Brasil, mas hoje em dia a administraÃ§Ã£o anda meio sem inspiraÃ§Ã£o. :P

GNOME 2.20 is here!

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

GNOME 2.20 just came out of the oven and is as crispy as you’d expect it to be after a couple of months of development! This is the second release I take part of (not as a developer but as a translator), and want to take the opportunity to thank all of those who participated in this effort!

I want to specially thank (and give a shout out to) the entire GNOME i18n team! It is no easy task to go through (literally) thousands and thousands of lines of messages, trying to translate them so not to lose the true meaning of the sentence as well as make it clear and easy to understand.

LanÃ§ado o GNOME 2.20!

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

GNOME 2.20 acabou de sair do forno e estÃ¡ muito bom, como esperado depois de alguns meses de desenvolvimento! Este Ã© o segundo lanÃ§amento que eu participo (nÃ£o como desenvolvedor mas como tradutor), e gostaria de aproveitar a oportunidade para agradecer a todos que participaram deste trabalho!

Quero especialmente agradecer a toda equipe de traduÃ§Ãµes do GNOME! NÃ£o Ã© mole passar horas e horas lendo (literalmente) milhares de mensagens, tentando traduzÃ-las, mantendo o sentido original e tornando-as claras e fÃ¡ceis de entender.

Adding Vinagre to Conary

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Tonight during our TriLUG meeting, Ken packaged Vinagre for the first time using Conary, the distributed software management system for Linux distributions. It took him literally no more than 5 minutes to write up the recipe, cook (package) it, and send it to the repository.

Vinagre is a VNC client well integrated with GNOME , current being developed by Jonh Wendell. For those curious as to what the recipe for packaging it was, take a look:

Sync BillReminder with GNOME clock

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In an attempt to integrate BillReminder to the GNOME clock, I set out to learn about the evolution-python lib. After messing around for a bit, it became obvious to me that every event added to the generic .evolution/tasks/local/system/calendar.ics file gets automatically synched with GNOME clock. The thing is, I want to create my own separate calendar file, so to not get it mixed with the generic one. The code below does just that, but… it doesn’t show up in GNOME clock!

Caminhos Cruzados

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Foi bem interessante ver um artigo mencionando Canonical e rPath (onde trabalho) no mesmo parÃ¡grafo, jÃ¡ que Ubuntu foi responsÃ¡vel pela minha entrada no mundo do software livre, e a rPath responsÃ¡vel por me permitir trabalhar (leia, ser pago) com software livre!

Como somos os pioneiros desta Ã¡rea de Linux appliances, fiquei surpreso que nÃ£o houve muita informaÃ§Ã£o fornecida sobre o que nÃ³s (rPath) fazemos, nem mesmo um link para o web site da compania.

Crossing Paths

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It was interesting to see an article mentioning Canonical and rPath (where I work) in the same paragraph, since Ubuntu was responsible for my entrance into the open source world, and rPath is responsible for allowing me to work (i.e. get paid) with it!

Being the pioneers of the whole Linux appliances business, I was surprised that not much information was provided on what we (rPath) do, not even a link to the company’s web site.

Novos Autores no Planeta

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje eu adicionei 3 novos autores no Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil… Todos foram escolhidos devido ao seu estilo de escrever e tambÃ©m os tÃ³picos escolhidos (ajudou tambÃ©m que encontrei-os por estarem conectados ao meu blog via permalink :) ). SÃ£o eles:

Espero que todos os leitores do Planeta tambÃ©m divirtam-se com o novo material!

MySQL issue when upgrading to WordPress 2.2.3

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Thought this may be helpful to someone else who also uses WordPress. Shortly after upgrading to the latest version, I found the following warning message sprinkled all over the administrative interface:

[Can't open file: 'wp_comments.MYI'. (errno: 145)]

A quick search pointed me to the solution:

mysql> repair table wp_comments;

GNOME 2.20 100% traduzido para o PortuguÃªs Brasileiro!

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Tenho o grande prazer de anunciar que o GNOME 2.20 estÃ¡ 100% traduzido para o PortuguÃªs Brasileiro! O trabalho realizado por vÃ¡rios colaboradores (o Vladimir Melo escreveu mais cedo sobre o assunto e tem uma lista com o nome de todos) nestes Ãºltimos meses tornarÃ¡ possÃvel, pela segunda vez consecutiva, que qualquer usuÃ¡rio do GNOME, nÃ£o importa sua distribuiÃ§Ã£o de GNU/Linux, tenha uma interface completamente traduzida!

Com o lanÃ§amento oficial marcado para os prÃ³ximos dias, algumas distribuiÃ§Ãµes jÃ¡ possuem a versÃ£o em desenvolvimento (como o Ubuntu Gutsy e Foresight Linux, por exemplo), o que tornou meu trabalho um pouco mais fÃ¡cil de testar. A prÃ³xima vez que eu atualizar meu sistema, jÃ¡ terei tudo na versÃ£o final.

How many are there in a Brazilian?

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

For the second release cycle in a row, I’m pleased to announce that GNOME will be 100%* available in Brazilian Portuguese! This feat shows again how the collaborative effort between the Ubuntu and GNOME Brazilian translation teams! Since all translations were submitted and aproved by the GNOME commiters (thank you Leonardo, Raphel and Jonh!) first, every GNU/Linux distribution will be able to take advantage of effort! If this doesn’t represent the true meaning of cooperation and collaborative work, I don’t know what else does!

IntegraÃ§Ã£o com o GNOME clock

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje o Ken Vandine estava exibindo o programa intlclock com o mini aplicativo GNOME clock:

Cliquei no meu relÃ³gio e descobri, para minha surpresa, que todas as minhas tarefas registradas no Tasks e reuniÃµes no Zimbra estavam todos integrados tambÃ©m!

Seria bem interessante integrar o BillReminder tambÃ©m… :)

Integrated GNOME clock

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

So today Ken Vandine was showing off the integration of intlclock with his GNOME clock applet:

I clicked on my clock to find out, to my surprise, that all of my tasks on Tasks and appointments in Zimbra were nicely integrated with it!

| It would be really nice to integrate BillReminder with it too… :)

The road to GNOME 2.20

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

When I started my GNOME trip, we were on mile 2.16 and the GNOME Brazil crew was in the process of tackling a 26% deficit with the translation process. Together with the Brazilian Ubuntu translation team, we plowed through bugzilla, leaving no empty (or fuzzy) string left to tell stories, and reaching mile 2.18 at 100% translated! :)

Several months later and the road trip continued, with new pieces added to the puzzle, and some great effort by our committers down the stretch. The crew worked even better this time, like a fine oiled machine! We can already see mile 2.20 in the horizon… and there is no doubt that we’ll make it with plenty of gas left in the tank!

Rise to the challenge!

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

For anyone who has read my previous post and know me… or know and read my blog, I’d like to ask for a personal favor. Every day I see people taking the time to submit news bits to sites like Digg, Slashdot, etc, about several different topics, varying from how to do stuff on your computer to the daily Hollywood gossip. What I ask is the following:

Write something, no matter how big or small, about what I wrote on my previous post about this video. Submit to Digg, Slashdot, and any other news site out there! Ask your friends to blog about it! Raise hell!

Slavery is still well and alive in small town Brazil!

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I have just watched this video about the never ending conflict between Brazilian indigenous natives and the white farmers from small town Brazil. This is the kind of stuff that is well known by the entire country, but avoided by most for fear of retaliation!

Like pretty much anywhere in the Americas, the Brazilian indigenous population was almost completely massacred and enslaved by the the white settlers during the colonial times. The few who survived torture, humiliation, and sub-human living conditions, were shamelessly confined to live with no assistance and left to slowly vanish from human history. As a friend noted, even today in the 21st century, the Brazilian natives are treated worse than animals and are still forced to live under harsh circumstances.

Todo dia, era dia de Ãndio!

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Todos dias eu vejo vÃ¡rios sites publicando notÃcias sobre embelezar seu sistema operacional, notÃcias de esportes, novela, e fofocas! Vejo pessoas indicando notÃcias para que as mesmas sejam publicadas em sites populares como o BR-Linux ou Meiobit, EstadÃ£o, Folha por exemplo!

Gostaria de fazer um apelo a todas pessoas que me conhecem ou conhecem e lÃªem meu blog:

Se vocÃª achou vergonhoso o vÃdeo que eu comentei no meu Ãºltimo post, escreva algo no seu blog sobre o assunto! Indique o vÃdeo para estes sites famoso! PeÃ§a a seus amigos para tambÃ©m escreverem sobre o assunto! FaÃ§a barulho!

Vergonha Nacional!

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Assisti este vÃdeo hoje sobre o conflito que existe entre os indÃgenas e os “civilizados” brancos! Ã‰ inacreditÃ¡vel como que, em pleno sÃ©culo 21, ainda existe tanta gente atrasada no Brasil.

Uma frase do vÃdeo que me marcou: “Os Ãndios sÃ£o nossos!” Pensei que a escravidÃ£o tivesse sido abolida no Brasil, mas algumas pessoas ainda nÃ£o sabem disso!

Simplesmente vergonhoso!

Blog Day 2007

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

| |BlogDay2007

I have just received the news from Walter Cruz that he chose the Brazilian Portuguese version of my blog as one of his favorites for this year’s Blog Day 2007! I was very pleased and honored for being selected by such a great guy! ;)

So I’ll join in the fun and will announce a couple of my favorite Brazilian blogs. Just a little display that Brazilians have much more to offer than Carnaval, beautifull women, and soccer players:

O berro do Tarzan!

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O assunto de ontem sobre traduÃ§Ãµes do software livre Brasileiro e termos usados para descrever certos eventos efetuados pelo sistema operacional/computador , geraram algumas boas discussÃµes na lista do LDP-BR. Muitas pessoas expressaram suas opiniÃµes e foi muito bom ver que todos estÃ¡vamos interessados nos mesmos objetivos.

Uma coisa que muite genta nÃ£o sabe Ã© que existe muitas formas de contribuir com o software livre, e nem todas elas requerem que vocÃª seja um gÃªnio em programaÃ§Ã£o! Algumas pessoas ajudam com traduÃ§Ãµes, outras com documentaÃ§Ã£o, outras “embelezando” as pÃ¡ginas de internet, e outros dando palpites construtivos. E Ã© sobre esta Ãºltima opÃ§Ã£o que eu queria falar um pouco.

O paradigma do \"inicializar\"

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O tÃtulo deste post foi produto de um e-mail que recebi hoje do Bruno Jesus, contribuidor das traduÃ§Ãµes do XFCE. Em seu e-mail, ele menciona o seu “desgosto” pelo uso da palavra “inicializar” sendo usada nas traduÃ§Ãµes da palavra “boot” para representar o processo inicial que um computador passa antes que vocÃª possa usÃ¡-lo. O engraÃ§ado Ã© que quando eu comecei a trabalhar nas traduÃ§Ãµes, achei esta palavra estranhÃssima, mas como moro fora do Brasil hÃ¡ mais de 16 anos e sÃ³ aprendi termos tÃ©cnicos em inglÃªs, aceitei esta palavra como a traduÃ§Ã£o “correta”!

TraduÃ§Ã£o da LicenÃ§a PÃºblica Geral GNU

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ultimamente tenho pensado bastante na traduÃ§Ã£o atual (nÃ£o oficial) da LicenÃ§a PÃºblica Geral GNU (GNU GPL) para o PortuguÃªs Brasileiro. Para quem nÃ£o sabe o que Ã© a GNU GPL, esta Ã© a licenÃ§a que acompanha muitos dos programas de software livre e descreve exatamente os seus direitos e deveres para com o software do ponto de vista legal, ao mesmo tempo que garante proteÃ§Ã£o ao autor contra qualquer possÃvel aÃ§Ã£o jurÃdica por terceiros. A traduÃ§Ã£o para qualquer idioma nÃ£o Ã© encorajada, por medo que o sentido do texto seja alterado, e qualquer traduÃ§Ã£o Ã© considerada “nÃ£o oficial”.

For those who remember the golden days of videogames

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never posted a YouTube video in any of my posts, but this one had a whole bunch of us at work laughing our arses off! So here’s for those who like me, spent several hours playing Super Mario Bros.

Relembrando os anos dourados do videogame

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Eu nunca publiquei um vÃdeo do YouTube em nenhum dos meus posts, mas este aqui fez muitas pessoas aqui no trabalho rolar de rir! EntÃ£o, para aqueles que como eu, passaram vÃ¡rias horas jogando o Super Mario Bros.

Weather Wallpaper using Imperial Units

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I heard/read from someone about this cool application that would fetch weather information and convert it into a wallpaper that got refreshed every so often. This program is called Weather-Wallpaper!

Since we like cool and simple applications, we quickly packaged it for Foresight Linux but realized that the weather information being displayed was using the metric system. Now, without starting stupid arguments about the fact that the United States uses the imperial system, I took upon myself to add that feature to the still young code.

Weather-Wallpaper usando o sistema imperial

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem eu escutei/li de alguÃ©m sobre um programa bacana que busca informaÃ§Ã£o sobre o tempo da net w converte tudo para um papel de fundo que Ã© atualizado de tanto em tanto tempo. O programa se chama Weather-Wallpaper!

Como nÃ³s gostamos de aplicaÃ§Ãµes simples e matuta, nÃ³s o empacotamos logo, logo para o Foresight Linux mas notamos que a informaÃ§Ã£o estava sendo apresentada usando o sistema mÃ©trico. Agora, sem comeÃ§ar discussÃµes idiotas sobre o fato dos Estados Unidos usar o sistema imperial, eu decidi adicionar este recurso neste ainda jovem programa.

Ata da ReuniÃ£o de Planejamento do XFCE Brasil

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

ATA DA REUNIÃƒO DE PLANEJAMENTO / XFCE IRC (Freenode, #tradutores) â€" 24 de agosto de 2007.

Aos vinte e quatro dias do mÃªs de agosto de 2007, reuniram-se no canal #tradutores da rede Freenode do IRC, com inÃcio Ã s 22h00, os seguintes participantes:

Izrael
JosÃ© VÃtor
Og Maciel
Pablo Vieira
Luiz Armesto
FÃ¡bio Nogueira
Vladimir Melo
William Koch
Washington Lins
"Uplink"
Fernando Marostica.

Inicialmente ocorreu uma breve apresentaÃ§Ã£o desses mesmos participantes. A pauta da reuniÃ£o foi definir estratÃ©gias para adequar as traduÃ§Ãµes do XFCE ao VocabulÃ¡rio PadrÃ£o LDP-BR (aproveitando as traduÃ§Ãµes do Ubuntu e GNOME, que jÃ¡ seguem o modelo), tendo como objetivo maior, padronizar todas as traduÃ§Ãµes de software livre. Og Maciel comentou a respeito da sua atribuiÃ§Ã£o de committer e apresentou um wiki inicial elaborado por ele, http://i18n.xfce.org/wiki/team_pt_br, no qual jÃ¡ constam:

Lembrete

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A equipe de traduÃ§Ã£o Brasileira do XFCE terÃ¡ sua primeira reuniÃ£o hoje, dia 24 de agosto Ã s 22:00 (horÃ¡rio de BrasÃlia) no canal #tradutores da rede Freenode!Â Venha participar desta oportunidade de conhecer os tradutores de outras comunidades, e participar do planejamento futuro do XFCE!

AlÃ´ MamÃ£e!

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Meu amigo JosÃ© Vitor me enviou esta foto hoje:

Reconhece alguem, tipo no canto inferior esquerdo? :) Algo me diz que eu virei o garoto propaganda do Mugshot! :)

Look Ma!

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My good friend JosÃƒÂ© Vitor sent me snapshot today:

Recognize anyone ohhh, say on the lower left hand corner? :) Something tells me I became the poster boy for Mugshot! :)

New XFCE Hat

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m very excited to announce that I have taken the role of committer for the Brazilian XFCE Team! I bring to the table my background as a translator for the GNOME team for the last 9-10 months, as well as my background as a translator and former leader of the Brazilian Ubuntu Translation Team (and some minor contributions with the Brazilian KDE Team).

I want to take the opportunity to properly thank Adriano Winter Bess for kindly stepping down as the pt_BR translations maintainer, and allowing me to take this role. I’m sure I have a pretty big “shoe to fill” and I can only hope to do a job as great as he has in the past!

Novo ChapÃ©u: XFCE

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A pedido do AndrÃ© Noel… Tenho o enorme prazer de anunciar que eu agora sou o responsÃ¡vel pelo processo de revisÃ£o e administraÃ§Ã£o das traduÃ§Ãµes da equipe Brasileira do XFCE! Eu trago para a “mesa” meu background de tradutor da equipe do GNOME pelos Ãºltimos 9-10 meses, como tambÃ©m meu background como tradutor e ex-lÃder da equipe Brasileira de tradutores do Ubuntu (e algumas contribuiÃ§Ãµes com a equipe Brasileira do KDE).

Quero aproveitar a oportunidade para agradecer apropriadamente o Adriano Winter Bess por ter passado a posiÃ§Ã£o de mantenedor da equipe Brasileira para mim. Tenho certeza que tenho muito por fazer para poder oferecer o mesmo nÃvel de eficiÃªncia, e espero poder preencher esta lacuna!

Foresight Notification Theme

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

foresight-notification-theme

Originally uploaded by kenvandine

This one goes to Jonh Wendell who made the suggestion last night! Critical level notifications will have a red band on the left; Normal will sport the light green you see on this screenshot, and Low will have a light tan color.

Do I feel lucky?

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Over the weekend my next door neighbor managed to damage the passenger side door of my Honda when he parked too close to my car… That wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that it was the second car he’s damaged in the last month… also mine! Now, he’s an older professor from UNC who has been very nice and polite ever since we moved to Chapel Hill, and I let it slide the first FIVE times he scratched/dented my Pacifica… but enough is enough! Since I have leased these 2 cars, I don’t want to have to pay for the damage when the lease expires!

A Few Good People

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

<shameless_plug>We here at rPath are looking for a few good people to join our company. There are a few positions still open! So if you trive in fast-paced environments, enjoy the challenge of working with bleeding edge technology, and know a thing or two about Python and web technologies, send us your resume!</shameless_plug>

APTonCD on Linux Format Magazine

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised to see (as far as I know) the very first article written about APTonCD on last month’s issue (issue 95) of Linux Format, my favorite Linux magazine!

Back in August (or was it September?) of last year I learned that Rafael “CypherBIOS” ProenÃƒÂ§a had started this project written in Python that promised to deliver “a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you’ve downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers.” Back then I was still tinkering with the idea of porting my BillReminder from C# to Python, just so that I could start learning the language. Rafael seemed eager to have someone else take a look at his code and generously offered me commit access to his SVN repository. My first task was to clean up the code, add some (much needed) comments, and split up the code into classes, as well as divide the glade files into more organizable modules. I then proceeded to recruit some more people to help out and was extremely lucky to have met Laudeci “Pretto” de Oliveira, a developer who was searching for a good reason to take a plunge into the open source development world! I must say that Laudeci was the missing piece of the puzzle, and even though several other developers left their contribution here and there, it was him who fueled up the project and shifted things into a higher gear! Shortly after I started my job at rPath and with the birth if my second daughter, my participation in the project went from developer/supporter to cheerleader! :)

The Name Game

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I wanted to comment on Tristan Rhodes's latest post before but didn’t get a chance. Last time I checked he had received 56 comments on his suggestion to “unify” the Ubuntu name (and by unify he means to avoid the proliferation of several different distribution versions, that distinguish themselves based only on the window manager installed by default).

I must tell you that I have to agree with him, mainly because I feel that the many [U|X|Ku|n]buntu out there could be very confusing to an end user who’s decided to check out GNU/Linux for the first time. I believe that having an unified name, Ubuntu, would simplify things a whole lot when telling people what to download:

The Name Game 2: The Rematch

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My last post brought in a few interesting replies, the great majority of them showing support (somewhat) to the idea of unifying the Ubuntu name. While I let the caffeine surge do the talking toward the end of the post, I should have added the following statement to completely close my argument:

I’m not suggesting that we stop manufacturing/shipping/distributing the other “flavors” of Ubuntu in the form of CDs and downloads. All I’m saying is that instead of having the names Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, etc in their covers, we name them all Ubuntu Desktop! The title would also contain, directly below the main title, the type of window manager installed by default. The end user would then see Ubuntu Desktop: KDE Edition, for instance. The advantage(?) of this approach is that we’ll keep the same brand across the many variants.

BarCampRDU

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

So here I am at BarCampRDU, together with the rPath crew. Got to meet a few new faces and am now sitting through my first session about distributed version control with Bzr and Launchpad. So far it sounds very much like Mercurial, which is pretty cool!

Anyhow, hope to be able to blog some more later today.

Technorati Tags: BarCampRDU

Lunch break

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Lunch time here at BarCampRDU, and the food selection was AWESOME! We had a great variety of Mediterranean food and it reminded me a lot of the food we have at the Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill! Good opportunity to chit-chat and goof off, specially if you happen to sit next to devnet!

More BarCampRDU

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The second session titled “Building online communities”, or something like that, drew in a considerable group of people who were mostly interested in the social aspect of it. It was fairly interesting how the problem people were complaning about could be moderated by something like the Ubuntu Code of Conducthttps://launchpad.net/codeofconduct! Great session and Luishttp://tieguy.org/ had a great analogy as for how a community should work like a well thrown party! :)

Como fazer um pai orgulhoso?

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Pior que ela gostou da revista, mesmo sem entender o material (ela sÃ³ sabia que era sobre o Linux)!

GNOME, Foresight, and Two Smocking Barrels

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Or something like that!Ã‚Â My buddy Ken Vandine will be this year at the GNOME booth at OSCON. If you’re around, stop by to say hi, learn more about GNOME, Foresight, and get some swag, like the GNOME LiveCDs! ;)

By the way, did you notice Foresight’s new flashy logo?

(apparently Flickr didn’t like the transparent background?)

How to make a dad proud?

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Start them young! :)

VocÃª sabe que estÃ¡ usando muito o Vim quando\...

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… vocÃª aperta a tecla ESC depois de preencher um formulÃ¡rio na web!

Eu realmente comecei a usar o Vim em tempo integral quando comecei a trabalhar na rPath em outubro do ano passado. De vez em quando eu aprendo um truque novo e resolvi compartilhÃ¡-los aqui com vocÃªs, e ao mesmo tempo mantÃª-los em um lugar que eu possa sempre pesquisar (o famoso “matar 2 pÃ¡ssaros com uma pedrada sÃ³!”).

You know you\'re using too much Vi when\...

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… you press ESC after filling out web forms!

I really started using Vim full-time when I started working at rPath last October. Every now and then I learn a new trick and I figured I’d share them here, as well as make sure I can always search for them later (talk about killing 2 birds with a stone!).

The first one if is for those times you want to make a generic search and replace action on a file you’re working on. I learned a while back that if I were searching for Foo and wanted to replace it with Bar, the following command would do the trick:

MIA / POW

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

That is, Missing In Action / Prisoner Of WORK! Here at rPath we work based on iteration periods that could vary between 4 - 6 weeks. During these periods, we are all assigned (or loaded as we say) several hours of issues to work on plus whatever may come up during the course of the iteration. Decided to tackle all my issues without any disturbance, I took the plunge and have completely immersed myself in lots of python, javascript, and you name it! My participation on IRC channels other that the ones used internally drop down to close to zero, and the same goes for emails and jabber! Needless to say, whatever free moment I had was spent with my family and watching Brazil win the Copa America! Occasionally, while flipping through a magazine or a book, I’d fire up the N800 and play with it for a while. In one of these occasions, I uploaded my own mock-up code for the Tasks application. As I already had it (Tasks) installed and since my code was written in Python, I figured it would just run in the N800.

AtualizaÃ§Ãµes para o Nokia N800 e Dica \#1

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje foi anunciado o lanÃ§amento da antecipada atualizaÃ§Ã£o do Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, que inclui suporte para o Skype. plug-in para navegadores AdobeÂ® FlashÂ® 9, melhorias no uso online e suporte para cartÃµes de memÃ³ria de atÃ© 8 GB. TambÃ©m um pouco de “perfumaria” incluÃdo neste lanÃ§amento! :)

InstruÃ§Ãµes sobre como atualizar seu sistema pode ser encontrado aqui, mas vou quebrar teu galho e te dar uma soluÃ§Ã£o mais simples e mastigada. Primeiramente, baixe o arquivo flasher-3.0 e o arquivo de atualizaÃ§Ã£o (para o meu N800 eu baixei o arquivo RX-34_2007SE_4.2007.26-8_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin file).

GNOME Foundation Member

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was extremely pleased to see my application for the GNOME Foundation approved. I have spent the last 9 months working very closely with the localization teams, making sure all work being done by the Ubuntu Brazilian team is submitted upstream first for all GNOME packages! I’ve also been very vocal about a unified Brazilian localization team, completely distro independent.

I want to thank all of those who put in a good word for me. Your support is greatly appreciated! And thanks to all of those who opened up your minds to the fact that no matter what distro you use, we all use the same GNOME, KDE, etc.

Membro da FundaÃ§Ã£o GNOME

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Fiquei extremamente feliz de ter meu pedido de entrada na GNOME Foundation aprovado. Eu passei os Ãºltimos 9 meses trabalhando junto Ã s equipes de localizaÃ§Ã£o, certificando que todo o trabalho feito pela equipe de tradutores Brasileiros do Ubuntu Ã© enviado e aprovado primeiro pela equipe do GNOME Brasil! Eu tambÃ©m tenho sido muito ativo na advocacia de uma equipe de localizaÃ§Ã£o Brasileira unificada, independente de distribuiÃ§Ã£o.

Aproveito a deixa para lembrar os novos leitores deste blog para escutarem o primeiro episÃ³dio do Foocast, onde eu falo um pouco mais sobre esse ideal.

Nokia N800 Update and Tip \#1

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Today was announce the much antecipated release of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, which “includes Skype client support, AdobeÃ‚Â® FlashÃ‚Â® 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory card support up to 8 GB. Also delightful new pre-installed content is available.”

Instructions on how to perform the update can be found here, but lemme save you some time and give you a quick solution. First off, download the flasher-3.0 and the upgrade file (for my N800 it is the RX-34_2007SE_4.2007.26-8_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin file).

Say hello to my little friend!

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Gostaria de apresentar meu novo “amigo” NTrunko, meu Nokia N800 tablet! Ele chegou em casa pelo correio na terÃ§a-feira, graÃ§as Ã um amigo e o pessoal da Nokia e Maemo!

Passei uma boa parte da noite brincando com ele, e estou COMPLETAMENTE maravilhado com os recursos e potencial deste “brinquedo”! Este artigo, por exemplo foi escrito nele usando o Maemo WordPy.

Eu atÃ© mesmo conectei no meu PC de casa usando ssh! :)

Say hello to my little friend!

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Say hello to my little friend NTrunko, my Nokia N800 tablet! It arrived yesterday at my housee, thanks to a good friend and the good folks at Nokia and Maemo!

I’ve spent a good chunk of last night playing with it and am COMPLETELY amazed with the quality and potential it has to offer! This post, for instance, is being written using Maemo WordPy.

I even connected home via ssh! :)

Article about Conary

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Had a really nice surprise waiting for me today at work in the form of an envelope covered with Brazilian postal stamps.

It was a gift from my friend Vladimir Melo, who saw an article written about the package management system Conary, product from the company I work for. There was also another article talking about the GNOME 2.18 release and the fact that it was completely translated to the Brazilian Portuguese language, thanks to the collaborative work of 16 people. Since I was one of them, it was nice to see our work being recognized like this.

Artigo sobre Conary

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje tive a bela surpresa de receber um envelope com postagem Brasileira.

Foi um presente do meu amigo Vladimir Melo, que tinha visto os artigos sobre o gerenciador de pacotes Conary, produto criado aqui onde trabalho. Tinha tambÃ©m um artigo sobre o lanÃ§amento do GNOME 2.18 e o fato dele estar todo traduzido para o PortuguÃªs Brasileiro devido ao trabalho de 16 tradutores… Como eu fui um deles, foi bacana ver nosso trabalho sendo anunciado assim.

Primeira traduÃ§Ã£o efetuada!

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje consegui falar, via Skype, com o Daniel Abreu e passamos mais ou menos 1 hora conversando sobre os processos de traduÃ§Ãµes das equipes do Ubuntu e GNOME do Brasil. Foi mais ou menos uma sessÃ£o 1 a 1, onde comeÃ§amos do zero! O pacote escolhido foi o do Banshee, que de acordo com o site de estatÃsticas ainda continha 3 mensagens duvidosas, e seria um bom exemplo para quem estÃ¡ comeÃ§ando.

GUADEC Paper Accepted

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I was pleasantly surprised to see the following message in my inbox:

Hi, (apologies for the delay in sending this acceptance mail) Your lightning talk has been accepted for the Lightning Talk session at GUADEC 2006, in Birmingham UK. Ã‚Â If you have not already registered for GUADEC, you should register now at http://guadec.org/registration. We look forward to seeing you at GUADEC! Ross Burton GUADEC Papers Committee

A couple of friends had motivated me to submit my talk and I was so looking forward to finally meet them face to face.Ã‚Â But alas, the announcement came a few weeks too late as I have already made a commitment at work during this period, as well as scheduled my vacation.Ã‚Â To top it off, I haven’t received my American passport yet and without it I cannot leave the country!

NÃ£o basta ser pai\... tem de participar!

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O nÃºmero de pessoas que me contactaram sobre meu Ãºltimo post, chamado VocÃª quer aprender a traduzir os programas do Linux? foi maior do que antecipava, e grande parte da minha manhÃ£ foi passada contactando aqueles que me deixaram seus dados de Skype ou GTalk. Mais uma vez pude comprovar que existe uma grande maioria que deseja muito ajudar com o movimento do software livre, mas nÃ£o sabe o que fazer exatamente. E Ã© meu objetivo tentar educar a todos e qualquer pessoa que realmente queira dedicar alguns minutos de seu tempo para ajudar este movimento.

Palestra no GUADEC aceita

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Semana passada tive a seguinte surpresa me esperando no meu inbox:

Hi, (apologies for the delay in sending this acceptance mail) Your lightning talk has been accepted for the Lightning Talk session at GUADEC 2006, in Birmingham UK. Â If you have not already registered for GUADEC, you should register now at http://guadec.org/registration. We look forward to seeing you at GUADEC! Ross Burton GUADEC Papers Committee

Alguns amigos tinham me apoiado em enviar minha palestra e eu estava realmente motivado para finalmente conhecÃª-los pessoalmente. Mas fazer o que?Â O anÃºncio chegou algumas semanas muito tarde e eu jÃ¡ me comprometi no trabalho durente este perÃodo, e tambÃ©m agendei minhas fÃ©rias.Â Para adicionar a cereja neste sunday, eu ainda nÃ£o recebi meu passaporte Americano e nÃ£o posso sair do paÃs.!

VocÃª quer aprender a traduzir os programas do Linux?

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Quase todos os dias eu encontro alguÃ©m que acabou de experimentar o Linux pela primeira vez… e a grande maioria destas pessoas, ainda (talvez) curtindo um pouco desta adrenalina que acontece com todos que experimentam o potencial do software livre, me falam:

"Og, eu gostaria muito de poder retribuir com esta comunidade, mas nÃ£o sei programar!"

Bem, seus problemas estÃ£o solucionados entÃ£o! A maioria das pessoas que me conhecem sabem que apesar de trabalhar como programador, minha maior participaÃ§Ã£o/contribuiÃ§Ã£o com a comunidade de software livre tem sido com traduÃ§Ãµes e advocacia! Ou seja, vocÃª nÃ£o precisa ser um excelente programador ou ser um nerd para ajudar!

Elvis seen playing with BillReminder

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Just an update on the development for BillReminder. Real life and work took a good hold of me these last 2 months and I had not been able to stick to my personal roadmap… that is, until last week. The programming itch attacked me again, and the result was several commits along the week, completly stripping BillReminder of its Glade “skin” and re-writing a lot of the code.

Elvis visto brincando com o BillReminder

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Apenas uma atualizaÃ§Ã£o/informativo sobre o status de desenvolvimento do BillReminder. A vida pessoal e trabalho tomaram conta do meu tempo e eu nÃ£o pude me concentrar no meu roadmap pessoal… quero dizer, atÃ© a semana passada. A “coceira” de programar me atacou de novo, e o resultado foram vÃ¡rios commits durante a semana, resultando na remoÃ§Ã£o da “pele” com Glade e refatoraÃ§Ã£o de muito cÃ³digo.

Eu realmente confesso estar bem feliz com o resultado atÃ© agora… O programa parece estar bem mais rÃ¡pido e eu tenho aprendido bastante novidades! Minha Ãºltima “batalha” tem sido realmente aprender e entender o sistema de notificaÃ§Ãµes do D-BUS ao ponto de saber escrever com meus olhos fechados. :)

Learn to use the GIMP in 10 easy FREE videos

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Shameless plug ahead:

If you speak Portuguese and want to learn how to use the GIMP like the pros, I strongly recommend you check out my good friend AntÃƒÂ´nio “LedStyle” ClÃƒÂ¡udio's new project! “LedStyle” and I have worked together before doing podcasts for the Brazilian Ubuntu Planet, and my respect and admiration for him has never stopped growing!Ã‚Â I downloaded the first video (out of 10, plus all the exercise material freely available) and was very impressed by his didactic skills!

VÃdeo Aula - Aprenda a utilizar o Gimp em 10 aulas simples

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Foi com um enorme prazer que eu recebi a notÃcia sobre o projeto VÃdeo curso completo - GIMP para iniciantes, lanÃ§ado por meu bom amigo AntÃ´nio “LedStyle” ClÃ¡udio!Â Em apenas 10 aulas (por vÃdeo), vocÃª aprenderÃ¡ a utilizar o GIMP em 10 aulas simples, em bom PortuguÃªs!Â Eu assisti a primeira aula, e fiquei imensamente satisfeito com o produto final.Â O “LedStyle” e eu jÃ¡ “trabalhamos” juntos nos antigos podcasts do Planeta Ubuntu, e minha admiraÃ§Ã£o por sua pessoa cresce a cada dia que passa.

A InsustentÃ¡vel Leveza do Ser

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

HÃ¡ mais ou meno 1 mÃªs minha filha enviou o desenho abaixo para um concurso de uma revista local (da Carolina do Norte) chamada Carolina Parent. O concurso chamava-se “TV-Turnoff Week”, um incetivo para que as crianÃ§as desliguem-se um pouco da televisÃ£o!

Ontem foram anunciados os resultados, e infelizmente o desenho dela nÃ£o foi premiado. Com os olhos cheios de lÃ¡grimas “doÃdas”, pude acompanhar o turbilhÃ£o de emoÃ§Ãµes que por alguns segundos ocuparam a mente dela… Claro que decepÃ§Ã£o nÃ£o Ã© algo novo para mim, mas ver isso acontecendo com alguÃ©m tÃ£o inocente e ainda experimentando a vida foi algo que me fez pensar. SerÃ¡ que depois de algumas cabeÃ§adas na vida, aprendemos a “camuflar” nossas emoÃ§Ãµes para que ninguÃ©m veja o quanto frÃ¡gil somos?

Another post about a generic Gtk.TreeView

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I figured, why not whip up a quick sample code to show off the genericlist I just published? So I chose the Tasks application, written in C/C++, as my target. A few minutes later, my “port” was born:

Bigger picture here.

The application to the left is the one I whipped up… the one to the right is the real deal! Obviously I didn’t bother writing up the code to actually store information, and this exercise was meant to be like the penguins in the movie “The Wild"… to look cute and cuddly. :)

Generic Gtk.TreeView Generator

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Quite a few people have asked me to publish my attempt at simplifying the process of creating and using a Gtk.TreeView (see this post). The truth is that life has been a bit hectic these last 5-6 weeks and I didn’t get to do any more development on it. But I think it is still very usefull, even if only as a learning aid. The code will be published to a few repositories very soon, but in the meantime, you can copy it inline right here (read the rest of this post). I’m also including a sample class that makes use of this generic class.

Gerador GenÃ©rico de Gtk.TreeView

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Muitas pessoas jÃ¡ me pediram para publicar meu cÃ³digo que tenta facilitar o processo de criar e usar um Gtk.TreeView (veja este post). A verdade Ã© que minha vida anda meio que de cabeÃ§a para baixo nestas Ãºltimas 5-6 semanas, e eu nÃ£o tive tempo de trabalhar neste cÃ³digo. Mas eu ainda acho que isso pode ser Ãºtil a alguÃ©m, mesmo que como uma ferramente de aprendizagem. O cÃ³digo serÃ¡ publicado em alguns repositÃ³rios ainda hoje, mas enquanto isso, vocÃª pode copiÃ¡-lo aqui mesmo (continue lendo este post). Estou tambÃ©m incluindo uma classe derivada como um exemplo de como usar essa classe genÃ©rica.

Outro post sobre um Gtk.TreeView genÃ©rico

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Pensei, por que nÃ£o escrever um exemplo bem simples de como usar o cÃ³digo de Gtk.TreeView genÃ©rico que acabei de publicar? Escolhi entÃ£o o aplicativo Tasks, escrito em C/C++, como meu objetivo. Alguns minutos depois, meu “port” nasceu:

Foto maior aqui.

O aplicativo Ã esqueda Ã© o que eu acabei de escrever… e o Ã direita o “real”! Obviamente nÃ£o escrevi o cÃ³digo de salvar informaÃ§Ãµes, jÃ¡ que este exercÃcio foi com o intÃºito de funcionar igual os penguins do filme “The Wild"… to look cute and cuddly. :)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My daughter Yv had submitted a drawing about a month ago to a contest sponsored by a local magazine called Carolina Parent. The contest, “TV-Turnoff Week”, urged kids to unplug from their televisions and spend some more time outdoors!

Yesterday my wife showed me the drawings that were selected, and unfortunately Yv’s was not among them. With tearful eyes, I was able to follow the avalanche of emotions going through her mind… Obviously, frustration and disappointment are not new emotions to me, but seeing it happening to someone still so innocent and unexperienced made me think really hard. Is it possible that after banging your head on the wall so many times have taught us to “camufflage” our emotions so people can’t see how fragile we are?

Installing PyPanel on Ubuntu

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A while back I had written up a post (Brazilian Portuguese only) explaining how I managed to get PyPanel running on my old Ubuntu Feisty Herd 3 installation. The reason for the write up was to explain about how I circunvented two issues that came up during the process of getting PyPanel to actually run. Anyhow, ever since I started writing up about OpenBox, more and more people tried to use PyPanel and seem to have gotten bitten by the same problems. So, without much further ado, here is what I did:

Problemas usando o PyPanel no Ubuntu?

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

EntÃ£o dÃª uma lida neste artigo que eu escrevi antes.Â Te explica direitinho como remediar o problema…

Openbox 3.4.2 and ObConf 2.0.1 released

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

As the title says, Openbox 3.4.2 and ObConf 2.0.1 were just released. Due to some confusion from some people I’ve talked to, this new version is not yet available for Ubuntu or Debian via the repositories (i.e. apt-get, aptitude, or synaptic).

For those running Ubuntu Feisty or Debian Etch, download the .deb files from the downloads page. You’ll also find packages for Slackware and Arch Linux. If you are however running Foresight Linux:

Openbox 3.4.2 e ObConf 2.0.1 lanÃ§ados

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Como o tÃtulo jÃ¡ diz, Openbox 3.4.2 e ObConf 2.0.1 acabam de ser lanÃ§ados. Devido a confusÃ£o de algumas pessoas que deixaram comentÃ¡rios no meu Ãºltimo post sobre o Openbox, eu sÃ³ queria lembrar que estas versÃµes ainda nÃ£o estÃ£o disponÃveis para o Ubuntu ou Debian pelos repositporios (ou seja, usando apt-get, aptitude, ou synaptic).

Para aqueles usando o Ubuntu Feisty ou Debian Etch, faÃ§a o download dos arquivos .deb na pÃ¡gina de downloads. VocÃª tambÃ©m encontrarÃ¡ pacotes para o Slackware e Arch Linux. Caso vocÃª esteja usando o Foresight Linux:

And for those travelling\...

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… keep yourself entertained and informed with the new editions of the magazines Full Circle (Ubuntu) and PCLinuxOS Magazine.

E para vocÃª que vai viajar\...

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… aproveite para manter-se ocupado e leia as novas versÃµes das revistas Full Circle (Ubuntu) e PCLinuxOS Magazine.

My own F.A.Q.

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It is 04:18 EST and instead of being in bed, I’m in front of the computer. Due to a major sore throat, I’ve been struggling to sleep since 22:00 of last night… and so far the sore throat has shown no sign of retreat. Tired of laying awake in bed, I figured I’d do something else…

Since it is my birthday today, and I’m still sleep deprived, I came up with the “great idea” of writing my own F.A.Q.! hehehe For those questions I have been asked one too many times. :)

Panela velha Ã© que faz comida boa!

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

SÃ£o 04:18 da manhÃ£ aqui na Carolina do Norte, e em vez de estar na cama, estou na frente do computador. Devido a uma dor de garganta tenebrosa, estou com dificuldades para dormir desde as 22Ã‡00 de ontem… e atÃ© agora o “placar” mostra que a dor de garganta estÃ¡ ganhando por um bom saldo de gols. JÃ¡ cansado de ficar deitado com os olhos esbugalhados, decidi fazer algo diferente…

Planeta Openbox

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Acho que incomodei tanto o pessoal do Openbox que eles decidiram me adicionar ao Planeta Openbox! ;)

Keeping organized with Tasks and Dates

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After talking to a few other guys about Openbox and what other applications one can use to get the best experience from a blazing fast windows manager, I remembered the other two programs I use to keep myself organized, both at home and at work: Dates and Tasks.

Tasks is basically a ToDo list that allows me to easily and quickly keep track of my weekly tasks, prioritizing each item as I see fit. It doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles and I believe that is one of the reasons I chose it. If I were to make a few suggestions, I’d add tooltips to each item, as well as the ability to launch a web page if items have an URL assigned to it.

LanÃ§ado Openbox 3.4!

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Finalmente o dia chegou!!! Openbox 3.4 acaba de ser lanÃ§ado, junto com uma versÃ£o novinha do ObConf 2.0!!! Acredito que esta tenha sido a primeira vez que eu acompanhei com extremo interesse o desenvolvimento e lanÃ§amento de um aplicativo, e eu estou muito orgulhoso do trabalho feito pela Equipe Openbox! Leia o anÃºncio oficial aqui.

Pacotes e cÃ³digo fonte podem ser encontrados aqui. Se vocÃª estiver usando o Foresight Linux, vocÃª pode atualizar ou instalar as novas versÃµes usando o comando:

Mantendo-se organizado com Tarefas e Datas

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de conversar com algumas pessoas sobre o Openbox e quais outros aplicativos vocÃª pode usar para obter a melhor experiÃªncia de um gerenciador de janelas super rÃ¡pido, eu me lembrei de mais dois programas que eu uso para me manter organizado, tanto em casa quanto no trabalho: Dates e Tasks.

Tasks Ã© basicamente uma lista de tarefas (to-do) que me permite de forma simples e rÃ¡pida, visualizar minhas tarefas semanais, dando prioidade para cada item da forma que eu escolher. NÃ£o possui muita “perfumaria”, e Ã© por isso que eu gosto dele. Se eu fosse fazer alguma sugestÃ£o, eu adicionaria aqueles balÃµes de dica em cada item, e a capacidade de usar o seu navegador de web padrÃ£o para abrir itens que tenham um URL associado.

Openbox 3.4 Released!

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It is finally here!!! Openbox 3.4 was just released, together with a fresh version of ObConf 2.0!!! I believe this is the first time I’ve avidly followed the development and release of an application, and I’m very proud of the work the entire Openbox Crew has put together! Read the official announcement here.

Packages and source code can be found here. If you’re running Foresight Linux, you can get the new versions by running:

Gnome-Specimen e Nitrogen

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Acabei de empacotar dois novos aplicativos hoje para ver se melhorava (se Ã© que tem como) minha experiÃªncia com o Openbox. Bem, um deles foi empacotado sÃ³ por curiosidade. ;)

O primeiro program foi o Nitrogen, “um navegador e definidor de papel de segundo plano para o X windows.” Ele Ã© bem leve com uma interface super “limpa.” Claro que eu posso mudar o papel de segundo plano pela linha de comando, mas as imagens de prÃ©-visualizaÃ§Ã£o ajudam bastante! :) Conversando com o Dave, desenvolvidor chefe do projeto, aprendi sobre uns novos recursos (jÃ¡ dentro do SVN) para a prÃ³xima versÃ£o! Fique Ã vontade de pentelhar ele com suas sugestÃµes, enviando-as via seu contato no web site.

New kids on the block

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Well, not those kids anyway… :) I just packaged a couple of new applications today to see if I could augment my Openbox experience. Well, one of them was more out of curiosity. ;)

The first one was Nitrogen, “a background browser and setter for X windows.” It is fairly light with a very clean interface. Sure I can set my wallpaper via the command line, but the preview thumbnails are very helpful! :) Speaking to Dave, lead developer for the project, I learned about a couple of new features (already checked in SVN) for the next release! Make sure to pester him with your suggestions via his contact information found in the web site.

Smorgersboard Brasileiro

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Algumas novidades do mundo de software livre Brasileiro:

Foi lanÃ§ado na calada da noite o GNOME 2.18.2, com algumas melhorias e vÃ¡rias atualizaÃ§Ãµes nas traduÃ§Ãµes brasileiras, graÃ§as Ã colaboraÃ§Ã£o das equipes do Ubuntu e GNOME. Ã‰ realmente uma pena que nÃ£o houve um anÃºncio oficial…
Foi tambÃ©m lanÃ§ado a nova versÃ£o do Foresight Linux e Fedora 7, todas duas contando com vÃ¡rias novidades e participaÃ§Ã£o ativa de suas respectivas comunidades brasileiras! As notas de lanÃ§amento do Foresight podem ser encontradas aqui e as do Fedora aqui, ambas em portuguÃªs.
O pessoal do ArchLinux Brasil estÃ¡ em pleno vapor com alguns projetos novos, dentre eles um projeto de traduÃ§Ã£o e outro de documentaÃ§Ã£o. Os interessados em contribuir poderÃ£o obter mais informaÃ§Ãµes no site oficial.
Foi tambÃ©m lanÃ§ado o Slack Book em PortuguÃªs do Brasil!!! Caso vocÃª tambÃ©m tenha interesse em ajudar com o projeto, Ã© sÃ³ entrar em contato com o pessoal pela informaÃ§Ã£o no site.

E Ã© sÃ³ por agora… :)

Foresight Linux 1.3 lanÃ§ado!

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Gostaria de parabenizar a equipe do Foresight Linux pelo lanÃ§amento da versÃ£o 1.3, sincronizada para ser lanÃ§ada junto com o lanÃ§amento do GNOME 2.18.2!!!

Algumas das novidades sÃ£o:

GNOME: Este foi o terceiro lanÃ§amento do Foresight Linux com o GNOME 2.18 (depois de 2.18.0 & 2.18.1), e contÃ©m melhorias e pequenos ajustes.

Desktop Search: Com Beagle 0.2.17 e configurado para o Foresight Linux, continuamos com nossa meta de melhorar a sua habilidade de pesquisar por toda sua Ã¡rea de trabalho.

Foresight Linux 1.3 released!

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to the entire Foresight Linux team for releasing their version 1.3, timed to be released with GNOME 2.18.2!!!

Some of the new features are:

GNOME: This is the third Foresight Linux release with GNOME 2.18 (after 2.18.0 & 2.18.1), and contains minor fixes and improvements.

Desktop Search: With Beagle 0.2.17 and tweaked for Foresight Linux, we continue to improve the ability to search your computer.

Web browsing: We have upgraded Epiphany web browser to version 2.18.2.

Openbox 3.3.995 preview lanÃ§ado

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para aqueles que estÃ£o acompanhando os lanÃ§amentos do Openbox em preparaÃ§Ã£o para a versÃ£o final 3.4, foi lanÃ§ada hoje pela manhÃ£ a versÃ£o 3.3.995. O registro de modificaÃ§Ãµes pode ser encontrado aqui. Mais uma vez, pacotes jÃ¡ estÃ£o disponÃveis para Ubuntu Feisty, Debian Etch, Arch Linux, Slackware, e Foresight.

Openbox 3.3.995 preview released

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

For those following along with the preview releases of Openbox, version 3.3.995 was released earlier today. Changelog information can be found here. Once again, packages are available for Ubuntu Feisty, Debian Etch, Arch Linux, Slackware, and Foresight.

Revista Linux

Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Saiu o terceiro exemplar da Revista Linux! Os assuntos desta ediÃ§Ã£o incluem:

ExtraÃ§Ã£o de Ã¡udio para MP3
GravaÃ§Ã£o de DVDs e conversÃ£o para XVID
Download de vÃdeos Flash e conversÃ£o para outros formatos
TelevisÃ£o no Linux e efeitos psicadÃ©licos em tempo real
EdiÃ§Ã£o de etiquetas ID3
Funcionamento de um CODEC de Ã¡udio
GNU PG e criptografia em clientes de e-mail
InstalaÃ§Ã£o do CMS Mambo
RestauraÃ§Ã£o do GRUB com o Super Grub Disk
Entrevista com Zeev Suraski
Entrevista com Rui Ribeiro
Jogos: Eve Online e Tremulous

Se eu fosse fazer uma critica construtiva, seria pedir para eliminar seÃ§Ãµes como a seÃ§Ã£o de piadas sobre loiras no Kernel Pan!c. :)

Geany

Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I started using the text editor and IDE Geany for the first time, and I was pleasantly surprised with it! Obviously, there’s a pretty big number of text editors out there that with the “right” number of enabled would turn an ordinary editor to a super-on-steroids IDE, but I felt Geany to be a very light and fast option, with a couple of nice features already enabled by default.

Usando o OBMenu

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para os usuarios do Openbox que nao gostam de modificar seu menu pela linha de comando, ou usando um editor de texto, experimentem o OBMenu.

Por falar em Openbox, ontem foi lancada a versao 3.3.994!

World of Padman

Sat, 26 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was reading Digg this morning when I came across a post talking about the 8 best games for Linux. I was immediately attracted to a picture of the game World of Padman, which at first glance seemed to be a game for children, but don’t let it fool you.

The first thing I did was watch this video. That is when I noticed that it looked a lot like a cartoon-ish version of Quake, but with funny characters. The “weapons” are not as violent as those in Quake, but even after I saw the weapon that uses water ballons for amunition, I’m still not sure if I want to let my daughter Yv play it yet.

America or America?

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

First of all I want to thank every and each one of you who took the time to drop me a line about my recent citizenship. I was honestly very touched by your kind words and am looking forward to the upcoming ellection when I will be able to exercise my voting rights for the first time!

I just took some time off from work to respond to a few comments left on my blog about my use of the word America as a synonim for the country United States of America. First off, I mean no disrespect to anyone from the continent America. For better or worse, even when I was a young child in Brazil, I had always understood that America stood for The United States. No one has called Brazil, for instance, anything else but Brazil (unless you want to take a trip back in history, when it was named first as an island, and then as a “piece of land”). Taking a quick peek at Wikipedia I noticed that, though the term America is used to define the continent, it has also been used in many songs, videos, poems, etc in the same manner I used.

Meus comandos mais usados?

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Respondendo indiretamente a pergunta do Walter Cruz, segue a lista dos 10 comandos mais usados por mim no trabalho:

162 vim
123 cd
120 exit
82 ls
63 hg
53 python
51 sudo
39 svn
29 cvc
26 conary

Openbox 3.4 in the horizon

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was extremely pleased/amazed when I read the change log with the modifications, new features, and bugs fixed in the up and coming new version for Openbox! The list is too big to mention here, but take my word for it: it is amazing!

You can already get packages for Ubuntu Feisty, Debian, Arch Linux, and Slackware. If you’re running Foresight Linux and want to try (unofficial for now) it, drop me a line.

American Citizen

Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m very proud to announce that today I have become a citizen of the United States! About 16 years ago my parents left or sold everything they owned and came to America with the intention of giving my sisters and I a better life. Their journey began like some many other immigrant’s in NYC. With only a few thousand dollars in their pockets and a very basic knowledge of English, my parents immediately embraced the American way of life. When my younger sister and I arrived one month later, they were both proudly waiting for us at the airport, talking and acting as though they had been living in New Jersey all their lives. Many were the places and sights they showed us with an almost endless pride and joy!

CidadÃ£o Americano

Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ã‰ com muito orgulho que venho anunciar hoje que eu me tornei um cidadÃ£o dos Estados Unidos! HÃ¡ 16 anos meus pais largaram ou venderam tudo que possuiam e vieram para a AmÃ©rica, com o objetivo de providenciar uma vida melhor para minhas irmÃ£s e eu. A jornada comeÃ§ou como a de muitos outros imigrantes em NYC. Com apenas o dinheiro que arrecadaram com a venda de seus bens e um conhecimento bÃ¡sico de inglÃªs, meus pais imediatamente adotaram o estilo Americano de vida. Quando minha irmÃ£ mais nova e eu chegamos um mÃªs depois, os dois jÃ¡ estavam lÃ¡ no aeroporto, orgulhosos e falando e agindo como se tivessem morado em New Jersey toda sua vida. Muitos foram os lugares que eles nos levaram para conhecer, sempre com um orgulho e prazer quase sem fim.

Mais sobre o Openbox 3.4

Tue, 22 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje pela manhÃ£ foi lanÃ§ado a versÃ£o 3.3.991 do Openbox, e desta vez consegui empacotÃ¡-lo, junto com o ObConf, para o Foresight. Os pacotes para outras distribuiÃ§Ãµes como Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, e Slackware continuam no mesmo local, mas se vocÃª estiver usando o Foresight, Ã© sÃ³ me perguntar como conseguir os pacotes.

O pibarnas Ã© que experimentou o pacote do Ubuntu Feisty e me falou que teve alguns problemas tÃ©cnicos, mas no final deu tudo certo.

OpenBox 3.4

Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Fiquei simplesmente maravilhado quando li hoje a lista de modificaÃ§Ãµes e novos recursos que serÃ£o incluÃdos na nova versÃ£o do OpenBox! A lista Ã© enorme (infelizmente nÃ£o vou ter tempo para traduzÃ-la) mas acreditem em mim: estÃ¡ muuuuito legal!

Ainda nÃ£o consegui empacotÃ¡-lo para o Foresight Linux, mas jÃ¡ existem pacotes para o Ubuntu Feisty, Debian, e Arch Linux.

Para os corajosos por aÃ, nÃ£o se esqueÃ§am de checar o documento explicando como atualizar sua instalaÃ§Ã£o!

Bond\... James Bond!

Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Agora quando eu for responder alguma coisa no FÃ³rum gringo do Ubuntu, as pessoas vÃ£o saber com quem estÃ£o falando:

hehehe… AtÃ© parece que entendo do assunto! ;)

Educational GCompris Live CD

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Shortly after receiving a comment on my other blog (Brazilian Portuguese only) from Armando Silva about an educational Live CD, my curiosity got the best of me and I just had to check it out.

The first thing I did was point my browser to the Brazilian GCompris site and I was imediately impressed by their stated objectives of promoting the translation and documentation of education software in Brazil

A few more paragraphs later I found out that Armando Silva himself was responsible for this Live CD, based on Knoppix with components from Kanotix e Sidux.Ã‚Â The CD is filled with educational applications, such as:

Live CD Educacional do GCompris Brasil

Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Logo apÃ³s receber o comentÃ¡rio do Armando Silva sobre um Live CD com jogos educacionais, fiquei curioso e decidi investigar um pouco mais.

A primeira coisa que fiz foi visitar o site do Gcompris Brasil, e jÃ¡ fiquei impressionado com a primeira coisa que lÃ:

O objetivo desse site Ã© reunir os trabalhos de traduÃ§Ã£o, documentaÃ§Ã£o e divulgaÃ§Ã£o do software educacional GCompris aqui no Brasil. Todos estÃ£o convidados para colaborar com o projeto, que Ã© aberto a qualquer pessoa.

Que lingua falo eu?

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para os interessados que notaram o meu sumiÃ§o este fim de semana, a minha “gripe mutante” estÃ¡ bem melhor e devo voltar ao trabalho amanhÃ£. Tentei ao mÃ¡ximo evitar o computador, e creio ter feito um bom trabalho, considerando que trabalho em vÃ¡rios projetos fora do meu trabalho profissional.

Fiquei extremamente feliz ao ler um e-mail enviado Ã turma de TraduÃ§Ã£o do Ubuntu pelo Raul Pereira, sobre um documento que ele criou recentemente. Este documento, atualmente hospedado aqui, Ã© uma obra prima em respeito sobre traduÃ§Ãµes no mundo de software livre. Ã‰ possÃvel que eu esteja exagerando? Absolutamente!!! Mas o documento tem um potencial enorme, e por estar em um wiki, qualquer pessoa pode agora complementar/editÃ¡-lo.

Um pequeno \"update\"

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Como eu jÃ¡ tinha comentado antes, ainda continuo sofrendo de uma gripe/alergia “mutante” que insiste em permanecer comigo, mesmo como todos os remÃ©dios que andei tomando. Pelo menos melhorei um pouco, o suficiente para voltar ao trabalho.

Durante o fim de semana brinquei um pouco com um Live CD do Enlightenment (E-17). Como sempre, fiquei impressionado com a simplicidade e beleza deste gerenciador de janelas. Quem sabe um dia desses surpreendo a Elizabeth e Yv, maiores usuÃ¡rias do meu computador em casa, e substituo o GNOME?

Ubuntu Studio 7.04: Notas de lanÃ§amento em portuguÃªs

Sat, 12 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Como tenho andado muito doente esta semana com uma “gripe mutante”, nÃ£o consegui encontrar energias para fazer a traduÃ§Ã£o das notas de lanÃ§amento da nova versÃ£o do Ubuntu Studio 7.04.

Cory K., criador do projeto e meu “vizinho” (ele mora na cidade vizinha e nos conhecemos quando fomos de aviÃ£o na conferÃªncia do Ubuntu na California), tinha me pedido para fazer a traduÃ§Ã£o na semana passada, mas quando notei que nÃ£o ia conseguir fazÃª-la a tempo, recorri aos talentos de meu novo amigo, Vladimir Melo que jÃ¡ me ajudou muito com as traduÃ§Ãµes do Foresight Linux.

Nasceu o Planeta Ubuntu Portugal

Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Fiquei muito feliz ao ler a seguinte notÃcia hoje:

Boas. GraÃ§as ao contributo de vÃ¡rias pessoas estÃ£o disponÃveis no sÃtio do ubuntu-pt mais algumas funcionalidades, que, antes de ficarem a 100%, precisam de ser apreciadas por vÃ³s. *Planeta Ubuntu Portugal* http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/planet/ (no futuro, estarÃ£o disponÃveis os alias, planet.ubuntu-pt.org e planeta.ubuntu-pt.org. Para jÃ¡, o redireccionamento nÃ£o estÃ¡ a funcionar.) Um rascunho das regras para os blogs serem agregados ao planeta encontra-se aqui. http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/Wiki/PlanetaUbuntu Penso que como somos devemos tolerar artigos em inglÃªs *Mapa de Utilizadores Ubuntu em Portugal* http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/mapa/map.html Ao indicar possÃveis opÃ§Ãµes de suporte, podemos ajudar as pessoas que estejam perto de nÃ³s ;) Para se juntarem ao mapa basta irem a: http://www.ubuntu-pt.org/Wiki/Map Nota: A passagem dos dados do Wiki para o mapa (map.html ) Ã© actualmente manual. Contudo, se algum especialista em PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, ou mesmo shell quiser ajudar a tornar esse processo automÃ¡tico, digam qualquer coisa. Venham daÃ os comentÃ¡rios. Cumprimentos, Rui Az.

GeraÃ§Ã£o Bitolada

Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

JÃ¡ faz um bom tempo que nÃ£o escrevo nada, mas nÃ£o foi por falta de assunto ou vontade. Meu trabalho tem exigido muito de mim, e com 2 filhas e o fato que o verÃ£o se aproxima (aqui no hemisfÃ©rio norte), nÃ£o tem como nÃ£o sair para um sorvete ou caminhar no parque.

Este fim de semana tem Foocast mais uma vez, o que promete um fim-de-semana cheio. TambÃ©m tenho notÃcias sobre o Foresight Linux fresquinhas do forno. Mas o motivo deste artigo Ã© um desabafo sobre o mundinho bitolado que vivemos.

Empacotando software com Conary

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Muitas pessoas jÃ¡ tinham me pedido para escrever um pequeno tutorial sobre como empacotar software para o Foresight Linux. Para quem ainda nÃ£o conhece o sistema de gerenciamento de pacotes Conary, uma forma de descrevÃª-lo seria comparÃ¡-lo com um sistema de controle de versÃµes e gerenciamento de pacotes. Isso quer dizer que vocÃª tem um controle sobre as modificaÃ§Ãµes do cÃ³digo no mesmo estilo do CVS ou SVN, e qualquer modificaÃ§Ã£o feita pelo mantenedor do cÃ³digo original Ã© implementado em seu pacote em fragmentos, equivalentes Ã s linhas que foram adicionadas ou modificadas.

Escute o Foocast usando Rhythmbox/Listen/Banshee/Radinho de pilha!

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para as pessoas que preferem acompanhar podcasts via um mecanismo de RSS, aqui vai a dica sobre como escutar o primeiro Foocast usando Rhythmbox/Listen/Banshee/Radinho de pilha!

Ã‰ sÃ³ adicionar o seguinte link e pronto!

NÃ£o se esqueÃ§a que vocÃª pode ajudar a escolher o tema do prÃ³ximo episÃ³dio. Ã‰ sÃ³ adicionar um comentÃ¡rio aqui ou no blog do Foocast mesmo.

Foocast!

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Anunciando o lanÃ§amento do Foocast, um podcastBrasileiro super divertido para o pessoal que curte tecnologia!

Mas o que Ã© Foocast ?

Foocast Ã© um podcast brasileiro sobre Software Livre e Tecnologia iniciado em 28 de marÃ§o de 2007. Ele foi criado a partir da experiÃªncia de seus iniciais fundadores (OgMaciele KurtKraut) em outros podcasts sobre tecnologia e a necessidade de trazer um novo formato de podcast sobre esses assuntos.

Qual a diferenÃ§a do Foocast para os demais podcasts da Ã¡rea ?

Brincando com o Gcompris

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem a noite eu tirei um pouco do meu tempo para empacotar o Gcompris 8.3 BETA 3-2, e rodÃ¡-lo em casa. Empacotando foi um pouco trabalhoso devido a alguns bugs que eu encontrei, mas por sorte encontrei o bdoin no #gcompris, que confirmou/negou minhas dÃºvidas.

O maior motivo para fazer isso (empacotar) foi minha filha mais velha, Yv, para que ela pudesse usar o computador para aprender algo educacional. Eu fiquei extremamente surpreso com a quantia de jogos diferentes e nÃveis incluÃdos. Gcompris jÃ¡ vem com uma grande variedade de jogos para todas as idades e Ã© garantido de fazer sucesso com a crianÃ§ada, incluindo a crianÃ§a dentro de vocÃª! :)

Taking GCompris for a spin

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I managed to package GCompris 8.3 BETA 3-2 and successfuly run it at home. Packaging it was a bit tricky due to a couple of bugs I encountered along the way, but luckly bdoin was around #gcompris to confirm/deny my assumptions.

The main reason for me doing this was so that Yv, my oldest, could spend some time in front of the computer doing something educational. I was extremelly surprised with the amount of different games available and the very broad range of levels included. Gcompris comes bundled with games for all ages and it is guaranted to score big with the kids, including the big kid in you! :)

Construa o campo que eles virÃ£o!

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Assim falou Maudy PedrÃ£o em uma mensagem enviada hoje para mim pelo Gajim. Ele estava se referindo ao seu Ãºltimo artigo sobre Como Largar do MS Outlook. Apesar de ainda nÃ£o ter encontrado uma soluÃ§Ã£o completa, este tipo de artigo Ã© muito interessante para aqueles interessados em alternativas de software livre para o mundo dos negocios. Meu interesse Ã© mais voltado para o mundo acadÃªmico, mais especificamente relacionado Ã escolas e como trazer nossas escolas para o sÃ©culo 21!

Ir na Espanha buscar o meu chapÃ©u

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Neste mes de maio temos o Ubuntu Developer Summit -Sevilla, e temos 4 membros da equipe do Ubuntu Brasil procurando patrocÃnio. Ainda nÃ£o achei tempo para enviar minhas propostas de tÃ³picos a ser discutido, mas vou tentar de tudo para criar algo atÃ© o fim desta semana. NÃ£o sei quando vai sair o resultado do patrocÃnio, mas vou ficar na torcida para que pelo menos um representante de nossa comunidade possa comparecer.

Mais fotos do FISL

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Fotos do FISL tiradas pela equipe do Texto Livre!

Summer of Code 2007

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

ParabÃ©ns ao Lucas por ter seu projeto escolhido para o Summer of Code este ano! Para quem se interessa por seguranÃ§a de redes, vale a pena checar o projeto dele!

Pimlico

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I packaged the applications Dates, Tasks and Contacts for Foresight Linux. As soon as Sync is released, the entire Pimlico suite will be complete!

Herding Cats in Brazil

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

If anyone wants to watch the live stream of Jono’s presentation in Brazil, just point your favorite browser here. This is the direct link to the stream, but if for whatever reason you end up watching somebody else’s, try one of the other feeds from here. Clicking play will launch your default media player, and clicking on the links in the second column will attempt to open it in your browser.

Maybe Jono will perform his famous dance??? :)

Simplificando o gtk.TreeView?

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Estes dias quando estava trabalhando em uma nova interface grÃ¡fica para um programa em python, reparei que toda vez que preciso de adicionar um gtk.TreeView como uma lista (pense em uma planilha), sempre acabo re-escrevendo o mesmo cÃ³digo que utilizei em um outro projeto… e pensei:

"Por que nÃ£o criar meu prÃ³prio kit/widget e parar de repetir cÃ³digo?"

Como nÃ£o tinha muito que fazer neste Ãºltimo sÃ¡bado, acabei criando o GenericList, minha abstraÃ§Ã£o de um grk.TreeView.

Simplifying gtk.TreeView?

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

One of these days I was working on a new graphical interface for a new application in python, when I noticed something familiar. Every time I need to add a gtk.TreeView widget to one of my programs, I end up re-writing the same code, over and over again and again… so I thought:

"Why not create my own kit/widget and stop rehashing code?"

Since I had a pretty uneventfull Saturday, I ended up creating GenericList, my own abstraction of a generic grk.TreeView.

Texto Livre for All

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

When I first heard of the project Texto Livre, the very first thing that went through my mind was how to use it to improve (and even speed up) the documentation process for the Brazilian GNOME and Ubuntu projects!

Texto Livre is a support group with the objective of offering linguistic support for the documentation of open source software, as well as introduce university-level students to to open source as a tool for research

Texto Livre para Todos

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Quando fiquei sabendo sobre o projeto Texto Livre, a primeira coisa que passou pela minha cabeÃ§a foi utilizÃ¡-lo para melhorar (e atÃ© mesmo acelerar) o processo de documentaÃ§Ã£o dos projetos GNOME e Ubuntu Brasil!

O projeto Texto Livre Ã© um grupo de suporte Ã documentaÃ§Ã£o em software livre que tem como principais objetivos prover suporte lingÃ¼Ãstico Ã documentaÃ§Ã£o e iniciar estudantes universitÃ¡rios no mundo do software livre como ferramentas de pesquisa.

Apesar de ainda nÃ£o saber sobre os detalhes, a idÃ©ia Ã© manter um sistema de documentaÃ§Ã£o, onde os grupos interessados enviam um pedido de assistÃªncia (via um “ticket”), indicando quais manuais ou documentos devem ser traduzidos/documentados. Ã€ medida que o trabalho Ã© executado, a equipe responsÃ¡vel Ã© notificada por e-mail sobre o progresso. Para uma explicaÃ§Ã£o mais detalhada, vale a pena checar esta pÃ¡gina.

Ubuntu Weekly News \#35

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

JÃ¡ estÃ¡ disponÃvel a ediÃ§Ã£o NÂº 35 da Ubuntu Weekly News em portuguÃªs, graÃ§as ao Augusto C. A. da C. Silva!

Comandos BÃ¡sicos do Linux

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O Arlei Silveira Silva, junto com a Equipe de DocumentaÃ§Ã£o do Ubuntu Brasil criou uma Ã³tima fonte de informaÃ§Ã£o para quem quer aprender um pouco mais sobre os comandos bÃ¡sicos do GNU/Linux aqui. A documentaÃ§Ã£o estÃ¡ muito bacana, e tenho certeza que serÃ¡ bastante Ãºtil para quem estÃ¡ iniciando na linha de comando!

Se vocÃª gostou do material e gostaria de ajudar com o projeto, comece aqui.

One year went by\...

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… and today, chatting online with André Noel, I remembered that I was at Linux World Expo in Boston, MA representing Ubuntu! I had my “15 seconds of fame” when I was interviewed by the guys from Lulu.tv.

Those were 3 great days that I’ll never forget…

Um ano passou\...

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

… e hoje, conversando com o AndrÃ© Noel online, me lembrei que eu estava no Linux World Expo em Boston, representando o Ubuntu! Tive meus “15 segundos de fama” quando fui entrevistado pelo pessoal do Lulu.tv.

Foram 3 dias muito bons que eu, com certeza, nunca vou me esquecer…

Watching the wheels go \'round and \'round

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This is going to be a very emotional post for me… Emotional for a good reason, but with a “dash” of nostalgia. Ever since we released Ubuntu Edgy I made the decision of giving the leadership for the Brazilian Translation Team to someone else… not because I had lost interest in this task, but because after over 1 year in this position, it is the right and just decision to let someone else get the same opportunity. During these 18 months I have participared in the team, I had the priviledge to watch a great number of people grow… people who started out as volunteers, just like me, became members, and best of all, became personal friends.

Novos wallpapers para o Foresight Linux e outras coisas mais

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Um de nossos colaboradores criou uma nova coleÃ§Ã£o de wallpapers para o Foresight Linux.

TambÃ©m estamos trabalhando, junto com alguns amigos, na traduÃ§Ã£o da pÃ¡gina de web principal para o portuguÃªs…

Por Ãºltimo, estou tambÃ©m trabalhando em uma interface grÃ¡fica para o gerenciador de pacotes conary… o nome de “estimaÃ§Ã£o”? Connery… Sean Connery… ;)

Going to FISL?

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Jonh, Jono, Lucas et all. While you’re visiting Brazil during FISL, look for the Ubuntu Brazilian Team. it should be easy to spot them… just look for the loudest and craziest guys around!

Too bad I can’t make it this year…

Procura-se

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Procura-se um web designer para re-desenhar o agregador de blogs Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil. O design escolhido serÃ¡ selecionado para substituir o desenho atual, e para o autor eu enviarei uma cÃ³pia de um dos seguintes livros:

Ubuntu Hacks
Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional

ou um livro de sua escolha.

Como o Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil Ã© baseado no software PlanetPlanet, o design vencedor serÃ¡ aquele que melhor integrar-se com o software e expressar os valores Brasileiros.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter \#34

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

GraÃ§as ao Augusto Cezar Amaral, agora temos a Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #34 em portuguÃªs! ;) Vale a pena dar uma olhada…

Governo quer multar usuÃ¡rios do GNU/Linux

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Aunciado hoje em reuniÃ£o extraordinÃ¡ria no senado nacional, governo irÃ¡ multar qualquer usuÃ¡rio do sistema operacional GNU/Linux!

A decisÃ£o foi baseada em um estudo conduzido pelo Departamento de Defesa Nacional, concluindo que o sistema GNU/Linux poderia permitir hackers do mundo inteiro controlar o sistema financeiro do paÃs!

Qualquer pessoa que for encontrada usando GNU/Linux em seu computador pessoal poderÃ¡ levar uma multa altÃssima (preÃ§o ainda nÃ£o estipulado) e atÃ© mesmo ser presa, como possÃvel terrorista.

Coisas para trazer em uma conferÃªncia de Linux

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Como eu jÃ¡ participei de vÃ¡rias conferÃªncias e eventos de Linux representando o Ubuntu, e lembrando que teremos o 2Âº Encontro do Ubuntu Brasil durante o FISL este ano, resolvi criar uma pequena lista de coisas que foram Ãºteis para mim.

Ã?gua;
Caneta, papel;
CartÃµes de visita;
Algo para comer;
ExtensÃ£o elÃ©trica;
Fita adesiva;

Por que Ã¡gua? Porque vocÃª estarÃ¡ conversando o tempo todo e provavelmente nÃ£o terÃ¡ muitas oportunidades de se afastar do stand… mais uma razÃ£o para tambÃ©m trazer algo para comer, mesmo que seja queijo com goiabada, certo LÃcio? ;)

BillReminder \"7 Different Types of Smoke\" 0.1 LanÃ§ado

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

"Release soon, release often" jÃ¡ dizia o famoso mantra do mundo de software livre, certo? EntÃ£o, toma lÃ¡!

Hoje eu lancei a versÃ£o “7 Different Types of Smoke” (beta) 0.1 do meu projeto de “estimaÃ§Ã£o” BillReminder. Fruto de minha necessidade por um aplicativo leve e simples de contabilidade para a Ã¡rea de trabalho, o BillReminder rapidamente virou meu passatempo favorito e meu ponto de entrada principal no mundo python!

BillReminder \"7 Different Types of Smoke\" 0.1 Released

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Release soon, release often they say, right? Well, here it is then!

Today I released version “7 Different Types of Smoke” (beta) 0.1 of my pet project BillReminder. Born out my need for a simple and light home accounting desktop application, BillReminder became my favorite hobbie and main learning entrance into the python world for me!

Though still in beta, this version includes an attempt at a smart database layer (built on top of sqlite) which should allow the application to expand its capabilities of saving different types of data. It also has a simple notification system that will remind you every day of your outstanding bills, independent if you’re running the application or not. Also noteworthy is the availability of translations in Swedish (thanks Daniel) and Brazilian Portuguese by yours truly.

Problemas usando o VMware Workstation 6 (Beta)?

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Testando a versÃ£o 6 do VMware Workstation (ainda em beta), eu recebi a seguinte mensagem no console:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1’ not found (required by /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmwareui.so.0/libvmwareui.so.0)

Como eu tambÃ©m tinha visto uma mensagem durante o processo de instalaÃ§Ã£o reclamando sobre o Gtk 2.4 (mais velho que Matuzalem), fui trocar umas idÃ©ias com o pessoal aqui… e foi aÃ que descobri que esta versÃ£o, por motivos que ninguÃ©m entende, usa uma versÃ£o antiga do Gtk.

I want my MTV

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Having just seen Lucas Rocha's screencast where he creates a simple python plugin for the Hildon Desktop, I just cannot wait to get my hands on a N800. But it is kind of pricey for my very limited budget right now (or for the next several months for that matter. I wonder what a translator could do to get one of those nice discounts I read about in the web? ;)

AnÃºncio sobre meu blog em portuguÃªs

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Buenas,

Ultimamente tenho sido encomodado por certos indivÃduos sobre o conteÃºdo do meu blog, em relaÃ§Ã£o ao que Ã© publicado no Planeta Ubuntu Brasil. Essa nÃ£o vai ser a primeira vez que isso acontece, nem mesmo a primeira vez que esta mesma pessoa faz isso. Ainda ontem, enquanto eu dirigia de minha casa para Charlotte, North Carolina, e de volta para meu trabalho (um total de 5 horas), me lembrei de um e-mail que enviei no dia 24 de outubro de 2005 para a lista de discussÃ£o do Ubuntu Brasil:

Novela Mexicana

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Aparentemente meu Ãºltimo artigo feriu os sentimentos de algumas pessoas, causando que o mesmo fosse removido. O engraÃ§ado Ã© que desta vez recebi um e-mail, citando a regra (lembra as regras que eu mesmo ajudei a criar?) que eu supostamente violei. Aposto que este post vai ser removido bem mais rÃ¡pido, apesar de nÃ£o estar violando nada. ;)

Mas pelo que vi nos cometÃ¡rios que recebi, nÃ£o sou o Ãºnico que pensa da forma que penso. Meu interesse sempre foi e sempre serÃ¡ relacionado ao software livre! Eu nunca “jurei lealdade” a distro nenhum, mas sim ao ideal de trazer software livre Ã massa Brasileira!

BillReminder na TV?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

AlguÃ©m me mostrou que jÃ¡ existe um comercial para o BillReminder na TV. ;)

BillReminder on TV?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Karl Lattimer pointed out that there is now a comercial for BillReminder (may not be safe for work due to violent scenes). ;)

Problemas instalando o Foresight Linux?

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Algumas pessoas mencionaram no meu blog que a instalaÃ§Ã£o do Foresight Linux falhou, apresentando alguns sintomas “estranhos”, incluindo uma tela azul que me fez lembrar do famoso Blue Screen of Death!

Como eu estive ocupado este fim de semana, procurando por um segundo carro para a minha esposa, criei 2 relatÃ³rios de bugs relacionado aos comentÃ¡rios, sendo que um deles jÃ¡ foi resolvido hoje pela manhÃ£, e o outro precisamos de mais informaÃ§Ã£o.

Don\'t forget to pay your bills again\... or else!

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I last wrote about my pet project, BillReminder, a late and due bills notifier for the desktop. With the birth of my daughter Kate, and the projects I’m involved with at rPath, together with the translation of GNOME 2.18, there wasn’t much time left to do anything else. Fortunately, I had the great pleasure of adding one more developer to the project: Luiz Armesto.

After exchanging a few ideas on IRC about the direction I wanted to take the project, Luiz simply carrried on his shoulders the entire re-write process for our database layer, to support a flexible and dinamic architecture. And it didn’t really take too long for the results to show! As if that wasn’t enough, he took upon himself to write a new notification mechanism, detached from the main application (shown below).

NÃ£o se esqueÃ§a de pagar suas contas novamente, se nÃ£o\...

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

JÃ¡ faz um bom tempo que nÃ£o escrevo nada sobre o meu programa para notificaÃ§Ã£o de contas, o BillReminder. Com o nascimento da minha filha Kate, e os novos projetos que apareceram no meu trabalho na rPath, e as traduÃ§Ãµes do GNOME 2.18, nÃ£o tinha sobrado muito tempo para fazer mais nada. Felizmente, tive a prazerosa inclusÃ£o de mais um desenvolvidor no BillReminder: Luiz Armesto.

Depois de trocar umas idÃ©ias pelo IRC sobre o rumo que eu queria levar o projeto, o Luiz simplesmente carregou em suas costas a grande responsabilidade de re-escrever o sistema de banco de dados, para suportar uma arquitetura mais flexivel e dinÃ¢mica. E o resultado nÃ£o demorou para aparecer. Como se nÃ£o fosse suficiente, ele decidiu trabalhar no sistema de notificaÃ§Ã£o, separado da aplicaÃ§Ã£o principal (que jÃ¡ pode ser visto abaixo).

Foresight Linux 1.1 LanÃ§ado

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje foi lanÃ§ada a versÃ£o 1.1 do Foresight Linux, jÃ¡ com o GNOME 2.18! Como eu jÃ¡ uso o Foresight no trabalho e em um de meus PCs em casa, foi sÃ³ executar sudo conary updateall e pronto.

Eu poderia entrar em detalhes sobre o Foresight, e explicar algumas de suas vantagens comparado com distribuiÃ§Ã£o X ou Y. Mas desta vez vou falar sobre a maior novidade deste lanÃ§amento, que Ã© o Ambiente de Trabalho do GNOME 2.18 todinho em portuguÃªs!

Como eu \"blogo\"?

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O Andre’ Noel me perguntou “como que eu ‘blogo’” em um de seus ultimos posts. Bem, em termos de ferramentas, eu prefiro usar o Drivel mesmo devido `a sua simplicidade. Ele me permite administrar os meus 2 blogs e me apresenta uma interface bem “limpa”!

Em termos de “material”, eu tenho a tendencia de escrever sobre coisas que realmente acontecem comigo, e tento nao repetir (ou como diz o KurtKraut, “reblogar”) noticias, ja’ que o meu objetivo nao e’ trabalhar como portal de noticias. :)

Delphi dentro do Linux

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Meu amigo Silfar escreveu um artigo interessante sobre como ele finalmente converteu seu sistema para GNU/Linux, depois de resolver seu unico obstaculo ate’ entao: usar o Delphi dentro do Linux!

Como eu converso muito com ele (quase todos os dias) online, fui logo “reclamando”:

[12:38:41 PM] og.maciel: se eu fosse fazer uma critica… [12:38:56 PM] og.maciel: seria: “tem como voce detalhar mais?” [12:39:39 PM] og.maciel: tem bastante material dentro do post [12:40:03 PM] og.maciel: compartilhando pastas entre Linux e Windows (via VMware) deve ser de muito interessew [12:40:49 PM] Silfar Goulart: com certeza [12:41:08 PM] Silfar Goulart: mas acho que vou esperar alguem pedir hehehhehe [12:41:26 PM] og.maciel: nao seja por isso

GUADEC 2007

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After being harassed by Mario Danic for several days to submit a paper to this year’s GUADEC, I caved in and did it. I had problems completing my registration but was rescued in the last minute by Thomas Wood!

If my paper gets selecte, my talk will be titled “Where the streets have no name: Getting more done with different localizations teams!”, and it will be based on my personal experience in coordinating the joint effort by the Brazilian GNOME and Ubuntu Localization teams during our race toward a 100% GNOME 2.18 Desktop in Brazilian Portuguese.

Giggling already

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Sven;

Just a heads up… Giggle was packaged the very say day it was announced for Foresight and rPath Linux. :)

BTW, I could not post a comment in your blog. Someone translated the messages for me and it seems to be complaining about the Reply field?

Google Summer of Code 2007

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Distribua o poster do Google Summer of Code 2007 em sua escola e trabalho. Formatos em SVG e PDF podem ser encontrados aqui.

Atualizacao: Nem sei onde esconder o rosto depois do erro de portugues que coloquei no poster! hehehe Vou atribuir isso ao fato que moro no exterior ha mais de 16 anos… ;)

GNOME 2.18 DEsktop: 100% translated to Brazilian Portuguese!

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

We did it!

/me does Dora, the Explorer's dance!

GNOME 2.18 Desktop Applications are now completely translated to Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to the colaborative work between the Ubuntu and GNOME Brazilian teams! Now, the Ubuntu team will be working hard to make sure that everything is in sync so that Ubuntu Feisty Fawn will have a default look and feel in our language as well!

GNOME 2.18: Area de Trabalho 100% em Portugues do Brasil!

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Conseguimos! Agora o GNOME ja’ possui todos os seus programas padrao da area de trabalho 100% traduzidos para o Portugues do Brasil! Nos proximos dias a equipe de tradutores do Ubuntu Brasil estara' sincronizando as traducoes para que a nova versao, codinome Feisty Fawn, tambem inclua um sistema 100% em nossa lingua.

Gostaria de parabenizar a todas as pessoas que trabalharam duro estes ultimos meses, e parabenizar as equipes de traducao do GNOME e Ubuntu por este projeto de colaboracao que deu certo! Quem sabe a proxima versao (2.20) tenha o GNOME completamente traduzido??? ;)

Giggle empacotado para o Foresight

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Giggle e’ a nova “Interface GTK+ para GIT”. Instale Giggle v.0.1 hoje mesmo!

Giggle packaged for Foresight

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Giggle is the new “GTK+ based GIT interface”. Get Giggle v.0.1 today!

GNOME 2.18: Quase 100% traduzido para o Portugues do Brasil

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Tenho trabalhado com a equipe brasileira de traducoes do GNOME, tentando finalizar o projeto de traducoes para a versao 2.18 do GNOME. Com a data de lancamento se aproximando rapidamente, ja’ esta’ quase na hora de colher o que plantamos:

Idioma Documentacao (% Interface Grafica (% traduzido) traduzido)

Arabico 0% (130/8/23855) 99% (36988/0/3)

Ingles Britanico 32% (7912/0/16081) 99% (36988/0/3)

Frances 74% (17962/128/5903) 99% (36988/0/3)

Portugues 0% (0/0/23993) 99% (36988/0/3)

Sueco 67% (16198/146/7649) 99% (36988/0/3)

GNOME Desktop 2.18: Almost 100% localized to Brazilian Portuguese

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Been working hard with the GNOME Brazilian team to finish up the translation effort in time for 2.18. With the release date just around the corner, it is almost time to reap what we have sown:

Language Team Documentation (% User Interface (% translated) translated)

Arabic 0% (130/8/23855) 99% (36988/0/3)

British English 32% (7912/0/16081) 99% (36988/0/3)

French 74% (17962/128/5903) 99% (36988/0/3)

Portuguese 0% (0/0/23993) 99% (36988/0/3)

Swedish 67% (16198/146/7649) 99% (36988/0/3)

Churning away

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, so we now have Live CDs (not VMware images… towards the end of the page) with GNOME 2.17.92 fresh out of the oven! Come and get it!!! :)

The user name is Live and the password is blanked, so change it once you get a chance.

Mais formas de experimentar o novo GNOME 2.17.92 virtualmente

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Agora voce ja’ pode experimentar o GNOME 2.17.92 que eu falei antes usando QEMU, Microsoft VHD, e claro, VMware.

Estas imagens serao atualizadas com muita frequencia, e se voce trabalha com traducoes ou desenvolvimento, e esta’ interessado em ver seu trabalho “live” sem ter de compilar GNOME, baixe sua imagem aqui.

Mais noticias sobre o GNOME!

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ok, agora ja’ temos Live CDs (nao confundir com imagens para virtualizacao tipo VMware… no final da pagina) com o GNOME 2.17.92 fresquinho do forno! :)

O nome do usuario e’ Live e a senha esta’ em branco, portanto, mude-a assim que for possivel. E nao se esqueca de escolher Portugues do Brasil para ver o status das traducoes!

More ways to test GNOME 2.17.92

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Now you can test GNOME 2.17.92 using QEMU, Microsoft VHD, and VMware.

These images will be generated periodically so that you’ll always have the latest, bleeding edge GNOME to play with! So if you’re involved with documentation, translation, or development for the GNOME Project, and don’t feel like building it yourself, this is the best form to test your work before it gets released. Get your copy here!

VMware any any update

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje, depois de atualizar o kernel do meu sistema para 2.6.20.1, descobri que minha copia de VMware nao compilava mais. Foi meu chefe quem me falou sobre o vmware-any-any patch (versao 108 e’ a mais recente), que pode ser baixado aqui.

Simplesmente abra este aquivo, e execute como root o script em PERL chamado runme.pl. Este script instalara’ o patch e iniciara’ o script de configuracao vmware-config.pl, o que acontece toda vez que voce muda de kernel.

Live CD do GNOME, versÃ£o 2.17.92

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Saiu hoje pela manhÃ£ a tÃ£o esperada versÃ£o Live CD do GNOME, contendo a versÃ£o 2.17.92 do ambiente de trabalho do GNOME.

Baseado no Foresight Linux, este CD impressiona bastante por conter todos os pacotes do GNOME + alguns programas adicionais, localizaÃ§Ã£o completa (ou seja, suporte para todos os idiomas que foram traduzidos, incluindo o portuguÃªs do Brasil), e tudo isso em uma imagem ISO de somente 490 MB!

O plano Ã© continuar gerando estes Live CDs, culminando com o lanÃ§amento da versÃ£o 2.18 final em alguns dias!

NaÃ§Ã£o Livre

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Ã‰ com um grande prazer que venho apresentar a mais nova fonte de notÃcias do Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil: NaÃ§Ã£o Livre!

Formado por 4 estudantes de Belo Horizonte, este site jÃ¡ possui uns artigos bem interessantes, especialmente para quem curte programaÃ§Ã£o, GNU/Linux, e nÃ£o fica irritado quando escuta alguÃ©m falando sobre outros sistemas operacionais.

Obrigado Gabriel FalcÃ£o pela dica! E seja bem-vindo! ;)

Porto Alegre: Ir ou nÃ£o ir?

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Caramba!!! Depois de ter corrido atrÃ¡s de um monte de coisas para dar uma forÃ§a na presenÃ§a do Ubuntu Brasil durante o FISL este ano, agora fiquei aqui morrendo de vontade de ir tambÃ©m!

Pior que agora eu teria de pagar por tudo sozinho mesmo… e, como sÃ³ tenho mais 5 dias de fÃ©rias pagas no trabalho, teria de aguentar atÃ© dezembro para ter uma folga!

Minha esposa estÃ¡ me dando a maior forÃ§a e atÃ© mesmo olhou preÃ§o de passagem e hotel, mas…

poEdit and translate-toolkit packaged in Foresight

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Just finished packaging poEdit and the translate-toolkit for Foresight. I usually do my translations using Vim, but ultimately use these two tools to “fine tune” them before submiting them to bugzilla.

Speaking of translations, I cannot wait to see the new GNOME with 100% desktop translations in portuguese (Brazilian), thanks to a partnership between the Brazilian GNOME and Ubuntu translation teams! ;)

Epiphany is the Bee\'s Knees

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I just have to agree with Foresight's decision to ship the Epiphany web browser as their default browser! DonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t get me wrong, I like Firefox and some of the very nifty extensions make some of my tasks a breeze (Firebug rules!), but Epiphany IS GNOME’s default web broswer!

I say, take it for a spin and you’ll see how pleasant your experience will be!

Experimente o GNOME 2.17.92 agora!

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Quer ver como esta’ o GNOME 2.18 agora mas nao quer esperar ate’ o dia de lancamento? So’ de pensar em compilar codigo direto da fonte te deixa com febre? Nao tenha mais medo!

Ken Vandine empacotou o GNOME 2.17.92 como uma imagem de VMware, a qual pode ser baixada aqui! Experimente o GNOME (somente em ingles por enquanto) com todos os seus programas comprimidos em uns meros 362 MB, incluindo VMware Tools!!! Tudo isso gracas aos super poderes de Conary!

Live Gnome VMware Image

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Want to see what the new GNOME 2.18 will be like and can’t wait for the release date? Don’t feel like rolling up your sleeves and compiling it from source? Have no fear!!!

Ken Vandine has packaged GNOME 2.17.92 as a VMware image, which can be downloaded here. Experience GNOME (in english only for now) with all of its components packed into a mere 362 MB, including VMware Tools!!! All of this goodness thanks to the powers of Conary!

Segundo Encontro Nacional Ubuntu Brasil

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

SerÃ¡ realizado em abril durante o 8Âº FÃ³rum Internacional Software Livre - FISL 8, o Segundo Encontro Nacional Ubuntu Brasil! Desta vez com o patrocÃnio oficial da Canonical, companhia responsÃ¡vel financeiramente pelo Ubuntu, teremos a presenÃ§a de alguns membros oficiais, dentre eles LÃcio Fernando, FÃ¡bio Nogueira, e Alexandro Silva. Contaremos tambÃ©m, Ã© claro, com a presenÃ§a do Jono Bacon, responsÃ¡vel pelo organizaÃ§Ã£o de toda as comunidades do Ubuntu.

Contamos tambÃ©m com o patrocÃnio das editoras O’Reilly e Prentice Hall, e muitos livros serÃ£o sorteados durante o evento. Existem planos para realizar um install fest… traga seu PC, Mac, Tablet, forno de microondas, e volte para casa rodando Ubuntu. Ahh… claro que nÃ£o podiam faltar os CDs que serÃ£o distribuidos.

Planeta no Ar!

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O Planeta GNU/Linux Brasil esteve fora do ar por mais de 4 dias devido a problemas tecnicos no meu provedor. Ainda nao foi explicado o motivo, e tudo que sei e’ que algum processo, nao necessariamente do meu dominio, estava colocando o servidor de joelhos em cima de graos de milho!

Peco desculpas aos leitores e autores. Mais informacao sera’ divulgada assim que me for enviada pelo provedor.

Thematographer

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I took advantage of an unexpected break I had over the weekend to create my own application to change the theme for OpenBox. Sure, I know there’s OBConf, but I wanted to write my own in python.

Without further ado, I present version 0.1 of Thematographer for OpenBox!

Even with the dependency on Glade, I find it to be very light and it will detect default themes installed, as well as themes installed on $HOME/.themes.

Como se tornar mais popular - O Retorno

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Estou re-publicando um post antigo, de outubro do ano passado, com a esperanca de promover o excelente trabalho feito pela equipe de documentadores do Ubuntu Brasil!

Recebi um comentÃ¡rio muito importante em meu Ãºltimo post sobre como manter o Ubuntu atualizado com as traduÃ§Ãµes. O comentÃ¡rio foi do Leandro Martinez, que gentilmente me mostrou que nosso trabalho de divulgaÃ§Ã£o sobre a documentaÃ§Ã£o em portuguÃªs ainda estÃ¡ longe do que desejamos… Como eu trabalho junto Ã Equipe de DocumentaÃ§Ã£o do Ubuntu Brasil, sei que temos documentos de altÃssimo nÃvel, mas sem uma divulgaÃ§Ã£o nÃ£o vamos conseguir passar esta informaÃ§Ã£o para nossos amigos da comunidade.

zzzzZZZZ\...

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m back home, together with my wife and daughters. The two days spent in the hospital helped them (wife and baby) to recharge a bit their energies, and gave me some time to spend with my older daughter.

Many were the comments and emails I received during this period, all congratulating us and wishing us well. I even received a phone call from Brazil (thanks a million Kurt Kraut)! In the name of my (now slightly bigger) family I thank each and everyone of you for the kind words!

Life 2.0

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

After a very brief night of sleep (about 3 hours), Elizabeth started having contractions, strong enough for us to drive to the hospital. At around 5:18 EST our second daughter Kate Maciel was born!

There were some post-partum complications and Elizabeth lost a lot of blood, but the doctors seem to have things under control now.

Nothing can prepare you for the roller coaster of emotions one goes through when witnessing the birth of your child. Little Yv is the most excited, and keeps asking me: “Daddy, when can we bring her home?”

Nasceu!!!

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de dormir por apenas 3 horas, Elizabeth acordou com contracoes bem fortes as 02:30... fortes o suficiente para sairmos de casa e ir para o hospital. Algumas horas depois,as 05:18 da manha, nasceu nossa segunda filha, Kate Maciel.

Nada pode preparar um pai a presenciar o milagre que e’ ver sua crianca nascer. As palavras me escapam para descrever a montanha russa de emocoes… Houveram algumas complicacoes apos o parto, mas os medicos parecem ter tudo sobre controle.

Apresentando Thematographer

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Como tinha prometido ao Crimeboy, escrevi um pequeno programa em python (pyGtk) para mudar o tema do OpenBox. O programa esta’ quase que completo, mas ja’ esta’ funcional!

Sem muita fanfarra, apresento o Thematographer para o OpenBox:

Amanha tento adicionar mais alguns recursos, apertar os ultimos parafusos, e colocar `a disposicao. ;)

Baby on Board

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My parents wanted to know how my wife’s pregnancy was progressing…

Our doctors have told us that our second daughter will be born on Valentines Day (February 14th for those who don’t live in the US). But what is science compared to my mother’s sixth sense who, after having just seen this photo sent to her via cellphone, boldly stated: she’ll be born by tomorrow! ;)

Pare pra\' pensar, pense muito bem!

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Continuando com a saga de personalizar a minha instalacao do Openbox, a primeira coisa que eu geralmente faco e’ criar um script contendo os programas e as configuracoes que eu quero ter ao iniciar a sessao. O script nao tem nada de avancado, e simplesmente contem comandos bem simples, terminados com o simbolo “&” para que eles possam ter “vida propria” depois que o script for executado.

Primeiro, eu criei meu script (chamado startOpenBox) em meu diretorio pessoal, e adicionei os seguintes comandos:

Instalando o PyPanel no Ubuntu Feisty

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Acabei de instalar o Ubuntu Feisty Herd 3 (versao ainda em desenvolvimento; apesar de estar rodando redondinho aqui, recomendo que nao atualizem ate’ a versao final ser lancada oficialmente) no meu computador, e ja’ de imediato instalei o OpenBox.Â Para quem gosta de um gerenciador de janelas bem “leve” e sem frescuras, eu realmente recomendo.

Mas como eu geralmente tenho 10 desktops virtuais, e uso programas que enviam notificacoes (por exemplo, quando alguem te manda uma mensagem de chat, mas voce esta’ em outro terminal checando emails), sinto a necessidade de ter uma area de notificacao para estes programas.Â De todos os paineis (leia barra) que eu conheco, o PyPanel e’ o que mais me agrada.Â Porem, faze-lo funcionar no Ubuntu nao e’ uma coisa muito direta, e requere um pouco de “hacking”.Â Existem varias fontes de informacao na net, algumas indicando que voce remova os programas instalados pelo gerenciador de pacotes (synaptic ou aptitude), e compile voce mesmo a fonte.Â Mas desta vez decidi dar uma colher de cha’ para o aptitude, e decidi averiguar mais a fundo.

Launchpad de cara nova

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Para os que ainda nÃ£o sabem, o Launchpad estÃ¡ passando por uma fase de “remodelagem” total. A fase “beta” estÃ¡ a todo vapor, e atÃ© que estÃ¡ bem legal.

Me parece que na prÃ³xima versÃ£o, o Launchpad poderÃ¡ parar em muitas companhias como gerenciador de… tudo!?!?

Launchpad has a new face-lift

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I really liked the new “face-lift” given to Launchpad (still in beta)…

Something tells me we’ll see it being used by many companies in the near future as their management tool for… well, pretty much everything?!?!?

Do you conary?

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje conversando com crimeboy no #ubuntu-br sobre Openbox, fiquei salivando para usa-lo no trabalho, em meu Foresight Linux. Apesar que o pacote do openbox ja’ existe para o Foresight, algumas ferramentas que eu gosto de usar ainda nao estavam empacotadas. Para quem nunca empacotou nada, isso deve gerar ate’ mesmo pesadelos… mas isso e' porque voces nao conhecem o sistema de gerenciamento de pacotes que usamos, chamado conary:

O Conary Ã© um sistema distribuÃdo de gerÃªncia de software, para distribuiÃ§Ãµes Linux. Ele substitui soluÃ§Ãµes tradicionais de gerÃªncia de pacotes (tais como RPM e dpkg) com uma abordagem projetada para permitir uma colaboraÃ§Ã£o flexÃvel por meio da Internet.

Saturday Night Fever

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Este sabado foi realizado o primeiro (nao oficial) i18n Day por equipes brasileiras de traducao de software livre. Como este evento nao foi publicado com suficiente antecedencia, somente 6 pessoas compareceram… Mas o resultado nao deixou duvidas sobre a motivacao e energia desta turma!

Mesmo com somente 6 participantes, foram mais de 1,000 strings que foram traduzidos/revisados para o Ubuntu Edgy, e mais de 15 programas inteiros foram traduzidos para o Gnome! Como a instalacao padrao do Ubuntu e’ baseada no Gnome, isso quer dizer que o ambiente esta’ ficando cada vez mais brasileiro. ;)

Apresentando Foresight Linux 1.0

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

O Foresight Linux Ã© um distribuiÃ§Ã£o de Linux que simplesmente funciona! Nossa missÃ£o Ã© fornecer um sistema de desktop Ãºtil que Ã© facil e intuitivo para o usuÃ¡rio novato, e ao mesmo tempo flexÃvel para o usuÃ¡rio mais experiente. Foresight jÃ¡ vem com o Gnome mais recente instalado, Banshee para sua mÃºsica, F-Spot para suas fotos, e Open Office para suas atividades de escritÃ³rio. Muita atenÃ§Ã£o foi investida para tornar todas as atividades bem simples e completamente integradas ao sistema. Por example, com o NetworkManager, fica mais fÃ¡cil conectar seu sistema Ã um ponto de acesso sem fio! O Foresight Gerenciador de Sistemas ajuda a manter o seu sistema atualizado com as versÃµes mais recentes de aplicativos e correÃ§Ãµes de erros. VocÃª pode atÃ© mesmo atualizar seu sistema automaticamente, ou receber notificaÃ§Ãµes toda vez que uma nova atualizaÃ§Ã£o estiver disponÃvel, e aplicÃ¡-las atravÃ©s de uma interface de web super fÃ¡cil de usar.

ENFP

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My good friend SuperToadman pointed me to this online Myer-Briggs Test For Programmers today and I was amazed at how accurate the results came out!!! The test came very, very close to describe how I see myself. Come to think of it, I can see how this shaped my decisions in life.

Anyhow, here’s some more background on ENFP “personalities”… Anyone who knows me personally agree/disagree with it?

ENPF

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Meu amigo SuperToadman me indicou este Myer-Briggs Test For Programmers online hoje e eu fiquei adimirado com a exatidao dos resultados!!! O teste descreveu de forma bem apurada como que eu me vejo. Pensando bem, eu agora posso ver como que estas caracteristicas moldaram a grande maioria das minhas decisoes.

De qualquer forma, aqui estao alguns links explicando um pouco melhor sobre a “personalidade” ENFP … Alguem que me conhece mais a fundo concorda/discorda?

Meme: Metas 2007

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Respondendo ao chamado do LÃcio, aqui vÃ£o algumas metas (meio que nas coxas) pessoais que tenho para o ano de 2007:

Ajudar a completar o projeto de traduÃ§Ãµes do Gnome!
LanÃ§ar uma versÃ£o estÃ¡vel do meu projeto pessoal (a pÃ¡gina nÃ£o estÃ¡ atualizada, pois agora tudo estÃ¡ escrito em Python)!
Voltar a contribuir com o APTonCD!
Virar um Jedi no Python igual ao Laudeci e YguaratÃ£!
Ir no prÃ³ximo Ubuntu Developer Summit, na Espanha!
Comprar minha prÃ³pria casa!
Pescar mais vezes!

E vocÃª?

Gnome, Ubuntu, and Samba

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag, so I might as well talk a bit about it. ;)

Last November I sent out an email to pretty much every major Brazilian localization team (including Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, and the Linux Documentation Project), inviting them to a meeting to discuss how we can all benefit from our individual work. Many replies later, we decided to hold 2 sessions on the 18Th so to accommodate everyone’s schedules. The log for the 2 sessions (sorry, Portuguese only) were posted and everyone had a chance to chime in.

Gnome, Ubuntu, e Samba!

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Bem, como a notÃcia jÃ¡ foi publicada, creio que eu deveria falar algumas palavras. ;)

Novembro passado eu enviei um email para a grande maioria das equipes brasileiras de traduÃ§Ã£o de software livre (incluindo Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, e o Linux Documentation Project), convidando-os para uma reuniÃ£o para discutirmos sobre como poderÃamos usufruir dos nossos trabalhos individuais. Muitos e-mails mais tarde, decidimos marcar 2 sessÃµes no dia 18 para melhor acomodar os horÃ¡rios de todos. O log destas 2 sessÃµes foram publicados e todos tiveram uma chance de dar seu palpite.

Portable VLC

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My good friend Otavio enjoying his Portable VLC! ;)

New Years Reolutions

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Taken from What the Duck.

Real resolutions soon! ;)

New Years Resolution

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Tirado do What the Duck.

Resolucoes verdadeiras em breve! ;)

O ano de 2006 em fotos!

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Bem, depois de quase 2 semanas doente com um resfriado horrÃvel, eu melhorei em tempo para o ano novo! Este ano (passado) de 2006 provou ter sido um ano super movimentado para a minha familia e eu. Creio que eu viajei e conheci mais pessoas e lugares em 2006 do que nos Ãºltimos 5 anos combinados! JÃ¡ que vÃ¡rias pessoas escreveram sobre o que aconteceu no ano de 2006, eis a minha tentativa fotogrÃ¡fica.

2006 in Pictures!

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Well, after going almost 2 weeks with a very nasty cold, I got better just in time for the new year! This has proven to be a rather eventfull year for me and my family, as I travelled and met more new people than in the previous 5 years combined! Since everyone seems to be posting about what they’ve accomplished throught the year 2006, here’s my photographic attempt.

January 2006

Feliz Natal!!!

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de dirigir por mais de 800 Km, cheguei ontem na casa da minha irmÃ£ mais velha em New Jersey, onde estarei celebrando o natal com a famÃlia toda!Â Devido ao trafego tenebroso nos estados de Maryland e Delaware, foram 12 horas de muita estrada, tentando manter minha filha de 5 anos ocupada para que ela nÃ£o me perguntasse a cada 5 minutos: “Are we there yet???“Â ;)

Gostaria de aproveitar a oportunidade (nÃ£o Ã© fÃ¡cil convencer a famÃlia que eu preciso usar o laptop “rapidinho”) e deoxar aqui os meus desejos de um Feliz Natal e um Prospero Ano Novo para todos!!!Â Para todos os meus amigos de “guerra” do Ubuntu Brasil, e meus novos amigos do Gnome Brasil e Linux Documentation Project Brasil, obrigado por terem compartilhado o seu tempo comigo este ano!

Vamos abrir as portas da esperanca!

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Foi anunciado hoje o desbloqueio de envio de arquivos *.po para o Rosetta. Este foi o ultimo impecilho que estava no caminho do nosso novo projeto de colaboracao com a galera do Gnome Brasil. Quem nao souber o que estou falando, ou estiver interessando em pegar mais informacoes, por favor me procure diretamente ou, de preferencia, envie um email `a lista de discussao dos tradutores do Ubuntu Brasil OU Gnome Brasil.

Vou aproveitar a deixa e falar sobre uma dica matuta que vem do meu amigo e colaborador da equipe de traducoes Washington Lins. Para as pessoas que estao ajudando com as traducoes e querem aprender mais uma forma de localizar um string em um pacote, e’ so’ seguir a dica aqui.

Pastebin as a Linux Appliance

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

My co-worker Elliot Peele just released the Pastebin Appliance using rBuilder Online and conary. This is actually pretty cool and it will be extremely useful for those who want to have the features of a pastebin but don’t want to roll up their sleeves and install all the necessary pieces from scratch. You could even have it running on vmware and use it as such!

I’m sure that in a not so distant future people will really take advantage of virtualization and Linux appliances. It will be like having a computer system where the operating system is irrelevant and people will be able to pop in/out whatever features they want in the same manner one changes drill bits while doing some work in the house. Need a MythTV-like system? Pop the right appliance in and off you go! Need a robust [Oracle | MySQL | Postgres] database server? You get the gist. ;)

Usando Linux como eletrodomesticos

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje um dos meus amigos no trabalho anunciou o lancamento de um Linux Appliance (a traducao literal seria eletrodomestico) com o Pastebin. Mas o que e’ um Linux Appliance? Este foi um termo cunhado por minha companhia (tenho quase certeza sobre isso) para descrever a habilidade de criar instalacoes de software usando Linux, sem as complicacoes que existem para instalar e configurar um novo sistema. O mecanismo funciona mais ou menos assim:

Imagine

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Voce se lembra onde estava quando John Lennon foi assassinado? A data de hoje marca a morte do ex-Beatles ha’ 26 atras. Eu ainda me lembro deste dia… Com 6 anos de idade eu ja’ sabia quem ele era e apesar de nao saber quase nada sobre a sua vida, nao deixei de simpatizar com as pessoas que ficaram afetadas por sua morte.

No Central Park em New York existe o famoso “Strawberry Fields”, uma area dentro do parque dedicado `a memoria de John Lennon. Quem ja’ foi (eu fui em 2 ocasioes) sabe que e’ um lugar meio que mistico e calmo, mesmo com todo o trafego e movimento da cidade!

Monoglotism in TurboGears\...

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

or how the support for localization in Turbo Gears seems to be borked!

I have spent several hours trying to get a very simple Turbo Gears sample application to “speak” a different language, with no success. This is all part of my research at work to localize our rPath Appliance Agent to other idioms.

The rPath Appliance Agent (rAA) is a framework for administering appliances built with rPath technologies through a web based user interface. Including rAA with an appliance enables a central point of control for administration, configuration, and maintenance functions, such as logging and email notifications, user account preferences, and software updates.

rPath Appliance Agent 1.0.9 in the wild!

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Today we have released rPath Appliance Agent (rAA) version 1.0.9!!! I’m very excited about this since it has 2 new features that I worked on:

A new plugin for setting the time, date and timezone, and configuring the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
The rAA user password is now salted to provide additional security.

A long time ago I experienced the joy of seeing a program I had developed and open sourced pick up over 30000 downloads on downloads.com. But if you exclude my participation in the early stages on the AptOnCD project, I have exclusively developed applications for internal use only ever since.

This day in history

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Today we remember what happened on December 7, 1941: The attack on Pearl Harbor! This marked the beginning of several more atrocity acts against humanity!

As always, here’s my attempt to keep certain historical facts from being forgotten!

Distribuicao de CDs do Ubuntu pelo Brasil

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Fui contactado pelo pessoal da Canonical para ajuda-los com um experimento para testar a eficiencia da distribuicao de CDs do Ubuntu (pelo sistema ShipIt que distribui estes CDs de forma gratuita) pelo Brasil. Preciso entao ate’ o final deste dia, Dez. 6, 2006, enviar uma lista de pelo menos 20 pessoas representando varias regioes geograficas de nossa nacao.

Os interessados em participar podem me enviar a seguinte informacao aqui mesmo via comentario. Eu preciso das seguintes informacoes:

True Colors

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

What are your true colors???

* Logo created by `Danilo Cesar <http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/DaniloCesar>`__ under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

A Plea for Jorge Castro

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I was extremely sad to find out over the weekend that the always lovable Jorge Castro has decided to take a back seat in the Gnu/Linux world. I had a chance to meet him over the UDS-MTV and was very impressed by his genuine interest and willingness to “make the world a better place.” (c) It is very unfortunate that we have so many people out there who rather spill poison than use their energy to be constructive!

Ubuntu Tip \#1974: Vim

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje conversando com o KurtKraut pelo Ekiga, descobri por acidente que o pacote vim nÃ£o vem instalado por padrÃ£o no Ubuntu Edgy!!!Â Pode isso?Â Por algum motivo, o vim foi subsituÃdo pelo vim-common, que nÃ£o possui (atÃ© onde pude comprovar) todos os recursos do vim “normal”.

EntÃ£o, para reparar este grave erro:

sudo aptitude install vim

Agora, para testar a colorizaÃ§Ã£o de sintaxe automÃ¡tica, por exemplo, digite no vim:

:syntax on

Brincando com o OLPC

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Depois que eu li o anuncio que uma imagem (vmware) do sistema operacional do One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) ja’ estava disponivel, fiquei curioso pois ate’ agora eu so' tinha visto o prototipo. Fiz o download da imagem (mais ou menos 180 MB) e esperei ate’ a hora do almoco para poder brincar com ele.

O processo de inicializacao foi bem rapido, mesmo rodando dentro do VMWare, e em alguns segundos eu ja’ estava olhando para o desktop.

First impression of the OLPC OS

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Shortly after reading the note about a VMWare image of the operating system for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), my curiosity got the best of me and I promptly started downloading it into my laptop (roughly 180 MB) and waited for my lunch break to give it a spin.

..image:: http://static.flickr.com/104/309721351_0013360a38.jpg :target: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25563799@N00/309721351/

The bootup process was very quick, even running on VMWare, and within a few seconds I was staring at the desktop.

Network Manager Tip

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The very first thing I do with a new laptop installation of Gnu/Linux is to install Network Manager (sudo aptitude install network-manager-gnome). Eventhough I have met people who have claimed to hate it to death, I still consider it to be the best invention since the invention of sliced bread!

However, something very peculiar happens if you install it after you’ve already used your laptop to access a.. uhh… access point: the little Network Manager applet won’t detect the wireless device!

Secret Santa Made Easy

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This X-Mas will be the first time I’ll have to travel to be with my parents. I have always lived close to them, but now that I’ve moved to North Carolina, we have members of the family spread across the East Coast.

One thing we started doing these last 5 years was to shift from a everyone-buys-everyone-a-gift kind of X-Mas (very expensive if you have a lot of relatives), to a buy-something-simple-but-not-more-than-X-amount. This has cut down our expenses a whole lot, and we were able to really enjoy the holiday for what it is, and not the commercial behemoth that has become.

Ubuntu Tip \#147: Network Manager

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

A primeira coisa que eu adiciono Ã uma nova instalaÃ§Ã£o de Gnu/Linux em um laptop, Ã© o programa Network Manager (sudo aptitude install network-manager-gnome). Este programa foi a melhor invenÃ§Ã£o no mundo Gnu/Linux desde a invenÃ§Ã£o do pÃ£o fatiado! Com ele vocÃª nÃ£o tem de memorizar nomes e senhas para pontos de acesso de redes sem fio. Mas uma coisa que eu notei foi que se vocÃª instalar o programa depois de jÃ¡ ter acessado um ponto de acesso, ele simplesmente nÃ£o funciona!

Ubuntu Developer Summit - Grand Finale

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Pronto! Finalmente consegui arrumar um pouco de tempo para escrever um pouco mais sobre a minha experiÃªncia durante o Ubuntu Developer Summit na California. O fato que eu fiquei 1 semana fora do meu novo trabalho dificultou o meu retorno, e acabei atolado atÃ© o pescoÃ§o de projetos pendentes. Mas vamos ao que interessa:

Umas das maiores atraÃ§oes, depois da apresentaÃ§Ã£o do Beryl, foi a apresentaÃ§Ã£o do One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) pelo Ivan KrstiÄ‡. Foram muitas fotos tiradas e muitas pessoas que queriam “brincar” no protÃ³tipo apresentado,

Ubuntu Developer Summit - 1,2,3\... 4,5, 1000!

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Finalmente estou em casa depois de quase 10 dias de viagem e muitas reuniÃµes! Os Ãºltimos dias foram super longos e cansativos, e as noites foram recheiadas de muita bagunÃ§a, cerveja, e jogos de Mao. Este jogo Ã© a coisa mais estranha e secreta que eu jÃ¡ vi. As regras, se Ã© que existem, sÃ£o super bizarras, mas bem no estilo do filme “Fight Club”, quando perguntei sobre as mesmas Ã um dos jogadores, recebi a famosa sentenÃ§a: “One does not speak of the rules of Mao!”

Ubuntu Developer Summit, Mountain View - Segundo dia

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O segundo dia aqui no Ubuntu Desktop Summit foi suuuuper longo, mas acho que no final do dia conseguimos finalizar bastantes coisas. A maioria das discussoes que eu participei foram relacionadas `a organizacao/administracao de grupos locais (LoCo Teams), como tambem sobre a eleicao de um novo Community Council (CC) e como definir e melhor administrar a inscricao de novos membros no Ubuntu Team. As reunioes sao muito bem planejadas, todas “regadas” de muito bom humor! Posso dizer com muita conviccao que o pessoal por tras do LoCo Teams e' muito bem organizado e vao com certeza revolucionar como as equipes do Ubuntu vao se relacionar no futuro!

Ubuntu Developer Summit, Mountain View - Primeiro dia

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O dia hoje comecou bem cedo, com um cafe’ “continental”, que para quem nao conhece o termo, significa um cafe’ com frutas e coisas bem “leve”. Pela primeira vez pude ver todas as pessoas que foram convidadas para o evento, incluindo alguns rostos conhecidos. Tive a oportunidade de conhecer o Rodrigo Novo, um dos brasileiros que trabalham para a Canonical.

Depois do cafe’ fomos todos transportados ate’ o predio da Google onde fomos recebidos por alguns funcionarios nos presentearam com camisetas e canetas com o logotipo da Google. Depois de fazermos uma grande bagunca e comermos mais um pouco, Mark Shuttleworth deu o “pontape’” inicial e comecamos o Ubuntu Desktop Summit, ou udsmtv como e’ conhecido.

Cheguei na California

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de mais de 2 voos e 9 horas, finalmente cheguei no hotel onde vou ficar pelos proximos 7 dias. Estou em San Jose, California para o Ubuntu Developer Summit, que vai ser realizado no predio da Google, ou o Googleplex como e’ conhecido por aqui. Ja’ encontrei alguns rostos conhecidos, mas como ja’ sao quase 1 da madrugada, estou meio tonto para articular qualquer coisa. Pelo menos tive o Cory do Ubuntu Studio nos mesmos voos que eu. Conversamos sobre tudo quanto e’ topico possivel, o que ajudou bastante a saturar as sacudidas do aviao. :)

Iniciando o servico Avahi no Ubuntu Edgy

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Depois de quebrar a cabeca por 2 dias tentando descobrir porque eu nao conseguia compartilhar minhas musicas usando avahi no Banshee, dei uma vasculhada nos forums e descobri que o servico avahi nao e’ habilitado por padrao no Ubuntu Edgy!!! E nao e’ uma questao de iniciar o servico, invocando sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon nao!!!

O X da questao esta no arquivo /etc/default/avahi-daemon, onde a variavel AVAHI_DAEMON_START=0 “sabota” o script de inicializacao do servico. Acontece que 0 (zero) nao deixa o servico iniciar, e 1 deixa!!!

APTonCD 0.1 beta Released!

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

What is it?

APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you’ve downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers. APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your .deb packages located in one especific repository, so that you can install them into your computers without the need for an internet conection.

Mentalidade \> /dev/null

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje o Licio me passou um link que me deixou bastante pensativo, e ao mesmo tempo satisfeito:

"Acho que o Planeta Gnu/Linux Brasil deveria ser renomeado para â€œPlaneta Ubuntu Portugalâ€?. NÃ£o vejo sentido na relaÃ§Ã£o tÃtulo x conteÃºdo. A maioria dos blogueiros lÃ¡ Ã© portuguÃªs e usa Ubuntu, e da pequena parcela que sobra de brasileiros, a maioria tambÃ©m usa a dita distro."

Hehehe…Â Como que pode uma coisa dessas?Â Reclamar dos artigos e material publicados, nao porque o conteudo e’ ruim ou irrelevante, mas porque uma grande parte e’ proveniente de blogueiros portugueses???Â Talvez seja melhor entao desligar a tv para nao “absorver” culturas que nao sejam brasileira, ne'?

Linux para a Humanidade Portuguesa

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Depois dos vÃ¡rios artigos publicados sobre o lanÃ§amento da nova versÃ£o do Ubuntu, agora Ã© a vez de falar sobre os planos para a prÃ³xima versÃ£o, agendada para abril de 2007, e o futuro das traduÃ§Ãµes em geral!

Quem me conhece sabe que sou extremamente envolvido com o projeto de traduÃ§Ãµes da Equipe de Tradutores Brasileiros do Ubuntu. Como lider dos tradutores pelos Ãºltimos 11 meses (oficialmente pelos Ãºltimos 6 ou 7), tenho um grande orgulho de ter visto nossos tradutores e colaboradores reduzirem o nÃºmero de mensagens sem traduÃ§Ãµes para menos de 81,000. Nestes 11 meses, foram mais de 170,000 mensagens de inÃºmeros programas que foram traduzidas para o nosso bom portuguÃªs tupiniquim! Foram muitas horas passadas na frente do computador, organizando e administrando uma equipe formada por pessoas de tudo quanto Ã© canto do Brasil, com uma variedade incrÃvel de conhecimento e vocabulÃ¡rios prÃ³prios! Para mim, que moro nos Estados Unidos por mais de 16 anos e quase nunca escrevo em portuguÃªs, o desafio foi bem grande e Ã s vezes assustador. Mas nesta jornada tive a honra e o prazer de conhecer e trabalhar com pessoas fantÃ¡sticas que tambÃ©m compartilhavam o meu ideal de um dia poder oferecer um sistema traduzido 100% para a nossa lÃngua!

TrÃªs Amigos!

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Buenas!Â UsuÃ¡rios do Ubuntu Linux da lÃngua portuguesa brasileira podem dormir tranqÃ¼ilos todas as noites, pois sabem que a equipe dos tradutores Ã© administrada pelos TrÃªs Amigos!!!

Sacanagem a parte, quero agradecer o esforÃ§o e apoio do FÃ¡bio “Elvis” Nogueira e AndrÃ© Noel durante os Ãºltimos 6 meses!!!Â E obrigado a todos os colaboradores por nos ajudar em nosso projeto!!!

PS:Â AlguÃ©m se habilita a fazer um poster destes acima um pouco mais, errr… profissional?Â :)

Instalando TurboGears no Ubuntu Edgy

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Devido ao meu trabalho com python e TurboGears em meu novo emprego, decidi procurar informaÃ§Ãµes sobre como instalar o TurboGears no Ubuntu Edgy.Â A “receita" foi mais simples de achar que eu tinha imaginado:

Primeiro, baixe o script ez-setup nesta pÃ¡gina.
Caso vocÃª tenha uma instalaÃ§Ã£o ainda recente, instale o gcc com o comando:

sudo aptitude install gcc

Depois, instale os pacotes libc6-dev e python-dev:

sudo aptitude install libc6-dev python-dev

Execute o script ez-setup:

\"Caving\" In

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I finally caved in and gave beryl a try. After being literally bombarded with screenshots and videos os people doing some pretty cool stuff on their computers, I figured: “I have a pretty good system here… why not add some bling to it?”

I followed my friend Hamacker's recipe (in portuguese, but there’s a good tutorial here in english) and was running beryl in no time! I must have spent at least 1 hour just tweaking all the possible configurations allowed! That is when I saw my friend LedStyle's recipe for installing FlightGear, the open source flight simulator. Though the instructions are also in portuguese, there’s a initial push to re-write all the existing games recipes found on Ubuntu Games to other languages, specially english.

Sobre o beryl e jogos no Ubuntu

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Confesso que resisti ao mÃ¡ximo Ã “tentaÃ§Ã£o” de instalar o beryl no meu computador… NÃ£o sei bem o porque, mas creio que a possibilidade de nÃ£o poder jogar Enemy Territory devido Ã s modificaÃ§Ãµes no servidor de janelas foi um dos “culpados”. Mas depois de ver literalmente milhÃµes de screenshots e vÃdeos de pessoas “brincando” com o beryl, decidi investigar melhor o treco.

Seguindo as intruÃ§Ãµes do Hamacker, adicionei os repositÃ³rios necessÃ¡rios e instalei tudo que foi indicado para quem usa placas de vÃdeo da nVidia, e… pronto! Acho que passei pelo menos 1 hora “brincando” com os recursos, experimentando um monte de configuraÃ§Ãµes. Foi aÃ que eu vi o artigo do LedStyle sobre o FlightGear… Em alguns minutos, lÃ¡ estava eu pilotando, ou melhor, derrubando um F-16!

LINUX Sem MistÃ©rio

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Meu amigo Lucas Nunes Almeida da Silva (ou lnas90, como e’ conhecido no IRC) acaba de lancar seu primeiro livro sobre o Linux, chamado LINUX Sem MistÃ©rio. Escrito para usuarios que sempre acharam o Linux um sistema operacional somente para administradores de sistema, o livro serve como uma boa base para aqueles que gostariam de “experimentar” o Linux pela primeira vez. Estou muito orgulhoso do Lucas, um garoto com menos de 20 anos e ja’ com um livro publicado!!!

Novos autores no Planeta

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem e hoje adicionei 4 ou 5 novos autores, todos de Portugal. Eles escrevem de uma forma muito interessante, e tenho certeza que traram um “sabor” a mais para o nosso Planeta Gnu/Linux Brasil. Como meu novo amigo Vitor “Red Tux” mesmo me disse por email, seria muito bom vermos nossas culturas e povos unidos.

Entao, e’ com um imenso prazer que apresento o Vitor “Red Tux”, Duarte Diogo, Pedro Cavaco, e Rui Moura! :)

Seis Anos

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem celebrei meu sexto aniversario de casamento… Elizabeth e eu moramos juntos por quase 2 anos primeiro… para conher um ao outro melhor… para ter uma ideia de como a vida casada seria… Depois de somente 3 meses eu sabia que ela era a mulher da minha vida e que era o meu destino passar a minha vida toda com ela… envelhecer com ela… O problema era que eu nao ganhava o suficiente para sustentar nos dois… entao, moramos juntos, dividindo um apartamento de 3 quartos com um pessoal…

Six Years

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday was my 6th wedding anniversary… Elizabeth and I lived together for almost 2 years first… to get to know each other… to experience what married life would be like before actually doing it. After only 3 months I just knew she was the one and I was destined to spend the rest of my life with her… grow old with her… The problem was that I didn’t make enough to support the both of us… so we lived together, sharing a 3 bedroom apartment with some folks…

BR-Office empacotado para o Foresight Linux

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Aproveitei o dia hoje para empacotar o Br-Office para o Foresight Linux!!! Como podem ver, esta’ rodando “redondinho”! :) No processo de empacota-lo, acabei descobrindo um bug no glibc. Mas o pessoal da rPath ja’ tinha um patch e assim que o glibc for arrumado e for liberado no repositorio oficial, voces poderao usufruir do Br-Office tambem.

Para instala-lo:

sudo conary update broffice.org

Caso voce ainda tenha a versao oficial do OpenOffice instalado, nao se esqueca de remove-lo:

Google Analytics

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Comecei a brincar com a nova ferramenta da Google, Google Analytics.Â Apesar de estar com dificuldades de visualizar todas as opÃ§Ãµes da pÃ¡gina devido a alguma incompatibilidade com o meu Flash, estou gostando dos recursos oferecidos.Â Abaixo estÃ£o as estatÃsticas geradas para o “primeiro dia de vida” do Planeta Gnu/Linux Brasil, e como podem ver tivemos visitantes da Europa e Ã?sia tambÃ©m.Â ;)

A maioria dos visitantes vieram pelo Planeta Ubuntu Brasil!Â Seria bem legal se fosse possivel criar um mapa destes, mas com a posiÃ§Ã£o geogrÃ¡fica dos autores.Â Â :)

Sitio Deus e\' Pai

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Brincando um pouco mais com o Google Analytics, descobri que 8 pessoas do Sitio Deus e’ Pai visitaram meu blog (ou foram 8 visitas da mesma pessoal? hehehe) nos ultimos 2 dias.

Quem sabe me dizer onde fica este sitio??? ;)

Novo Planeta Brasileiro

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Gostaria de anunciar o lancamento do mais novo agregador de blogs brasileiros voltado `a tecnologia e linux: Planeta Gnu/Linux Brasil!!!

Qual a diference deste planeta para os outros?

De uma forma, os autores nao sao “membros” de um so’ “grupo” como o Planeta Ubuntu Brasil, que e' formado por membros da comunidade Ubuntu brasileira.
Os autores, escolhidos por mim, representam na minha opiniao a diversidade que existem no mundo de software livre brasileiro, sem querer focar em distribuicoes especificas.
Nenhum blog sera’ “filtrado” por assuntos especificos, o que contribuira’ (espero) para um certo nivel de variedade.
Um monte de links para outros agregadores brasileiros, permitindo assim que os leitores possam descobrir outros autores brasileiros.http://planeta.gnulinuxbrasil.org/

A arte inicial foi trabalho do vdpizzol e creditos para as pessoas que me ajudaram serao adicionados em breve. Espero que gostem.

Receita para encontrar um string que precisa ser traduzido

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Alguem compartilhou um script que ajuda na hora de procurar o pacote que contem uma mensagem que precisa ser traduzida ou revisada. Crie um novo arquivo e cole o seguinte codigo:

#!/bin/bash string="^_:" if [ “$1” != "" ] ; then string=$1 fi for i in /usr/share/locale-langpack/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo do if msgunfmt $i 2> /dev/null | msggrep -T -e “$string” 2>/dev/null | grep “.” ; then echo $i echo fi done

E’ importante checar se o caminho /usr/share/locale-langpack/ existe em sua distribuicao. Como no trabalho uso o Foresight Linux, o caminho e’ na verdade /usr/share/locale/. Depois voce pode executa-lo pelo console e, depois de descobrir o nome do pacote que contem a mensagem com problemas, procura-lo aqui. Ai’ sim, voce podera’ adicionar uma sugestao para esta mensagem na propria pagina (assumindo que voce esta’ cadastrado(a) no Rosetta) ou se preferir, enviar uma mensagem para os tradutores, nos explicando sobre o problema e onde encontra-lo.

Using Foresight Linux: Week 1

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Been using Foresight Linux at work for the last 8 days and am pretty impressed with the stability and community so far. Work hasn’t let me get knee deep into the documentation and all the nitty gritty details about the conary system, but I have a walking reference sitting right next to me! :) I’ve been bugging him to develop a “lite” version of it so I can get some of my friends with “limited bandwith” to take it for a spin, and I can proudly claim that it is working… hehehehe More information about that soon, right Ken? wink wink

Bug no Rosetta

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Meu amigo Ricardo Cropalato me alertou sobre um bug muito importante no sistema Rosetta de traducoes. Aparentemente, uma vez que um membro de uma equipe e’ “desativado” por qualquer motivo, o mesmo nao consegue mais re-ingressar. O Ricardo, por exemplo, tinha sido afastado recentemente da equipe de tradutores por estar afastado por muito tempo. Quando ele recebeu nosso email avisando da “desativacao” e tentou re-ingressar, recebeu uma mensagem do Launchpad dizendo que ele nao podia mais fazer parte da equipe, dando a impressao que ele tinha sido “banido.”

Como ajudar com as traduÃ§Ãµes do Ubuntu - Exemplo No. 147

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nome: Roger

Caro Og, leio sempre o Planeta Ubuntu e tenho a dizer que se nÃ£o fossem vocÃªs meu primeiro entusiasmo com o Ubuntu teria se arrefecido em pouco tempo. Sem delongas, queria sugerir uma pequena mudanÃ§a no Synaptic, no texto de uma tela na verdade. LÃ¡ estÃ¡ escrito â€œas MUNDAÃ‡ASâ€? estÃ£o sendo aplicadas. Como mudar as mundaÃ§as para MUDANÃ‡AS?

Nome: Alex Rocha

A string mencionada faz parte do pacote Synaptic. 231 (Edgy) e 227 (Dapper)

Sobre as regras de ingressÃ£o Ã equipe de tradutores

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Este post Ã© direcionado Ã todas as pessoas que criticaram as minhas decisÃµes de como organizar e administrar a equipe de tradutores brasileiros do Ubuntu. As crÃticas vieram de uma forma bem covarde, usando a lista de discussÃµes como forma de criar um tsunami dentro da comunidade. Em momento nenhum eu fui procurado em privado por estes indivÃduos, e muitos deles mostraram o seu interesse verdadeiro (de criar desordem e bagunÃ§a) ao publicar os meus emails endereÃ§ados Ã eles em pÃºblico. NÃ£o que eu tenha algo a esconder, mas omita um parÃ¡grafo aqui e uma outra linha lÃ¡, e pronto! Sou acusado de ser “ditador” e querer fazer “panelinha” por ser seletivo no meu processo de aceitaÃ§Ã£o de novos membros.

Como se tornar mais popular

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Mantendo seu Ubuntu Edgy atualizado em portugues

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

So’ um lembrete para os usuarios que nao querem ficar contando com o sistema de atualizacoes do Ubuntu para manter seu sistema com as mais novas traducoes em portugues. E’ so’ adicionar a linha abaixo em seu sources.list e esperar as atualizacoes semanais.

Ubuntu Edgy:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpacks/daily/edgy ./

Ubuntu Dapper:

deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpacks/daily/dapper-updates ./

O legal disso e’ para as pessoas que ajudam com as traducoes pelo Rosetta, que poderao ver suas sugestoes (se aprovadas a tempo) ja' efetuadas nos pacotes. :)

My first conary package

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

W00t!!! With the help (and lots of patience) from Ken, I was able to cook up my very first package using the Conary system! The package was the Drivel blogging tool and it has already been pushed up to rPath Contrib.

Packaging for any conary-based system is as simple as writing up a recipe (for nostalgia, mine is included below) and “cooking” it with conary!

class Drivel(AutoPackageRecipe):
 name = 'drivel'
 version = '2.0.3'
 buildRequires = ['GConf:devel', 'GConf:runtime', 'ORBit2:devel', 'aspell:devel', 'atk:devel', 'cairo:devel', 'curl:devel', 'dbus-glib:devel', 'dbus:devel', 'desktop-file-utils:runtime', 'e2fsprogs:devel', 'expat:devel', 'fontconfig:devel', 'freetype:devel', 'gettext:runtime', 'glib:devel', 'gnome-keyring:devel', 'gnome-vfs:devel', 'gtk:devel', 'gtk:runtime', 'gtksourceview:devel', 'gtkspell:devel', 'krb5:devel', 'libICE:devel', 'libSM:devel', 'libX11:devel', 'libXrender:devel', 'libart_lgpl:devel', 'libbonobo:devel', 'libbonoboui:devel', 'libglade:devel', 'libgnome:devel', 'libgnomecanvas:devel', 'libgnomeprint:devel', 'libgnomeui:devel', 'libpng:devel', 'libxml2:devel', 'openssl:devel', 'pango:devel', 'perl:runtime', 'pkgconfig:devel', 'popt:devel', 'scrollkeeper:runtime', 'shared-mime-info:runtime', 'zlib:devel']

 def unpack(r):
 r.addArchive('mirror://sourceforge/%(name)s/')

Anyone interested in learning about Conary and how to package stuff, sign up for a free account at rBuilder and check out the documentation.

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Para os meus amigos que estao curiosos por onde estou, aqui vao algumas noticias rapidas para mante-los atualizados.

No dia 29 de setembro me mudei de mala e cuia para Chapel Hill em North Carolina!!! O motivo da mudanca? Meu novo emprego com a companhia rPath, onde fui contratado como engenheiro e estarei trabalhando com python e Turbo Gears, entre outras coisas!! A companhia e’ simplesmente tudo e um pouco mais que eu sempre sonhei em ter em termos de trabalho! A maioria dos empregados sao pessoas de “nome”, comecando pelos fundadores. A grande maioria trabalha de bermuda e chinelo de dedos, com o IRC ligado o tempo todo, usando laptops de primeira qualidade e muito cafe, refrigerante, e “snacks” para manter o nivel de acucar bem alto! :)

Let the good times roll!

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quick note since I still have no internet at home and have been busy trying to catch up at my new job:

North Carolina rocks!!!
Gorgeous weather!
NO TRAFFIC JAMS!
Eastern Carolina BBQ is awsome!
Python all day long is what the doctor recommended!
The rPath crew know how to make one feel at home! ;)
Jamocha!!!
Fresh ground coffee!!!
Got sponsored to go to the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View, CA!!!

Hopefully, I’ll have some pictures loaded (and internet acess) by next week.

One last ping from New Jersey

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The apartment is completely “packed” and what for the last 2 years had been my home has been reduced to a monotonous pile of small boxes.Ã‚Â My internet is also down and I’m only able to post this last post due to a generous neighbor and his open wireless access.Ã‚Â Tomorrow I’m loading the truck and will drive down to my new place early Friday morning.Ã‚Â I confess I feel a bit emotional about leaving behind the friends, places, and things that shaped my life for the last 16 years…Ã‚Â But the future looks very promising and I can’t wait for the day (which I’m sure will come very soon) I can finally go back to enjoying life and all the good things it has to offer us!

Veni, Vidi, Vici

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Gracas a uma conexao de wireless perto de minha casa, posso escrever uma mensagem curta e breve sobre o que tem acontecido com minha vida pessoal e profisional.Â Por 2 semanas fiquei viajando de New York/New Jersey para North Carolina, e vice-versa, fazendo entrevistas de trabalho e procurando por uma nova vida para minha familia.Â Foram dias muito dificeis e e emocionais para mim, e foram varias as vezes que eu pensei em desistir e voltar para casa (New Jersey) e procurar um trabalho mediocre, mas que pudesse pagar as minhas contas.Â Mas como dizem que quando voce pensa em desistir e’ quando voce esta’ quase perto de vencer os seus obstaculos, insisti um pouco mais… e realmente venci!

Following the Right Path

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a while since I last blogged but my life has been pretty hectic for the last 2 weeks. I have spent more time flying from NY to Raleigh/Durham than actually anywhere else. The airports at JFK, LGA, and RDU had strangely started to feel “confortable” and I could pretty much tell anyone where the best spots were for the wi-fi.

Well, got to meet a lot of interesting people, and better yet, had a few job interviews along the way. The thing was that my interviews were both in NY/NJ and NC, which explains why I was flying so much. Most of my interviews took me pretty “deep” into the whole interviewing “machinery”, most of the time yielding 2 or 3 follow-up visits. I am very happy to say that one of these interviews was with rPath, and after a series of short visits, I can proudly say that they have made me an offer and I accepted it! For those who followed my last few entries, remember how I had decided that I had enough of the rat race, and was looking for a place where I could be myself and do some cool stuff? A job that would give me some serious dose of challenge and allow me to grow as a professional? I found it!

Ubuntu Wallpaper

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Algumas pessoas me pediram para disponibilizar o wallpaper do meu ÃƒÂºltimo post sobre E17…Ã‚Â EntÃƒÂ£o, aproveitem…Ã‚Â ;)

NJ -\> NC -\> NJ -\> NC

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

"Rodando mais que azeitona em boca de bangela!"

Cheguei em New Jersey de North Carolina no sabado perto das 21:25 e em menos de 24 horas ja’ comprei minha passagem de retorno!Ã‚Â Infelizmente nao pude evitar que 2 entrevistas em estados diferentes acontecem em datas tao proximas:

Dia 19 de setembro:Ã‚Â Entrevista em Hackensack, NJ `as 14:00
Dia 19 de setembro:Ã‚Â Voo 1109 para Raleigh, NC `as 21:25 (chegando la’ `as 23:10)
Dia 20 de setembro:Ã‚Â Entrevista em RTP, NC `as 09:00
Dia 22 de setembro:Ã‚Â Resultado da minha entrevista em Duke University na semana passada

Ainda vou tentar agendar mais algumas entrevistas ou almocos a partir do dia 20 para aproveitar que estarei em North Carolina.

Instalando o Enlightenment 17 no Ubuntu

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Uma receitazinha para nao perder o costume. :) Eu sempre estive interessado em experimentar o Enlightenment DR17, um gerenciado de janelas famoso por ser bem elegante e conter bastante efeitos graficos. O problema e’ que a versao atual, DR16, esta' demorando muito para ser empacotada e liberada com os recursos que a versao em desenvolvimento, DR17, oferece. Semana passada, conversando com o Julio Valsesia pelo IRC, ele me passou um repositorio que ja' possui os pacotes do DR17 para o Dapper e Edgy.

Se correr o bicho pega\...

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Cheguei em North Carolina na terÃƒÂ§a-feira pela manhÃƒÂ£ e fui apanhado por minha irmÃƒÂ£.Ã‚Â Assim que saimos do aeroporto, fomos rumo ÃƒÂ cidade de Durham onde fica o campus da Duke University.Ã‚Â A viagem foi bem curta e sem muitas dificuldades descobri o prÃƒÂ©dio onde eu teria uma entrevista na quarta-feira pela manhÃƒÂ£.Ã‚Â O resto do dia fiquei andando pelo campus da Universidade de North Carolina (UNC) esperando por minha irmÃƒÂ£ terminar suas classes.Ã‚Â Minha procura (online) por trabalhos nÃƒÂ£o foi muito produtiva e resolvi tentar novamente no dia seguinte.

Overheard at the TriLUG meeting

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Interesting:

evilaptop: Dude, CHICKS DIG UNIX evilaptop: Everyone knows that evilaptop: Right?? JasonF: that’s almost as unattractive as someone who scripts festival to sing “99 bottles of beer on the wall” at a party

Funny how a lot of the attendees were also chatting on #trilug! hehehe

What??? You’re actually interested in how to do it??? Ok, ok… The source code was also provided! hehehehe

#!/usr/bin/python
# 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
# Inspired by (who’d of thunk) beer!
from os import popen
from time import sleep
def printsay(sometext):
print sometext
voicehandle.write("(SayText ""+sometext+"")")
# Start talkin’ you varmint!
voicehandle.flush()
# It’d be nice if festival would tell us when it’s done talking.
sleep(3)
# 2 bottles, 1 bottle, no bottles
def pluralize(somenumber,sometext):
if ( somenumber > 1 ):
retval = str(somenumber)+" "+sometext+"s"
if ( somenumber == 1):
retval = str(somenumber)+" "+sometext
if ( somenumber == 0):
retval = "No "+sometext+"s"
return retval
# Open up a pipe to festival so we don’t keep respawning
voicehandle = popen("festival","w")
# Start with 99 bottles
num_bottles = 99
# Do what now?
refrain = "Take one down, pass it around."
# As long as there’s beer, we drink!
while ( num_bottles > 0 ):
printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer on the wall.")
printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer.")
printsay(refrain)
num_bottles = num_bottles - 1
printsay(pluralize(num_bottles,"bottle")+" of beer on the wall.")
print "—-"

Update:Ã‚Â Got to meet Daniel T Chen at the end of the meeting.Ã‚Â What a great guy!Ã‚Â Hope to see him soon again!

Googlism

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

My younger sister showed me this site: Googlism.Ã‚Â You type in your name, for instance, and using Google, it returns things that have been associated with it in the net.Ã‚Â Here are some results I got with a few terms:

Og:

og is gonna remember to watch idol tonite at 9 og is now impractical because it is so large og is a complete face detection and recognition system for linux using of the shelf components og is also antibacterial for a wide range of general infections og is combined with blood ph and ag og is clean and the drinks never seem watered down og is an adhesive open gear lubricant manufactured from high molecular weight synthetic base og is the answer og is nothing short of legendary og is a bit of a babe ye

I\'m in a NC state of mind

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Arrived at Chapel Hill, NC early this morning and drove around the Duke West Campus to find out where I have to be tomorrow for my interview. The flight was great and the wi-fi hotspot at the airport (JFK) allowed me to get things done while waiting for my flight.

Tried to subscribe to the University of North Carolina Linux User Group (UNCLUG) to see if we could get together or something but had my request rejected for not using a @unc.edu email address.Ã‚Â Soooo… anyone from UNCLUG interested in getting together?

Socorram-me, subi no ÃƒÂ´nibus em Marrocos!

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Estou aqui no aeroporto JFK em New York, esperando por meu vÃƒÂ´o para Durham, North Carolina. Me fizeram andar um bocado quando me avisaram que o vÃƒÂ´o sairia de um outro portÃƒÂ£o, mas tudo bem. Pelo menos o wi-fi hotspot do terminal funciona muito bem! ;) Pensei em passar aqui e deixar algumas “tarefas” para a equipe de tradutores e colaboradores.

Primeiramente, o Rosetta tem passado por muitas modificaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes estes ÃƒÂºltimos dias. Claro que ainda existem alguns bugs, mas creio que os mesmos serÃƒÂ£o consertados nos prÃƒÂ³ximos dias. Uma coisa que notei foi a adiÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de novos pacotes a serem traduzidos. O nÃƒÂºmero mÃƒÂ¡gico passou a ser 1232, e provavelmente poderÃƒÂ¡ crescer antes do congelamento de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes. A boa notÃƒÂcia ÃƒÂ© que a grande maioria jÃƒÂ¡ veio com sugestÃƒÂµes dos pacotes upstream! :)

A little bit of light in the tunnel

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

First off I need to thank you all who contacted me, either directly or via this blog, with your kind words of encouragement and advice!Ã‚Â I really mean it!

Through all the confusion and difficulties my family and I have undergone these last 2 weeks, I’m happy to announce that a little bit of light has crept through the darkness of the tunnel.Ã‚Â Yesterday I was interviewed for a programmer position within a company not too far from where I live.Ã‚Â For good or bad, everyone I spoke to had already gotten a glimpse of my online persona through my blog, and the entire interview was a series of very friendly and exciting conversations about open source, linux, apache, php, subversion, etc, etc.Ã‚Â I want to believe that it went well for I have been invited for a follow-up interview some time next week.Ã‚Â The opportunity has great potential for my career as I’m trying to do more open source related work!

Where in the world is Og Maciel?

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Dei uma sumida desde o ÃƒÂºltimo post sobre o simpÃƒÂ³sio nas NaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes Unidas.Ã‚Â NÃƒÂ£o falei nada aqui sobre o que me aconteceu hÃƒÂ¡ duas semanas atrÃƒÂ¡s, a nÃƒÂ£o ser para os amigos mais ÃƒÂntimos.Ã‚Â Acontece que meu contrato de trabalho expirou no dia 23 de agosto devido ao cancelamento de meu projeto.Ã‚Â A notÃƒÂcia foi me passada pior forma possÃƒÂvel: por email!!!Ã‚Â Na noite do dia 22, depois da janta, fui checar meu email como de costume e recebi a notÃƒÂcia.

NYC Claims Another Victim!

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This is it folks, I’m quitting the rat race! After working my butt off for the last 2 years as a contractor, I got tired of the long commutes to/from work/home, missing my daughter grow into this almost five-year-old beautiful girl, not having enough time or energy to properly enjoy time with my family, and always being worried if my contract would be renewed. About 2 weeks ago I was informed my project had gotten canceled and with it, my position. The news came to my via an email, late at night without much explanation.

Eu quero ser um membro do grupo de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes! Como proceder?

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Semana passada houve uma boa discussÃƒÂ£o (por email na lista de discussÃƒÂ£o) sobre o processo de ingressÃƒÂ£o e critÃƒÂ©rios para a equipe de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o brasileira do Ubuntu. Infelizmente, a informaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o contida na pÃƒÂ¡gina oficial foi considerada incompleta no ponto de vista de alguns candidatos, o que causou muita confusÃƒÂ£o e transtorno ÃƒÂ s pessoas que infelizmente nÃƒÂ£o foram aceitas este mÃƒÂªs. Em nome da administraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de nossa equipe, gostaria de pedir desculpas ÃƒÂ s pessoas afetadas por nossa falha, e espero poder contar com a sua participaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e colaboraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o em nossos futuros objetivos.

Going to the United Nations

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I had the opportunity to represent Ubuntu linux at a symposium held at the United Nations, organized by UNITAR. Together with another representative from Novel, I was invited to demonstrate our operating system and answer any question that may come up during the event.

Together with my new friend Nathan Eckenrode whom I met approximately 3 weeks ago (he was one of those who answered my post about getting a free Ubuntu book. We had lunch one day close to my ex-job), we arrived at the UN around 9:30. It was a pretty “weird” day, with a very fine mist covering everything and everyone walking in New York city. We immediately put on our identification badges and went straight to meeting room #8. The event was set up as a “round tableÃ¢â‚¬Â? discussion, and right away I could see Richard Stallman and Danese Cooper sitting across the room.

Minha experiÃƒÂªncia nas NaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes Unidas

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Como jÃƒÂ¡ havia mencionado antes, ontem tive a oportunidade de representar o Ubuntu linux em um simpÃƒÂ³sio nas NaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes Unidas, organizado pelo departamento UNITAR. Junto com um representante da Novel, fui convidado a demonstrar o nosso sistema operacional e responder qualquer pergunta que surgissem durante o evento.

Junto com meu novo amigo, Nathan Eckenrode que tive a oportunidade de conhecer hÃƒÂ¡ umas 3 semanas atrÃƒÂ¡s (ele acompanha meu blog em inglÃƒÂªs, e um dia me encontrou na hora do almoÃƒÂ§o perto do meu ex-trabalho), chegamos nas NaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes Unidas perto das 9:30. O dia estava muito estranho, com uma garÃƒÂ´a bem fina caindo sobre a cidade de New York. Imediatamente buscamos nossa identificaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e fomos para a sala de reuniÃƒÂ£o No.8. A discussÃƒÂ£o foi organizada no estilo “mesa redonda”, e logo no inÃƒÂcio pude ver Richard Stallman e Danese Cooper sentados do outro lado da sala.

Ubuntu nas NaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes Unidas

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

AmanhÃƒÂ£ estarei representando o Ubuntu Linux em um simpÃƒÂ³sio na ONU chamado “ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT: FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS).“Ã‚Â O evento promete ser muito interessante e terÃƒÂ¡ representantes da Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Novel, e ÃƒÂ© claro do Ubuntu Brasil!Ã‚Â :)

Estarei levando minha cÃƒÂ¢mera digital e prometo publicar as fotos assim que for possÃƒÂvel.

III Festival Software Livre da Bahia

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nesta quinta-feira, dia 24 de agosto, estarÃƒÂ¡ acontecendo o III Festiva Software Livre da Bahia, e teremos um grupo animado de Ubunteiros representando nossa comunidade! Acontece que os 250 CDs que foram ordenados para o evento foram barrados (ainda nÃƒÂ£o sei direito onde, mas deve ter sido pela polÃƒÂcia federal) e nÃƒÂ£o serÃƒÂ£o liberados atÃƒÂ© que seja paga a taxa de “importaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o” de R$300!!! Caso voce vÃƒÂ¡ ao evento, gostaria de pedir que ajude nosso grupo, doando seus CDs do Ubuntu para que eles possam parar nas mÃƒÂ£os de mais um (esperamos) novo usuÃƒÂ¡rio de um sistema operacional livre! ;) Aproveite e conheÃƒÂ§a alguns dos membros e autores do Planeta, que com certeza estarÃƒÂ£o prestigiando o evento!

Mais um brasileiro na equipe do Ubuntu

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje ÃƒÂ s 14:00 BST, junto com alguns membros da equipe de documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o, tive a honra de presenciar a aprovaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de mais um brasileiro ÃƒÂ equipe do Ubuntu (Ubuntu Team).Ã‚Â Desta vez foi o AndrÃƒÂ© Noel, um dos administradores da equipe de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e sherife da pÃƒÂ¡gina de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes para o Edgy, nova versÃƒÂ£o do Ubuntu que serÃƒÂ¡ lanÃƒÂ§ada em outubro deste ano.

GraÃƒÂ§as ao seu trabalho como tradutor e ao grande nÃƒÂºmero de “torcedores” brasileiros que apareceramÃ‚Â para prestigiÃƒÂ¡-lo, AndrÃƒÂ© foi aceito sem dificuldades ou dÃƒÂºvidas!

Top Contributor/Translator

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Wow!!!Ã‚Â I’m absolutely excited to see my name as one of the top contributors and translators for Ubuntu!Ã‚Â Believe me, I am not vain at all, but this caught me off guard!

Top Contributors:

Top Translators:

Dude, Where\'s my TabletPC?

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

It has been a while since I last wrote about my TabletPC.Ã‚Â About 2-3 weeks ago I managed to install Edgy Knot 1 on it and everything was a-OK!Ã‚Â That’s when the rug was pulled from under me and I was kindly asked to return my precious.Ã‚Â Turns out my friend, who lent me the Tablet, had no authority to do so, and asked me to return it.Ã‚Â I confess, I was sad to see it go get a make over and become someone else’s new toy…

Live \[Broad\|Pod\]casting with Linux

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I was wondering if anyone out there would have a “recipe” for doing live broadcasting (and podcasting) using only open source applications?Ã‚Â The goal is to replace our record-from-Skype-conversation-with-Audacity-and-convert-to-ogg “process” and eventually have sort of a “live” program where people could listen to a weekly talk and/or download the podcast as well.

Last.fm: Planeta Ubuntu Brasil

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Em mais uma forma de trazer novas pessoas ÃƒÂ nossa comunidade, acabei de criar o grupo Planeta Ubuntu Brasil no Last.fm.Ã‚Â Para quem ainda nÃƒÂ£o o conhece, o Last.fm ÃƒÂ© um site que registra todas as mÃƒÂºsicas que vocÃƒÂª escuta, tanto no PC como em um iPod, e te permite compartilhar seus gostos musicais com terceiros.Ã‚Â Este tipo de serviÃƒÂ§o existe hÃƒÂ¡ algum tempo, mas devido ÃƒÂ limitaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes de compatibilidade com o Linux, eu tinha deixado “de lado” por um tempo.Ã‚Â Hoje em dia a nova safra de reprodutores de mÃƒÂdia jÃƒÂ¡ possuem plugins que permitem a integraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de forma simples e prÃƒÂ¡tica.

After the storm, comes the calm

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

My post about the bombing of Nagasaki yesterday seems to have caused quite the stir. As in any of my posts, the text contained within these pages are solely my own thoughts and oppinions. I have received quite a few comments yesterday, most disagreeing with my point of view, a few very personal, but that was expected. After the 30th comment came in this morning, I decided to lock it since I felt it had fulfilled its purpose beyond my expectations.

Continuando com Nagasaki

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

PeÃƒÂ§o perdÃƒÂ£o aos leitores que estÃƒÂ£o acostumados a lerem meus artigos relacionados ÃƒÂ Linux e tecnologia em geral. Sei que o assunto neste artigo pode nÃƒÂ£o agradar ÃƒÂ todos, mas creio piamente que ÃƒÂ© meu dever moral relembrar a todos sobre o que aconteceu ontem, ÃƒÂ 60 anos atrÃƒÂ¡s. Meu artigo original nÃƒÂ£o foi publicado no Planeta Brasil, mas acho que para os leitores que realmente estiverem interessados, vale a pena dar uma lida. Melhor ainda seria acompanha a discussÃƒÂ£o que o mesmo artigo teve, quando publicado em inglÃƒÂªs. Finalmente, minha irmÃƒÂ£ me enviou este link para um site com mais algumas informaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes sobre a tragÃƒÂ©dia de Nagasaki, com fotos e comentÃƒÂ¡rios. Que isso sirva de lembranÃƒÂ§a para que nunca deixemos este tipo de coisa acontecer novamente. :(

DocumentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o para Live CD Personalizado

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nosso amigo Alex Rocha nos fez a gentileza de traduzir os documentos relacionados ÃƒÂ criaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de Live CDs personalizados usando o Ubuntu Dapper. Aproveite e ofereÃƒÂ§a seu retorno/feedback para que possamos ajudar a manter os documentos atualizados e ÃƒÂºteis ÃƒÂ comunidade.

Como Personalizar o Live CD do Ubuntu Dapper Drake[0]
Como Personalizar o Live CD do Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog [1

[0] http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/CustomizandoLiveCD/Dapper

[1] http://wiki.ubuntubrasil.org/CustomizandoLiveCD

Customized Ubuntu Dapper Drake Live CD 1,2,3

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This article was inspired by another article from my good friend Alex Rocha, who has just taken the plunge into the blogging world, pointing out a document showing how one can create their own customized Live CD with Ubuntu Dapper Drake.Ã‚Â The document is a detailed step by step which could help you create a Live CD with all your favorite programas, including all the multimedia codecs, flash, and java for a complete “out-of-the-box” experience, specially if you’re trying to convince your aunt or grandparents to migrate from Windows 98.Ã‚Â But in order to complete such feat, it is necessary to roll up your sleves and get jiggy with the command line, which could be a bit “scary” for those who haven’t yet experience the true power that Linux has to offer.Ã‚Â That’s when I came across a reference to a graphical nterface that pretty much does the same thing for you!Ã‚Â I took a quick peek at the instructions, shockfull of pictures, and I can say that now anyone can create their own Live CD!Ã‚Â I haven’t tried it yet but would love to hear from those who manage to give it a whirl before I get a chabce. Enjoy it!

Nagasaki: 60 anos depois

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje marca um dia negro na histÃƒÂ³ria da humanidade, o dia que o aviÃƒÂ£o de guerra B-29 americano Bockscar despejou a “Fat Man”, uma bomba de plutÃƒÂ´nio sobre a cidade de Nagasaki, no JapÃƒÂ£o.

"O engenho de 2.34 metros de comprimento, e 1.52 metros de diÃƒÂ¢metro, de 4545 kg foi detonado a uma altitude de cerca de 550 metros sob a cidade" [1]

Com uma potÃƒÂªncia de mais de 25 kilotons, esta bomba foi responsÃƒÂ¡vel pela morte de mais de 40,000 pessoas, incluindo crianÃƒÂ§as, mulheres, e idosos!

The real terrorists always get away

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Today, 60 years ago:

Bocks Car
Fat Man
21 kilotons of Plutonium
Nagasaki
40000+ civilians pulverized to death!

The terrorists got away, and today we can see the airplane “proudly” displayed in an american museum.

September 11th, 2001:

2,976+ people have died!
Afganistan and Irak invaded!
More than 3000 soldiers have died after the “end of the war”!
More civilians die every day!

The terrorists once again got away!

I used to think you could not judge a nation based on the decision of its government. But a nation that openly supports this type of behavior has no excuse!

Ubuntu Dapper Drake Live CD Personalizado 1,2,3

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O artigo de hoje foi inspirado no artigo de meu amigo Alex Rocha, que inaugurou seu novo blog indicando como criar um Live CD personalizado do Ubuntu.Ã‚Â O artigo mencionado, em inglÃƒÂªs, ÃƒÂ© um passo a passo bem detalhado que com certeza vai te permitir criar um Live CD com todos os seus pacotes preferidos, incluindo todo o suporte ÃƒÂ multimÃƒÂdia, flash, e java para uma experiÃƒÂªncia completa, especialmente se vocÃƒÂª estÃƒÂ¡ tentando convencer sua tia e seus avÃƒÂ³s a migrarem do Windows 98.Ã‚Â ;)

Aprendizagem Mastigada

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ontem, esperando por minha esposa duramte sua consulta mÃƒÂ©dica, me deparei com uma ediÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o passada da revista American Scientist.Ã‚Â Desde que me formei da Pace University com meu BS em Biochemistry, eu raramente leio algo cientÃƒÂfico e procuro mais por revistas relacionadas a programaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e computadores.Ã‚Â De qualquer forma, o primeiro artigo, Ã¢â‚¬Å"GaussÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Day of ReckoningÃ¢â‚¬Â? por Brian Hayes prendeu a minha atenÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o:

In the 1780s a provincial German schoolmaster gave his class the tedious assignment of summing the first 100 integers. The teacherÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s aim was to keep the kids quiet for half an hour, but one young pupil almost immediately produced an answer: 1 + 2 + 3 + Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ + 98 + 99 + 100 = 5,050. The smart aleck was Carl Friedrich Gauss, who would go on to join the short list of candidates for greatest mathematician ever. Gauss was not a calculating prodigy who added up all those numbers in his head. He had a deeper insight: If you Ã¢â‚¬Å"foldÃ¢â‚¬Â? the series of numbers in the middle and add them in pairsÃ¢â‚¬â€?1 + 100, 2 + 99, 3 + 98, and so onÃ¢â‚¬â€?all the pairs sum to 101. There are 50 such pairs, and so the grand total is simply 50Ãƒâ€“101. The more general formula, for a list of consecutive numbers from 1 through n, is n(n + 1)/2.

Learning through a straw

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday while waiting for my wife at the doctor’s office, I managed to take a peek at an older issue of the American Scientist.Ã‚Â Ever since I graduated from Pace University with my BS in Biochemistry, I rarely read anything too scientific and tend to browse more computer related magazines.Ã‚Â Anyhow, the very first article, “Gauss’s Day of Reckoning" by Brian Hayes caught my attention:

In the 1780s a provincial German schoolmaster gave his class the tedious assignment of summing the first 100 integers. The teacher’s aim was to keep the kids quiet for half an hour, but one young pupil almost immediately produced an answer: 1 + 2 + 3 + … + 98 + 99 + 100 = 5,050. The smart aleck was Carl Friedrich Gauss, who would go on to join the short list of candidates for greatest mathematician ever. Gauss was not a calculating prodigy who added up all those numbers in his head. He had a deeper insight: If you “fold” the series of numbers in the middle and add them in pairsÃ¢â‚¬â€?1 + 100, 2 + 99, 3 + 98, and so onÃ¢â‚¬â€?all the pairs sum to 101. There are 50 such pairs, and so the grand total is simply 50Ãƒâ€“101. The more general formula, for a list of consecutive numbers from 1 through n, is n(n + 1)/2.

Curva de Aprendizagem

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Technorati Brasileiro

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hoje me inscrevi no BlogBlogs, uma espÃƒÂ©cie de Technorati Brasileiro. NÃƒÂ£o sei bem o que esperar disso, e nÃƒÂ£o queria realmente fazer nenhum anÃƒÂºncio, mas jÃƒÂ¡ que o processo de verificaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de blog requer que eu coloque um cÃƒÂ³digo em html, por favor ignorem este post.(a nÃƒÂ£o ser que tambÃƒÂ©m queiram experimentar o serviÃƒÂ§o).

BlogBlogs.Com.Br

Pegando os Espanhois de Tapas

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Calma, calma gente…Ã‚Â NÃƒÂ£o estou partindo para a ignorÃƒÂ¢ncia e enchendo os Espanhois de “bolacha” nÃƒÂ£o…Ã‚Â Estou me referindo ao aperitivo tÃƒÂpico chamdo Tapas!Ã‚Â Por que estou falando de aperitivos neste blog?Ã‚Â Para comemorar o fato que passamos da equipe dos tradutores AlemÃƒÂ£es na nossa “corrida” para traduzir o Ubuntu Linux para o nosso TupiniquinÃƒÂªs, e agora estamos partindo para cima dos Espanhois!

Baseado no matemÃƒÂ¡tico AndrÃƒÂ© Noel, “Estamos na frente dos alemÃƒÂ£es por uma diferenÃƒÂ§a esmagadora de… 3 strings!!!“Ã‚Â heheheÃ‚Â Agora jÃƒÂ¡ estamos de olho na nossa prÃƒÂ³xima vÃƒÂtima, a equipe Espanhola, que estÃƒÂ¡ com aproximadamente 20,000 strings na nossa frente!

My Daily WTF

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been extremelly busy at work since my boss resigned about 3 weeks ago.Ã‚Â To worsen the situation, some other developer has also left, leaving me as the new maintainer for his “legacy” application.Ã‚Â The so called “program” is entirely written in Java, acting as a “wrapper” for Oracle and Sybase procedural code, written in PL/SQL and T-SQL respectively.

It turns out that every quarter this application gets modified to satisfy the new “business rules” that are “engineered” by the major stakeholders in order to satisfy their needs.Ã‚Â After several iterations and undocumented modifications done to the program, the beast has turn into a major, stinking “onion”, full of layer upon layer of patches.

WTF?

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ando super atarefado no meu trabalho desde que meu chefe se demitiu hÃƒÂ¡ 3 semanas. Para piorar a situaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o, outro programador tambÃƒÂ©m foi embora, me deixando como “herdeiro” de um “programa” escrito em Java, agindo como um “wrapper” para chamadas de rotinas em Oracle e Sybase, escritas em PL/SQL e T-SQL respectivamente.

Acontece que a cada 3 meses ÃƒÂ© necessÃƒÂ¡rio modificar o cÃƒÂ³digo para atender os caprichos dos usuÃƒÂ¡rios principais, e com o passar do tempo, o programa virou uma grande “cebola”, com camadas e camadas de patches sem documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o nenhuma.

Ubuntu Hacks

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I still have a few copies of Ubuntu Hacks left from the batch I received from O’Reilly.Ã‚Â If you live around New York City and don’t mind driving/walking/biking to Fort Lee, NJ (right across the George Washington Bridge), I could give it to you.Ã‚Â The plan was to give them together with the new Dapper CDs, but unfortunately mine are taking longer to arrive.

Anyhow, we could meet at the local StarBucks store and chit-chat while getting caffeinated.Ã‚Â :)

Getting Jiggy With Translations

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This past weekend the Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translators and the Brazilian Documentation Team put together a 3-day boot camp for translators and new volunteers. The online classes were held every evening at #ubuntu-br-tradutores, and covered all the steps and methods involved in the process of translating Ubuntu to Brazilian Portuguese, as well as showing people how they can participate in the community.. The very last session, taught by CÃƒÂ¡ssio Martini (and me in the back stage), was performed with live demos and participation of the “students” in real time. I can say, without false modesty, that it was a great way to close the event! I wrote this article (originally in portuguese) approximately 30 minutes prior to the session started, so to serve as a guideline that people could follow online. It is assumed that the reader has already subscrived to our mailing list, criated a GnuPG key, signed the Code of Conduct, and also registered for a free “account” with the Launchpad system. All of these topics were (extremelly well) covered in the first 2 sessions by my friend Alex Rocha. We urge all volunteers interested in joining our team to read this document, which gives a brief introduction about the different systems we currently use, as well as some great tips for when translating packages.

Botando a mÃƒÂ£o na massa!

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O tÃƒÂtulo deste artigo foi “cunhado” por meu amigo CÃƒÂ¡ssio Martini, e ÃƒÂ© relacionado ao ato de iniciar a fazer traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes do Ubuntu linux pelo sistema Rosetta. Nos ÃƒÂºltimos 3 dias as equipes de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o do Ubuntu Brasil efetuaram uma sÃƒÂ©rie de aulas online no canal #ubuntu-br-tradutores, ensinando os passos e mÃƒÂ©todos envolvidos no processo de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e participaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o na equipe. Hoje ÃƒÂ noite teremos a conclusÃƒÂ£o desta sÃƒÂ©rie, com o CÃƒÂ¡ssio Martini e eu explicando, ao vivo, como participar das traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes.

Melhores PrÃƒÂ¡ticas em TraduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Quando trabalhamos com as traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes do Ubuntu Linux pelo sistema do Rosetta, sempre nos deparamos com umas mensagens que sÃƒÂ£o super simples de traduzir, tipo… “The book is on the table” heheheÃ‚Â Mas… nem todas sÃƒÂ£o tÃƒÂ£o obvias assim.Ã‚Â Nossa equipe de tradutores criou um documento que, alÃƒÂ©m de explicar algumas coisas sobre o sistema de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes, tambÃƒÂ©m possui uma seÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o dedicada ÃƒÂ estas frases “cabeludas”.

Este artigo tem como objetivos demonstrar, de uma forma mais grÃƒÂ¡fica, algumas das melhores prÃƒÂ¡ticas quando vocÃƒÂª se deparar com um destes casos.

Primeiro dia de Aula: Log

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Caso vocÃƒÂª nÃƒÂ£o teve uma oportunidade de comparecer a nossa primeira aula dos tradutores, eis aqui sua chance de acompanhar o que 35 pessoas puderam fazer ao vivo ontem ÃƒÂ noite no canal #ubuntu-br-tradutores!Ã‚Â Divirtam-se com o log (versÃƒÂ£o uncut) que o AndreNoel gentilmente colocou em nosso wiki!

Espero que vocÃƒÂªs possamÃ‚Â comparecer ÃƒÂ segunda sessÃƒÂ£o hoje ÃƒÂ noite (21:00, horÃƒÂ¡rio de BrasÃƒÂlia noÃ‚Â #ubuntu-br-tradutores), onde nosso instrutor AlexRocha terminarÃƒÂ¡ a discussÃƒÂ£o sobre as melhores prÃƒÂ¡ticas que empregamos ao traduzir os programas no Ubuntu.

Translations Best Practice

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Whenever we work on the Brazilian Portuguese translations for Ubuntu Linux through the Rosetta system, we come across some strings that are pretty straight forward to translate, such as “The book is on the table”. hehehe But… not all strings are as obvious and require some further investigation. Our team has compiled a document (pt_BR) which not only explains how Launchpad and Rosetta work, but also has a section dedicated to some of the “hairy” strings we’ve come across.

Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Knot-1

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Para aqueles que gostam de viver fortes emoÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes, foi anunciado o lanÃƒÂ§amento do Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Knot-1!!!Ã‚Â Sendo uma versÃƒÂ£o super *inflamÃƒÂ¡vel*, eu nÃƒÂ£o recomendo que ninguÃƒÂ©m substitua sua configuraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o atual por esta.Ã‚Â PorÃƒÂ©m, se vocÃƒÂª possuir um computador de sobra e estiver interessado em ajudar a relatar bugs, eis aqui uma chance de testar novos territÃƒÂ³rios!

A nova versÃƒÂ£o jÃƒÂ¡ possui um novo kernel (2.6.17), e integraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o direta com o Launchpad e Rosetta, entre outras coisas.

Corrida Maluca

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

A corrida para deixar o Ubuntu Linux completamente traduzido em outras linguas continua acirrada.Ã‚Â Atualmente, a Equipe Brasileira de Tradutores estÃƒÂ¡ em quinto “lugar.”

NÃƒÂ£o se esqueÃƒÂ§am das aulas ministradas esta semana (em portuguÃƒÂªs e completamente FREE) no canal #ubuntu-br-tradutores na rede da Freenode.Ã‚Â Mais informaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o pode ser encontrada no meu post, incluindo o link para um documento explicando como usar o IRC. :)

Para os leitores que falam a lingua portuguesa (nÃƒÂ£o somente brasileiros) e que por acaso lerem este post, aqui estÃƒÂ¡ o guideline que nÃƒÂ³s estaremos usando na classe de hoje.

The Amazing Race

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

The race is on to get Ubuntu Linux completely translated into other languages.Ã‚Â We, the Brazilian Portuguese Team, are currently in 5th “place”.

Inspired by the Ubuntu Classroom, I have taken the iniciative to create 3 “classroom” sessions in portuguese (pt_BR) to be hosted starting today at the #ubuntu-br-tradutores channel @ Freenode.Ã‚Â More information can be found in my announcement (in portuguese), including links to documentation on how to use IRC. :)

The topics covered in the 3 sessions will be:

New Kid on the Block

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ãƒâ€° com um enorme orgulho que venho anunciar o lanÃƒÂ§amento da nova pÃƒÂ¡gina principal do Ubuntu Brasil!!!Ã‚ Produto de um trabalho comunitÃƒÂ¡rio gigantesco, a nova pÃƒÂ¡gina contÃƒÂ©m uma nova “cara”, graÃƒÂ§as ao talento de nossos membros e Ãƒ engenharia do Vinicius Depizzol.Ã‚ Sob a direÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de Rafael ProenÃƒÂ§a e Rafael Sfair, a Equipe de DocumentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o ÃƒÂ© o melhor exemplo que eu posso imaginar em termos de trabalho em equipe! A pÃƒÂ¡gina ainda estÃƒÂ¡ em fase de testes e novas alteraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes devem ser efetuadas em alguns dias.Ã‚ Mas enquanto isso, aproveitem para ler as sessÃƒÂµes de documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o, e aprenda como participar, seja com traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes, seja com documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o!

Dia do Tradutor

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Seguindo os mesmos passos dos famosos Hug Day e Bug Day, gostaria de anunciar o primeiro Dia do Tradutor do Ubuntu Brasil! Este evento tem por finalidade reunir o maior nÃƒÂºmero possÃƒÂvel de tradutores e colaboradores em um sÃƒÂ³ local, para que possamos todos trabalhar na grande tarefa de traduzir as mais de 73,000 mensagens que ainda existem em inglÃƒÂªs no Ubuntu.

O plano de aÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o vai ser o seguinte:

Whose Blog Is It Anyway?

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

It seems that for some reason beyond my understanding, one of my latest posts (“Back to School”) keeps showing up as a new post every so often in services such as Bloglines.Ã‚Â Mind you that ONLY this one post seems to be showing this “symptom.“Ã‚Â I was actually informed that it keeps getting “refreshed” every 30 minutes.

The reason why I’m writing about this is because I have received complaints from 3 different sources, citing how extremelly annoying it is to see my ‘gotchi showing up in their news reader dujour.Ã‚Â Someone even mentioned that the mere site of it made his stomach turn!Ã‚Â Hehe…Ã‚Â Now, I’m not too vain and won’t take it personal.Ã‚Â But one of the comments I received “kindly” asked me to remove myself from Planet Ubuntu!

\[RESOLVIDO\] HTML Scraping com Ruby

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Tenho pelejado com um script em ruby para apanhar (ou em inglÃƒÂªs, “scrap”) conteÃƒÂºdo de pÃƒÂ¡ginas de web de sites que usam o protocolo https. SÃƒÂ³ para ilustrar o meu problema, vou usar o site que visito todos os dias. ;)

require ’net/https’ host = “www.launchpad.net” port = 443 proxy = nil proxyport = nil h = Net::HTTP.new(host, port, proxy, proxyport) h.use_ssl = true response, data = h.get("/", nill)

Quando executo este pequeno script (aqui usando o irb), recebo a seguinte mensagem de erro:

Back To School

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Feeling a bit rusty with your linux skills? Are you a new Ubuntu linux user and feel overwelmed with packaging managers, gpg keys, and IRC lingo? Well, the solution is right around the corner. The folks at New User Network have launched the Ubuntu Classroom, a project aimed at delivering good, live didatic material to all users, new and “seasoned.”

Some classes have already been scheduled for the month of August and there are some open slots for instructors. Though I can assume all classes will be administered in english, I’m sure they wouldn’t oppose the idea of having some slots for classes in other languages. So, if you feel like helping out and need more information (and to view an up to date schedule), check out their page.

Classe de Aula do Ubuntu Online

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Foi anunciado pelo pessoal do New User Network a criaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o do Ubuntu Classroom, com o objetivo de ensinar a novos usuÃƒÂ¡rios como efetuar certas tarefas em um sistema com o Ubuntu instalado. As “aulas” seriam administradas via IRC e jÃƒÂ¡ existem algumas “aulas” agendas para o mÃƒÂªs de agosto. Creio que se alguÃƒÂ©m da comunidade brasileira se habilitar, poderÃƒÂamos acrescentar algumas classes em portuguÃƒÂªs na lista.

Date Time Class Topic Instructor(s)

Aug 5^th^ and TBD Introduction to RichJohnson(KDE) 6^th^ Internet Relay Chat KevinGailey(CLI) (IRC)

Is it progress?

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

It has been roughly a week since I learned about the “new” repository created by Canonical to distribute certain proprietary packages.Ã‚Â I’m refering to the dapper-commercialrepository, which supposedly contains packages such as skype, realplayer 10, w32codecs, and opera.Ã‚Â I say supposedly because I haven’t tried yet.Ã‚Â Since I manually downloaded and installed the .deb files for my w32codecs and other needs, I didn’t feel the need to add the repository to my list.Ã‚Â Come to think of it, it was only after reading my good friend Thomaz Leite's blog (pt_BR) entry that I remember about it.Ã‚Â I did manage to take a quick peak at the repository from work but only saw opera and real player packages…

Para Frente Ãƒâ€° Que Se Anda

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

JÃƒÂ¡ faz mais ou menos uma semana que fiquei sabendo que a Canonical criou um novo repositÃƒÂ³rio para distribuir certos pacotes proprietÃƒÂ¡rios.Ã‚Â Estou me referindo ao repositÃƒÂ³rio dapper-commercial.Ã‚Â Como eu jÃƒÂ¡ tinha baixado e instalado o skype, w32codecs, e opera direto de seus prÃƒÂ³prios sites, nÃƒÂ£o tinha ainda testado o reposÃƒÂtorio, mas graÃƒÂ§as ÃƒÂ dica de meu amigo Thomaz Leite, venho tambÃƒÂ©m anunciar o procedimento em meu blog.

Primeiramente, adicione o novo repositÃƒÂ³rio em seu arquivo /etc/apt/sources.list e inclua a seguinte linha:

Pequeno Livro do Ruby

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Alguns dias atrás eu tinha falado sobre Sapphire In Steel, um plug-in do Visual Studio.NET 2005 que te permite criar, editar, e depurar código escrito em Ruby. O livro que também é distribuido gratuitamente no site ensinando a programar em Ruby foi traduzido para o nosso português e pode ser encontrado aqui.

Espero ver mais pessoas programando em ruby na nossa comunidade. ;)

Usando Ruby com Visual Studio .NET 2005

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Para os meus amigos programadores que usam o Windows em seu dia a dia (geralmente no trabalho) e gostam de brincar com o Ruby, agora existe uma forma de escrever seu programas de ruby usando o Visual Studio .NET 2005. Note que nÃƒÂ£o estou falando de Ruby.NET, uma implementaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o ainda em desenvolvimento por Dr. Wayne Kelly e Prof. John Gough daÃ‚Â Queensland University of TechnologyÃ‚Â Ã‚Â Estou me referindo ÃƒÂ habilidade de editar e depurar programas escritos em Ruby de dentro do Visual Studio. Esta dica me foi passada pelo meu amigo Gerrard Lindsay, consultor da Microsoft da regiÃƒÂ£o leste dos Estados Unidos.

Using Ruby Within Visual Studio.NET 2005

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

To all my friends who use Windows for their daily tasks (usually at work) and enjoy tinkering with Ruby, now there’s a way to write, edit, and debug your Ruby code within Visual Studio .NET 2005. Note that I’m not refering to Ruby.NET, an implementation being developed by Dr. Wayne Kelly and Prof. John Gough of the Queensland University of Technology. This tip was sent my way by my friend Gerrard Lindsay, a Microsoft consultant for the East Region of the United States.The first step would be to install the version of Ruby for Windows. Download the installer and simply double-click it. WARNING:: I noticed that the installer modified my PATH environmental variable, pretty much wiping it clean and adding the location for the Ruby compiler. Therefore, make a back-up of its content before proceeding with the installation.Once the installation is completed, you can pretty much hit the ground running and start coding using any old text editor. If you do not have a copy of Visual Studio .NET 2005 installed, and don’t quite enjoy coding using Notepad (who would?), try Notepad2, which is not only free but has Ruby syntax support built-in! Now, to add suport for editing and debugging Ruby code in Visual Studio .NET 2005, download the add-in Sapphire In Steel and follow the installation instructions. Take the time to also download the free book (PDF) and source code to follow along. The best part is that you can work in your Ruby code, without any modifications, no matter which plataform you’re working on. Add a dash of SVN and you’ll be set! UPDATE:Ã‚Â I mistakenly stated that the Ruby.NET implementation has been done by the Mono guys, but it was actually done by Dr. Wayne Kelly and Prof. John Gough of the Queensland University of TechnologyÃ‚Â Ã‚Â I apologize for the confusion.

Vamos Abrir as Portas da EsperanÃƒÂ§a

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Na semana passada tive a grande oportunidade de ver de perto como que o movimento do software livre afeta as pessoas.Ã‚Â GraÃƒÂ§as ÃƒÂ um comentÃƒÂ¡rio do **Bruno Alves** em um post anterior, e ÃƒÂ um email do **AndrÃƒÂ© Noel**, ambos comentando sobre o estado atual da lista de discussÃƒÂ£o dos tradutores brasileiros, mais uma barreira na nossa comunidade foi demolida.

A lista de discussÃƒÂ£o dos tradutores foi inicialmente criada para que os membros tradutores oficiais da equipe pudessem melhor organizar as tarefas e tirar qualquer dÃƒÂºvida sobre o processo de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o. Este modelo funcionou bem por um tempo, quando a comunidade ainda era pequena e nÃƒÂ£o existia muito interesse nesta ÃƒÂ¡rea.Ã‚Â Com o passar do tempo, foram muitas as pessoas que se inscreveram e iniciaram a enviar sugestÃƒÂµes, mas por nÃƒÂ£o serem considerados “membros oficiais”, nÃƒÂ£o podiam usufruir da lista de discussÃƒÂ£o.Ã‚Â O processo de adesÃƒÂ£o nunca foi bem explicado, e muitos acabam desistindo, frustrados com a falta de informaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e direÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o.

Eu Ubuntu\... Tu Ubuntas?

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nos ÃƒÂºltimos dias, um espÃƒÂrito circula pela web. Ele atravessa salas de estudo, vagueia por quartos de dormir, lan house e outros cantos. Este espÃƒÂrito tomou conta de uma multidÃƒÂ£o de pessoas: UsuÃƒÂ¡rios, programadores, entusiastas da Liberdade, gentes de variada matiz. Este espÃƒÂrito andarilho sussurra uma breve palavra, curta, sonora e significativa: Ubuntu! Escutamos atentos a esse chamado, essa palavra singela, um convite ao fazer comum, territÃƒÂ³rios para compartilharmos experiÃƒÂªncias, vontades, brincadeiras, mÃƒÂºsica, textos, executÃƒÂ¡veis, pacotes.deb, esforÃƒÂ§os de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o. Mas, o que ÃƒÂ© tudo isto? Ãƒâ€° Ubuntu.

Perfil: Ubuntuser

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nossa comunidade tem crescido muito neste ÃƒÂºltimos meses, sinal que estamos fazendo um bom trabalho de divulgaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o eÃ‚Â que nosso trabalho estÃƒÂ¡ sendo apreciado.Ã‚Â Imagino que muitos dos novos membros ainda nÃƒÂ£o tiveram a oportunidade de “conhecer” alguns dos membros pioneiros da nossa comunidade, e por isso resolvi criar uma sÃƒÂ©rie de perfÃƒÂs, onde apresentarei alguns dos membros mais notÃƒÂ³rios.

Ãƒâ€° com um grande prazer que apresento o meu grande amigo como primeiro perfil!

Alhos e Bugalhos

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Ainda ontem recebi um comentÃƒÂ¡rio em meu blog que mostrou um lado que nem sempre ÃƒÂ© mostrado em nossa comunidade: a falta de documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o e orientaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o que existe para os novos membros.Ã‚Â Creio que a criaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o da equipe de documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o vai ajudar a suprir esta carÃƒÂªncia gritante, e espero muito poder ver o fruto de nosso trabalho, espelhado nas futuras geraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes de usuÃƒÂ¡rios de software livre.

Abaixo, segue o texto do comentÃƒÂ¡rio (formatado para evitar mÃƒÂºltiplas linhas em branco), acompanhado de minha resposta.Ã‚Â Decidi responder este comentÃƒÂ¡rio desta forma, para que sirva como um referencial aos outros usuÃƒÂ¡rios que ainda sentem dificuldades em se aproximar ao mundo do Linux.

Humanidade aos Outros

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Estou colando aqui o texto de um email enviado pelo meu amigo Carlos Araujo ÃƒÂ lista de discussÃƒÂ£o, em relaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o ÃƒÂ boas prÃƒÂ¡ticas e conduta de um tradutor ao efetuar seu trabalho na nossa comunidade.Ã‚Â Eu sempre quiz escrever mais ou menos isso, mas fiquei tremendamente feliz ao ver os mesmos sentimentos vindos de mais um Ubunteiro.

Carlos, com certeza vocÃƒÂª estÃƒÂ¡ no caminho certo!

"Ao traduzir um texto, ou palavra, necessitamos levar em conta alguns cuidados, lembrando:

We Built This City!

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Este domingo, dia 25 de junho de junho, marcou um dos momentos mais decisivos da comunidade Ubuntu Brasileira!Ã‚Â Aceitando o meu convite para participar mais ativamente da nossa comunidade, mais de 35 pessoas compareceram a primeira reuniÃƒÂ£o extraordinÃƒÂ¡ria organizada no Freenode, canal #ubuntu-br-tradutores!Ã‚Â Foram mais de 2 1/2 horas de uma reuniÃƒÂ£o super produtiva, onde quase todos os assuntos marcados na agenda foram discutidos, e possÃƒÂvel soluÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes planejadas.

Quando a “poeira” abaixou, uma nova equipe foi formada:Ã‚Â Time de DocumentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o, com o objetivo deÃ‚Â catalogar e organizar todos os documentos que existem (mas nÃƒÂ£o divulgados) em nosso wiki, e tambÃƒÂ©m criar documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o para os assuntos onde ainda nÃƒÂ£o existe algo escrito.Ã‚Â Desta equipe tambÃƒÂ©m faz parte o Time dos “Garimpeiros”, que tÃƒÂªm a difÃƒÂcil tarefa de procurar pela net por tudo quanto ÃƒÂ© documento, howto, tutorial, etc para que possam virar um documento traduzido e catalogado.

V Day: Dia da VitÃƒÂ³ria!

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Marque no seu calendÃƒÂ¡rio este dia: Junho 25, 2006!Ã‚Â Este dia serÃƒÂ¡ para sempre lembrado como o dia que a comunidade Ubuntu Brasileira tomou o seu destino em suas prÃƒÂ³prias mÃƒÂ£os!

Hoje estaremos nos reunindo pela primeira vez emÃ‚Â reuniÃƒÂ£o extraordinÃƒÂ¡ria, para decidirmos em grupo os caminhos que serÃƒÂ£o tomados pela equipe de tradutores e responsÃƒÂ¡veis pela documentaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o!Ã‚Â Uma agenda jÃƒÂ¡ existe aqui e TODOS sÃƒÂ£o convidados a participar!

Muitas pessoas que antes pensavem nÃƒÂ£o possuir talentos necessÃƒÂ¡rios para contribuir com a comunidade jÃƒÂ¡ enviaram sugestÃƒÂµes, comprovando que existe muito talento “desperdiÃƒÂ§ado” na comunidade.

1Ã‚Âº Circuito Paranaense de Software Livre

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O Christiano Alves me deu o toque sobre o 1Ã‚Âº Circuito Paranaense de Software Livre, a ser realizado de maio atÃƒÂ© setembro deste ano no ParanÃƒÂ¡:

O I Circuito Paranaense de Software Livre ÃƒÂ© um esforÃƒÂ§o do Governo do ParanÃƒÂ¡, CELEPAR - InformÃƒÂ¡tica do ParanÃƒÂ¡, Secretaria Especial para Assuntos EstratÃƒÂ©gicos Ã¢â‚¬â€œ SEAE,Ã‚Â SETI Secretaria de Estado da CiÃƒÂªncia, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior para disseminar o uso e o desenvolvimento dos programas de computador, cujos cÃƒÂ³digos-fonte sÃƒÂ£o liberados para cÃƒÂ³pia, aperfeiÃƒÂ§oamento e distribuiÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o sem qualquer tipo de ÃƒÂ´nus ou cobranÃƒÂ§a de licenÃƒÂ§as. A CELEPAR quer compartilhar com as nossas universidades, administraÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes municipais, empresas e profissionais de informÃƒÂ¡tica todo o conhecimento acumulado e sua experiÃƒÂªncia no desenvolvimento de soluÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes com software livre. TambÃƒÂ©m queremos conhecer as experiÃƒÂªncias desenvolvidas por essas entidades, pois sabemos que as melhores soluÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes sÃƒÂ£o fruto do compartilhamento de informaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes, principal caracterÃƒÂstica do software livre.

Livros para o seu grupo de usuÃƒÂ¡rios

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Caso vocÃƒÂª seja membro de um grupo de usuÃƒÂ¡rios do Linux e esteja interessado em conseguir cÃƒÂ³pias de livros da editora O’Reilly para distribuir durante suas reuniÃƒÂµes, inscreva-se no seguinte url:

http://ug.oreilly.com/

Ubuntu Edgy

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Esta semana estÃƒÂ¡ acontecendo Ubuntu Paris Developer Summit, um congresso organizado pela Canonical, reunindo um grande nÃƒÂºmero de Ubunteiros em Paris, FranÃƒÂ§a, para finalizarem os planos para a nova versÃƒÂ£o do Ubuntu Linux, codinome Edgy.

Uma agenda provisÃƒÂ³ria jÃƒÂ¡ existe, mostrando datas importantes do desenvolvimento da nova versÃƒÂ£o, incluindo datas relacionadas ÃƒÂ s traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes dos pacotes. Ãƒâ€° extremamente importante que todos envolvidos no processo de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o adicionem estas datas em seu calendÃƒÂ¡rio! Atualmente existem 77,000+ mensagens a serem traduzidas! Nos ÃƒÂºltimos 6 meses, um total de mais de 70,000 mensagens foram traduzidas por nossa equipe, o que torna o plano de completar as traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes atÃƒÂ© o lanÃƒÂ§amento da prÃƒÂ³xima versÃƒÂ£o algo plausÃƒÂvel.

Recipe: Enemy Territory

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

First of all, I want to thank all the kind comments on my previous post. :) To show my appreciation, here is something for those days when you can hardly think straight…

Enemy Territory

Utensils:

You should have a Nvidia or ATI card and driverÃ¢â‚¬Â¦
and libgtk1.2: sudo apt-get install libgtk1.2

Ingredients:

Download the game from your favorite gaming site orÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

wget -c http://ftp.games.skynet.be/pub/wolfenstein/et-linux-2.60.x86.run
Apply any patch you can find in the same site orÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

Paterfamilias

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This is very off topic but I couldn’t resit.Ã‚Â My wife and I have been blessed for the second time, and are officially expecting out second child!Ã‚Â We received confirmation yesterday from my wife’s doctor that she is in her very forst week of pregancy!Ã‚Â Little Yv (my daughter) is extremelly exicted about the prospect of having a little baby to play with.Ã‚Â In fact, her reaction was the best thing it could have happened to us!

Problemas assinando o CÃƒÂ³digo de Conduta do Launchpad?

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Aparentemente existe um bug que estÃƒÂ¡ afetando os usuÃƒÂ¡rios tentando assinar o CÃƒÂ³digo de Conduta do Launchpad.Ã‚Â Para quem nÃƒÂ£o sabe do que estou falando, o CÃƒÂ³digo de Conduta ÃƒÂ© um “contrato” que todo participante da comunidade Ubuntu deve assinar para poder participar das atividades fornecidas pelo sÃƒÂtio do Launchpad.Ã‚Â As pessoas que jÃƒÂ¡ participam da equipe de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o brasileira sabem que isso ÃƒÂ© um prÃƒÂ©-requesito para participar das traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes.

Between Meetings Note

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Work has caught up to me and I have been flooded with small projects here and there at work! I have received a great deal of feedback on how to Ubuntunize my TabletPC and will be reporting on my progress as soon as I get some time to breath.

In the meantime, while I away for yet another meeting, I just want to thank Sven Herzberg for writing about HRE 2.1.0 (Website). I am very much looking forward to playing with it very soon!

Women\'s Summer Outreach Program 2006

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nunca fiquei tÃƒÂ£o feliz em fazer um anÃƒÂºncio como agora!Ã‚Â O pessoal do Gnome Foundation anunciou hoje o novo programa chamadoÃ‚Â Women’s Summer Outreach Program 2006.Ã‚Â Isso seria o equivalente ao Summer of Code do Google, sÃƒÂ³ que somente para mulheres!Ã‚Â Por ter uma filha de quase 5 anos que jÃƒÂ¡ adora brincar com o Linux, o que mais quero ÃƒÂ© ver figuras femininas revolucionando o mundo de software livre.Ã‚Â NÃƒÂ£o que elas jÃƒÂ¡ nÃƒÂ£o estejam, mas acho que infelizmente, por um motivo ou outro, eu quase nunca escuto de nomes femininos influenciando a comunidade.

Compartilhando mÃƒÂºsica com Avahi

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O que posso dizer, fou um fim de semana muito movimentadoÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Ã‚Â Ã‚Â Antes de seguir o conselho do meu amigo OtÃƒÂ¡vio sobre como compartilhar minha coleÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de mÃƒÂºsica digital em casa entre os muitos dispositivos que possuo, eu infelizmente copiava muitos gigabytes de arquivos *.oggs pela minha redeÃ¢â‚¬Â¦Ã‚Â Como eu nÃƒÂ£o queria entupir meu TabletPC, eu decidi tentar o tal do avahi.

Ã¢â‚¬Å"Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared.Ã¢â‚¬Â?Ã‚Â Avahi.org

Rotating the screen for a TabletPC

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This was a very busy Sunday, with a lot of soccer on tv (or how we call it outside the U.S., football), a lot of beer, and B-B-Q, like a good brazilian should.Ã‚Â ;)Ã‚Â In between a lot of meat, beer, checking translations, participating on a podcast, and an unexpected visit from my in-laws, I somehow managed to “play” with my TabletPC and rotate the screen.Ã‚Â The tip came via a comment on my previous post, and involves the addition of a simple line in the xorg.conf file:Option Ã¢â‚¬Å"RandRRotationÃ¢â‚¬Â?

Sharing music via Avahi

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

What can I say, it was a busy weekend…Ã‚Â ;)Ã‚Â Prior to following my friend Otavio’s advice (pt_BR only) on how to properly share my private music library at home with the many devices I own, I sadly used to copy the many gigabytes of *.oggs across the network…Ã‚Â Since I didn’t want to clog up my TabletPC, I decided to give avahi a try.

"Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network. This means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared."Ã‚Â Avahi.org

TabletPC 4: Entrei de gaiato no navio

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

O domingo foi super corrido, com muito jogo de futebol, regado ÃƒÂ muita cerveja (belga, ÃƒÂ© claro!) e churrasco, como todo brasileiro que se preze.Ã‚Â Entre carne, cerveja, revisÃƒÂ£o de traduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂµes, gravaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o de podcast, e visita inesperada dos sogros, consegui arrumar tempo para brincar com o TabletPC e girar a tela.Ã‚Â A dica veio via um comentÃƒÂ¡rio no meu blog em inglÃƒÂªs, e involve a inclusÃƒÂ£o de uma simples linha no arquivo xorg.conf: Option “RandRRotation”

Receita Ubuntu Dapper MÃƒÂdia

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Com o novo lanÃƒÂ§amento do Ubuntu Dapper, foram muitas as pessoas que iniciaram no mundo linux sem saber como configurar seu sistema para a melhor experiÃƒÂªncia possÃƒÂvel. Claro que a instalaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o padrÃƒÂ£o jÃƒÂ¡ possui a maioria das ferramentas e aplicativos que um usuÃƒÂ¡rio possivelmente vai precisar, mas existem certas tecnologias que, devido ÃƒÂ licenÃƒÂ§as um pouco mais restritivas (em relaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o ÃƒÂ sua distribuiÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o, etc), nÃƒÂ£o sÃƒÂ£o instaladas de forma automÃƒÂ¡tica.

Recipe: Ubuntu Dapper Media

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

With the release of Ubuntu Dapper, many were the new users who initiated the linux world without any knowledge of how to configure their systems for a complete nirvana experience. Sure the default instalation takes care of supplying the majority of tools and applications a “normal” home user would need “out of the box”, but there are certain technologies which, due to some licensing issues (mostly related to distribution, etc), are not installed automatically.It is with thys type of end user that I present here my recipe. The steps below were performed as soon as I finished the default installation, using the command line. Obviously, the Synaptic Package Manager can also be used for a graphical experience.For a faster and simpler browsing experience, I recommend the installation of the Epiphany web browser:

TabletPC 3: A volta dos que nÃƒÂ£o foram!

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Como tinha prometido antes, aqui estÃƒÂ£o algums fotos do meu TabletPC rodando o Ubuntu Dapper. Eu consegui usar o teclado grÃƒÂ¡fico (do sub-menu Suporte de Tecnologias de AssistÃƒÂªncia) para “escrever” usando o stylus pen, mas foi muito estranho ter de Ã¢â‚¬Å"catarÃ¢â‚¬Â? cada letrinha. NÃƒÂ£o preciso nem dizer que jÃƒÂ¡ o removi da inicializaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o do sistema.TambÃƒÂ©m instalei o driver do Nvidia e tudo estÃƒÂ¡ redondinhoÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ mas ainda nÃƒÂ£o descobri como girar a disposiÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o grÃƒÂ¡fica. Seguindo uma dica, tentei instalar o xstroke, mas aparentemente nÃƒÂ£o estÃƒÂ¡ disponÃƒÂvel para o Dapper ainda… AlguÃƒÂ©m tem mais uma dica antes que eu me prepare para “sujar” as mÃƒÂ£os com cÃƒÂ³digo? E finalmente, conectei o iPod nano da minha esposa e o Rhythmbox automagicamente apareceu , detectou-o, e logo em seguida eu pude escutar as mÃƒÂºsicas do playlist com style. E sem mais enrolaÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£oÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ fotos: VisÃƒÂ£o frontal: Lado esquerdo, mostrando USB ports, stylus (meio que escondido) et all: Lado direito: e finalmente, o que estÃƒÂ¡ realmente acontecendo por baixo dos panos, o Rhythmbox reproduzindo a lista de reproduÃƒÂ§ÃƒÂ£o do iPod:

TabletPC photo frenzy

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

As promissed, here are some pictures of my TabletPC running Ubuntu Dapper.Ã‚Â I have managed to use the graphical keyboard (from the Assistive Technology Support submenu) in order to “type” using the stylus pen, but it was “weird” having to “cherry pick” the letters. ;)Ã‚Â Needless to say, I have removed it from the startup. I have installedÃ‚Â Nvidia’s driver and everything is just peachy… haven’t figured out how to rotate the display yet though.

Top Blogs Brasil

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Descobri hoje por um link no blog do Bender sobre o Top Blogs do Brasil!Ã‚Â Foi muito bom ver nomes conhecidos na lista, como o FÃƒÂ¡bio (30), Alexandro (39), e Kurt (58).Ã‚Â Seria legal ver todo o Planeta tambÃƒÂ©m na lista, apesar de nÃƒÂ£o ser um blog e sim um agregador, e assim poder divulgar um pouco mais sobre o Linux como alternativa para sistemas operacionais.

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