In the attempt to attract more people to the organized effort of translating a large number of Open Source applications from English to other languages, here’s a small HOWTO. Hope to be able to inspire more people to join in. First, register (FREE) yourself here: LaunchPad, “a collection of services for projects in the open source universe. You can register your project, and then collaborate with the open source community on translations, bug tracking and code.

Regras de utilização Capítulo I - Para os leitores Art.1º - Para o acesso e leitura do Planeta Ubuntu Brasil, os leitores devem estar de acordo com todas as regras expostas neste documento. Art.2º - O leitor deve fazer um uso diligente das instruções, procedimentos e comandos oferecidos no Planeta Ubuntu Brasil. Os efeitos dessas informações, bem como seu uso e eventuais danos não são de responsabilidade dos autores do Planeta Ubuntu Brasil.

No, this is not a post about the creation of the universe and such. Planet “is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first." In other words, it is one of the best ideas since the sliced bread was invented. I have come to rely heavily on planets to get my daily dose of tech news (as you can see from the blogs I have listed here)… Planet Gnome, Planet Debian, Planet Ubuntu… there seems to be a planet for almost anything you can think of.

Dear Clint Adams… What should we do when our children decide that they don’t want to go to school or eat their fibers? Call the police as well? Tsk, tsk… Don’t you know your momma always knows better?

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You? Struggling for self-assurance over hidden angst, you are highly adept and full of surprises. I find your lack of faith disturbing. Hehehe… Guess I have a bit of an evil side in me! =)

Og You are idealistic and intelligent and very much an all or nothing person.Tending to experience constant change in life security is found in your real and abiding values. With great organisational ability, industry and creative prowess you love to build tangible results and are especially gifted at transforming lost causes. Your intelligence is marked with keen perception and analytical ability. A secure home life and relationship are important for you.

Reading Scott James Remnant’s latest post on what he calls “Parallel Peer Programming” got me wondering if the same approach could work for the small project I’ve been secretly working on. Scott fired up 3 separate screem sessions to which his co-worker Gustavo Niemeyer synced to. From that point one, they could see what each other was doing “live” in their respective terminals/laptops. Scott would write test cases in one terminal (to which Gustavo could now “watch”), Gustavo would then write the code in the second terminal to make sure it would pass the test, and use the third terminal to test it.