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!

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

My good friend Mario Ä?anić (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.