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.

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.

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!

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]

[caption id=“attachment_78” align=“alignleft” width=“243” caption=“Pete Savage: Git In The Trenches”][/caption] 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!

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.

!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.

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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.

[caption id=“attachment_56” align=“alignleft” width=“199” caption=“Aline Duarte Bessa - Accerciser”] [/caption] 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.