Foi bem interessante ver um artigo mencionando Canonical e rPath (onde trabalho) no mesmo parágrafo, já que Ubuntu foi responsável pela minha entrada no mundo do software livre, e a rPath responsável por me permitir trabalhar (leia, ser pago) com software livre! Como somos os pioneiros desta área de Linux appliances, fiquei surpreso que não houve muita informação fornecida sobre o que nós (rPath) fazemos, nem mesmo um link para o web site da compania.

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.

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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” Proença 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.

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

… você aperta a tecla ESC depois de preencher um formulário 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 compartilhá-los aqui com vocês, e ao mesmo tempo mantê-los em um lugar que eu possa sempre pesquisar (o famoso “matar 2 pássaros com uma pedrada só!

… 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.

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!

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.

Muitas pessoas já tinham me pedido para escrever um pequeno tutorial sobre como empacotar software para o Foresight Linux. Para quem ainda não conhece o sistema de gerenciamento de pacotes Conary, uma forma de descrevê-lo seria compará-lo com um sistema de controle de versões e gerenciamento de pacotes. Isso quer dizer que você tem um controle sobre as modificações do código no mesmo estilo do CVS ou SVN, e qualquer modificação feita pelo mantenedor do código original é implementado em seu pacote em fragmentos, equivalentes às linhas que foram adicionadas ou modificadas.