Control de la Calidad y Thunderbird

enero 29, 2012

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Well days ago I attended a nice talk about Quality Assurance (QA) in Thundebird and Mozilla, given by Ludovic Hirlimann which is in charge of thunderbird quality, so the purpose of this post is to talk a bit of the subjects or points that I believe were more relevant. If you think about it most […]

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A bit of LaTeX

enero 3, 2012

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Tex is a computer program and languaje created by Donald Knuth in 1977 he dedicated an entire year to do it. He basicaly aimed for two things when he did it and they were to get the highest quality and highest durability, since he wanted to revert the trend of deteriorating typographical quality that affected […]

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MySQL quick commands

enero 1, 2012

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It is a relational database management system, which is multiplataform and support several storage engines (MyISAM, InnoDB, MERGE, MEMORY). It also has triggers, functions, stored procedures, GIS, replication, clustering. It is licensed under GPL (and some other commercial licenses ) It was developed by Michael Widenius and David Axmark, and it was released as free […]

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Learn Git and stop being one :D

diciembre 29, 2011

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Well during the linux kernel development Linus Torvalds wasn’t much happy about the version control system used, so that’s how he started to work on git. As he had that background of developing operative systems kind of tools and stuff, he developed this a lot like if it was a file system, and you can […]

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Getting your own Public-Private key pair

diciembre 26, 2011

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First I am asuming that you know what is the use of having Public-Private key pair, if you don’t, well making a long story short it is basicaly used to send messages securely on an non-secure environment such as our so beloved Internet. So to understand this easily we have to see the Public-Private key […]

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Eclipse + Git

diciembre 25, 2011

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Today I would like to talk about how would be one of the best ways to work with a git repository when you are coding. And this way would be using the Egit plugin while you are writting your code in Eclipse. So if you are already familiar with git, the usage of this plugin […]

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The Onion Model

noviembre 16, 2011

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The idea of this post is to try to show that the FLOSS projects follow an onion model structure. This social structure in the FLOSS projects is due the meritocracy that takes place during the whole project lifetime.

In order to show you this we are going to study the repository of the brasero project, the commits, and... [Read More...]

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Python first glance

noviembre 13, 2011

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Python is a high level interpreted language designed to be very simple to use. It is object oriented and since it is interpreted it is also said to be multiplatform (as long as the python interpreter exists for any given platform of course). The phylosophy is to always have a clean syntax in favor of […]

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Using Gitorious swiftly

julio 3, 2011

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Gitorious is one of the web sites forges that exist for collaborative opensource projects. It is the second most popular web interface for Git revision control system (this explains the name gitorious :D), right behind GitHub. So this gitorious site let you host your source code, while providing a web interface for merge requests and […]

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Free Software in Desktop and Servers in Spanish Public Administrations

abril 10, 2011

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Well the last week class we have been studying the use of free software in Public Administration desktops and subjects related with it. So for example there has been spanish public administrations that has already migrated to free software succesfully as in Extremadura and Andalucia. Why talk about this public administrations?, well basicaly because most […]

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