Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 103

I am updating an old package’s packaging style to take advantage of the new DebHelper 7 goodities. So far, I have been quite successful, but I hit a problem… And before bugging on IRC, I decided to check with Joey Hess’ presentation at DebConf9, Not your grandpa’s debhelper. Of course, not remembering the URL, it was the most natural thing to ask Google: Of course, putting this thingy aside, the right answer was the first hit. However, what is the first hit for the Grandma version? Quite dangerous: A post in Ubuntuforums for which the Google excrept reads: this tool...

Josef Dabernig, Drupaler whom I met in Nicaragua, decided to take a long trip on his way back home, giving Drupal courses while travelling over Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico. He gave a two-day, twelve-hour course in Mexico City, at my Institute. Thanks for a great course and for a great time, Josef!

During DebConf, Noodles discretely approached me and asked whether I’d be interested and willing to join him as Debian’s keyring maintainer. Of course, I felt greatly honored and happy about this. Over the past weeks, we have exchanged some mails where he details how it is handled, and I feel I get the general logic — and this last week (which was quite hectic for me — apologies in advance for all the work and mails I have due for different people!) he finally took the big steps: Requested DSA to give me login rights to the needed machine and...

I met my friend Josef Daberning, who did his Austrian Social Service working with Drupal at the Casa de los Tres Mundos NGO, in Granada, Nicaragua, at the Central American Free Software Encounter, last May. He told me that, when going back to Austria, he would spend some days in Mexico, and wanted to give a workshop on Drupal. The course has just started, and will take place today and tomorrow — You can follow the live stream at http://www.iiec.unam.mx:18000/drupal.ogg — The videos will be uploaded soon as well, I will post them on this same node. This node will...

Oops. Yesterday (Sunday, 31/08/09) I far from any computer-like object for most of the day. When I got back home, of course, I promptly opened my laptop to check my mail — who knows what destiny might have for me in a 24 hour period? Maybe I won yet another fortune I have to cash in Nigeria? Maybe there is (GASP!) a new RC bug on one of my packages? But no, my mail server didn’t feel like answering to my ssh queries. The connection was established, but shut down before even sending the protocolary SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1p1 string. Fearing an overload...

Today I had a nice and productive day, code-wise. Maybe that’s a side effect from being unable to lose my time following E-mail? Anyway, checking my code with git citool previous to today’s git commit, I came accross this method. I didn’t even pay attention to it while writing. But it did make me laugh in semi-awe thinking about the great implications it might have. The method signature: def days_for(who, what, how) The code itself? Naah, too pedestrian, to simplistic. It will ruin the sight. It just looks so beautifully universal! Ok, I am compelled to share, even if it...

Una grandísima proporción de los sistemas desarrollados hoy en día, siguen el paradigma cliente-servidor. Y si bien hay muy diferentes maneras de implementar sistemas cliente-servidor, indudablemente la más difundida hoy por hoy es la de los sistemas Web. La conjunción de un protocolo verdaderamente simple para la distribución de contenido (HTTP) con un esquema de marcado suficientemente simple pero suficientemente rico para presentar una interfaz de usuario con la mayor parte de las funciones requeridas por los usuarios (HTML) crearon el entorno ideal para el despliegue de aplicaciones distribuídas. Desde sus principios, el estándar de HTTP menciona cuatro verbos por...

Enjoying the great finish for a great meal at Pooka+Moni’s house

Small tzompantli (skull wall) recreation