Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 133

It’s time to drive some buzz this way ;-) Although this post will only be a pointer towards the Spanish post I made on Planeta EDUSOL, for reasons soon to become obvious. In any case, the information I’m posting here is not exactly the same. Can you read Spanish? Please go on to the invitation for the first videoconference for the EDUSOL Seminar. This year, we the organizers of the On-line Encounter of Education and Free Software (EDUSOL) are aiming higher - we are not “just” having a two-week encounter at the end of the year - We are having...

I have spent a couple of days working into dh-make-drupal. Yes, you guessed right: An idea based on the wonderful dh-make-perl, but applied to the Drupal Content Management System. Drupal’s greatest strengths, IMHO, are: Drupal offers a huge number of modules and themesDrupal has an amazingly sane configuration handling, where -contrary to what usually happens in PHP-land and, in general, among webapps- you set up the code only at a single place, with only the site-specific configuration (usually a single file) handling all of the differences Yup, even though I am quite fond of its flexibility and power, I fell...

(Untranslatable, sorry) Thanks to Lumen (probably Mexico’s biggest office and art supplies shops) for the loud laugh. Attachments (376 KB) Comments kwame 2009-02-09 19:17:32 Hasta en estos días … Se ven archiveros mutantes. No cabe duda que estámos en los úlimos tiempos. Saludos! Kwame vicm3 2009-02-09 19:03:18 The more the merrier… And also the cheap, with more “cojones” :D

What is the one thing you really want early in the morning? Attachments (293 KB) Comments almost Anonymous 2009-02-10 20:12:07 a cup of delicious coffee? a cup of delicious coffee? no, that’s the second thing. maybe the third…

Attachments (420 KB)

Ted T’so wonders about the LUGs over the world, seeking to answer a conversation he recently had at the Linux Foundation. He quotes a blog posting in Lenovo, “Local User Groups - gone the way of the dinosaur?”. I think this is an interesting point to gather input from others. In Mexico City, we did have a strong LUG several years ago, holding not-very-regular-but-good-quality-wise meetings, roughly monthly, at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares. I was active there ~1996-2001. By 2001, however, the group stopped acting as one - Maybe one of the main factors is that we had a very strong,...

Little Gunnar - Gift by Nadezhda’s friend Lulú. Thanks! Attachments (360 KB) Comments Kaz 2009-01-30 08:51:00 Eres un amor… Hasta hay colecciones de Gunnar Wolf en CD, videojuegos, comics y demas parnafelia… quien diría que serías un esclavo hecho y derecho del mercantilismo?

Several friends, from different groups and backgrounds and with different points of view regarding the current war in Israel (and regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict in general) have asked me for an explanation on what is happening there, what is (my view of) the real conflict, its causes… and any possible answers. And yet I am quite far from being an authority, I do want to write something about it. Be prepared, as this post is quite long. And yet, after writing frankly a lot more than what I expected… It is by far not enough. I have still much more...

The phrase on this title is often attributed to Pancho Villa (1878-1923), Mexican Revolution leader. He had a fame of cruelty, killing suspects before even questioning them. Today, it started as a very nice day. I had even time in the morning to find, fix, upload and send upstream a trivial bug in libgruff-ruby… At 11:00, I left the Institute as my father came to the city to do some paperwork… We sat having a cup of coffee in a restaurant near the office we had went to at around 12:00, and my phone rang. And it was from work....

I am stunned no more people have been bitten by this. Or at least, the Intarweb has not heard about it. Censorship perhaps? I haven’t researched more into the causes, but anyway… I was pushing a project I have had lingering for some time from Rails 2.0.x to 2.1.x (yes, 2.2 is already out there, but 2.1 is the version that will ship with Lenny) - The changes should not be too invasive, as it is a minor release, but there are some quite noticeable changes. Anyway… What was the problem? Take this very simple migration: class CreatePeople < ActiveRecord::Migration...