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Given that I am a DAAD alumn, I have the blessing of being able to order at most €200 in Computer Science books. So, today I sent my order for this year. As I'm likely to spend some time working on software design and user interfaces, my selection focuses a bit on design patterns, OO programming, and some classical books on the topic, plus some that I think could be interesting to read:
Obviously, the list exceddes the 200 € limit, but this makes sense, as most probably not all the titles will be available at the time the order is processed. And the list above is in priority order.
So, now is the time when you email me and tell me "you chose the wrong book on $TOPIC.."
Sun 2008/Sep/28
Given that past week was the Helsinki International Film Festival, the other day, Iván and I went to the Bio Rex in Lasipalatsi, to watch Cidade dos Homens. As the name suggests, it is closely related to the brilliant Cidade de Deus –gangs and Mafias at the favela style– but doesn't try to be a second part nor a continuation. Its plot is more easy to follow, the story is pretty interesting, and the music is quite cool.
I've been watching the old HBO series Oz. I'm about to finish watching the 6th and last season (when everybody leaves home so early, you don't have much options), and I still think it's brilliant, same way as I did when I seldomly watched some episodes during '97-'02.
My favorite bars in Helsinki: Molly Malone's (live music every night!) and Meritähti (cool food, served by his Hungarian owner, and they have Unicum!). I still have a few that I'm interested on, but that I haven't been there yet.
And now, for no reason, a gratuitous picture of Kimmo and Marius à la Men in Black (I regret I didn't have my real camera with me):
Wed 2008/Sep/24
So, there you have it. A new version of GNOME has been released. Go celebrate with your local gnomies!
With it, you will find the latest version of the Eye of GNOME. Although I should have summarized this before and not at the last minute, here you have a list with the most interesting changes:
What are our plans for 2.26? Well, a list of the things that I would love to get done in this cycle (if my frequent relocation doesn't get in the way):
We'll see how much of that we'll get done. At least, it feels good to look back to the roadmap for 2.23 and see that we accomplished most of what we wanted to do. Kudos to Lucas and Felix!
Sat 2008/Sep/20
Being subscribed since a few months to svn-commits-list@gnome.org, it is more evident to me now that this is the time of the cycle when several dozens of unsung heroes do an incredibly tremendous job to get GNOME completely translated to many languages. There are hundreds of translations updates made each day to all of the GNOME modules, that make me feel a lousy contributor compared to the huge work they do.
If you are a translator, thank you. I appreciate and respect your work enormously. Keep on making GNOME rock in your language, kudos to you all!
Wed 2008/Sep/17
For work reasons, I've been for about a month living in Helsinki, Finland. It's been a pretty interesting experience so far, in spite of weather, beer prices, lunch break time, and food. I've meet a lot of old pals here and also made some new friends, so I've had no much time to be bored.
During the weekend I went with Simo and Ghis to Tallinn, in Estonia. Tallinn is a very nice city, not so far from Helsinki, where food and beer prices are much better. A must if you are in Scandinavia.
We had lunch in a nice restaurant named Vanaema Juures, that's located in a sort of basement in the center. I certainly recommend it, as the prices are quite good for what you get, and it's not that touristic nor expensive as the famous Olde Hansa. Other nice place for drinks and food is the Scotland Yard bar.
And of course, lots of pictures. I've not uploaded many to flickr yet, because of the crappiness of my internet access, but will do progressively (see the photo set). A favorite one:
Sat 2008/Aug/30
I forgot to turn off the coffemaker yesterday. I just discovered that all the water boiled and all the concentrated coffee stayed on the base of the pot. Eek!
I'm developing a new addiction. Besides my well documented lemon pie dependency, I'm discovering I love cinnamon rolls. Now if I only learn to cook them..
Wed 2008/Aug/20
I'm having an ugly flu that has kept me since Monday in bed, and not feeling really well. Hopefully I'll feel better soon, as I have tons of interesting stuff ahead to do (and I'm too young to die, of course).
Sat 2008/Aug/16
My sister Catalina sent me an SMS yesterday evening to tell me that she just had one of her friends installing Debian on her computer, removing Windows XP on the go. And no, she is not a geek.
Considering that my dad is an Ubuntu user, this makes for three GNU/Linux users in the family.
Thu 2008/Aug/14
Anyone out there with a few minutes spare time willing to give my hackergotchi a revamp? I particularly like this picture by Germán and think it could result to be really nice and definitively funnier than the current one. I'd really appreciate it!
Tue 2008/Aug/05
After some people insisted on it, I reordered and rebased the work in progress code to get some clutter action in the image viewing widget in EOG. Not that it's all ready, but hopefully this will motivate others to contribute and will motivate me to dedicate a few hours/week to get it in a sane state.
So, the story is as follows: bug #532183 has a patch to add an EogView interface (or abstract class) that widgets like EogScrollView must implement (or derive from). First step is to finish it and get it into trunk.
Then, bug #546504 has the initial code for an EogClutterView class that implements EogView. Currently, there's only nice transitions between images, there's no zoom, no scrolling, etc, but it's good enough for an evening of pictures, wine, cheese, and good company.
So, be nice with it, give comments, and even better, contribute to it. A hardware accelerated GNOME image viewer depends on you!
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