La lengua argentina, por Fede

Date Arrow  November 30, 2005

Este E-Mail es solo para argentinos. Analisis profundo de la palabra “PEDO”
Esto aconteció en Bahía Blanca, y tuvo como protagonistas a una familia y una visitante canadiense que se alojó en su casa por espacio de tres meses. La historia es así y es, palabra más, palabra menos, totalmente verídica. Creo que es digna [...]

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busco maestr@, por hernún

Date Arrow  November 29, 2005

si me pongo triste pierdo tiempo. y no es que esté apurado, simplemente vivo. y la tristeza, lo sabemos, no es la mejor magia para reproducir.
de los cuatro canales de TV que recibo en mi televisor portátil blanco y negro, tres están contándome cómo es que un motntón de gente cortó la única ruta de [...]

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Change the “autocompletion” key in Windows 2000

Date Arrow  November 28, 2005

Windows 2000 has been around for a while, and it will certainly be here for a while too.
Now here’s a handy tip if you have to work often with the command line: to enable or disable file and directory name autocompletion on a computer or user logon session, run Regedit.exe and set the following REG_DWORD [...]

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Installing Ruby on Rails almost everywhere

Date Arrow  November 26, 2005

I am happy to have successfully installed my first Ruby on Rails full corporate application in these fine platforms:

Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar” (development and test, in my old and faithful G3 iBook)
Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” (development and test, in my G5 desktop) before and after installing Xcode 2.2 tools (special article)
Windows XP (development [...]

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Amor verdadero

Date Arrow  November 25, 2005

(recibido por e-mail)
“Cuando veas que se cierra tu horizonte… sólo mira el cielo”
Un hombre de edad avanzada vino a la clínica donde yo trabajo para hacerse curar una herida en la mano. Tenía bastante prisa, y mientras se curaba le pregunté qué era eso tan urgente que tenía que hacer. Me dijo que tenía [...]

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How to install Ruby on Rails in Windows 2003?

Date Arrow  November 25, 2005

Great day; my first full Ruby on Rails application is up and running in production environment. It is installed in an intranet server at my employer’s premises, so I will not be able to show it :(
But anyway, here goes some tips and tricks for installing such an application in a Windows 2003 server, [...]

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Interoperability (ahem!), the Microsoft way

Date Arrow  November 24, 2005

I’ve just re-discovered that web services interoperability is not that easy. Right after creating some SOAP web services with Ruby on Rails, I’ve opened Visual Studio .NET 2005 and tried to create an application that consumes those web services… and this is all I got:

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How To Write Unmaintainable Code?

Date Arrow  November 21, 2005

I’ve just found this link… don’t miss it:
http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
(local copy if the above link does not work)

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My Bookshelf (Part III)

Date Arrow  November 20, 2005

This is the third and last part of the article “My Bookshelf”, with the list of the books that I recommend anyone in the software engineering field to read.
This last part has my preferred books about:

Project Management and Methodologies
Computing History and Industry Trends

As usual, all book references include links to their official websites, to Amazon.com [...]

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Xcode 2.2, GCC and Ruby on Rails under Mac OS X Tiger

Date Arrow  November 19, 2005

I wanted to update recently Ruby on Rails to version 0.14.3 (the final 1.0 release seems to be closer than ever) on my Mac, under Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with Xcode 2.2 (the latest version) installed. Well, it turns out to be quite difficult.
First of all, I tried the classic method “sudo gem update” [...]

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