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I’m just giving the finishing touches to my wxWidgets + SQLite + CppUnit personal project, all written in standard C++, and compiling in Mac, Windows and Linux as well. And I had the opportunity to see how good is to be able to change the source code of a library when you need it. The [...]

Ce video est une compilation des dernieres images prises par Bradley Will, journaliste d’Indymedia (http://indymedia.org) dans l’etat d’Oaxaca, dans le Mexique. La video, integralement en espagnol, dure 17 minutes, et montre tout d’abord les actions de resistance du peuple d’Oaxaca contre le gouvernement, qui fait disparaitre des gens et etablit un etat de guerre civile [...]

As usual, a small resume of interesting stuff going on: The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0 Apple upgraded the MacBook Pro line of notebooks, from Core Duo to Core 2 Duo Intel processors And on my side, I’m preparing a nice cross-platform project using wxWidgets, SQLite and CppUnit, written on C++ and compiling and running [...]

Just found by pure chance this article about writing cross-platform software.

Thanks to http://msig.info/web2.php:

Ubuntu bundles a great application, Synaptic Package Manager, which makes an excellent job to manage the dependencies, installation and desinstallation of applications of any kind in the Ubuntu platform. This usually works for all the platforms supported by Ubuntu, including the PowerPC architecture, which is the one that concerns my good old G3 iBook. As [...]

Just found this article about how to update the Xfce desktop with the latest version, 4.4rc1, released earlier last September. The problems I had with following those instructions in my PowerPC G3 iBook were: I could not have the Trash icon working in the panels The “Thunar” version that kept appearing was version 0.3, not [...]

I have just posted a page in the site, about a recent project I’ve done, implementing a simple stack-based calculator, similar to those HP ones: it is called Calculator, and you can find it under the Project pages.

Posting from Google Docs & Spreadsheets … This is a test posting from what used to be Writely, the online word processing tool; it turns out that you can use it to publish in your blog, just using the API that is exposed by WordPress!

Since I discovered Ubuntu I’ve been trying to install it in different hardware, in different computers, even in virtual machines, and I just love it. It installs without problems, I can add and remove the coolest productivity and development tools fast and easy, everything is ready to use, and it just feels great. My latest [...]