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And it’s called UTUTO:

UTUTO es una distribución de GNU/Linux, denominada en referencia a una lagartilla o Geco así conocido en el norte de Argentina
Su primera versión, grabada masivamente por primera vez en octubre del año 2000 en Argentina por Diego Saravia de la Universidad Nacional de Salta, era muy simple de utilizar y funcionaba desde [...]

Trying to keep my promise of learning a new programming language every year, I have identified a couple of candidates for 2007:

Lisp
D
Haskell
Erlang

In any case, I want to get my hands dirtier with functional programming. And also, in the meanwhile, getting used to the new versions of old friends, both bringing new and interesting features:

C# 3.0
Objective-C [...]

http://www.theregister.com/2007/01/29/windows_vista_still_not_ready/
Fortunately, Microsoft has a web site devoted to answering these questions, although it takes the ludicrously arrogant stance of informing potential punters whether or not they are ready for Vista, rather than the other way round. It’s quite irritating, actually, because the only question that needs answering is whether MS and partners have enough device [...]

I came accross this interesting posting on The .NET Addict’s Blog. It is interesting to read since it comes at a time where “traditional” Microsoft developers get interested in other technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, Cocoa or Linux. And the same can be said about Java, where lots of luminaries like James Duncan Davidson [...]

There was a time where programming in Java was funnier than it is today.
Back in 1997 I published in my own web page my first Java applet. It was a calculator. That was way cool; I was able to share with the visitors of my site a whole program: not only the source code, but [...]

Lately I got curious to know how could I grab the entire desktop of my computer, and save it into a file, or display it into an NSImageView component. I started to look around on the web and discovered that:

There’s no direct support for that in Cocoa
There’s a lot of different ways to do it, [...]

Are you scared of Java language change? Why?
“Java 5 introduced generics amongst many other items. Unfortunately, generics are probably the most troublesome change that has been made to Java. With over 400 pages in the official generics FAQ attempting to explain weird corner cases, we know something went wrong.”

The good news of the day: I have just received a free ticket to go to LIFT 07, defined as
a gathering of talented observers, explorers, and builders who discuss the current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. LIFT is three days to face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking, and get [...]

I just updated the Projects subsection of this site with some .NET code that I wrote, between 2003 and 2006:

OrugaSystem: The OrugaSystem project came to my mind first as an HTML RTF converter, but later evolved into a generic transformer framework; it was created with Visual Studio .NET 2003, and it runs under the [...]