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fosdem'09
Last weekend some igalians and I went to Brussels to attend the FOSDEM’09. We arrived the Friday just in time for the FOSDEM Beer Event (amazing coincidence!). In the Delirium Café I got my first epiphany about the True Spirit of FOSDEM: it is not the talks and the meetings, it is the beer. So, after that night, I could say “mission accomplished”.
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password management
Be on-line means have user accounts in a lot of services, such as email, social web sites, blogs, etc… And have multiple user accounts implies have to remember user names and passwords.
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no country for boy's compilers
During the first revision by the mythical committee of ALGOL, called ALGOL60, Donald Knuth proposed a mean for evaluating implementations of the language: the man or boy test.
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Coroutines, closures and continuations
I ought start with a disclaimer: I don’t have experience with functional programming. I never studied it. Nevertheless recently I have had some contact with some of its concepts, specially with the idea of continuations and closures. From these contacts came up a question, an hypothesis: by definition, continuations ⊆ closures ⊆ coroutines?.
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async gio test
In order to understand how to use the asynchronous API of gio, I have cooked a small test. It was a little hard to figure out the use of the API, mostly because I could not find implementations using Google’s codesearch, neither doing grand-greps ™ on my jhbuild’s directory of checkouts.