Tagged “ramblings”
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using bugzilla, the right way
Yes, I admit it, I hate bugzilla. I mean, the bug tracking is something indispensable for every software project, but digging in its web interface for quick searches, I just find it unbearably awful.
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GCDS ramblings
The last two years the GUADEC has been pushing the geographical limits of Europe: in 2008 in Istanbul, more near to Asia, and now, in 2009, in Canarias, more near to Africa. And that’s OK, I like it actually, is better than repeating the old hosts of the conference.
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The big patch theory
It is well known that the free/open source software major asset is the sense of community surrounding each project. That idea is the constant in almost all the promotional videos which participate in the Linux Foundation contest We’re Linux.
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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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Guadec 2008
Last week I attended the Guadec 2008 in Turkey. It was my second Guadec. The first one was in Sevilla in 2002, when I was backpacking Europe. The big difference between my previous and this last guadec is that now I have a better understanding of the state of the art, so I could appreciate more the talks and proposals done, which I will try to summarize in this post.
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