February 2009
42 posts
Small break to fix a bug →
Most of the development of Macaco.ObjDB happens on Linux where I use Monodevelop as my IDE. I was recently testing the code using an extra project in Monodevelop when I bumped into this bug.
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Parallel error checking →
Following the post about the ForeignKeyAttribute and RelationAttribute I wanted to share the design used to ensure that the class definitions have been done correctly and if not, the different…
Balance between freedom and error checking in an... →
My current work at the Macaco.ObjDB library has been focused in the use of relations and foreign keys in a OO to RDBMS mapper and how much the decisions related to the use of relations and foreign…
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Helping junior developers
Although according to my contract I am meant to be a Junior IT analyst (only god knows what that actually means) I have been recently coaching some junior developers in C#. Today we had to do some work with SSL certificates with one of the service we have working.
The most interesting thing of working with people that are not yet OO developers is that the try to understand everything and...
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UK Government backs open source →
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Friendship, Men vs. Women
gondaba:
Friendship Among Women:
A woman didn’t come home one night. The next day she told her husband that she had slept over at a girlfriend’s house. The man called his wife’s 10 best friends. Not one of them knew anything about it.
Friendship Among Men:
A man didn’t come home one night. The next day he told his wife that he had slept over at a buddy’s house. The woman called her husband’s...
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WatchI cannot believe he kips trying… If I were drunk I’d love this song :P
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Adding useful documentation →
I have started adding useful documentation in the wiki. Currently the wiki wont be used to contain information about the project because there is no much done to need to add the documentation….
New looks →
After some work I am very happy to announce the new looks of the page. I believe that the new page looks far better and more professional. Although the new looks have been added to the blog I still…
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Unbuntu Dust GTK+ theme →
A very nice custom theme for Ubuntu. It needs some work in some of the apps, but it works well in most of them, and it looks great when it does!!!!
English pronunciation
Dearest creature in creation, Studying English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how...
Macaco.ObjDB was approved!!!! →
I have great news to give, last Thursday I proposed the Macaco.ObjDB as a Sourceforge project and it got accepted!!! This are great news because it means that we can use the Sourceforge…
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Ubuntu pleasent surprise
As I said, I got a new machine a couple of days… I have been trying to get the ndiswrapper to work on openSuse for about 2 days with no luck what so ever, I got to a point that I even though not to install Linux mainly because I don’t what to have an Ethernet cable from one point to the living room to the other one :(
As a last resort I decided to install Ubuntu, mainly because Ed has...
Bea && Food
We cook a risotto today, Bea looks cute in this picts :P
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Atomium HDR
During the weekends I like to try and take pictures (is not always possible). This weekend I went back to the Atomium to take some… I really like how this one turned out, it looks like a UFO!!!!
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WatchOne more reason to like openSuse
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Follow up: New machine
Last night I spent far more time than I wanted setting up Windows Vista Ultimate, seriously I do not know what the Updates are, but I’m sure they should not take that long….Anyway I managed to install openSolaris using a CD I pick up at FOSDEM, unfortunately the instillation did not go as smooth as I wanted:
openSolariscould not format the partition I made for it… I really do...
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WatchSony Releases New Stupid Piece of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
An other Spanish lesson through comedy :P
Hurray, new machine
I just got a new PC, hurray!!!!! The machine has 650 Gb of HD (far better than my 140 of the moment) plus a multi core CPU and a little better graphics card, I can wait to install:
openSuse
OpenSolaris
Ubuntu
Windows vista Ultimate extensions(no link to this)
I hope I can make the 4 boot machine where I pretend to share the /home directory by using the same user ID…. It should...
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Great error message →
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“Anywaysh. On Monday next week I will be a happy new owner of a new old car. They...”
– Jussi trying to convince me that he does not want the Audi any more….
I have been making fun of the fact that he got an Audi A3 while I got a Ford Focus, but now… hehehe
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Someone is in trouble
I got this in the mail today:
Dear all
I left my wedding ring in the toilet at reception.
I left him there on 8:10 and at 10:30 I knew I forget my ring.
See list for all persons how came and left the building.
If someone found him, please contact me, there is also a REWARD.
Thank you very much.
Someone is in trouble :P
Nice summary →
I just read this mail from Cedric Vivier with a nice summary of how the macros work on Boo. It is not something I did not know, but I do consider it a great summary and good to share with anyone…
Working with System.Attributes and Boos’ ast →
One for the main ideas of the ObjDB lib is to allows developers to tag the properties of the object to allows the system know how to generate the SQL calls (you can see an example here) for that,…
Dumb && dumber
Bea just managed to drop her mobile phone in the sewer went getting out of the car:
Adding new properties at compile time →
After working with Boo for some time I have realized that there are not that many blogs or pages that post examples of hot to work with Boos’ ast. For this reason I have decided to write a set of…
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“Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don’t hear about some...”
– Brodie — Mallrats
Yes I watched it yesterday, yet again….
Migration to Boo →
I’ll like to use this post to let you know that all the code written so far will be migrate to use Boo instead of C#. As some of you may know Boo is:
Boo is a new object oriented statically typed…
Less reflection more Generation →
One of the main goals of the Macaco.Contacts project was to give as much choice to the developers as possible. This means that I have been working to make sure that the library could be used with as…
Having fun with HDR
As wikipedia says:
high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques
We all know I’m a geek and when I heard about this technique I wanted to give it a go. Unfortunately my first images did not look very good because I did not use a tripod...