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Docudo

Friday, March 31st, 2006

There has been some discussions lately about documentation in TG’s mailing list- or rather the lack of it.
The Docudo project was kick-started in PyCon to address this problem. Docudo is a tool for writing and maintaining
documentation for software projects. It relies on Subversion for versioning of documents and their properties.
To get an idea of what […]

CatWalk II

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Here is a screencast that goes through some of the stuff I’m planning for the next version of CatWalk. I talk about “list views” and some ideas inspired by Dabble - an amazing app.
Check it out and tell me what you think. If you have some ideas, wishes or suggestions for CatWalk, now is the […]

The Elegant Universe

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Just finished seeing PBS’s the elegant universe. Fantastic show that embarcs in an ambitious journey along the edge of modern fysics. A lot of mindblowing ideas presented in an very accesible way.
Go see the tree hours long show for free at the nova website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html.

LinuxForum Recap

Monday, March 6th, 2006

This year LinuxForum was held at the Royal School of Architecture.
It was kind of funny to held a presentation in a place I once spend 6 years as a student.
I have more than once failed to stay awake during and endless slide/dias based lecture in one of those auditoriums.
I hope my audience didn’t have the […]

Is that Alex Martelli speaking?

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Earlier today I was watching Seth Godin’s presentation at Google (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294) - entertaining and enlightening btw.
At the Q-A at the end (aprox. @ 41:05) I thought I could recognize Alex Martelli’s voice asking a question.
There are thousands of people working at Google, I guess there must be other baritones there beside him. But, after answering […]

LinuxForum

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

I have been working on my presentation for Linux Forum this week. Preparing it has been a lot of work. Phew…

It’s an introductory talk. I’m going show some of the fancy new stuff we have, in the context of a sample application.
The app is a revamped survey app, the one in the CatWalk tutorial. Instead […]

TurboGears and Selenium

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Grig Gheorghiu wrote some days ago about Useful tools for writing Selenium tests.
Selenium is a fantastic tool for running tests within your webbrowser in a cross-platform and cross-browser way. But as Grig wrote in his post, hand writing test cases can be pretty tiresome.
This situation will probably change once the much expected Selenium-IDE is […]

Pronto Montalbano

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Yesterday, Nina and I saw on tv the last episode of ‘Commissario Montalbano’. We have avidly follow the charismatic sicilian inspector for the last couple of month.
Sadly it’s over now =(. To take the top of my abstinence I have allready ordered a couple of books from Andrea Camilleri.