http://pupeno.com A bit of this, a bit of that, and a lot about computers. Thu, 08 May 2008 20:37:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever since I started learning Esperanto I disliked the fact that it was a sexist language, biased towards males. Thankfully, I am not the first one to think at this, and some people already worked on it. I was rejoiced to read Maire Mullarney's concerns about it on Everyone's Own ... http://pupeno.com/2008/05/08/riism-i-love-esperanto-a-bit-more/ If you like or are interested in Erlang, you may want to check out: A little bit expensive I'd say, but definitely interesting. http://pupeno.com/2008/04/18/erlang-exchange-2008/ The future of OpenID, I believe, is more likely to be in hundreds... thousands of little web applications consuming OpenID because it comes built in with the framework used to build the application than the big guys consuming it: Django Ruby on Rails Zope/Plone http://pupeno.com/2008/04/15/the-future-of-openid/ I wonder when we will start to see DVDs of space tv-shows, like Babylon 5 and Star Trek, where you can pick to watch them with no sounds on space. I'm really pissed off at the sounds of the Voyager on the presentation, they don't even add to the scene, ... http://pupeno.com/2008/04/13/sound-in-space/ My favorite versioning system was Darcs for a long time, but it didn't really took off and a new competitor is taking off amazingly fast: Git. I believe the single most important feature of Git is to be able to clone (checkout in Subversion jargon) repositories from other systems, particularly ... http://pupeno.com/2008/04/11/the-single-most-important-feature-of-git/ One of the hardest things to do in a foreign language is to build enough vocabulary to communicate. In a language like Esperanto, even though vocabulary has been simplified (by compounding words, affixes and suffixes), the rest is so much simpler than vocabulary is the only real problem there is. ... http://pupeno.com/2008/02/15/tagvorto-improving-our-vocabulary/ .. -*- mode: rst -*- This is a remake of `Installing Rails 2 on Ubuntu`_ but targeting Ruby in general and with some improvements. Essentially the same, actually, but more usable, at least for myself. .. _`Installing Rails 2 on Ubuntu`: /2007/12/13/installing-rails-2-on-ubuntu/ Ubuntu_, like many other free operating systems, have a beautiful package ... http://pupeno.com/2008/02/01/playing-with-ruby/ I am trying to decide whether to use Pylons or Django. Both are frameworks for building Python web applications, but with opposing philosophies. Django tries to be everything. It comes with its own ORM, its own template engine, its own everything. That gives you a nice developing experience because everything fits ... http://pupeno.com/2008/01/26/pylons-or-django/ After reading Io's manual, I was really impressed. So I coded a Kate syntax highlighting for it. Of course it took me less than an hour (and I've had to relearn the syntax for Kate's SH files). Here's how it looks: http://pupeno.com/2008/01/06/io-syntax-highlighting-in-kate/ Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, the best book I've found on creating your own programming language is now available in paperback. You can still get a free-of-cost copy of Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation at its original site. Actually, the book is now released under a Creative Common license, thank you ... http://pupeno.com/2007/12/16/programming-languages-application-and-interpretation-now-in-paperback/