I just wanted to post a few lines about Debian today since its the 17th anniversary of the project. I haven’t been a long time Debian user. I started using GNU/Linux as an experimental project back when RedHat was on version 5. Then one day, I purchased my first distribution. Yes, I paid for it [...]
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Started podcasting
July 26th, 2010
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So after having planned some podcast projects, I finally started one of them. Its a show in spanish that talks about copyright, software, tech and legal news regarding our freedom. Its been a very interesting project. We talk mostly about Mexican laws and events that affect our freedom through copyright or any tech or data [...]
command line tools for web developers
June 15th, 2010
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Many people are typically afraid of the terminal. Yes, it might look scary for some, retro for others, but for the practical busy programmer, the terminal is the best tool you can have. Lately for my day job, I’ve been required to work with lots of static web pages, as I’ve mentioned on several of [...]
Emacs Identica-mode microblogging client v1.0 release
June 8th, 2010
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I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: HTTP backend rewrite The backend that makes the HTTP connections has been completely rewritten to use url.el mode instead of the previous [...]
Search and replace recursively in multiple files
May 18th, 2010
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Lately I’ve been working with a lot of static HTML files with lots of repeating text structures. In the past I’ve talked about editing multiple files with Emacs. This approach works very well when the number of multiple files and text matches in each file is manageable, since you need to confirm pressing “y” on [...]
First day at DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
April 20th, 2010
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DrupalCon San Francisco has been great. Yes, its been only one day but I love the atmosphere. There are several tracks going on at the same time during the day, so its impossible to see every talk. I hope that they publish videos of the ones I couldn’t attend. There’s about 3,000 attendees so the [...]
