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An excellent collection of little songs using OSX’s internal speech system. Now THIS was a triumph!
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to [...]

I guess I feel a bit relieved for knowing I’m not the only one that misses a “quick search” button on paper books. Nicholas Carr’s brilliant essay on how the way we crunch information on the Internet is changing the way we think is simply scary, because IT IS HAPPENING. Not necessarily a bad thing [...]

How come people fool themselves to think that they are intelligent beings and won’t repeat the errors already done in the past - that is still a complete mistery to me…

Ah, the new Internet and their participative users. While some focus on helping OTHER users better use the services they love, others form real fanclubs to support their web heroes, working around the clock to keep services alive and resisting the bad weather of diggin’, slashdottin’ and plain usage hammering. Pizza and Twitter FTW!

If you ever needed to generate PDFs dinamically on a Rails app, one of the easiest (and possibly more elegant) PDF generation Rails options you’ll find is using the PDF-Writer combo. The good thing with that combo is that you can go and define your PDFs as views using a different extension (.rpdf is suggested). [...]

…from what’s pure propaganda. Wake up, 1984 kids… The Big Brother is making the news.

Looks like it’s not an isolated problem. In my case, the “blisters” appeared during a flight (maybe the preasure on the cabin dropped a little, making the air beneath the adhesive expand… or something?!) and disappeared after the landing. The trauma did last longer than that, though: whenever I get to the System Preferences > [...]

A couple of days ago, a mysterious user found a way in and registered itself on my blog (as an admin). From that moment on, I couldn’t post anything anymore. The main diagnostic here was that every time I tried posting/writing anything, wordpress just returned a blank page with the post.php address.
Turns out the issue [...]

Getting Rails (and related stuff - RMagick, MySQL, etc) to run on OS X is an easy task, although not as straightforward as it seems at first. Here’s a small collection of things that you have to do to have it done in just a few minutes:
- Install MacPorts, an apt-get like package manager for [...]

So, after buying a nice and shiny expensive Mac computer that will help a lot on your day-to-day developer life (OSX is better than anything… at least that’s what they say) you just find out that there is NO JavaME development toolkit made to run on the beloved fruity OS.
Fear not: it is still possible [...]