Category archive: Random
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Friday afternoon sweet @ Indifex
Chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and caramelized apricot. Great for a hot summer afternoon!
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at night, Friday 24 July 2009
Food
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Friday afternoon sweet @ Indifex (Comment!)
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Today’s dinner: Ravioli with chorizo
I opened up today my refrigerator to cook dinner and found some ingredients which rung a good chord in my head. As usual, the immediate thought was “let’s try this out!”
Ravioli with spanish chorizo sausage in coconut milk
One-liner recipe: Fry the chorizo and create a thick sauce from coconut milk spiced with paprika, a bit of chili and a scent of cumin, and add the near-to-al-dente pasta for 1′.
- Cook 500g of ravioli, leaving 1-2 minutes off their cooking time.
- Slice 150g of Spanish Chorizo sausage in very thin slices. Fry with a tablespoon of olive oil in the pan until it’s cooked and has released its oils.
- Mix 200g of coconut milk with a tablespoon of paprika. If it’s real paprika (not very spicy) add in some chili and a suspicion of cumin. Make sure the spices aren’t too much, otherwise the ravioli taste will be overshadowed. Add the mixture in the pan and further cook for 3 minutes.
- Dissolve a tablespoon of corn-flour in a tablespoon of water, and add the mixture in the sauce to thicken it up.
- Add the pasta and cook for 1 minute.
- Serve immediately.
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at night, Monday 20 July 2009
Food
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Today’s dinner: Ravioli with chorizo (Comment!)
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OpenOffice and Latex equation syntax
On Fedora:
sudo yum -y install openoffice.org-ooolatex. Plain. Effectiveness.-
at night, Wednesday 15 July 2009
Fedora, Mini-Post
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OpenOffice and Latex equation syntax (Comment!)
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Photos from Greek Coding Camp
!None](/photos/events/gcc2009/)
With GCC/2009 now completed, my photostream has been uploaded at /photos/events/gcc2009/.-
at night, Wednesday 15 July 2009
Foss, Linux
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Photos from Greek Coding Camp (Comment!)
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GCC/09: init
Here I am, at Crete, participating in the first ever Greek Coding Camp.
We’re at Paleochora, a small town in South Crete. At the moment we’re 10 people, and today a few more are coming along. We’re sitting at the camping’s cafe/restaurant, under mulberry trees and the loud sound of with birds and insects hacking on open source.
We arrived here in the morning after a good trip with the boat from Piraeus. Good thing we caught the bus which came directly from Patras, entered the boat and dropped us in the city center of Chania. We went to the village home of alup, eaten a rich breakfast from his parents which included the local specialty of Bougatsa. Yummy!
Four guys together with camping equipment managed entered the tiny car of local guru hoo2 and traveled to Paleochora. The day started with the usual laughter overdose with the local group.
The teams formed into projects which can last a few days. For today, we have the following projects:
- Translation of 45+ standard Open Office Templates
- Creation of Greek-specific OOo Templates (eg. υπεύθυνη δήλωση)
- Openoffice Testing Greek Build
- Transifex workflow support for translations. Development taking place on our bitbucket ‘reviews’ branch.
- Bugfix in Xorg for letter ‘ς’
Lunch included a local specialty, τσιγαριαστό αρνί (special lamb in casserole with olive oil and herbs) and, of course, a healthy dose of Tsikoudia. Afternoon session was on quite soon.
Follow our work on Twitter at the #gcc09 hashtag!
(cc) by Charlie Phillips-
at night, Saturday 4 July 2009
Foss, Linux
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GCC/09: init (Comment!)
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Greek Coding Camp ’09 is ON!
Right on!
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at night, Saturday 4 July 2009
Random
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Greek Coding Camp ’09 is ON! (Comment!)
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LinuxTag ’09
Here I am, at Berlin, at LinuxTag and FUDCon Berlin ’09.
Quite a few things exactly like last year: Berlin is beautiful, East Berlin is fantastic. Weather is great, food is good and I’m having a blast. LinuxTag still tries to balance between a hacker conference and a trade show, admittedly not very well.
A few things different this year. Michael Jackson died. We’ve got FUDCon this year organized in a way to overlap with LinuxTag. Talk about strong Fedora presence! Everywhere I go I see people with blue polo shirts, it’s simply rocking wild. This gave the chance to more folks from the US to fly here and join our partae which is great.
Once again, I created a ‘Faces’ album with portraits from the event by invading people’s privacy.
Jesse Keating-
at night, Sunday 28 June 2009
Foss, Linux
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LinuxTag ’09 (Comment!)
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Busy, happy June
Log of past couple of weeks or so:
- Had the opportunity to present our work with Transifex at a press conference of the Greek Open Source Company (also known as EELLAK), being broadcasted live and showcasing some big FOSS projects led by Greek teams and companies. Besides talking about our recent progress and requests from our customers, I had the chance to meet some hacker friends who build enterprise and government-level solutions, also utilizing Amazon Web Services for complex tasks. I love discussions between folks using completely different technologies who try to find patterns between them to improve their own work. Fantastic.
After the press conference I stayed a bit longer and discussed with the EELLAK board their community architecture, communicating how popular and successful communities abroad operate. Our focus with EELLAK is to be a catalyst and accelerator for the Greek Community, supporting its operations and motivating for more work and results. The presence of such an entity behind communities, even so loosely-coupled as a country-wide one has proved to be a great accelerator factor in a lot of cases. * The annual Venture Capital Forum took place in Athens last week, and we took the opportunity to identify possible partners that could share the vision we have at Indifex and bring value to our team. I had the chance to meet some very interesting people, including representatives from a few VCs who were interested in exploring the possibility to invest in Indifex.
The general feeling at the conference from most entrepreneurs (and established startups) was that the VC land in Greece is quite risk-averse (read: techophobics?). There are quite a few technology companies with leading, disrupting technologies in Greece, however very, very few big Greek investors are willing at this point to take this adventurous and exciting path. Which makes sense if one doesn’t like the excitement and adrenaline of changing the world and competing with software giants.
But really, I’m positive there are people out there who want to put their money in revolutionary companies with global audiences. * The annual Greek Open Source Developers’ Conference took place in Athens last week. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend and present Lotte (greek) but John was there and presented how Indifex is adopting Open Source to help its customers solve their localization and content management needs. Really, I can’t imagine how we could have achieved half of our goals if we weren’t walking the open source road.
Finally, I was able to wrap-up things for a week and travel to Berlin for LinuxTag and FUDCon. I’m feeling very excited to meet again with good friends and new people.
(cc) by alexdecarvalho-
at night, Wednesday 24 June 2009
Foss, Linux, Tech/web
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Busy, happy June (Comment!)
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Hosting foo.
I love Webfaction for Python sites. But for PHP it’s been a PITA the past months, despite the friendliness and fast response of the support stuff. Need to find solutions for d.g.com fast.
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at night, Sunday 21 June 2009
Mini-Post, Website
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Hosting foo. (Comment!)
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I now have an Amazon Wishlist!
I recently bought a birthday present to a good friend as a ‘thank you’ to all the great stuff he’s done. Seeing how useful a wishlist could be, I decided to create an Amazon wishlist of my own. People who like me (or my work) now have the chance of buying me something that I need and like!
I’ve put a little bit of everything in there — stuff that could improve my work, my photography, my life. So — do you remember (you know who) when you mentioned that you’d love to see some of my rock climbing photographs with a wide-angle lens? Heh.
Oh, and what do you know.. while writing this, I just realize that my birthday is coming up in a month and half (4th of August).
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at night, Sunday 21 June 2009
Personal
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I now have an Amazon Wishlist! (Comment!)
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It’s all in the tools.
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at night, Sunday 21 June 2009
Climbing
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It’s all in the tools. (Comment!)
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Caruso
But, yes, it is life that ends
and he did not think so much about it
On the contrary, he already felt happy
and continued his song…
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at night, Sunday 14 June 2009
Books/music/films, Quotes
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Caruso (Comment!)
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Friday nights
What I love about Friday nights (post-clubbing post-3am):
- The feeling
- The Italian and Spanish songs on the radio on the way back home
- The empty narrow streets
- The delicious open bakery at the top part of Agiou Nicolaou street in Patras
(cc) by junkmonkey-
at night, Saturday 13 June 2009
Personal
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Friday nights (Comment!)
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Platform nazi
Πώς ξενερώνω όταν βλέπω κάτι τέτοιο σε ένα site: “Click here to reset your password: http://www…LostYourPassword.aspx/…”. Μπλιαχ.
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at night, Friday 12 June 2009
Mini-Post, Random
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Platform nazi (Comment!)
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Similar images
Playing around Google Similar Images. Very useful. I remember playing around this technology 5+ years ago with IBM DB2 Extenders. It’s amazing to see how much time a research-like cutting-edge technology needs to come to the masses.
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at night, Friday 12 June 2009
Mini-Post, Tech/web
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Similar images (Comment!)
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ithilgore on Phrack Magazine
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at night, Thursday 11 June 2009
Mini-Post, Random
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ithilgore on Phrack Magazine (Comment!)
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Word of the day: Sopranist
This is quite extraordinary.
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at night, Tuesday 9 June 2009
Mini-Post, Random
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Word of the day: Sopranist (Comment!)
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Software #!$@!
My software tortures me. WordPress just marked a bunch of past good comment as spam (sorry guys!), and Firefox auto-deleted its history and bookmarks.
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at night, Sunday 7 June 2009
Mini-Post, Personal, Random
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Software #!$@! (Comment!)
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Big-picture release translation status
A lot of things are happening lately in Transifex-land. We’ve been working hard in bringing transifex.net live, developing Lotte, the Lightweight Online Translation Editor, recruiting two more developers for Indifex, opening up a new office and stuff.
Been experimenting with new things too. One of them was various mockups to improve the way we present information to release engineers who need an overview of how a release looks like from a localization perspective. Take the XFCE default branch πpage, for example. It gives a good overview of the release, and I was wondering if we could make it even more rich by breaking up the statistics in the ones comprising the total percentage.
I’ve been playing around with a mockup for this. This came up in Inkscape:
What do you think? Does it make sense? Is it useful?
Update: I neglected to mention that the numbers and colors are random, but the idea is that they are completion percentages and red = low ones, green = high ones.
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at night, Saturday 6 June 2009
Foss, Linux, Transifex
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Big-picture release translation status (Comment!)
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jespern / django-piston / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org
Giving a good look at django-piston. Looks hawt!
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at night, Wednesday 3 June 2009
Django, Mini-Post, Transifex
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jespern / django-piston / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org (Comment!)