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A Blog by Roman Gonzalez.-

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May
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Birdseye Software: conduits, reactive extensions (rxjs) and time

birdseye-software:

Recently we have been working on a project that use the Reactive Extensions library (rxjs) on the front-end and Conduit for handling event and IO streams in Haskell. In practice, working with rxjs is similar to using Conduits/Iteratees/Pipes in Haskell. Of the many benefits [pdf] of rxjs,…
Jan
31st
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Reluctant, Lazy Blogger: :) @romanandreg and I just implemented animated replay of...

tavisrudd:

:) @romanandreg and I just implemented animated replay of event-sourced UI test fixtures http://rxtest.dentalle.com/#fixture:separate_post_metals::animate vs http://rxtest.dentalle.com/#fixture:separate_post_metals which just jumps to the end state and highlights the last change.

The fixtures…

Great Work
Oct
13th
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Last week I implemented an emacs plugin called golden-ratio.el to resize the window I’m editiing in, the size to which it is resized follows the golden ratio measures, hence the name, I’m leaving this image here to use it later in github/forums.

Last week I implemented an emacs plugin called golden-ratio.el to resize the window I’m editiing in, the size to which it is resized follows the golden ratio measures, hence the name, I’m leaving this image here to use it later in github/forums.

Aug
13th
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chiguire:

Somebodies, por Gotye. Un remix de videos amateurs covers de Somebody That I Used To Know.

The power of collaborative work, is just amazing…

Aug
1st
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Installing emacs24 in precise pangoling

This is specially useful in vagrant machines

  1. Install utility to add apt sources easily:

    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

  2. Add sources that contains emacs24

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs

  3. Update the apt source list and install emacs24-nox (for emacs without X)

    sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install emacs24-nox

Done.

Jun
22nd
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(Source: tastefullyoffensive, via chiguire)

Jun
8th
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Udacity isn’t concerned with students who fall short. Its creators are busy trying to help those who ace every triple-gold-star problem and never miss a quiz—the young men in Lahore, Beirut, and Caracas who haunt Internet cafes and spend hours engaging in jargony repartee about elegant solutions on the Udacity message board. These are the people that Udacity hopes to help recruit to talent-hungry dot-coms like Google and Amazon
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Funny how they mention Caracas as one of the places with people with low resources…

From this blogpost

Jun
4th
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Installing virtualbox guest additions

Whenever I upgrade the version of my virtualbox env, I always run through the annoying warning given by vagrant, saying that the virtual machine doesn’t have a matching version to the virtualbox-guest-additions.

In order to solve this issue, I always follow the steps given in this blogpost.

I re-post this steps over here for my personal records…

Jun
3rd
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Installing Oracle Java 7 on Ubuntu Precise Pangolin

This is specially useful in vagrant machines

  1. Install utility to add apt sources easily:

    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

  2. Add sources that contains oracle-java-7

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

  3. Update the apt source list and install java’s oracle version

    sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer

Done.

Apr
7th
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Success is when you’ve failed so much that you start to fail at failing.
— @bengrue