Archive for July, 2007

Ruby REXML::CData RDOC page

July 12th, 2007

… one can read this is in the official REXML::CData RDOC page:
ie_hack: Internet Explorer is the worst piece of crap to have ever been written, with the possible exception of Windows itself. Since IE is unable to parse proper XML, we have to provide a hack to generate XML that IE‘s limited abilities can handle. […]


</short post> Debian 10Y Social Contract

July 4th, 2007

10 years of Debian Social Contract… July 5, 1997 - July 5, 2007.


Debian CUT

July 3rd, 2007

Joey Hess proposed some months ago an interesting slight realign for the Debian release model. Basically he proposes the formation of a team to ensure a Constantly Usable Testing (CUT) allowing for some (lots of) users to have access to a well formed and current packaged version of… Testing. CUT would enforce that Testing should […]


Linus Torvalds on git

July 1st, 2007

Linus talked on Google about his source control management system, with questions from the audience. 70 precious minutes… with humour, smart ideas, good explanations on the theory of team software development, focusing on building a trust network, on performance, on centralized vs distributed systems, security, etc.
(by minute 60, this guy kicks Google Code (SVN) ass… […]