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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 [...]

Interesting article from Coding Horror describing someone’s painful experience of upgrading Linux. Kinda makes me feel less stupid about all the long hours spent every time I try to upgrade Ubuntu and spend hours reconfiguring (or plain reinstalling) stuff…

Unless you have been living in a cave playing with your iPhone for the last couple of months, you surely have heard of the GPhone rumors. Well, rumors they seem no more: a week after announcing that GPhone was actually an OS meant to be implemented by a lot of vendors, Android - Google’s Mobile [...]

A quick tip for most laptop linux users out there: disable power management for your hard drives if you start hearing them click…

Right now I have two office suites, two calculators, two notepads, three bootsplash managers, two grub themes, two power management services, three network managers, two mp3 players (that don’t play mp3 out of the box, of course - legal reasons implied). And that’s because I uninstalled two of the three window managers that come along [...]

One of the best Windows Powertoys I’ve ever used is the “Open Command Window Here”. What it does is absolutely simple: it adds an option to the right-click menu to open the command line in a specific folder.
Achieving a similar effect on Gnome is a no-brainer: just create a bash script inside your Gnome [...]

If you (like me) don’t like iTunes (or simply like the idea of having alternatives), Floola is probably one of the best option around. This small app allows you to playback and manage your tracks in a simple one-page interface. It also allows you to copy files from/to the iPod, so you can share [...]

Truth must be said: Ubuntu (and it’s family of silly-named flavors - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Wubuntu, Whatevubuntu) is the first mainstream distribution to really shed some light of usability over the most beloved-or-hated OS of all times: Linux. A lot of people have been going through the hype of “free os”, blogging about their detox [...]

Um post bem conciso que explica como instalar o Subversion (ja que o synaptics so instala a versao 1.3.alguma_coisa)
Se a instalacão não funcionar de primeira, de uma olhada nos comentários do post. No meu caso, o tal libexpat1-dev estava mesmo faltando…

Aprendam, crianças: é assim que se ganha com software livre!
(já pensou se ele decide cobrar royalties de todo mundo…?)