http://www.pplux.com el blog de PpluX Mon, 11 May 2009 08:21:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just to start a new tag "codepixel" :) The whole planet here http://www.pplux.com/2009/05/11/welcome-to-codepixels-planet/ This is something I came across reviewing the headers of OSG, it's called the "safe bool idiom" and arises when we try to overload the bool operator of a class to make it part of boolean expressions... Of course this is wrong, let me spoil you a correct version of ... http://www.pplux.com/2009/02/18/the-safe-bool-idiom/ Here is the thing, the other day I wanted to copy one subdirectory from one computer to another, I can not rely on scp because I needed root permissions, neither tar worked because there was symlinks, different file permissions and owners, and there wasn't space enough to do it (of ... http://www.pplux.com/2009/02/07/rsync-root-and-sudo/ Recently I've been playing with git and I found it fascinating!, for those that still don't know what it is, git is a really fast distributed revision control system (wikipedia). Now the problem is how to switch from subversion to git, fortunately git-svn helps a lot and we can play ... http://www.pplux.com/2008/11/26/from-subversion-to-git/ Since October 31st, around 9:45am, I'm the proudly owner of a new macbook! So again I'm quitting linux, not really, but for a notebook apple is the only one that delivers a truly "notebook-experience", IMHO. I could not do without the close-the-lid-and-leave thing, the unix feeling, and my terminal,but ... http://www.pplux.com/2008/11/24/the-return-to-the-dark-side/ The reasons because I didn't write in English were perfectly explained by sole some time ago. I'm not trying to be "cool" by start writing in English, I'm just trying to be a little more "International" and hopefully most of the technical stuff I want to talk about will reach ... http://www.pplux.com/2008/11/02/switching-from-spanish-to-english/ Hace mucho, mucho tiempo, en una galaxia muy lejana... había un acelerador de partículas... y digo yo ¿Si mañana se acaba el mundo para qué voy a trabajar hoy? Cómo no se va a acabar, y eso lo afirmo ya (como informático-físico-teórico que soy) pues va a ser que empezamos la ... http://www.pplux.com/2008/09/10/vuelta-al-cole/ Ya he dicho más de una vez que los de PhD cómics me espían.... y también... real como la vida misma I y extraordinariamente real. http://www.pplux.com/2008/05/30/real-como-la-vida-misma-ii/