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Java User-Friendness

March 20, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

I can’t see how people say Java is an end-user language, whose applications are for general user usage… SEVERE: Exception javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: “fo:inline” is not a valid child of “fo:block”! (See position 1870:716) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:302) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:130) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:174) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:205) Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: “fo:inline” is not a valid child of “fo:block”! (See position […]

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Nine tools I can’t live without (for Windows)

January 30, 2012January 30, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

First, a relevant disclaimer: I use Windows mostly for two purposes, test my Perl modules under a Windows environment, and printing some stuff as my Mac sometimes can’t find some Windows printers in the network. This said, my Windows runs in a virtual machine, and I install these tools right after installing Windows. Browser The […]

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Artificial Intelligence for Games errata

December 21, 2011December 21, 2011ambsLeave a Comment

This year I am teaching Artificial Intelligence for Games. I grabbed some book PDFs from the Internet (yes, sorry, it would be impossible to buy all the books to choose one, and libraries around doesn’t have books in this thematic) and I chose a pair of books to buy. One of them is this Artificial […]

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@GitHub Inconsistency

July 5, 2011July 5, 2011ambs1 Comment

This is something I couldn’t still understand. Not sure if this is a bug or if I am missing some information. This project claims to have 22 open issues, but when I get into the issues page, it shows 24 issues (and the list really includes 24 items). I would say the number in […]

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Being a Dancer

June 21, 2011ambsLeave a Comment

(re-post from blogs.perl.org) For some time now, I am a Dancer contributor. It all started in the last Christmas (everything in the Perl community start or end at Christmas time), with Dancer Advent Calendar. Getting a little behind… I tried to learn to use Catalyst some time ago, reading a Packt Publishing book and found […]

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Packt Publishing needs to learn typography

April 29, 2011April 29, 2011ambsLeave a Comment

I own some books from Packt Publishing and they are not bad. Of course, each book is different from each other, and some are better than the others. But that is normal that a publishing company that is trying to gain space in the market with serious competitors (like O’Reilly, Apress or Manning) needs to […]

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Book Review: Modern Perl

March 25, 2011ambsLeave a Comment

I bought the Modern Perl book by chromatic. The title is inspiring. There is a lot of people writing Perl code as they were writing years ago. Although Perl still support those syntax and lack of strictness, there is a new trend on Perl code, and actual and future Perl developers should start learning it. […]

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Hiding the bird’s guts

October 11, 2010ambsLeave a Comment

Probably this is a stupid rant/question. If so, please clarify me. I can live without the insults. Really :) OK, on to the relevant stuff. Twitter has a new OAuth authentication mechanism. To write an application able to post on twitter your application need to be registered and have a consumer key. That key is […]

DevC++ and their lack of discernment

October 2, 2010ambsLeave a Comment

If you know me, you know that I program mainly C and Perl, that my preferred editor is Emacs, and that I use mostly Mac OS X for that task. But, I teach programming, and sometimes I teach programming to students that never heard of Linux or, worse, that never used the command line of […]

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Map-Reduce, or why I hate software patents.

September 3, 2010September 3, 2010ambsLeave a Comment

In the recent times you should be hearing a lot on map-reduce. I first heard of the term in last year Codebits. Although I wasn’t there, there was a talk with that title. I confess that knowing that map and reduce are common functional operators on different programming languages, I did not look to the […]

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