Here there is a blog post on how to install Skype on Fedora 21 by quickly creating an RPM package. [http://mariuszs.github.io/blog/2014/skype_for_fedora_21.html](http://mariuszs.github.io/blog/2014/skype_for_fedora_21.html) It's also a great...
I think LATEX is simply amazing by itself. More when writing an academic document, but for any kind of doc, using LATEX is really time and pain saving. The concept of creating a document class (defining all the styles of the document), and then...
For some reason, brother printers (at least mine) do not take into account the settings specified for the printer in the regular way (Gnome settings in my case). But mysteriously, there is a command which can be used to change them properly...
While there are some cool things in Gnome 3, I think mostly everyone will agree that there are many design mistakes. To me, it looks like a bad copy of the Mac desktop, and it's specially annoying that they also brought the "let Steve Jobs decide...
While I love Postgres, I get some problems every time I want to do the simple operation of creating a database with an associated user if it's been a while since the last time I did it. There are several posts on the Internet about Postgres...
After all these days at EuroPython, there is a thought that keep me thinking. It is about how Python have different ways to represent what it could be considered the same thing. On today's talk, Alex Martelli pointed out that "def" and "lambda"...
While it's been a long time since the first stable version Python 3 was released, it's not yet available on several operating systems. Looking for a repository with Python 3 rpms, I found IUS Community, but I had some problems with it, and I...
Today I discovered Joel test, a test to evaluate software companies. While the article is pretty out-of-date, and there are some points that are exclusively for companies working on compiled programming languages, the article is still very...
This is a simple guide on how to do simple branching operations in Mercurial. First of all, let's comment the two different options for branching on Mercurial, and in most distributes source control systems. First option is to create a clone of...
First step is to let Google host your JavaScript library of choice for you. Google Libraries API hosts JQuery, Mootools, Prototype... and you can directly link to them from your website. More info at:...