a bida ós retalhos

Blogs are really catching on now. This one is a shared blog of two
friends of mine.

From href="http://free.7host03.com/mariazinha/">free.7host03.com.



K is wireless at last

Finally Sergio entered the wireless world. He managed to install
the wireless card both in Windows and in Linux but somewhat
complains that he needed some guidance to perform the Linux install
(given by me btw). It’s true, I needed about 3 days to install the
card on my laptop (things are much easier now), but on the other
hand the Linux open source drivers are href="http://www.andrerestivo.com/weblog/linkdetail.php?id=101">much
better than the Windows ones.

From href="http://blog.portugalmail.pt/K/archive/000291.html#000291">blog.portugalmail.pt.



Insightful

Some comments I found on Slashdot today. href="http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52088&cid=5172319">
This one:

Optimization should never be done until after you’ve run
real-world use cases on code with a profiler. Until then, one
should write code that clearly communicates its intent.

  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

says Knuth, and Martin Fowler says

  • “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.
    Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Remember: Computers double in speed every 18 months, but
programmers stay just the same. If we want our code to live a long
and happy life, then clarity should almost always win over
speed.



SuiteRunner

Take a look at href="http://www.artima.com/suiterunner/why.html">why these
guys refactored JUnit.

From href="http://www.artima.com/suiterunner/index.html">www.artima.com.



KDE 3.1 Released

I’m very well impressed by this release. New features like desktop
sharing, exchange integration, desktop lockdown framework, desktop
sharing, a beatifull new theme and much more … src="kde.png" />

To know everything about it take a look at the href="http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php">New Feature
Guide and the href="http://promo.kde.org/3.1/screenshots.php">Screenies.

I’m a WindowMaker fan
and I prefer Gnome over KDE but
I guess I’ll give this new KDE a try. I guess my Gentoo will be
doing a lot of emerging tonight.

From href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.1.html">www.kde.org.