Richard Stallman at FEUP

October 13, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 1 Comment

Richard Stallman will be giving a conference about free software and the GNU/Linux movement at FEUP’s principal auditory next Saturday. Not to miss (I just hope he doesn’t sing):

FEUP - Richard Stallman na FEUP Richard Stallman, fundador do Movimento de Software Livre, fundador do projecto GNU, fundador e presidente da Free Software Foundation dará uma palestra na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP), dia 18 de Outubro, das 15 às 17.30 horas. O título da palestra é “The Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux”. Stallman falará sobre os objectivos, filosofia, metodologia, estado actual, e direcções futuras do sistema operativo GNU, que em combinação com o núcleo Linux é utilizado no mundo inteiro por um grupo de entre 17 a 20 milhões de utilizadores, segundo as estimativas actuais.



Joel on Unicode

October 13, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

On this article, Joel explains character encodings, and don’t you dare not to learn about it…

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.



Alternative Firebird and Thunderbird Icons

October 13, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 1 Comment

These are very nice:

Don’t forget to check other stuff made by this guy.