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Nice opportunity to win a Nokia N810 tablet at the FISL. (Free translation from pt_BR)

Do you have a good idea? Do you know the Qt library? Would you like to be awarded for that?
The INdT (Nokia Technology Institute), nowadays one of the main development excellence centers in Brazil, promotes the first Qt/openBossa challenge.
We look for [...]

Code style carries many benefits, such as improved maintainability and support for a rich Coding Standard. However it’s not safe to rely on developers to always comply to style rules along the source code, that’s why automatic code style verification should be an initial concern for professional-level works.
For the sake of coding-style-importance-aware people, there are [...]

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Found out some interesting Git Hints presented as webcasts at the site below. The most interesting part was to learn how to create empty branches on it, so a project can be functionally separated without having to kludge your working dir with several directories.
GitCasts: Empty Branches
Summarizing the lesson:

$ git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/emptybranch
$ git-rm –cached -r .
$ [...]

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Old-school programming techniques you probably don’t miss

I’m not a punch card time guy, but concerns like memory footprint size, code running faster and thread limitations still go around my mind nowadays.

Packaging a software component made using python to a Maemo device could be easier, if CDBS cared about hand-held devices and their limitations.
Knowing that using setup.py was the Right Way of Doing It™ for python applications I tried to push myself into making CDBS work together, but not without a little harassment.
First of all, such [...]

Trying to solve a colleague’s problem when editing Edje files, I pushed myself into learning how to do scripting inside Vim.
Scripting wasn’t ever my choice for reasonably complex editing tasks since I refused to learn Yet Another Scripting Language just because my favorite editor wanted me to. But, for the sake of all lazy guys [...]

Earlier this year I’ve spent some time gathering references to study Git, the version control system everybody seems to love nowadays.
Thankfully, someone took the time to bind several useful links in one central webpage. If you wanna start studying Git, that’s the place to start. Kudos for such practical people (more specifically Scott Charcon and [...]