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About internet comments and agressive communication
These days, an online magazine I follow wrote about a topic I love researching. I saw some fallacious, poisonous comments and inadvertedly tried to reason with the individual that wrote those things. Worst thing I could possibly have done. Of course it didn’t work out. Of course the individual tried to use every single mean…
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Bad news: I’m not attending GUADEC
… not this year. A few minutes before finishing my sponsorship email, I received a very annoying and sad news: my University appearently decided – without even asking my schedule – that I’ll make a presentation between August 14-18, otherwise they’ll kick me out. I was already looking for paçocas (if you’re not aware, they…
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GNOME Calendar and Drag n’ Drop
One of the most intuitive ways to interact with an application is reproducing what we do in real life. Applications try to shorten the learning curve by using metaphores of real world objects. We all know what GNOME Calendar is: a virtual calendar application. As such, using real-life calendars as a reference for it’s UI…
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Writing a plugin for GNOME To Do – Introduction
I’m starting a small series of posts describing a general how-to on writing plugins for GNOME To Do. The good news: GNOME To Do has a very small API and it’s very easy to build plugins. Note: I’ll show examples in Python 3, since this might lower the barrier for contributors and it’s a language…
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News about GNOME News
Aye, folks! Some time ago, we had some movement regarding the News app. It was so. freaking. cool! Finally a good alternative of the now-dead Google Reader. Time has passed and, with my heart bleeding in sadness, we saw no further development of it. Sad. Following my bad habit of necromancy, I managed to dedicate…
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GNOME Calendar 3.19.90 was released
Aye folks! This was a very productive cycle for GNOME Calendar, and this release is the result of a hardworked cycle. First of all, the bad news: no DnD support, no Week View, no, no, no! But why, Mr. Feaneron? The reason is simple. Sanity. Behind the scenes GNOME Calendar is build on top of…