random adventures of an old hacker: Published in the Koalaplanet, this is the kind of posts that you normally find in a typical blog _(summary)_ http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog Copyright 2009 by contributing authors 2008-12-08T00:00:00Z http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Tracking_changes_via_RSS_GTD_style 2008-12-08T00:00:00Z

This is the kind of hacks I really like doing: examining a problem and try to find a simple solution by reasoning by analogy with the real world. This time, it was how to help developers of foswiki to keep track of changes in twiki. The metaphor chosen was the GTD (Getting Things Done) method, with a ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/TWiki_forks 2008-10-28T00:00:00Z

Well, it has finally happened, the dual faced Janus what makes both the beauty of Open Source projects, and its Dark side, have come to visit the twiki Project. The Fork is here! Strangely this time, it is the project founder, Peter Thoeny who "forked out" most of the active developers of the Open Source ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/What_is_good_code 2008-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stumbled upon the blog post "it important to write good code?" the other day, and became more and more ill at ease as I realized that I thought that I preferred the original code, that the author was trying to ridicule, over his new "improved" object oriented version. At first I guessed this was another ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Mercurial_web_templating 2008-10-09T00:00:00Z

For some time now, I have seen the light and I switched to the new wave of the Distributed Source Control management systems. Linus famous video of his Google talk decided me to try. I was a bit apprehensive at first, wary of engaging myself on a technology that would bring more problems than solutions ...

ColasNahaboo http://colas.nahaboo.net/Blog/Windsurfing_back_to_the_roots 2008-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am an avid windsurfer, or maybe I was. The sport is now mature (I have started in ... 1975), and have somewhat lost the excitement we enjoyed before as the state of the art was constantly progressing, but have stagnated for some years now. It even kind of became an "old people sport", as the new generation ...

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