If you are brave enough, build your own pacakges with these patches.

By the way, I would like to congrats you, because if you are reading this blog, you probably is a nerd too.

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I’ve joined an excursion headed by Milton, composed mostly of my coworkers. There are special discounts for people in the group (in the registration fee): of 50% off.

I’m waiting for a well organized conference as this is this is 10th version. Ten years is enough time to learn from errors of previous conferences (I remember people complaining about long lines in the building entrance and slow Internet connection in previous versions).

From what I have heard is FISL is a conference with more philosophical discussion than technical stuff*. I don’t really like such an emphasis, not because it is not important but that it is usually boring. However I have seen very technical skilled people in the conference  special guests list, so this has given me hope that there will be some nice technical lectures.

With more than 3600 people registered, the event will be a good opportunity to see old friends and meet colleagues who I know only through e-mail and IRC.

*BTW BossaConference is one the best places to discuss about technical things in Brazil.

I would like to thanks everyone who came to the trainning.

Picture of D-Bus workshop taken from Daniel Elias cellphone.

VIM extension Omni Completion can handle nicely the task when programming using C, but I’m not used to such “technology”: ctags + glancing headers files sounds fine to me, until now, when Qt and it’s classes with tons of attributes and methods came to my life. Today I was trying to remember a method name of a QSomething class and I had the brilliant idea to use VIM auto-completion. So disappointing, I just figured out that there is no native C++ support in Omni Completion.

The Oracle told me about a OmniCppComplete add-on. It took me just few minutes to install and see how cool the plugin is. The automatic “suggestions pop-up” is annoying, but happily you can disable and use on-demand with the old and good ^X^O.

Of course there is nothing new here (first OmniCpp version dates from 2006), but you may be like me and be a bit afraid of waste time testing new VIM add-ons, because most of then are crappy hacks. Only few deserves the honor to be in my .vimrc. So, this is all about encouraging VIM users to give OmniCpp a try and be more effective.

OmniCppComplete in action

When I was a SKY (a Brazilian company of cable TV) subscriber, I was used to watch Lost in AXN channel, but when I saw some episodes previews in the Internet, I just figured out that AXN/Sky transmission of  Lost is fullscreen. My TV was doing zoom in the image, so it always looked to me like a 16:9 transmission (shame on me, at this time I didn’t care about image quality and TV setup like nowadays).

Now and after I must wait to buy a whole Lost season in stores. Here are some pictures of how the same Lost footage looks in my TV from AXN Brazil (fullscreen) and CTV Canada (widescreen) broadcast.

"Fullscreen sucks" - as said by my friend Ademar

Now you can see the "extra actor" on the left