Nicolás Brailovsky » Meta-post

Back for round II

nico — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:43:27 +0000

OK, the hiatus is over. It’s not like I’ve been sitting around doing nothing this last couple of months… well may be I have, but now I’m back. Kind off, I’m actually going out on vacations a couple of weeks in march but the blog will be on autopilot and there are quite a lot of posts in the backlog… there are a couple of months more worth of clever and informative (?) articles, so stay tuned (?^2).

New talk on the way

nico — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:53:49 +0000

I’m polishing my latest talk, “Ninja console” which will be made available to the public soon. More news to come.

Zomg! happy (late) birthday

nico — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:00:36 +0000

Can’t believe it… a whole year has gone by and I didn’t even notice. The frist psot was over a year ago and now with over a hundred posts in the archives, a second blog [spanish only] starting, many changes in the directions of the articles and a timidly and ever quiet growing reader base, I can say I didn’t learn anything at all from the experience.

I bet that’s not the kind of speech you were expecting but the message I would like to transmit today is this: to all the people trying to start a blog, do it for fun, nothing more nothing less. Don’t expect any kind of epiphany (not even in a web browser form) nor a sudden burst in online popularity (what for anyway?). You may get those as a byproduct of the experience but starting a blog only for that is a recipe for boredom and frustration.

Write, for a whole year, just because it’s fun

First Ubuntu Day in Buenos Aires

nico — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:00:53 +0000

On sat. 26 of september, this saturday, I’ll be on the first Ubuntu Day in Buenos Aires. Of course, I’ll be a speaker there, it’s time to undust the old GNU/Linux Survival Guide Again.

See you @ Ubuntu Day

non-vacations

nico — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:00:24 +0000

After some sick time, lots of work, prepearing my new blog (monosinfinitos.com.ar, go check it) and several other,personal stuff regular blog updates will resume tomorrow and continue at least for a week. That’s about the buffer size I’ve left, after that I’ll have to write something new or take a longer vacation… we’ll see.

In the meantime, enjoy a pretty picture.

Welcome!

nico — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:00:17 +0000

A good friend of mine (a programming junkie just like me) just started his blog, so this is kind of a welcome. Actually there’s already a link somewhere in this page so this post is just an excuse to post this recommendation about writing articles for a blog:

> Remember you didn’t like books without pictures as a child? Well, Internet’s mental
> age isn’t a day over four years old, use pretty pictures whenever you can.

Tip of the Week

nico — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:29:17 +0000

I recently added a new plugin to display the latest post within a category; there must be another one out there but I coudn’t find it, so I hacked my own. I plan to upload it to WP’s plugin repository (some day) so I may as well use this post a man page (?)

Download the plugin from // TODO
Unzip / untar the file in wp-content/plugins
Enable the new plugin
Configure the category to be searched (in my case I used “Vim Tips”) in the settings tab
Add the plugin as a widget (or copy&paste the code as needed, it’s in the readme)
Post something within the new category, if there’s nothing
The excerpt from the post and its title will be displayed in the sidebar (or wherever you configured the new plugin)

Easy to use. Hope you like it.

Back online!

nico — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:15:02 +0000

nico — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:29:09 +0000

// TODO

Add a CODE tag

self.start

nico — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:25:18 +0000

Superado el primer post casi obligatorio, ¿de que se trata todo esto?

Planeo volcar acá todo tipo de locuras que se me ocurran, muchas de las cuales estarán dedicadas a la informática. Prometo mantener al mínimo los meta-posts.

El contenido estará mayormente en español pero como las estadísticas muestran hits de otros lados (yo tampoco me explico cómo) algunas cosas irán traducidas.

With obliged frist post out of the way, what’s all this about?

I’m planning to dump here all kind of crazy ideas I can think of, many of which will be about computing. I promise to keep meta-posts to a bare minimum.

The content will be mainly in Spanish but as the statistics show hits from some other places (I have no idea why neither) some things will be translated.

Bonus points para quien adivine de donde saqué la imagen.