Think you have problem understanding git? Want to fast-forward your git skills? Just follow Scott Chacon’s excellent and newbie-friendly GitCasts, a collection of screencasts on how to use git.

Good coders solve problems. Great teams make history. — tagline of Microsoft Visual Studio ad

Poor Tor Arne. After his super-secret project is leaked, our HTML5 Media ninja has no other choice but to reveal all his cards. HTML5 video/audio, important for next-gen web content, will be available in Firefox, Opera, and Safari, is finally supported in QtWebKit, thanks to Tor Arne. As he wrote th...

So you think Ken Lee is the best Internet meme? Hold on, you haven’t seen Benny Lava yet!

Screenshot of AccuWeather.com just now (to those who said “Gee, it is cold up there!” the moment they knew I was about to move to Oslo):

In case you live under the rock and miss Thiago’s latest blog post, Qt 4.4.0 is just released. This latest release packs a lot of exciting new features such as Phonon for multimedia stuff, integration of WebKit (open-source web rendering engine), powerful XML processing with XQuery and XPath, the fa...

Finally the weather permits some wonderful sightseeing! The above is Holmenkollen ski jump, with its 60 meter high tower.

I have shown before how to use git to manage your code hosted in Google Code Project Hosting and how to synchronize it (automatically) with a public git repository hosted in github. SpeedCrunch, your lovely desktop calculator, is an example of all this.

From vim tip 693: the lovely vim color scheme test. There are even nice preview pages, e.g. for C/C++ highlighting.

As the next logical step after I wrote about easily using git to work with the subversion repository in Google Code Project Hosting, here is an idea to make your git repository available and still keep it synchronized (in both directions). The use case for my previous blog post is when your partners...

Ideally everyone uses git, because just as Linus once wrote: Centralized works. It is just inferior.

Fortunately, that is not what happens to me (anymore). I moved to Oslo a week ago. It is nice to come back to the place I have shortly visited months ago.

Well, given a wonderful kitchen, a new city to explore and a quite amount of free time, never been before I am involved in making assorted pizza variants (mini-pizza, lamb, tuna, tofu), tika scampi, plenty of sushi rolls, fried rice, naan bread, fried noodles, brownies, baked banana, cranberry rolls...

Well, ray tracing into a sparse voxel octree might be inspiring, but for the time being, Toni’s Shredz64, which is essentially the Commodore 64 version of Guitar Hero, is tantalizing!

Who am I to write this one? But, really, it is what I observe in the last couple of years watching some open-sourced projects die slowly.

If AIR is supposed to mean Adobe Integrated Runtime, calling it Adobe AIR sounds a bit awkward, right?

At the time I check Planet KDE, it is for high school while Planet GNOME requires junior high school level. Strangely, my website is only for genius (no wonder I myself could not understand it).

Finally the long wait is over! In The Forbidden Kingdom, for the first time we are going to see the fantastic Jet Li and Jacky Chan together. Not so much about the story has been revealed. The plot might not be that unusual and even it is likely quite predictable (but who knows until we all watch it...

PhotoFlow, which I introduced less than 48 hours ago, can also be realized as a plasmoid. It is the top left applet in the screenshot above. I have never written a plasma applet in my life before, so it took me quite a while to figure out how the mechanism works. And frankly, I am still not sure whe...

We don’t believe improving your OS should be like chasing Tigers or Leopards. — gOS, on its free updates for life feature

As I wrote before, the obvious complaints people are having after trying out Chad’s precompiled PictureFlow for Windows Mobile are (1) slow start-up and (2) memory footprint. These stem from the fact that the example demo program that I included was written for clarity so that you can get your feet ...

If you happen to be in Bremen, give Sushi Factory a try. It is located right in downtown (see on Google Maps) and easily reachable. The soy sauce is a bit salty for me, but otherwise everything else if fine. The place is cozy. The atmosphere is relaxing. The rolls are of course tasty although they a...

Still related to the b2xtranslator and the direct availability of Microsoft Office binary (doc, xls, ppt) file formats, the question that is often raised is why are they so complicated? Of course, office suite developers know the likely reasons behind this. But in case you miss the interesting part,...

You learn that you can be friends with those who do not always share your thoughts, because differences are not obstacles to a mutual respect. But you get to know others who, for whatever reason it might be, always try to convince every soul in this planet that their opinions are the best. You learn...

What will you get if you google for deutsche telekom hotline ?

As promised by Brian Jones, finally the project (under a liberal BSD-like license) to convert Microsoft Office binary format (doc, xls, ppt) to the Open XML format (used since Office 2007), named b2xtranslator, has been initiated on SourceForge. As I wrote before (on Google Code Project Hosting vs S...

After Inkscape, OpenOffice.org (Novell edition, ooo-build), and Abiword, Karbon in the next KOffice 2.x joins the array of open-source software which is, by using libwpg, able to import clip-arts in WordPerfect Graphics (WPG) formats. Since any Karbon drawings can be embedded in a document, of cours...

Likely only today. And even the star becomes a heart.

Seems that the trend still continues, Sun is to acquire Innotek, a German company known for its open-source virtualization software, VirtualBox. Recently VirtualBox becomes my favorite virtualizer because it is dead-easy to install on OpenSUSE. I hope Sun will continue to improve and enhance Virtual...