Temporary troubles in my blog

unfortunately i'm having some misunderstandings with Wordpress.com staff and i won't be able to post new articles for a while.

Most efficient way to deal with 3G modems in Ubuntu

It's been a while since the last time I wrote on my blog. Today I thought I should talk about the issues met when using 3G USB modems on Ubuntu (Linux distros generally) since I noticed that it annoys many people because they don't work properly.

Ignore Linus, C++ is fun

The War of the Roses had nothing on the language wars. Since the beginning of my computing career, I've watched developers fight over the relative virtues of programming languages... from C versus Pascal to Ruby versus Python. What is it about this subject that brings out such passion?

10 Productivity tips for software developers

After attending a few seminars on the topic of productivity and time management and reading a couple of books on the subject, I was introduced to some profound concepts and made some great realizations about the way I used to work. With this new knowledge, I completely redesigned my workflow framework something that lead in a tremendous boost of my productivity.

Ubuntu Edge: convergence in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bk9-v8Sl4yU

Victor Palau of Canonical shows how the Ubuntu Edge's convergence will work, using a Nexus 4 as a demo unit. To help make the Ubuntu Edge a reality, visit http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge

Introducing the new Ubuntu Edge

4 days ago Canonical made a teaser on the ubuntu.com website making people wonder what it could be. I have seen many articles on the internet trying to guess what it is, but today Canonical reveals the new Ubuntu Edge. Note that the following is taken from Canonical's speech (not my words)

Create a speaking Linux shell script with Google

After using google to translate text and decode audio into text, now we are about to make a small text to speech engine that uses google too. This is easy and pretty useful. Besides, it supports all languages (it is google, right?)