Do you want to know how to backup your mac via wi-fi, or how time machine is designed?

This site will give you tips but also plenty of information.

Last but not least, tricks like Making a Lion Install disc or partition are worth a read.

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Resizing a debian disk is a bit complex on Oracle VirtualBox.

But this article will free you from the hassle, and will also work with older virtual box versions!

When Google Code was shut down, I have the lucky to read this article on how it worked. The article give you a bunch of Google-Go code. Because Go-language is too small and unusual for my brain, I took the idea and reimplemented it using Ruby and Redis.

And because my nickname is Daitangio, I decided to call the project like the Daitarn3 antagoinst: the Code Zauker![1]

The beta gem is available here
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Org2Blog is a nice Emacs package to blog on Wordpress with Org-Mode. You can download it using the ELPA package manager, which is what I have done yesterday night. The Git Hub project page gives you a very clean explanation on how to use it, and a helpful FAQ.

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As you know, emacs rocks. This blog post give us an “Emacs Sitemap” for the newbies, and I stress…(edited content…)

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1. EmacsWiki: you probably already know this one, but it’s pretty useful for a variety of reasons.
2. EmacsRocks / @Emacsrocks: it’s a series of screencasts showing off cool, advanced Emacs features. Each screencast is very short and focused on one thing. Instant awesome.
3. EmacsRookie / @EmacsRookie: a blog with articles about different Emacs trips & tricks and features. More geared towards beginners (but my impression is that many people stay “beginners” of Emacs for quite a long time).
4. Steve Yegge described “10 Specific Ways to Improve Your Productivity With Emacs“. In particular, I’d recommend making Caps-Lock behave as an extra Control key (I didn’t swap, I just have one more Control key), invoke M-x without the Meta key (both C-x C-m and C-c C-m) and being comfortable with the buffer commands. For navigation, apart from incremental search, you can also use ace-jump.
5. Christian Johansen has an interesting intro article to Emacs Lisp.
6. hippie-expand is a pretty cool completion system, familiarise yourself with it.
7. yasnippet. Very cool snippet system. Just have a look at the EmacsRocks screencast on yasnippet.

Give a try to Emacs adventures | HCoder.org.

I run into a very big trouble on these days.

• My big company delivered to me a Windows7 64bit system (first error)
• I asked for Office 64 bit and Visio2007 32 bit
• I tried to connect to Oracle (second error) to reverse engenieer a DB with Visio2007

I got a "driver architecture" error under Visio2007. Launching %WINDIR%\\System32\\odbcad32.exe

(the 32bit guy of the odbc drivers side) I was able to get the same error… and this was helpful:

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Overview

Tipsy is a jQuery plugin for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on

an anchor tag’s title attribute.

via tipsy.

So Dart Sith has just launched his first DeathStar, my young JavaScript fellow: a site devoted to the Dart language

Because I am a very old Jedi (1974, before ever the first WtartWars trilogy showdown)  I had to rest a bit before talking about it, so the news is 4-days old I know. I needed to think, reflect and write down: but now I am ready, Read on…

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Hi all,

I have released version 0.0.6 of org-mode-parser for nodejs

Org mode parser is a parser for reading org-mode files in nodejs.

It features more then 80 unit tests, and support also for :DRAWER: and archive tag.

The parser can query on the structure, extract subtrees, regenerate the original input via an handy toOrgString() method.

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This week, the nodejs community had a big flame.

All was started by this blog post, which  tried to slap down node.js server because of its mono-thread nature. And node.js fight back knocking down the attacker. Let’see how.

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So we are here again talking about Javascript. I have already wrote an article comparing a well known SmallTalk implementation to Javascript. If my ideas are right (at least a bit), you will see more and more javascript on the next months. In particular:

• JavaScript is the Ajax programming languge for the rest of us
• Mobile Framework like PhoneGap and Appcelerator, are all about javascript at the top
• Javascript is evolved, and it is used server side by projects like node.js

Getting Started

Getting your hands dirty

Phase3: Evolving to the next step

Coffee Script is a very instructive language. Look how CoffeeScript renders its code in JavaScript:it will avoid you a lot of mistakes.

And this bring us to a very sad rule: discipline in JavaScript is fundamental to avoid nasty bugs.

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Al giorno d’oggi si hanno tanti account, con tante password. Più una password è diversa dalle altre meglio è. Ma come proteggerle, evitando di segnarne sempre il meno possibile? Sotto MacOSX c’è il Keychain, ovviamente incompatibile con windows e linux.

Grazie a questo articolo, ho scoperto che emacs ha una serie di integrazioni con i meccanismi di criptazione a chiave pubblica e privata. As usual, emacs wins :)

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In the past week I learned Flask, a very young and promising  python framework. I have already learned Django, Cherrypy, Web2Py and TurboGears.

Anyway, if you are planning a medium sized project, I like to suggest you Flask, because of these feature:

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jQuery 1.6 is now live and available for consumption! We’re quite proud of this release, it includes a major rewrite of the Attribute module and a number of performance improvements.

Please take this opportunity to thank members of the jQuery Team and the jQuery bug triage team for their help in getting this release out the door.

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