Cleverfoo

Rafael Ferreira's blog

Category: General

Scriptfu: background a process and display spinner

How to background a long running process and show the user some animation while waiting

Favorite “gitness”

rafael-mb:~ rafael$ git-shell fatal: What do you think I am? A shell? What other kinda of “gitness” have you encountered?

Getting to know Ida

Just finished watching the History Channel’s special on Ida, our 47,000,000 years old common ancestor. All I can say is that it will leave you breathless! I particularly enjoyed how they explain this discovery in relation to Lucy and I was also pleasantly surprised that Donald Johanson is a professor at Arizona State. Check it [...]

Why Python should adopt the mono runtime

So I thought about this on my drive back from the gym today. What I believe Python needs for world domination is to drop its C runtime and adopt the mono runtime as the new “blessed by Guido” implementation. Why you may ask? It would bring together one of the best languages ever developed with [...]

Win7 = Vista + Bad Skin

It’s official, windows 7 looks like windows vista with a bad skin. Seriously, all that money and they can’t hire a good industrial design guy?