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Greektuts.net :: Οκτώβριος 09
Αισίως ολοκληρώθηκε ο πρώτος ολόκληρος μήνας συνεργασίας μου με το Greektuts.net (ο Σεπτέμβριος ήταν μισός). Αυτόν τον μήνα ασχολήθηκα αποκλειστικά με Python, κάτι που θα συνεχίσει να με απασχολεί (αν και σκέπτομαι να εισάγω ακόμη ένα αντικείμενο μελέτης και να γράφω εκ περιτροπής).
Προς το παρόν μπορείτε να δείτε τα άρθρα μου για τον μήνα Οκτώβριο, όπως δημοσιεύθηκαν στο GreekTuts.net
- Εγκατάσταση Python & Συγγραφή πρώτου script
- Αριθμητικές πράξεις, ανάθεση τιμών σε μεταβλητές, σύνθετοι αριθμοί, εισαγωγή στα αλφαριθμητικά
- Αλφαριθμητικών συνέχεια, πίνακες χαρακτήρων, λίστες
- Έλεγχος ροής προγράμματος ( if, for, while, range() )
και το άρθρο του μήνα…
Tagged: greektuts.net, python, οδηγοί, προγραμματισμός
What would you ask Kathryn Borel Jr?
Some days ago we introduced you to the new book of Kathryn Borel Jr., «Corked: A memoir». Well, it seems that we are going to have a Q&A interview with her after all in which, she will share with us her secret plans about life, job, her first and second (?) book and so on…
The Q&A will be officially posted to www.newsfilter.gr (for which, as a founder, I’m very proud) in Greek. But, since the interview is going to be in English, on the first place, it would be a waste to be made available only for the Greek audience. Therefore, I’m going to post the original, English text, here.
You can help too! Send the questions (by leaving a comment to this article) you’d like to ask Kathryn and I’ll make sure that the best of them will be included. You have until Friday, 6th November, 2009 so hurry up.
Tagged: corked, interview, kathryn borel jr
Drinking wine… with Kathryn Borel Jr.
( You can find the original post of this article, in Greek, to www.newsfilter.gr. No plagiarism, it was posted by me as well! )
«Corked, A memoir», by Kathryn Borel Jr. A book about herself, her father and… wine. The history about a journey to the province of France, wherever wine is produced. A journey with two destinations. The initiation of the daughter to the secrets of wine, and therefore her father’s.
Kathryn Borel Jr. was born in Toronto, Canada. Her father was a hotelier. She has a younger brother. She spent her first years living in various hotels to finally settle in Quebec, Canada. Later, personal reasons made her return to Toronto, where she still lives. She works for Canadian Broadcasting Company making food and wine reviews in print and for radio. She is the author of the column «Indignities». «Corked. A memoir» is her first book to be published.
Apart from her exceptional writing skills and her special pen, we could say that Kathryn Borel is a really interesting vidcast persona. You can see for yourself in the videos that follow where you’ll find Kathryn prologizing her brand new book in a rather playful way.
How to Sample Wine Without Looking like a Clown
Sabering in the Garden with Kathryn Borel Jr.
Tagged: corked, kathryn borel jr, wine
Visual Editor available at later versions of Eclipse (at last!)
I recently heard from a dear friend (tnx imoschak) that Eclipse’s plug-in Visual Editor became available for later versions such as Ganymede and Galileo. And suddenly I was happy! And I couldn’t wait to give it a shot. I found the time today and…
TADA!
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Visual Editor in Eclipse Galileo. Enjoy!
Mini Description (by Eclipse.org)
The Eclipse Visual Editor project is a platform for creating GUI builders within Eclipse. The project currently provides support for WYSIWYG editing of Swing/AWT and SWT/RCP user interfaces.
Tagged: eclipse, plug-in, ve, visual editor
A strange taxi driver…
Recently I had to visit family. The house is located about half an hour (by car) from where I live. Given that Thessaloniki (my town) is kind of small I usually walk. When there is rush, or the distance is very long, or the weather sucks, I take the bus. I enjoy moving around the city by bus for several reasons. The fact that I am not the one driving gives me the advantage to read, write, text somebody, think, ponder, dream or do nothing at all. Also, in the bus I am allowed either to be sitted, or standing and that gives me a sense of multiplicity of choices. Or freedom if you prefer.
Anyways, the whole visiting family thing was an emergency thus I had to take a cab. To be honest when I entered the cab I was skeptical and in a really not in the mood of talking. So I sat, informed the taxi driver of our destination and waited silent. Apparently, the driver was not, under any circumstances, sharing my psychological condition and… he started speaking. Non-stop!
At first I was irritated and I ignored him. But after a couple minutes – he was not at all discouraged by my response to his short speech – I noticed a pretty good structure and logic to his reasoning. It seems that this guy had three basic principles by which he has his life organized:
- Only short-term plans are allowed in life (you can’t be sure you’ll be alive to achieve long-term ones)
- What we have, possess or know is not ours (we either been given, or learned)
- If you don’t dare, you will never know for sure
Now I am sure that there are many cases (I can already think about three) to which one or more of the above rules do not apply. But then again every rule has it’s exceptions.
I can say that the perception of this guy about the world, money, job really impressed me. Not only he was living his life according to the above rules but he could see every situation optimistically.Correct or not, this man knows how to live his life, carefree.
Foggy days bring… «foggy» mood
This is the exact reason why I hate autumn…
A fine frenzy – «Almost lover»
Tagged: a fine frezny, almost lover, fog
Πέντε Επεξεργαστές Κειμένου Για Προγραμματιστές
Καθώς το υλικό (hardware) των προσωπικών υπολογιστών εξελίσσεται, γίνεται όλο και πιο προσιτό (από άποψη κόστους) στον μέσο χρήστη. Παράλληλα όμως, η πρόσβαση σε μεγάλη υπολογιστική ισχύ με μικρό, σχετικά, κόστος, δημιουργεί την ψευδαίσθηση στον χρήστη ότι το μηχάνημά του μπορεί να κάνει τα πάντα ή, εν πάση περιπτώσει, θα μπορέσει με μια «μικρή αναβάθμιση»…
(διαβάστε το υπόλοιπο άρθρο εδώ)
[tnx nim for the image]
Συμμετοχή στο GreekTuts.net
Πρόσφατα ξεκίνησα μια συνεργασία με το Greektuts, site που παρέχει βοηθήματα για θέματα προγραμματισμού, web design, games, κλπ. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι από εδώ και πέρα θα μπορείτε να βρίσκετε εκεί σε εβδομαδιαία βάση, μια δημοσίευσή μου.
Κατά καιρούς μπορεί να δείτε αναφορές σε κάποιες από αυτές τις δημοσιεύσεις και εδώ. Συνολικά η κίνησή μου στο GreekTuts βρίσκεται σε αυτήν τη διεύθυνση.
Tagged: greektuts, greektuts.net
Προεκλογικό debate 2009. Μία comic προσέγγιση
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Smelt like autumn…
It’s cloudy and foggy here in Thessaloniki (Greece) today and I have a slight suspicion that I have the blues. So what about some Irish Alternative Rock?
Tagged: autumn, blues, cranberries, thessaloniki
«krap» harvesting season
Do you know the feeling when you bookmark articles hoping to be reading them on a peaceful Sunday morning along with a cup of hot black filter coffee (or instant if you are Greek like myself :p)?
And then, this Sunday morning comes, but it is not peaceful because you have to do all this kind of stuff that arose and you have to delegate reading… again. Now if this happens for some weeks in a row you come up with so many bookmarks that turn the beautiful scene I described before to a nightmare where you, caged in front of your screen, seek to regain control of your Read & Review material (speaking in GTD terms).
That sort of thing happened to me lately and I ended up with very many articles waiting for me to read them. Once the volume exceeded my average peaceful Sunday morning reading time threshold (PSMRTT), Ι decided to attempt achieving balance again by tossing both outdated articles and those of little importance (for me!).
Although that made things better, still, PSMRTT limit was not reached. That led me to the next logical step. To toss more of these bookmarks, an unpleasant procedure if we take under consideration that I spent time to spot and store these bookmarks (identifying the «good» stuff is the hard part). In the end I came up with two collections of bookmarks:
- Those I was dieing to read
- Those I would love to read but this is definitely not going happen sometime soon
The dilemma I am facing now is whether to delete the second category or keep it as a future Read & Review cellar. To be honest with you neither satisfies me so I decided to do something else. I will attach the articles of the second collection in the end of this article (in hyperlinked titles format). This way, public will benefit from my harvesting procedure (hopefully no outdated articles are included) and I will keep these bookmarks in one place, available for future reading (given the time). «I shall name this procedure ‘krap’ harvesting and ‘krap’ harvesting will be called from now on every time it occurs».
Tagged: articles, collection, harvest, krap harvesting
CD προσφορά στο Newsfilter.gr
Το Newsfilter.gr σε συνεργασία με τον Jamster και την Logos Music προσφέρει μόνον για αυτή την εβδομάδα (07/09/09 – 13/09/09) το ολοκαίνουριο cd του Jamster (a.k.a. Σεραφείμ), «Δόξα Σοι» σε ειδική τιμή.
AUTH Webmail (IMAP) & Outlook 2007. Foul στο online εγχειρίδιο
Όσοι από εσάς διαθέτουν φοιτητικό λογαριασμό e-mail στο Α.Π.Θ. (κάποιος @ auth . gr || κάποιος @ προθεμα_σχολής . auth . gr) και θέλουν να το συνδέσουν με το Outlook 2007 (για άλλες εκδόσεις μπορεί να χρειαστεί καφεμαντεία) θα αντιμετωπίσουν πρόβλημα ακολουθώντας τις online οδηγίες που παρέχονται εδώ ως προς την αποστολή μηνυμάτων e-mail.
Με trial & error έφθασα σε ένα συνδυασμό ρυθμίσεων που μου δουλεύει:
- Outgoing Server: mail.auth.gr (όπως αναφέρεται)
- Το παρακάτω ως έχει:
- Outgoing Server protocol: TLS
- Outgoing Server port: 587
Enjoy!
