It appears that Google’s Gmail is handing out invitations left and right once again. So, I have a few invites to hand out and if you are interested, let me know.

I found the following tip at Paul Brown’s blog. The change forces developers to enter meaningful comments when committing code changes into CVS.

Presuming you already know a little bit about CVS commit support files, here’s a quick CVS hack that forces developers to write meaningful comments:

#!/bin/bash
LEN=`cat $1 | tr -d [:space:] | wc -c`
# loophole for bugfixes and build number management.
if egrep "(BUILDNUMBER)" $1; then
exit 0
fi
if [ $LEN -le 40 ]; then
echo "Please enter a real comment; $LEN non-whitespace characters is pretty short..."
exit 1
fi
exit 0

And then, in the verifymsg file in CVSROOT (with project replaced by the name of the project of interest):

^project $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/checkCommentLength.sh

Mexico is not known to be a power house when it comes to Olympic sports. Our 4 medals would put us in the 55th spot, however, for just a few seconds it appeared that we had a chance for glory. Ana Guevara took our 4×400 relay team from last to second place while running the 3rd leg of the relay. Of course, a few minutes seconds later the joy was over as we fell back to fifth place.

In any case, thanks to Ana, Mayra González, Magali Yáñez & Liliana Allen for injecting friday night with a little bit of hope, even if it was not to be our race.

In one of my current classes we dicussed some of the metrics used to quantify software quality. One of such metrics is "defects per 1,000 lines of code." The current average in enterprise software is said to be about 1 to 3 defects per 1K lines of code. Not a whole lot until you start thinking about the millions of lines that make up the software in today’s airplanes, medical machines, your car’s break system, etc.

De vez en cuando se dan este tipo de situaciones y de plano me pregunto si estas personas no les da pena hacer sus demostraciones?

Los jugadores de la Selección Sub 23 que fueron eliminados de los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas 2004 fueron recibidos con insultos y abucheos en el Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, informó Reforma.

y el mejor de todos los comentarios contra Jorge Campos, quien llego con el equipo a la ciudad de Mexico.

“Burro, puto, fracasado”, fueron algunas de las exclamaciones que se escucharon al paso del acapulqueño, quien es auxiliar técnico de La Volpe