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The Autism Studies graduate program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is designed not only for recent college graduates, but also for students with experience in a variety of educational and work settings.
In addition to the requirements for graduate admission, requirements for the Autism Studies graduate program include these factors:
These criteria may be applied or weighted differently for different students. For example, for students just receiving a bachelor's degree, greater attention will be paid to recent grades. For students out of school for some time, work background and experience will count relatively more. Please follow the procedures for application established by the Graduate Admissions Office.
Matriculated students in Autism Studies who come to UMass Lowell with prior graduate work at other schools may request a transfer of a maximum of 12 credit hours. An assessment will be conducted to determine how courses proposed for transfer map onto our courses with respect to BACB requirements. Such transfer credit is subject to the approval of the Graduate Coordinator and the Registrar's Office and must meet the university's Graduate Transfer Credit requirements. For students who have completed courses from the Behavioral Intervention in Autism Certificate Program (courses listed below) up to 18 credits of those courses may be transferred.
Part-time Study and Non-Degree Status
While most Autism Studies students attend UMass Lowell for full-time study, part-time students are encouraged to apply. Many courses are offered online, while on-campus courses are usually offered at late afternoon and evening hours to accommodate students who are employed. Students not pursuing an advanced degree or who wish to begin their graduate study without first applying for matriculated status are invited to register as non-degree students for specific graduate courses on a space-available basis. Such students only need to meet the first two of the admissions requirements listed above.
If a non-degree student later applies for acceptance into the master's program, his/her application will be treated equally with those of other new applicants, though performance in graduate courses taken on campus will be used as an additional admissions criterion. Non-degree students accepted as matriculated students may apply to transfer a maximum of 6 graduate credits earned at the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a grade of "B" or better toward the master's degree. Students who are enrolled in a UMass Lowell certificate program may be able to transfer more than 6 credits.
Graduate Advisor
Each newly matriculated student in the program will be assigned a faculty advisor. The student will meet with his or her advisor on a regular basis to discuss course selection, planning for practicum, and the development of an optional thesis or project. Once a student selects a faculty supervisor for his or/her thesis or project, that faculty member takes over as graduate academic advisor.
Degree Requirements
A total of 42 academic credits, is required for the completion of the degree. At least 30 of these credits must be taken at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. No more than two courses (6 credits) may have an earned grade of less than B (3.0). The 42 credits for the Master's degree are divided as follows:
Required Courses - 27 credits
Required Supervised Practicum - 9 credits
Electives or Thesis - 6 credits
Students may select from any the approved elective courses in Psychology, almost all of which are offered once every two years. Students may also, when appropriate, request permission to take related courses from other graduate programs at UMass Lowell. In their choice of electives, students have the option of completing a Master's Thesis, which involves original empirical research.
Total must equal 42 credits.
Required Courses (27 credits total)
Foundations (9 credits)
Methods (6 credits)
Behavioral Interventions (12 credits)
Required Supervised Practicum (9 credits total)
Electives or Thesis Option (6 credits total)
Elective Option (6 credits total; choose any two of the following):
Thesis Option (6 credits)
Thesis Requirements
To earn the 42 credits needed for the master's degree, all matriculated students in Autism Studies have the option of completing a thesis. The thesis will always be a piece of quantitative and/or qualitative research, involving a review of literature, a clear statement of a research question, the design of an appropriate method for collecting data, and the analysis of results as the basis for drawing conclusions. The thesis must:
Bachelor's to Master's Program
Undergraduate psychology majors at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who have a GPA of 3.0 or better are invited to apply to the Bachelor's-Master's program. This program allows students to begin graduate level coursework in our Autism Studies Master's program while still pursuing their bachelor's degree. Up to 6 credits of graduate (500 level or higher) courses completed with a B grade (3.0) or better may be used by the student to count toward both the Bachelor's and Master's degrees.
Application to the Bachelor's to Master's Program
Application is typically summit during the student's second semester of their junior year to allow adequate time for the student to take maximum advantage of the opportunity to take graduate courses and double-count these graduate credits, while still staying within the maximum of 45 psychology credits allowable for the undergraduate degree in psychology. Although it is highly recommended that students submit their application during their junior year, application materials can be submitted at any time prior to graduation. However, applications for the Bachelor's to Master's program will be reviewed along with all other applications only during the spring review cycle.Application forms and details on applying to graduate school can be accessed from the Graduate Admissions website.
As additional advantages, students applying under the Bachelor's-Master's option do not have to pay the standard application fee and do not have to take any of the standardized tests usually required of applicants. The decision to accept a Bachelor's-Master's applicant is based on three factors:
Additional Information from Graduate Admissions for BA/MA Students:
Laboratory for Autism Spectrum Disorders
The Laboratory for Autism Spectrum Disorders focuses on two main avenues of research involving adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum. The first avenue seeks to further our understanding of the processing of emotional stimuli among those with ASD by examining physiological responses and memory for emotion provoking stimuli. The lab's second main research avenue focuses on evaluating various intervention programs for those with ASD.
A number of interdisciplinary programs specifically for high functioning adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum are run through the lab in collaboration with other faculty at UMass Lowell. These include a social skills program, a music program, a fitness program and a movie club. These programs provide a critically needed service to members of our community and their families impacted by ASD.
The Laboratory for Behavior Analysis Research
The Laboratory for Behavior Analysis Research focuses on both basic and applied research issues relevant to children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities. The first area concerns the limited and impaired auditory learning skills often seen in children with an ASD. Research in this area investigates auditory discrimination in the autism population from both behavioral and psychophysiological (EEG) perspectives. The second area concerns how children with intellectual disabilities can acquire an understanding of symbols and their referents (stimulus equivalence). The third area concerns training for parents and paraprofessionals on the sound implementation of treatment methods for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Research involves evaluating online distance-learning education programs that may offer a potential solution to the problem.
Laboratory for Children and Families
The Laboratory for Children and Families is located in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The Laboratory provides a site for research on the development of infants and children in the context of their families and communities.
The Center for Research and Community Engagement
The goal of The Center for Research and Community Engagement is to promote the mental health and well being of individuals, families, and communities through education, training, and consultation. Its aim is to provide opportunities for University of Massachusetts faculty, community members, and practicing professionals to work together to integrate theory, research, and practice. The Center sponsors community-based training, professional development workshops, consultation, and research.
Center for Women and Work
The Center for Women and Work is an interdisciplinary center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Since the Center is designed to support a wide range of projects, there are exciting opportunities for student involvement in both research and community-based action projects relevant to the theme of women and work.


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Have you ever had so many ideas rattling around that it feels as though your razor-sharp brain has been turned into a lump of play dough?
Mia, one of my executive coaching clients was feeling overwhelmed. She had some major projects on hand and was struggling to get her head around where she should start. She's a very good list maker, but that didn't seem to help.
'Have you tried a *mind-map?' I asked. 'It enables you to chunk down the components into bite-sized pieces really fast. It's then easy to see the next steps.'
'No. I've heard of them and seen some very elaborate ones, but I'm not really a picture person. I'm not sure how they'd help.'
With pen and paper we quickly and roughly scoped out her current project, using a very basic mind-map. As I demonstrated to her, it's a really fast way to get rid of the 'cotton-wool' feeling that accompanies overload.
If you're like Mia, relax - there are no rules and you certainly don't have to be an artist. Words, lines, scribbles, stick pictures if you want graphics - anything goes. The key point is that you can rapidly get a handle on the key elements of any situation - in minutes.
I use this process to plan speeches of an hour, workshops of two days, any complex project, and even books. For example, I wrote my second book, About Time 120 time-saving tips for those with no time in three weeks. The mind-map was the working document that scoped the 12 topics and the 10 tips within each topic; it took me only about an hour to create the framework and select the tips in each section. Once the thinking was done it was comparatively easy to do the writing it became just a matter of working backwards from the publisher's deadline and tightly scheduling my writing time.
So you want more specifics?
A4 paper is fine if you're on your own. Flipchart paper is great for a group. Don't worry about what it looks like. The most important thing is that it has meaning for you.
Make a circle in the middle and inside it write your core topic. Then draw out branches going off, a bit like an octopus. Write one key element on each branch.
Now it's time to go deeper. Once sub-sets of the topics start to come up, write them below the 'branches'.
If you've never done it, you'll be surprised how quickly you glean the essence of a topic. The benefits, of course, are clarity, focus, and obvious first steps. You'll find yourself itching to get going, instead of wallowing in procrastination.
So, back to Mia. As I mentioned, she's a good list-maker. She also has great attention to detail, likes things looking nice, and is a bit of a perfectionist. She even admitted that she sometimes re-writes lists because things changed and she didn't want her lists looking messy.
Here's what she reported at yesterday's coaching session:
'I decided to practice by doing a list of chores for my 17-year old daughter.
She thought it was fun: I found it fast and easy. And the best bit was, when I remembered something that fitted into a category, I could just write it in under the relevant branch (because there was still space). I didn't have to push against my perfectionist streak of wanting to rewrite. I'm still a work in progress but I can absolutely see the benefit.
'The key thing I discovered was to get the top level topics right. Then the rest was natural and easy.'
* 'Mind-map' is a term first coined by Tony Buzan, one of the world's foremost experts on the way the brain works.
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Savor the sweet, mild flavor and delicate texture of homegrown oyster mushrooms. Grow them indoors or outdoors with little effort and no mess using our hand-cut hardwood log, which is inoculated with spores that produce a crop of oyster mushrooms every two to three months, for up to two or three years. Simply soak the log in water to start the growing process, and you'll be ready to harvest in just a few weeks. Use your fresh-picked mushrooms to add delicious flavor to omelets, frittatas, stir-fries, hearty stews, risottos, and pastas.
- Logs are hand-cut and inoculated with oyster mushroom spores in visible drill holes that are covered in cheese wax.
- Logs can be stood upright or laid horizontally for growing.
- Metal plaque on underside of log states date of inoculation.
- Fruiting occurs approximately sixteen weeks from inoculation.
- You can start the growing process and enjoy your first crop within a few weeks of delivery.
- Just soak the log for 24 hours in cold water, mist it occasionally, and watch your crop emerge.
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Do I need to have child care liability insurance coverage, or will my home liability insurance be enough coverage?Home liability insurance does not cover the children you are being paid to care for. It is critical for your own protection as well as that of the children to have adequate child care liability insurance. We recommend child care providers to have at least $5 million liability insurance coverage.
I have my Early Childhood Education certificate and the other day I noticed that it was about to expire. What do I need to do to renew, and who do I contact?
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Greenport stays awake in winter
Greenport Village isn't just a summer hot spot that closes up shop once the sun sets on Labor Day. With everything from skating rinks to toy shops open all year round, the town has an array of fun ways to make a chilly winter weekend even cooler.
"When we moved here 12 years ago, only the bar was open," Greenport Mayor David Nyce said over tea at Aldo's. "Now, more and more shops and restaurants are staying open all winter."
One of the best parts of Greenport Village is that it is small and very walkable.
So, bundle up and visit the place that Forbes Magazine called one of "America's prettiest towns."
In the center of town, on Front Street, is Mitchell Park and Marina. Even though the boats aren't sailing, you'll still find plenty to do.
The outdoor skating rink is open weather-permitting (in this case, cold enough to make ice). Cost is $10 for adults and $8 for kids younger than 18 and senior citizens. Skate rentals are $5. The rink has skating lessons ($15 for half-hour lesson) and family Friday skate nights from 5 to 7 for $7 per family member, including skate rentals.
The 100-year-old carousel is open on weekends and school holidays in winter. The ride is $2, and kids get to "ring the bell" as they pass by.
Right next door is Aldo's, 103-105 Front St., a down-home watering hole for a good cup of Joe, tea or hot chocolate that's also a favorite hangout for locals.
Clothing and other stores used to board up their front windows. Now, many are showing winter displays.
Among them is Goldsmiths at 138 Main St., a one-of-a-kind toy store with a sea of yellow ducks and penguins in the window. It sells trains as well as puzzles and chess sets.
Clothing stores are plentiful, and many are having sales. Creations by Lisa on Main Street has scarves and shawls starting at $18. Di Angela Leather, on the corner of Main and Front streets, sells Vera Bradley as well as leather purses, shoes, boots and jewelry, plus painted hairbrushes for $19.50.
Many of the galleries are open weekends in the winter. Start with Gallery M, at 407 Main St., which exhibits American contemporary art from paintings to ceramics and furniture; it's open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. South Street Gallery, at 18 South St., also has winter hours: noon to 5 p.m. Thursday-Monday. The gallery highlights local artists, as well as those from other parts of the country, and is housed in what had been Greenport's town hall.
Greenport Village is a gastronomic pleasure trip -- from upscale restaurants to tasty sandwich shops.
On a recent Friday, Bruce's Cheese Emporium and Cafe (208 Main St.), where a Brie sandwich with a bag of North Fork potato chips and a pickle spear cost $6.50, was bustling. It's open Thursday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Noah's, a popular restaurant at 136 Front St., is open for lunch and dinner Friday to Sunday, and some hours during the week, too.
If you have a sweet tooth, everyone in town is sure to point you to Sweet Indulgences, where the aroma of candy fills the shop, and where owner Angela Oliveri was handing out slices of spice plum candy.
"People want to shop small stores," Oliveri said, adding that the village has been busier than in seasons past and that she gets people who come back from their winter homes just to shop there at Christmas time.
Plenty of bed-and-breakfasts and quaint hotels are open in the winter. The Greenporter Hotel at 326 Front St. is styled as a 1950s retro-style hotel. And you may not be able to dip your toes in the water, but the water view is still beautiful at Stirling House, 104 Bay Ave., a bed-and-breakfast that has an age 12-and-older policy, says owner Clay Sauer.
If you have the time, take the ferry to Shelter Island and just drive around the small, quaint town; $17 for a round-trip with car. Follow the signs on Route 25 to the ferry dock.
Want to find out more about what Greenport Village has to offer in winter? Go to the Village of Greenport website (villageofgreenport.org) or Business Improvement District website (greenportvillage.com).
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This is the ISV5.0 Cummins turbocharged V8 5.0-liter diesel engine, which will power the 2015 Nissan Titan (instead of the Dodge Ram as was planned). I hope they only come in red.
Fiat's diesel engine maker VM Motori, is now the brand giving trucks and SUVs like the 2014 Jeep Cherokee 28 mpg, with the same 3.0-liter engine displacing the new Cummins from the Ram's engine bay due to better fuel economy. Therefore, Cummins needed a new home for their V8 an the new Titan juuuuust fit the bill.
The ISV5.0 was designed to fit in any engine bay with a V10 or a V8 of similar performance, and features a compacted graphite iron cylinder block, forged steel crankshaft, high-strength aluminum alloy heads and composite valve covers with a dual overhead camshaft design. It puts out anything from 200 to 275 horsepower with a peak torque of 560 lb-ft.
That's all very nice, but what would you put it into? A diesel land yacht? A classic Soviet tank? The 2015 Nissan Titan? You tell me!


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PITTSBURGH -- These might be the most-scrutinized May practices in Steelers history.
The team resumed its voluntary offseason workouts Tuesday without suspended quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. He remains banned from attending, and there isn't any indication when the NFL will allow him to participate.
"I'm waiting for word from New York like everyone else," Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. "I'm not going to speculate until I get that word."
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"I think Dennis Dixon is the best man for the job. I believe this young man has the arm strength and he has the ability to understand the sytem and make some plays for this football team. They need some playmakers on offense, and I think he adds that at QB, just like Roethlisberger does." Watch
For now, Roethlisberger can only join his teammates on the golf course, and he played a charity event with them Monday.
The Steelers aren't certain if the league will allow Roethlisberger to attend any of the remaining 11 spring practices, which run each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through June 10.
On April 21, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Roethlisberger for the first six games of the 2010 season and also ordered him to undergo a behavioral evaluation following a March incident in which a 20-year-old female college student accused him of sexual assault in Milledgeville, Ga. The case will not be prosecuted.
In Roethlisberger's absence, Byron Leftwich took most of the snaps with Pittsburgh's starters, just as he has since being reacquired by the Steelers in a trade with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last month. Leftwich was Roethlisberger's backup when the Steelers won the Super Bowl 15 months ago.
There's no sign from Tomlin that Charlie Batch or Dennis Dixon will see similar work with the regulars. Tomlin promises only that there will be a clearly defined depth chart when training camp begins in July.
"I don't believe it's an effective approach to go into camp with a pure, open quarterback competition, if you will, a three-headed quarterback battle," Tomlin said. "We'll go in with a pecking order, and the opportunity to show what you're capable of will be based on that pecking order. All three guys will be given an opportunity but not an equal opportunity."
Training camp promises to be unique because the Steelers will have two starting quarterbacks to prepare -- someone for the first six games and Roethlisberger. By giving so much time to one quarterback, the Steelers are trying to prevent a significant drop-off in timing, execution or consistency when Roethlisberger isn't in charge.
"Ben's been in that huddle a long time now," Leftwich said. "He's been that guy for a long time. But the circumstances that exist, someone has to be in there, so I'm going to work my tail off and try to be the guy. He's going to miss those games, and someone's going to have to play. My mindset is I'm the guy, that we don't miss a beat."
With the Steelers coming off a 9-7 season in which they were good at the start, good at the finish and mystifyingly bad during the middle, they want to get off to a solid start in 2010 and put 2009 behind them as quickly as possible.
To Leftwich, that's why these seemingly routine-as-it-gets May practices are important.
"Especially for a lot of the guys Ben has played with a lot of years, there's chemistry there," Leftwich said. "That's why it's important for the guys that's here to come in and don't miss a beat. That's our whole plan, to get into the huddle, command the huddle."
Ben or no Ben.
"It's hard to go into a season without your star quarterback," said wide receiver Hines Ward, who didn't practice Tuesday because of a sore hamstring. "Our motto is not going to change; our mentality is not going to change. We've got one goal, and that's to try to win. The guys who are here now, that's what we're trying to do."
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"I work predominantly in oils as I have a real affinity to the fluid nature of the paint and the ability to keep making changes. I suppose it reflects my own irresolution and that of the weather. I run quite a lot and this immersion in the landscape imbeds certain things into my memory - views, scenes, colours, the way the light affects the landscape and the dynamism of the day.
"Once in the studio work starts right away, developing into miniature studies until I am happy with composition. This is often a long process as sketches are revisited, reworked and rethought before beginning the final piece. Even then, on the flexible surface of the canvas, the painting will take twists and turns on its way to completion.
"My work considers the beauty of the natural world, from the grandeur of the Scottish mountains to the vibrant chaos of wildflowers. Having begun landscape painting quite traditionally, inspired by the great classical landscape artists, I have recently become more and more energised, increasingly influenced by the speed with which life passes and this energy is used to capture those fleeting moments and put them onto canvas or print. There is an element of futility in trying to represent
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What defines an identity?
I must echo John Sullivan's post: GPG keysigning and government identification.
John states some very important reasons for people everywhere to verify the identities of those parties they sign GPG keys with in a meaningful way, and that means, not just trusting government-issued IDs. As he says, It's not the Web of Amateur ID Checking. And I'll take the opportunity to expand, based on what some of us saw in Debian, on what this means.
I know most people (even most people involved in Free Software development — not everybody needs to join a globally-distributed, thousand-people-strong project such as Debian) are not that much into GPG, trust keyrings, or understand the value of a strong set of cross-signatures. I know many people have never been part of a key-signing party.
I have been to several. And it was a very interesting experience. Fun, at the beginning at least, but quite tiring at the end. I was part of what could very well constitute the largest KSP ever in DebConf5 (Finland, 2005). Quite awe-inspiring — We were over 200 people, all lined up with a printed list on one hand, our passport (or ID card for EU citizens) in the other. Actwally, we stood face to face, in a ribbon-like ring. And, after the basic explanation was given, it was time to check ID documents. And so it began.
The rationale of this ring is that every person who signed up for the KSP would verify each of the others' identities. Were anything fishy to happen, somebody would surely raise a voice of alert. Of course, the interaction between every two people had to be quick — More like a game than like a real check. "Hi, I'm #142 on the list. I checked, my ID is OK and my fingerprint is OK." "OK, I'm #35, I also printed the document and checked both my ID and my fingerprint are OK." The passport changes hands, the person in front of me takes the unique opportunity to look at a Mexican passport while I look at a Somewhere-y one. And all is fine and dandy. The first interactions do include some chatter while we grab up speed, so maybe a minute is spent — Later on, we all get a bit tired, and things speed up a bit. But anyway, we were close to 200 people — That means we surely spent over 120 minutes (2 full hours) checking ID documents. Of course, not all of the time under ideal lighting conditions.
After two hours, nobody was checking anything anymore. But yes, as a group where we trust each other more than most social groups I have ever met, we did trust on others raising the alarm were anything fishy to happen. And we all finished happy and got home with a bucketload of signatures on. Yay!
One year later, DebConf happened in Mexico. My friend Martin Krafft tested the system, perhaps cheerful and playful in his intent — but the flaw in key signing parties such as the one I described he unveiled was huge: People join the KSP just because it's a social ritual, without putting any thought or judgement in it. And, by doing so, we ended up dilluting instead of strengthening our web of trust.
Martin identified himself using an official-looking ID. According to his recount of the facts, he did start presenting a German ID and later switched to this other document. We could say it was a real ID from a fake country, or that it was a fake ID. It is up to each person to judge. But anyway, Martin brought his Transnational Republic ID document, and many tens of people agreed to sign his key based on it — Or rather, based on it plus his outgoing, friendly personality. I did, at least, know perfectly well who he was, after knowing him for three years already. Many among us also did. Until he reached a very dilligent person, Manoj, that got disgusted by this experiment and loudly denounced it. Right, Manoj is known to have strong views, and using fake IDs is (or, at least, was) outside his definition of fair play. Some time after DebConf, a huge thread erupted questioning Martin's actions, as well as questioning what do we trust when we sign an identity document (a GPG key).
So... We continued having traditional key signing parties for a couple of years, although more carefully and with more buzz regarding these issues. Until we finally decided to switch the protocol to a better one: One that ensures we do get some more talk and inter-personal recognition. We don't need everybody to cross-sign with everyone else — A better trust comes from people chatting with each other and being able to actually pin-point who a person is, what do they do. And yes, at KSPs most people still require ID documents in order to cross-sign.
Now... What do I think about this? First of all, if we have not ever talked for at least enough time for me to recognize you, don't be surprised: I won't sign your key or request you to sign mine (and note, I have quite a bad memory when it comes to faces and names). If it's the first conference (or social ocassion) we come together, I will most likely not look for key exchanges either.
My personal way of verifying identities is by knowing the other person. So, no, I won't trust a government-issued ID. I know I will be signing some people based on something other than their name, but hey — I know many people already who live pseudonymously, and if they choose for whatever reason to forgo their original name, their original name should not mean anything to me either. I know them by their pseudonym, and based on that pseudonym I will sign their identities.
But... *sigh*, this post turned out quite long, and I'm not yet getting anywhere ;-)
But what this means in the end is: We must stop and think what do we mean when we exchange signatures. We are not validating a person's worth. We are not validating that a government believes who they claim to be. We are validating we trust them to be identified with the (name,mail,affiliation) they are presenting us. And yes, our signature is much more than just a social rite — It is a binding document. I don't know if a GPG signature is legally binding anywhere (I'm tempted to believe it is, as most jurisdictions do accept digital signatures, and the procedure is mathematically sound and criptographically strong), but it does have a high value for our project, and for many other projects in the Free Software world.
So, wrapping up, I will also invite (just like John did) you to read the E-mail self-defense guide, published by the FSF in honor of today's Reset The Net effort.
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Guest class: Jose Juan "Kaz" Casimiro ( @brit_kazito ) dissects the Ext4 filesystem module
Yesterday night, we had the opportunity to have –for the first time– my friend Kaz as a guest in my Operating Systems class. We are about to finish the semester, and he took the opportunity not just to show how the Ext4 filesystem is structured, but how it is implemented in a current Linux release.
Kaz took a very different approach from what I do: He did it really hands-on, starting with the explanation on how a hello world module would be created, and then digging in following the code of the ext4 module in Linux 3.14 (and some bits in the general filesystem-related includes).
Of course, for a ~2hr session, he did not go into the full details, but did show where the main structures of a filesystem are defined, including a general walkthrough on the general kernel coding style.
The class was very enjoyable and clear. We had the bad luck of the projector's lamp burning out at the beginning of the class, but still, you can see in the pictures the students were really into his exposition. I think the exposition did make it through and got the students involved and interested — And that makes it really worth it!
Now... Sadly, due to a (most probably) human factor, I tried to record this talk but lost most of it :-( I have only the first part, but lost most of the second one. I have some bits recorded by a second camera, but have to check if they make sense by themselves, or do need the whole context. Anyway, I'll be reviewing those bits, and will update this post when I get around to cleaning+fixing+integrating them.
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Guest class: César Yáñez (@caesarcomptus) talks about virtual memory
Shame on me... I should have uploaded this video a long time ago. I wanted to edit this video to remove pauses, add some in-band indications on who and what it is, and stuff... But after a month, I have not yet got around to do it.
On April 23, I invited César Yáñez to present a talk on virtual memory management to my students (for the Operating Systems class). As always (this is the third time I invite him — The previous iteration was on process scheduling, and is on my site as well), he gave a great class.
I still have some pending videos to upload from the other guests we had this semester, they should come shortly.
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Correction for @osupiita
I was invited to give a talk at a local conference, OS-UPIITA. I have been invited to this conference before, and will gladly be there again. But I was recently pointed at the invitation poster they are distributing (which I reproduce here for your convenience) — And I must make a couple of corrections here:
- First and foremost: I don't want to trick anybody. I am not the Director of Debian Mexico. In fact, Debian Mexico does not exist. I am just a humble Debian Developer.
- I accept the conference title, because that's what they requested from me. I'm trying to come up with a coherent exposition, but whoever knows me must be perfectly aware that I don't know (nor really care about) how to make money with Free Software. I have lived all of my professional life thanks to Free Software, but I'm against the entrepenurial culture. I will talk about my vision, of course, so if you want to hear me rant, you are invited to join us ;-)
- I specifically asked the organizing committee by mid-April, when they gave me the talk title, to replace "Open Source" with "Free Software" in my talk. Even though the conference is called "OS UPIITA" (as it is the Open Source conference in the UPIITA unit of Instituto Politécnico Nacional), I cannot identify with the Open Source monkier. And if we are talking about a deeply ideological issue, which is the case here, I request to use the name I can relate with. For my talk only, of course.
But anyway, I will be very happy to be there, and believe me, am working to come up with a good talk.
OS-UPIITA friends: Please correct your online banners carrying this wrong data.
[update] OS-UPIITA changed the poster! I'm just keeping this one for the memory ;-)
[update 2] I was there, and gave the talk. And it was even a success, yay! \o/ Care to see it? Here is the presented material.
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Split regarding Docker
I have heard many good things about Docker, and decided to give it a spin on my systems. I think application-level virtualization has a lot to offer to my workflow...
But the process to understand and later adopt it has left me somewhat heart-torn.
Docker is clearly great technology, but its documentation is... Condescending and completely out of line with what I have grown used to in my years using Linux. First, there is so much simplistic self-praise sprinkled throughout it. There is almost no page I landed on that does not mention how user-friendly and user-centric Docker's commandline arguments are — They let you talk in almost plain1 English. What they don't mention is that... Well, that's the way of basically every command-line tool. Of course, as soon as you start specifying details to it, the plain-Englishness starts dilluting into a more realistic English-inspiredness...
Then... Things that go against our historical culture. It is often said that Windows documentation tends to be repetitive because users don't have the patience to read a full document. And our man pages are succint and to the point, because in our culture it is expected that users know how to search for the bit of information they are after. But reading documentation that's so excited with itself and praises again and again the same values and virtues, but never gets to the point I am interested in getting at (be it deployment, interoperation, description of the in-disk images+overlays layout, or anything moderately technical) never gets there... makes me quite unhappy.
Last (for now)... Such a continuous sales pitch, an insistence on the good virtues, makes me wary of something they might be hiding.
Anyway, at least for now, I just wanted to play a bit with it; I will wait at least until there is a backport to the stable Debian version before I consider moving my LXC VMs setup over to Docker (and a backport does not seem trivial to achieve, as Docker has several updated low-level dependencies we are unlikely to see in Wheezy).
But I had to vent this. OK, now go back to your regular work ;-)
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DrupalCamp starting in 5... 4... 3... 2... ( → #DrupalCampMX )
Ok, so the day has come: Today begins the much awaited Drupal Camp Mexico City, yay!
For those that cannot make it to Mexico City, I
understand understood1 we would have live streaming of at least one of the rooms, but anyway, talks will be recorded, and will be put online later on.
As for the talks schedule, here you have it. Yes, today my workmate and I will be giving a simple introduction to having a useful basic Drupal install. Today is the tutorials / workshops / BoF / hackathon day, and Thursday and Friday will be the more traditional talks days. Several of the talks on Thursday are grouped under the SymfonyDay track and will refer to the framework that serves as a base for Drupal 8.
Anyway, for the Tweetheads among the readers of this post, I understand information will flow under the #DrupalCampMX tag.
- 1. I cannot find the link to the information, but it might appear later on... /mehopes
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Mozilla: So our communitary echobox *does* resound with social issues
I woke up to the news that, after a very short tenure, Brendan Eich steps down as the Mozilla CEO.
Why? Because of the community outcry. Because some years ago, Eich pubilcly supported (and donated funds) the ban of any kind of marriages in California that were not between a man and a woman. The world has advanced enormously in this regard in the last years/decades, and so many individuals and organizations opposed and announced they would boycott Mozilla that either him or Mozilla could not stand the pressure anymore.
So, of course, it's sad the person had to resign. Many people talked about freedom of speech, freedom of harbouring his own personal opinion — But when it comes to the rights of minorities, particularly of minorities that have suffered such hard prejudice and abuse as the gay, lesbian and all the other non-orthodox sexual- and gender- orientations, righting a wrong is much more important than preserving an individual's freedom of opinion. Besides, it's not just thinking or talking about something — The concrete proposition Eich supported (and eventually made him resign) is about bringing the life of thousands of people to a hellish state of uncertainty, and going back to not having a way for the society to legally recognize their way of being, their love, their lifes.
But anyway — What prompts me into writing this is that, once again, the Free Software (and related denominations) community has shown that a set of core values, seemingly shared by a very large amount of our own people with no coordination or correlation with what conforms us as a community (and thus, being emergent traits), are strong enough to create a critical mass, to achieve cohesion. And that ours is not just a technical community of people writing software at all layers of the stack, but –first and foremost– is a group of social activists, committed to making the world better.
I will quote from Matthew Garrett's post on this topic, clearly more contundent and thorough that what I'm trying to come up with:
The Mozilla Manifesto discusses individual liberty in the context of use of the internet, not in a wider social context. Brendan's appointment was very much in line with the explicit aims of both the Foundation and the Corporation - whatever his views on marriage equality, nobody has seriously argued about his commitment to improving internet freedom. So, from that perspective, he should have been a fine choice.
But that ignores the effect on the wider community. People don't attach themselves to communities merely because of explicitly stated goals - they do so because they feel that the community is aligned with their overall aims. The Mozilla community is one of the most diverse in free software, at least in part because Mozilla's stated goals and behaviour are fairly inspirational. People who identify themselves with other movements backing individual liberties are likely to identify with Mozilla. So, unsurprisingly, there's a large number of socially progressive individuals (LGBT or otherwise) in the Mozilla community, both inside and outside the Corporation.
A CEO who's donated money to strip rights from a set of humans will not be trusted by many who believe that all humans should have those rights. It's not just limited to individuals directly affected by his actions - if someone's shown that they're willing to strip rights from another minority for political or religious reasons, what's to stop them attempting to do the same to you? Even if you personally feel safe, do you trust someone who's willing to do that to your friends? In a community that's made up of many who are either LGBT or identify themselves as allies, that loss of trust is inevitably going to cause community discomfort.
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DrupalCamp Mexico City: April 23-25
We are organizing a DrupalCamp in Mexico City!
As a Drupal user, I have so far attended two DrupalCamps (one in Guadalajara, Mexico, and one in Guatemala, Guatemala). They are –as Free Software conferences usually are– great, informal settings where many like-minded users and developers meet and exchange all kinds of contacts, information, and have a good time.
Torre de Ingeniería
This year, I am a (minor) part of the organizing team. DrupalCamp will be held in Torre de Ingeniería, UNAM — Just by Facultad de Ingeniería, where I teach. A modern, beautiful building in Ciudad Universitaria.
Talks, tracks
So, who is this for? You can go look at the accepted sessions, you will find there is a lot of ground. Starting from the very introduction to how Drupal is structured and some tips on how to work with it (delivered by yours truly), through workflows for specific needs, to strong development-oriented talks. The talks are structured along four tracks: "Training", "Theming", "Development", "Business" and "SymfonyDay".
"SymfonyDay"? Yes.
Drupal is a fast-evolving Free Software project. Most users are currently using versions 6 and 7, which are as different between each other as day and night... But the upcoming Drupal 8 brings even greater changes. One of the most interesting changes I can see is that Drupal will now be based on a full MVC framework, Symfony. One of the days of our DrupalCamp will be devoted to Symfony (dubbed the Symfony Day).
...And... Again, just look at the list of talks. You will find a great amount of speakers interested in coming here. Not just from Mexico City. Not just from Mexico. Not just from Latin America. I must say I am personally impressed.
Of course, as with any volunteer-run conferences: We are still looking for sponsors. We believe being a DrupalCamp sponsor will greatly increase your brand visibility in the community you want to work with. There are still a lot of expenses to cover to make this into all that we want. And surely, you want to be a part of this great project. There are many sponsor levels — Surely you can be part of it!
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Getting rid of rodents
So a good friend of mine talked about something in the debian-private mailing list. And we should not disclose that something outside such a sensible space without his approval.
But Jakub is right. Once the discussion goes over to only messages talking about non-private stuff, the discussion should be moved to a non-private area. After all, we will not hide problems yada yada, right?
So, not knowing where in the Debian lists this should go to, it will land on my blog, reformatting mail to make sense in this media:
Luca Filipozzi dijo [Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:36:49PM +0000]:
Or don't use a mouse. When I started getting shoulder strain from using a mouse too much, I switched to an Adesso touchpad keyboard and was very happy with the positive outcome. I'm a touch (that's punny) less efficient with the touchpad compared to a mouse, but the lack of permanent injury and ongoing pain is worth it.
Right. I also have this keyboard (same brand even, different model). The keyboard is not that good (keys are not as smooth as in my previous, stock-Dell keyboard), but not having to move my right hand just to feed the rodent has made my back way way happier. I even feel better using a trackpad than a mouse (mabye because I use too much my netbook?).
Luca, just out of curiosity: Did you ever manage to recognize the keyboard under the Synaptics driver, or to get it running under ChordMiddle or Emulate3Buttons? I had to fall to a ugly hack, mapping the "XF86Search" key to the middle button by telling my window manager (i3) to "bindsym X86Search exec xdotool click 2".[ this can be declassified at any time ]
my contributions to this thread too...
my contribution unclassified, also
My classifications remain contributed. Do as you will with my bits of this message.
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Trying to get Blender to run in the CuBox-i (armhf): Help debugging Python!
As I posted some weeks ago, I have been playing with my CuBox-i4Pro, a gorgeous little ARM machine by SolidRun, built around an iMX6 system-on-a-chip.
My first stabs at using it resulted in my previous post on how to get a base, almost-clean Debian distribution to run (Almost? Yes, the kernel requires some patches not yet accepted upstream, so I'm still running with a patched 3.0.35-8 kernel). After writing this step by step instructions, I followed them and built images ready to dd to a SD card and start running (available at my people.debian.org space.
Now, what to do with this little machine? My version is by no means a limited box: 4 ARM cores, 2GB RAM make a quite decent box. In my case, this little machine will most likely be a home storage server with little innovation. However, the little guy is a power server, at only 3W consumption. I wanted to test its capabilities to do some number crunching and aid some of my friends — The obvious candidate is building a Blender render farm. Right, the machines might be quite underpowered, but they are cheap (and look gorgeous!), so at least it's worth playing a bit!
Just as a data point, running on an old hard disk (and not on my very slow SD card), the little machine was able to compile the Blender sources into a Debian package in 89m13.537s, that is, 5353 seconds. According to the Debian build logs (yes, for a different version, I tried with the version in Wheezy and in a clean Wheezy system), the time it took to build on some other architectures' build daemons was 1886s on i386, 1098s on PowerPC, 2003s on AMD64, 11513s on MIPS and 27721 on ARMHF. That means, my little machine is quite slower than desktop systems, but not unbearably so.
But sadly, I have hit a wall, and have been unable to do any further progress. Blender segfaults at startup under the Debian armhf architecture. I have submitted bug report #739194 about this, but have got no replies to it yet. I did get the great help from my friends in the OFTC #debian-arm channel, but they could only help up to a given point. It seems the problem lies in the Python interpreter in armhf, not in Blender itself... But I cannot get much further either. I'm sending this as a blog post to try to get more eyeballs on my problem — How selfish, right? :-)
So, slightly going over the bug report, blender just dies at startup:
- $ blender -b -noaudio
- Segmentation fault
After being told that strace is of little help when debugging this kind of issues, I went via gdb. A full backtrace pointed to what feels like the right error point:
- (gdb) bt full
- #0 0x2acd8cce in PyErr_SetObject ()
- from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
- No symbol table info available.
- #1 0x2acd8c9a in PyErr_Format ()
- from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
- No symbol table info available.
- #2 0x2ac8262c in PyType_Ready ()
- from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
- No symbol table info available.
- #3 0x2ac55052 in _PyExc_Init ()
- from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
- No symbol table info available.
- #4 0x2ace95e2 in _Py_InitializeEx_Private ()
- from /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
- No symbol table info available.
- #5 0x00697898 in BPY_python_start (argc=3, argv=0x7efff8d4)
- at /build/blender-dPxPUD/blender-2.69/source/blender/python/intern/bpy_interface.c:274
- py_tstate = 0x0
- py_path_bundle = 0x0
- program_path_wchar = L"/usr/bin/blender", '\000' <repeats 1007 times>
- #6 0x0044a1ca in WM_init (C=C@entry=0x1d83220, argc=argc@entry=3,
- argv=argv@entry=0x7efff8d4)
- at /build/blender-dPxPUD/blender-2.69/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_init_exit.c:176
- No locals.
- #7 0x0042e4de in main (argc=3, argv=0x7efff8d4)
- at /build/blender-dPxPUD/blender-2.69/source/creator/creator.c:1597
- C = 0x1d83220
- syshandle = 0x1d8a338
- ba = 0x1d8a840
- (gdb)
I'm not pasting here the full bug history (go to the bug report for the full information!), but it does point me to this being a problem in Python-land: It points to something not found at line 59 of Python/errors.c. And what I understand from that line is that some kind of unknown exception is thrown, and the Python interpreter does not now what to do with it. The check done at line 59 is the if (exception != NULL ** ....:
- void
- PyErr_SetObject(PyObject *exception, PyObject *value)
- {
- PyThreadState *tstate = PyThreadState_GET();
- PyObject *exc_value;
- PyObject *tb = NULL;
- if (exception != NULL &&
- !PyExceptionClass_Check(exception)) {
- PyErr_Format(PyExc_SystemError,
- "exception %R not a BaseException subclass",
- exception);
- return;
- }
So... Dear lazyweb: Any pointers on where to go on from here?
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Pushing keyring updates. Let us bury your old 1024D key!
I have just pushed our pseudo-monthly batch of keyring updates to Debian. I am happy to inform you that, while the situation described in Clint Adams' interesting assessment of the state of the Debian keyring (and the quite constructive conversation that followed) still holds, and we still have way too many weak (1024D) keys in the Debian keyring, we got a noticeable effect as a result of said thread: 20 key upgrade requests in somewhat over a one week period! (mostly from DDs, with two from DMs IIRC).
So, for any DD or DM reading this and not following the debian-project list where this thread took place:
As keyring maintainers, we no longer consider 1024D keys to be trustable. We are not yet mass-removing them, because we don't want to hamper the project's work, but we definitively will start being more aggressively deprecating their use. 1024D keys should be seen as brute-force vulnerable nowadays. Please do migrate away from them into stronger keys (4096R recommended) as soon as possible.
If you have a key with not-so-many active DD signatures (with not-so-many ≥ 2) waiting to get it more signed, stop waiting and request the key replacement.
If you do not yet have a 4096R key, create a new one as soon as possible and get some signatures on it. Once ≥2 DDs have signed it, please request us to replace your old key. If you cannot get to meet two DDs in person, please talk to us and we will find out what to do.
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Finally: A student once again
Formally, today is my first day as a student on a formal, scholarized institution — Basically for the first time in almost twenty years!
Yes, those that know me know that I aspire to live the life of academia. I have worked at public universities for almost all of my adult life (between 1997 and 1999 I worked at a local ISP and at a private school), and have had a minor academic position («Técnico Académico») for almost ten years. And not having a proper degree limited me from pursuing anything further.
Then, in early 2010 I presented the written exam. By late 2010, the corresponding oral exam. That allowed me to get my formal diploma in December 2010. By the end of 2011, I requested to be a teacher in the Engineering Faculty of UNAM, and started teaching Operating Systems a year ago, in January 2012.
So, a good advance in the last few years... But I know that if I just sit here, I won't be able to advance my position towards really entering the Sacred Halls of Academia. And there are some rituals I have to comply with. One of those rituals is... Devoting some long time to studying under the formal structures.
Ok, so I'm finally a postgraduate student — I have enrolled in Especialidad en Seguridad Informática y Tecnologías de la Información, a short (one year) postgraduate program in ESIME Culhuacán, of Instituto Politécnico Nacional (a small campus of Mexico's second-largest university).
Some friends have asked me, why am I starting with a Specialization and not a Masters degree. Some simple reasons: Just as when I went to Tijuana in 2010 to do my written exam, once I got and started with the paperwork, I didn't want to let it go — If I postpone it, I will probably lose the push to do it by May-July, when the Masters admission process starts. Also, this specialization can be linked with the masters degree on the same topic given at the same campus. This program is one year long, and the masters two — But having them both takes 2.5 years. So, not such a bad deal after all. And finally, because, after such a long time without being scholarized, I fear not having an easy time getting to grips with the discipline. I can commit to overworking myself for a year — If it's too much for me, I'll just stay with that degree and give up. I expect to like it and continue... But it's also a safe bet :-)
Now, there has to be a downside to picking up this path: Of course, my free time will be harshly reduced. I have reduced my Debian involvement in the last year, as I devoted a huge chunk of my time to teaching and book-writing... This year... We shall see what happens. I can for now only confirm what I have said publicly but inside our team only: I have requested to my peers and to our DPL to step down as a DebConf chair. I love organizing DebConf, but I don't want to be formally committed to a position I just cannot fulfill as I did when I started with it. As for package maintenance, by far most of my packges are team maintained, and those that are not are relatively easy to keep track of. And of course, I'll keep an eye on my keyring-maint duties as well — Will even try to link that work with what I do at school!
Anyway, lets see what comes now!
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[review] Packt's «Instant Haml»
Packt Publishing sent me Krzysztof Nikiński's «Instant Haml» to do a short blog review... Thing is, and those who read me know, I cannot write short reviews ;-) So lets see how this goes.
Packt's Instant series
First, as for the format this book follows and the series it fits in: They are very short books. I was the tech reviewer for their «Instant Debian – Build a Web Server», and when I opened it for the first time, I thought I had received only the first chapter. This series' motto is Short | Fast | Focused — so, yes, the books are ~50 pages long, with ample margins and many big screenshots. I told the editors I was quite unsure about the value this kind of publications add, as they are very similar to online tutorials, but given they have so many books in this series (printed and electronic), there must be a market for them. They surely know their business better than me!
There is one other detail regarding the publisher I'll stick in this section, although it is not specific to their Instant series: I do most of my reading in my Kindle. Packt seems to have chosen to specify a very small font for their texts. Besides the two books mentioned, I also have their Object Oriented JavaScript book. For all of the other books I read, I use the smallest font setting. Packt books in mobi format (what they present as Amazon format in their web site) are basically illegible without bumping up the font size through the roof. As I understand it, publishers should use industry-wide default sizes, and let the reader adjust their reading experience. Yes, books of technical nature (such as Packt's) often benefit from having more displayed information than what an ebook reader normally shows... But that's for me to decide! And no, this is not a Kindle-specific glitch: I also get a similar experience when opening it from Calibre.
And as for the book...
I am a long-time Haml convert/fan; I packaged its Ruby implementation for Debian (and should update it soon :-/ as new versions have appeared), the corresponding Emacs Lisp mode, and I use it for basically all of my static HTML sites and Ruby-based Web systems.
Haml is a great templating language, meant to make dynamic HTML generation leaner and easier. It is a clean and elegant technology, and can clearly sell itself. And the project webpage has very good documentation, ranging from a short tutorial and a full API documentation for people to contribute to the project.
The first part of this book, of course, covers the "why is Haml so great?" part, presenting the basic equivalences with HTML. In my opinion, the book could be structured a bit differently and would generate a stronger following. Why? Because, even given that Haml is greatly benefited from its Ruby integration and has many hooks to be tightly integrated in a Rails workflow, it can also be used by people who don't want to do Ruby.
I have some static websites that are just a bunch of Haml files, compiled by a very simple Makefile and calling the haml command from the shell. I think there would be some value in presenting this invocation before learning how to call it from the Gems environment (i.e. bundle install).
Using Haml as a standalone tool is only presented almost as an appendix ("Using HAML outside of Rails" section). Even more so if the author presents four different static-site solutions (probably more non-programmer-friendly than my trusty Makefile).
Oh, and this little section uses the (old? obsolete?) uppercase HAML notation for the project's name instead of the now-standard Haml.
Dirty screenshots
About the screenshots presented in this first section (and I refer mainly to the scaffolding examples), they are meant to show how easy things are, but have an important stylistic mistake: Terminals with transparency might look cool (I hate using them, but then again I'm a very boring person when it comes to my computer habits ;-) ), but transparencies have no place in a book (be it printed or e-book), as the images appear very uncrisp. In the Kindle, they just seemed dirty — Now that I'm browsing the PDF from my desktop, I see that the screenshot in "Step 1" has a photo of Earth from space behind the terminal, and even worse, in "Step 2" it is shown over a Web page detailing the installation! These elements are just distracting, and the text would be much cleaerer if it were presented typeset just as a regular code fragment. Opening many of those screenshots in the Kindle was plain useless.
Editor integration
It is perfectly clear from this text that the author strongly prefers Sublime Text, sometimes uses TextMate, and has just heard reports that Haml has some support in Vim, Rubymine, Emacs and Coda. Of course, devoting a full page (as it is for the first case) for each editor would be out of proportion for this size of book... I just felt the imbalance too big, specially given that most editors will sport approximately the same feature set.
Text redundancy
If the Instant series is about making short books, I would expect them to be loaded with easy to follow content (as they are), but free of repetition. I felt, however, a large chunk of step 1 of the "Quick start" chapter to be repeated with the the first section of the "Top 6 features" chapter. Yes, the second one adds some depth, but very little. Still, in the later parts of this "Top 6 features" chapter, a more thorough explanation could be used for the Filters, Multiline attributes/code/strings and helpers and extensions sections. It seems the author was on a hurry trying to get it finished, as it is barely explained — Explaining a bit more deeply would surely benefit readers.
Wrapping up
Reading my review, I'm mostly talking about negative issues. IMO, the book is not excellent, but it is clearly not bad. Specially given it fits very well the format for which it was designed. There are many items that could be fixed, and I hope some of them can be fixed (i.e. the screenshots) before the book goes to print — If I understand Packt's page correctly, it is currently only available as ebook, contrary to most of the Instant series' titles.
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For people in Mexico: Workshop next Wednesday! Video editing from the command line (by Chema Serralde, @joseserralde)
(Yes, yes... Maybe I should post in Spanish.. But hey, gotta keep consistecy in my blog!)
General, public, open invitation
Are you in Mexico City, or do you plan to be next Wednesday (December 11)?
Are you interested in video edition? In Free Software?
I will have the pleasure to host at home the great Chema Serralde, a good friend, and a multifacetic guru both in the technical and musical areas. He will present a workshop: Video editing from the command line.
I asked Chema for an outline of his talk, but given he is a busy guy, I will basically translate the introduction he prepared for this same material in FSL Vallarta, held two weeks ago.
With the help of the commandline, you can become a multimedia guru. We will edit a video using just a terminal. This skill will surprise your friends — and your couple.
But the most important is that this knowledge is just an excuse to understand step by step what does a video CODEC mean, what is a FORMAT, and how video and audio editors work; by using this knowledge, you will be able to set the basis for multimedia editing, without the promises and secrets of propietary editors.
How much does my file weigh and why? How to improve a video file's quality? Why cannot I read my camera's information from GNU/Linux?
By the end of this workshop, we well see how some libraries help you develop your first audio and video application, what are their main APIs and uses.
Everybody is welcome to come for free, no questions asked, no fees collected. I can offer coffee for all, but if you want anything else to eat/drink, you are welcome to bring it.
We do require you to reserve and confirm your place (mail me to my usual mail address). We have limited space, and I must set an absolute quota of 10 participants.
Some people hide their address... Mine is quite publicly known: Av. Copilco 233, just by Parque Hugo Margain, on the Northern edge of UNAM (Metro Copilco).
The course starts at 16:00, and lasts... As long as we make it last ;-)
So, that said... See you there! :-D
[update]: Chema sent me the list of topics he plans to cover. Copy/pasting from his mail, in Spanish:
José María Serralde Ruiz, facilitador
- Editando como cavernícola.
- Manipulación básica de archivos multimedia en entornos POSIX.
- Sé un Bash VJ (videojockey)
- Vaciando y entubando
- Editando como científico.
- Encabezados y fourcc
- 3 familias de CODECS de vídeo y sus patentes
- 3 famlias de CODECS de audio y sus patentes
- Muxers, demuxers y muxes.
- Editando como artista.
- Cajas de herramientas en software libre para procesamiento de vídeo.
- Procesamiento en tiempo real de vídeo (el que se crea artista pierde)
- Derritiendo vídeo, audio con calcetines MELT + SOX
Software necesario
(sistemas operativos POSIX, windouseros acercarse con el afán de repensar sus vidas): mplayer, avconv/ffmpeg (libavcodec), melt, sox, imagemagick
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On errors in exams - Short rant
Blogging from a phone... first time ever. I don't want to forget some specifics for this :)
I have just completed an exam to try to enter a postgraduate program (I'll talk more about it once it becomes real ). The exam is administered by CENEVAL, the same evaluation agency Where I presented my graduation equivalency exam some years ago - Only this exam is for all of the postgraduate studies on many national universities and is thus basically just a psychometric test.
The exam had 162 questions, all to be filled in a optical reader sheet, on five subjects: mathematical reasoning, Spanish grammar and comprehension, Project management, Computers and technology, And English reading and understanding.
It was all in all a fun exam to take, mostly due to the math reasoning part. But... on the Subject I Know I am an expert, I have to complain (and intend to find a easy to do so formally). First, I spotted two absolute mistakes (and answered based on What I knew others would, but knowing the answer is wrong technically). One was a subtlety, on how and why have hard drives should be defragmented (and part of my quip is that it's an obsolete habit, but besides, the answers were all erroneous), but a second one was... just wrong. It asked on what should not be part of an "Internet link" (can only guess they meant An URL). The 4 options were valid parts of a URL - including one very seldom used by most people, but very often by many of us: the @ sign.
Anyway, answered it, but my other main gripe is that most of the section was in specific use of Office software. Not only In Office-like, which would be bad enough to begin with, but on specific ways of using Mainly Excel And PowerPoint. Syntax issues, or the name of the menu under which to look for specific functions.
Anyway, I will wait the stipulated 10 days for the exam to be rated, but will anyway look die a way to contact the very opaque and secretive CENEVAL. Not to demand to be better treated, but to try to correct those known mistakes and errors.
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