Pair programming is a software development technique in which two programmers work together at one workstation. One, the driver, writes code while the other, the observer or navigator, reviews each line of code as it is typed in. The two programmers switch roles frequently.~ Wikipedia Here’s a fun meme! For a programmer, I think this makes sense. Generative AI has been evolving rapidly. It is only a matter...Read More

Ένα αστικό πείραμα! Οι ευέλικτες μεθοδολογίες ανάπτυξης (agile practices) είναι μια σειρά από πρακτικές που χρησιμοποιόυμε στην ανάπτυξη λογισμικού με στόχο να αναπτύξουμε το λογισμικό συνεργατικά, η ομάδα να είναι αυτο-οργανούμενη και διαλειτουργική με τους πελάτες / χρήστες τους οποίους ενδιαφέρει η εφαρμογή που αναπτύσσουμε. Οι ευέλικτες μεθοδολογίες ανάπτυξης έγιναν διάσιμες το 2001 όταν δημοσιεύθηκε...Read More

Honored and humbled to receive a fellowships from the European Forum of the Software Research Community, also known as SWForum.eu. During the next months I will have the opportunity to publish posts related to my two most favorite topics, Open Source Software and Software Engineering. SWForum.eu aims to create a self-sustainable online forum that facilitates...Read More

“The Great Influenza” by John M. Barry borrowed by the Internet Archive lending library. In the Internet Archive you can find a lending library with more than 3.000.000 books that you can borrow and read online. Depending on the book availability you can borrow a book for 1 hour or 14 days. After this period...Read More

I am using a low cost laptop for everyday work (browsing, productivity apps for office work and so forth). The main pro of this type of laptop is the low cost, as I already mentioned, whereas the basic con is speed and hard disk limitation. The solution for the latter cis to add a SD...Read More

Are you easily getting bored from using the same wallpaper to your Ubuntu machine? Here’s an easy way of enjoying a variety of easily interchangeable wallpapers with photos available as public domain, via Unsplash.com. All you have to do is create an shell script file (i.e. unsplash.sh) using the following code and execute it every...Read More

Say you wanna try (for fun) to experience the Kubuntu desktop environment while you run Ubuntu 14.04. Now say that after you play a while you decide you wanna go back to your familiar Ubuntu interface and you wanna get read of the Kubuntu desktop you have installed. If you are not lucky (I usually...Read More

Last time I had to do a presentation was during ODI’s Train the Trainer program. One of the options we were given in order to connect to the projector was ClickShare. If you don’t know what ClickShare is, watch this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R-AbOkN_98 In order to use ClickShare you have to plug it to your machine. It...Read More

So this is how it started… I was already aware that Windows 10 will be freely given to previous Microsoft Windows users (even pirates!) but I felt it was not such a big deal. All the machines worth spending time to keep up to date are pretty much doing it themselves and for free since...Read More

If you are a Linux enthusiast you are probably already find the title of the post strange and / or insulting. At this point I am going to have to ask you to take a deep breath and consider this… LIFE IS NOT FAIR! WHY SHOULD DIGITAL LIFE BE? Sometimes we are forced to use...Read More