Comments for Salvatore Iovene http://www.iovene.com The thoughts of a computer programmer, open source supporter, astrophotographer and free-thinker. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on The construction of my telescope pier by Salvatore Iovene http://www.iovene.com/314/#comment-186564 Salvatore Iovene Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:08:24 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/?p=314#comment-186564 Hi Carl, thanks. The pier turned out to be a great success: it has been rock solid, and it didn't require re-leveling after the unthaw. There are no vibrations whatsoever, and it doesn't move no matter how hard I push. The pier sticks out about 4 feet. Hi Carl, thanks. The pier turned out to be a great success: it has been rock solid, and it didn’t require re-leveling after the unthaw.
There are no vibrations whatsoever, and it doesn’t move no matter how hard I push.

The pier sticks out about 4 feet.

]]> Comment on The construction of my telescope pier by Carl Joseph http://www.iovene.com/314/#comment-186115 Carl Joseph Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:00:50 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/?p=314#comment-186115 Great article and a wonderful clean design. How are you finding it now that you've been using it for a year? I'm also wondering how high the pier comes up from the deck/floor? Great article and a wonderful clean design. How are you finding it now that you’ve been using it for a year?

I’m also wondering how high the pier comes up from the deck/floor?

]]> Comment on TABs vs Spaces. The end of the debate. by msharman http://www.iovene.com/61/#comment-185853 msharman Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:21:47 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/tabs-vs-spaces-the-end-of-the-debate/#comment-185853 This. Using a combination of spaces and TABs for indenting is bad. It will cause indentation to be messed up when a user has a different size of TABs. So you can either ban spaces or ban TABs, personally I my preference is to ban TABs so that indentation is as the author intended not mangled according to different users preferences. I want my teams code to be consistently indented regardless of what editor settings they have. This. Using a combination of spaces and TABs for indenting is bad. It will cause indentation to be messed up when a user has a different size of TABs. So you can either ban spaces or ban TABs, personally I my preference is to ban TABs so that indentation is as the author intended not mangled according to different users preferences. I want my teams code to be consistently indented regardless of what editor settings they have.

]]> Comment on 5 SVN best practices by Algumas Boas Práticas no Controle de Versão | Blog ScrumHalf - Gerência de Projetos Ágeis e Scrum - Brasil http://www.iovene.com/21/#comment-174769 Algumas Boas Práticas no Controle de Versão | Blog ScrumHalf - Gerência de Projetos Ágeis e Scrum - Brasil Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:49:21 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/wordpress/?p=21#comment-174769 [...] 5 SVN best practices [...] [...] 5 SVN best practices [...]

]]> Comment on TABs vs Spaces. The end of the debate. by Dennis http://www.iovene.com/61/#comment-171352 Dennis Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:12:35 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/tabs-vs-spaces-the-end-of-the-debate/#comment-171352 Not arbitrary ... we are looking for a standard here ... So, to those who say: "... Spaces are arbitrary, as a developer is then free to chose how many spaces at will ..." or the equivalent, I say: Indentation and alignment - just use one (1) space Use one (1) space always, no tabs ... no multi-spaces. All my coding in many prog langs and HTML and XML is done with one (1) space. I fix many a code snippet accordingly also. The discussion should be one (1) space vs tabs and ... one (1) space wins everytime er, cept maybe Python ... (he sits back in his chair and braces for the flurry ...) Not arbitrary … we are looking for a standard here … So, to those who say:

“… Spaces are arbitrary, as a developer is then free to chose how many spaces at will …” or the equivalent, I say:

Indentation and alignment – just use one (1) space

Use one (1) space always, no tabs … no multi-spaces. All my coding in many prog langs and HTML and XML is done with one (1) space. I fix many a code snippet accordingly also.

The discussion should be one (1) space vs tabs and … one (1) space wins everytime er, cept maybe Python … (he sits back in his chair and braces for the flurry …)

]]> Comment on The ultimate guide for UTF-8 in irssi and GNU/Screen by Panagiotis Atmatzidis http://www.iovene.com/54/#comment-169578 Panagiotis Atmatzidis Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:51:55 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-utf-8-in-irssi-and-gnuscreen/#comment-169578 Thanks for the excellent and straightforward guide :-) Thanks for the excellent and straightforward guide :-)

]]> Comment on Pelican Nebula by Salvatore Iovene http://www.iovene.com/706/#comment-166715 Salvatore Iovene Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:47:32 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/?p=706#comment-166715 Thanks John! But guess what: this photograph was shot in a moderate to heavy light pollution area! The use of a 6nm H-Alpha filter has done the trick. Thanks John! But guess what: this photograph was shot in a moderate to heavy light pollution area! The use of a 6nm H-Alpha filter has done the trick.

]]> Comment on Pelican Nebula by John http://www.iovene.com/706/#comment-166422 John Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:24:52 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/?p=706#comment-166422 Stunning work. I wish i had the hardware to take photographs like this... oh, and lived in a light-pollution free area :P Stunning work. I wish i had the hardware to take photographs like this… oh, and lived in a light-pollution free area :P

]]> Comment on The ultimate guide for UTF-8 in irssi and GNU/Screen by Jani http://www.iovene.com/54/#comment-164819 Jani Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:09:50 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/the-ultimate-guide-for-utf-8-in-irssi-and-gnuscreen/#comment-164819 One thing that causes problems (and requires screen -U to solve) is SendEnv/AcceptEnv in ssh if you have a locale set in the client side that's not supported by the server. If you're connecting to a remote screen/irssi over ssh, that is. One thing that causes problems (and requires screen -U to solve) is SendEnv/AcceptEnv in ssh if you have a locale set in the client side that’s not supported by the server. If you’re connecting to a remote screen/irssi over ssh, that is.

]]> Comment on TABs vs Spaces. The end of the debate. by KNL http://www.iovene.com/61/#comment-163837 KNL Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:32:26 +0000 http://www.iovene.com/tabs-vs-spaces-the-end-of-the-debate/#comment-163837 This is stil the most relevant and enlightning article on the entire Internet about the issue. Great work! This is stil the most relevant and enlightning article on the entire Internet about the issue. Great work!

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