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One of the tasks presents on almost every job and position is to prepare documentation. There are different tools to create good documents, but if you are developer, and you need to create professional documents, then you may fall into two options: LaTeX and DocBook . I’ll explain to you how to prepare good PDF from DocBook documents in 3 easy steps: 1) Create the structure of your document An example article Your first name Your surname... more

I found a simple but powerful tool for linux which allows you to create ASCII art logos for your command line applications. Its name is figlet , and can be downloaded from your package tool (apt-get, yum, …), at least in almost all the Linux distributions. To create a new logo you need to invoke (from your shell): # figlet # figlet abiquo You can also specify the alignment of the text, and the font you want to use: #figlet -c -f script abiquo -c : Ce... more

On last Thursday, we received at the offices of abiquo -formerly Think in Grid - the visit of Diego Parilla ( Diego’s face ), a person who (among other things) gives training on agile methodologies, focusing on Scrum . Certainly, this kind of methodologies are gaining more and more supporters nowadays due to its simplicity (or hidden complexity) and interaction with the clients and inside the team. Basically, against other methods (like RUP , FDD , ... more