Christian Reis lives here
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I know you know. But well, just in case you forgot..
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I currently work at Async Open
Source, a company that provides development and consulting
services focused on on Free Software. I helped found Async in early
1999.
Since 2004, I've been actively involved in Launchpad development, and in 2005
I became application manager for the project, together with Steve Alexander. These days
I lead a team of over 30 people working on building a platform for
the future of open source development and collaboration.
In 2003, I somehow managed an MSc degree from USP São Carlos, where I
wrangled out my dissertation on defining a Process Model for Free
Software Projects. My MSc project is described in two long documents (in portuguese). I
graduated in Computer Engineering from UFSCar in 1997, though most of that
time evaporated into swimming pools and bike trails.
A couple of years ago (just as I had decided I wanted nothing to do
with computers) I discovered Free Software and Unix, and I've been
working on both ever since then. I've contributed to dozens of
free software projects, and I am currently an active developer for
Bugzilla, PyGTK, ZODB, Kiwi and IndexedCatalog.
I've worked with Web development (who hasn't?) and Usability,
additionally, in the past years.
When I'm not pretending to be a software engineering manager I
engage in outdoor sports, travelling, language and vain philosophy. I've raced mountain bikes
for a couple of years now, and from 1999 to 2003 I raced a number of
national-level adventure races, including the multi-day EMA 2000 and
2001.
Getting in touch with me
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Homepage (~kiko)
<kiko at async.com.br> |
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+55 16 3376 0125 work
+55 16 9112 6430 mobile |
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Rua Rui Barbosa 1977
Sao Carlos, SP
Brazil 13560-330
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What he's been up to
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04.05.2009
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The only thing I can do is read
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- MySQL pissed me off today. It started out with it going OOM and then
corrupting Bugzilla's logincookies file. So I turned it off, pulled out
myisamchk and it did the right thing. Or half of it, it turns out. Once
I had done that, the table was marked read only, and how the hell does
one get out of that?
- Turns out there were THREE things that needed doing. First, I had to
chown the actual MYI file to mysql:mysql. Then I had to chmod it to 660,
because the perms were broken. After that I got stuck, because
mysqlcheck wouldn't update it, still saying "Table 'logincookies' is
read only". Well, damn it -- turns out the last bit missing was running
a "FLUSH TABLE logincookies;". So how was I supposed to guess that?
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28.04.2009
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You can't make this stuff up
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13.04.2009
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Eastern Easters
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- Possibly one of the all-time best Roubaix climaxes ran yesterday as an
Easter present for everybody. Or well, I guess everybody but Flecha,
Hoste and Hushovd: [www.youtube.com]
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26.03.2009
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How can one not love Launchpad?
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<danilo> kiko: got any cheap offers for marriage in EU? and can I
continue to live here? (fwiw, I am busting my ass with documentation
this time around since I want to ask for longer visas, and I'll have
Canonical lie a bit in the invitation letter how I am going to go to
Spain 745 times in the next year :)
<intellectronica> danilo: as soon as i get my EU pass i'll be happy to
marry you
<danilo> intellectronica: sounds good :)
<intellectronica> (even though you're a bit too tall to my taste)
<danilo> intellectronica: well, you'd not be my first choice either, but
I'll love you as if you were :)
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14.03.2009
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Things I miss about Brasilia
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- I left Brasília many years ago, and I only lived here for 4 years
before starting university down south. But there are some things that I
really miss about it.
- One is the rain. It is spectacular in the summer months how
beautiful and shocking the thunderstorms are; my parents have a house
which is glass everything and the sound is deafening. When I come here I
love staying at home and just listening to the roar of the storm hitting
the house and the lake. And the thunder, when it strikes, makes your
heart race, eyes widened at how loud that could really be.
- Home is another. It is very neat to be surrounded with all these weird
mementos of your former lives; trophies from races you did who knows
when, comic book collections that you bought in forgotten
newsstands and in ancient trips to places you never visited again, bits
of arcane computer hardware that might just work if you can piece it all
together. And the sounds of that old life around you.
- My parents. I have had a lot of luck in my life, but wow, it seems
almost unfair that I had a pair of parents as fantastic as mine. They
are two ever-surprisingly versatile individuals if I ever saw a pair,
and every year they seem to decide how they want to reinvent
themselves. And whatever it is you want to do, they are interested in
doing it with you. Run 15k? Sure! Waterfalling? Always! Out to buy
random stuff I need? Now! Never boring. What an amazing couple.
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10.03.2009
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The purposes of war
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(Read older diary entries)
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