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Χρησιμοποιώντας ευέλικτες μεθοδολογίες για να ανακαλύψουμε τις ανάγκες του δημότη.

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 […]

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European forum of the software research community. A fellowship!

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 […]

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How to read books borrowed from Internet Archive on your Android device

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 ends you can renew the book if it is still available. If you want […]

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How to format your SD card to EXT4 for Dropbox compatibility in Ubuntu

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 […]

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How to automatically set a random Unsplash photo as your Ubuntu wallpaper using bash script

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 […]

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How to completely remove kubuntu desktop from your Ubuntu 14.04

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 […]

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How to make ClickShare work with Ubuntu

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 […]

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[Updated] A Windows 10 update tale!

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 […]

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How to successfully install Microsoft Office to Ubuntu

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 […]