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So… AI-class and ML-class are over

Some of you know that I’ve been taking the on line Artificial Intelligence and  Machine Learning courses offered by Stanford this semester. I decided to enroll in both out of curiosity, and to enjoy the privilege of being taught by World renowned researchers. Also, I wanted to take part of an experiment in teaching to a massive amount [...]

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The long wait is over: Cherokee 1.0.9 is out!

Like one of my all time favorite fiction characters would say: Once again we meet at last. It has been a while since I last announced one of our releases, but it has been a long time since the last one, so this one deserves some credit. We’ve been really busy implementing a lot of [...]

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dirsort: Directory sorter

This one is a grown up version of epi_sort.py, a simple script I wrote a while ago to help me sort a huge bunch of media files I had laying around. I recently suffered some major data loss on an external hard drive full of videos. After recovering most of the contents, the directory structure [...]

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epi_sort.py: Filename comparison

As every Joe Six-pack would do, I usually write a lot of scripts to automate my tasks as much as I can. Most of them aren’t even worth mentioning, but nevertheless I have been meaning to start posting some of those. I’ve stumbled upon lots of jewels on the net that seemed worthless to their [...]

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Cherokee Summit 2010: Mission accomplished

We’ve been working in frenzy since last week. Not that we usually don’t, but this was something more. The Cherokee Summit just took place last weekend, and among other things we released our latest and greatest Cherokee v1.0, we defined the roadmap for v2.0, we shared knowledge with some of the most impressive experts in [...]

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Countdown to Cherokee Summit 2010

Only one more week to go! I’m going to remind you all about the first Cherokee Summit. It will be held next week in Madrid (7-8 May), and I’m really excited about it. We will release Cherokee 1.0, will rub shoulders with many members of our community, and we’ll define the road-map for Cherokee 2.0. [...]

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It’s official: Cherokee Summit 2010 is on its way!

It is no secret that our Cherokee-Project Community has been growing steadily and relentlessly over the last couple of years. In fact, it has been doing so well that we’ve reached a point where holding a conference about the project actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of people have been asking about this, [...]

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Cherokee screencast season kicks off

On a previous post I introduced our first Cherokee Project screencast. We were going to wait for a new and improved website before we made them public, but what the hell! Why wait? I’m sure the new Cherokee-Project Screencast Collection will come in handy for many of you. From here I’d like to thank P.V. [...]

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Our first Cherokee screencast

Alvaro an I have been putting together a screen-cast to show an overview of Cherokee-Admin’s capabilities. It is just an introduction, but I think this kind of thing is really helpful to spread out the word about Cherokee’s multiple merits. We wanted to brag about our little baby. After all, not every serious web server [...]

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Cherokee 0.99.25 party kit!

No, don’t worry. I’m not going to play with you and expect you to work for free as my personal advertisement company. I have to recognize that I’m astonished that Microsoft got away with it with all it’s Windows 7 craze, which once again proves that there are lots of guys out there that outsmart [...]

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