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Over a year and a half ago, one of my best friends (who happens to be a professional graphics designer) was hired by a company and, as part of his sign-in deal, got brand new Mac loaded with Adobe’s Creative Suite 2 and several other applications for his home. A hell of a deal, if you ask me.

Knowing that he had a CS1 license that he wouldn’t bee needing anymore I convinced him to trade his license for a couple of seasons of Stargate: SG-1. Long story short, I was finally able to drop that old Photoshop 6 that I had downloaded off Kazaa (shame on me) and go ‘legit’.

I was a happy man. I now owned the weapon of choice for graphics proffessionals and would be able to create even cooler signatures for my forums and performs edits on my photos.

Enter Linux & The Gimp:

My days as a Photoshop user didn’t last too long. Several months ago, I decided to jump on the Linux bandwagon. I tried to get Photoshop to work in linux with wine, but I was not successful, so I was left with only one option: The Gimp

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I guess that if you are here you already know what GIMPshop is. If you don’t, here’s a quickie:

“GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.” — Wikipedia

Now, what do we need to install GIMPshop? The Gimp!

Let’s get started.

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By the end of September 2006, my career as a student was coming to an end and the search for a job was inevitable.

I went to my college’s ‘Job Fair’ armed with a kickass resumé and over three years of part-time experience under my belt. Landing subsequent interviews and, eventually, job offers wasn’t too much of a problem because my research experience and part-time jobs really worked in my favor. I did my fair share of research about the companies that would be visiting us. Among the top contenders featured: IBM, HP, Microsoft, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs and Allstate.

One of the companies that caught my attention was Cascades Technologies (CTi): a Virginia-based company that was moving part of their development to Puerto Rico. Read the rest of this entry »

In short: ‘nothing in particular’

Welcome to delirial.com.

This blog is basically just a place where we can post random articles, rants and tutorials about our favorite (and not so favorite) technologies such as:

• Ubuntu
• Beryl
• Linux
• Ruby
• Rails
• .NET
• SQL
• The Gimp
• Vista
• etc.

We hope you will enjoy the contents.