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«Producir y nutrir,
producir y no poseer,
obrar y no retener,
acrecentar y no regir,
son el misterio de la vida.»

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2018 / 11 / 14
Degree final work about ISO/IEC 29110

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I want a lot to write more in this blog. There are matters I didn't talk enough about SuperSEC or GUADEC conferences, some announce for 2019 and some some activities in Wikipedia (specially in the Wikiproyecto-Almería and my firsts step in the amazing world of SPARQL), less important but I really enjoy.

But now I want to keep record of significant advances in the university degree I'm finishing these months. I decided to finish a pending course with special interest in the required degree final work, to work in things I've been interested since 2003 but never had the oportunity to focus in deep enough to study, learn and write some useful, I hope, tools. And it's being fun :-)

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So now I can say the project blueprint has been approved by the university. It's named «Creation of artifacts for adoption of ISO/IEC 29110 standards» (document in Spanish, sorry) and the goals are to produce a set of opensource artifacts for the adoption of the 29110 family of standards focused on a light software engineering methodology suitable to be adopted by very small entities (VSEs). At the moment my main target is to work in the «Part 5-4: Agile software development guidelines», currently on development by WG24, using the EPF Composer tool.

As a working tool I'm making a (half backed and maybe temporal) website to keep record of related materials at http://29110.olea.org.

Hope to announce related news in the next weeks.
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2018 / 11 / 2
Running EPF Composer in Fedora Linux, v3
Well, finally I succeed with native instalation of the EPF (Eclipse Process Framework) Composer in my Linux system thanks to Bruce MacIsaac and the development team help. I'm happy. This is not trivial since EPFC is a 32 bits application running in a modern 64 bits Linux system.

My working configuration:
- Fedora F28, x86_64
- java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.181, 32 bits, from the non-free Russian Fedora repository:
  - java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.181-3.fc28.i586.rpm
  - java-1.8.0-oracle-headless-1.8.0.181-3.fc28.i586.rpm
- EPF Composer Linux/GTK 1.5.2
- GTK+ v.2 integration dependencies (from main Fedora repository):
  - adwaita-gtk2-theme-3.28-1.fc28.i686.rpm
  - libcanberra-gtk2-0.30-16.fc28.i686.rpm
- xulrunner 32 bits xulrunner-10.0.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
- libXt-1.1.5-7.fc28.i686.rpm (from main Fedora repository).
In my system obviously I can install all rpm packages using DNF. For different distros look for the equivalent packages.

Maybe I'm missing some minor dependency, I didn't checked in a clean instalation.

Download EPFC and xulrunner and extract each one in the path of your choice. I'm using xulrunner-10.0.2.en-US.linux-i686/ as directory name to be more meaninful.

The contents of epf.ini file:
```
-data
@user.home/EPF/workspace.152
-vmargs
-Xms64m
-Xmx512m
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/PATHTOXULRUNNER/xulrunner-10.0.2.en-US.linux-i686/
```
I had to write the full system path for the -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath property to get Eclipse recognize it.

And to run EPF Composer:
```
cd $EPF_APP_DIR
$ epf -vm  /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-oracle-1.8.0.181/jre/bin/java  
```
If you want some non trivial work with Composer in Linux you'll need xulrunner since it's used extensively for editing contents.

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I had success running the Windows EPF version using Wine and I can do some work with it, but at some point the program gets inestable and needs to reboot. Other very interesting advantage of running native is I can use the GTK+ filechooser which is really lot better than the simpler native Java one.

I plan to practice a lot modeling with EPF Composer in the coming weeks. Hopefully I'll share some new artifacts authored by me.

PD: added the required libXt dependency.
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2018 / 10 / 19
How to cite bibliography ISO/IEC standards
For my final post-grade work I'm collecting bibliography and as the main work is around ISO/IEC documents I investigated how to to make a correct bibliography entry for these, which I realized is not very well known as you can check in this question in Tex.StackSchange.com.

I finally chose an style I show here as an example:
- BibTeX: @techreport{iso_central_secretary_systems_2016, address = {Geneva, CH}, type = {Standard}, title = {Systems and software engineering -- {Lifecycle} profiles for {Very} {Small} {Entities} ({VSEs}) -- {Part} 1: {Overview}}, shorttitle = {{ISO}/{IEC} {TR} 29110-1:2016}, url = {https://www.iso.org/standard/62711.html}, language = {en}, number = {ISO/IEC TR 29110-1:2016}, institution = {International Organization for Standardization}, author = {{ISO Central Secretary}}, year = {2016} }
- RIS: TY - RPRT TI - Systems and software engineering -- Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities (VSEs) -- Part 1: Overview AU - ISO Central Secretary T2 - ISO/IEC 29110 CY - Geneva, CH PY - 2016 LA - en M3 - Standard PB - International Organization for Standardization SN - ISO/IEC TR 29110-1:2016 ST - ISO/IEC TR 29110-1:2016 UR - https://www.iso.org/standard/62711.html ER - I've using this style extensively in a development website http://29110.olea.org/. You can compare details with the official info.
Both have been generated using Zotero.
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2018 / 10 / 8
Banksy Shredder

PD: After some reports about male nudity this post has been edited to remove the portrait of my back. If you have reservations with male nudity PLEASE DON'T FOLLOW THE LINK.

PPD: If you don't have problems with male nudity for your convenience here you'll find the Wiki Commons category «Nude men» of pictures.
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2018 / 10 / 8
«Software Quality Assurance, First Edition» PDF file

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For your convenience I've compiled in just one file the book Software Quality Assurance by Claude Y. Laporte and Alain April. The book is provided for free download at the publisher website as separated files. Download the full book.

About the book: «This book introduces Software Quality Assurance (SQA) and provides an overview of standards used to implement SQA. It defines ways to assess the effectiveness of how one approaches software quality across key industry sectors such as telecommunications, transport, defense, and aerospace.»

It is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Claude Y. Laporte is the editor of the ISO/IEC 29110 standard of software engineering for very small entities (VSE).

PD: Added licencing details.
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2018 / 10 / 5
GUADEC 2018 by numbers
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It took me a while but now I can gave you some stats from GUADEC 2018, following past year Sam's example.

They are very rough but I hope informative.
- Attendees: 207 (and about 215 registered), two less than 2017.
- 9 days: 2 days boards meetings, 3 for conferences and 4 for BoFs and workshops.
- 44 talks and videos.
- 35 BoFs and workshops.
- 3 great parties, including the flamenco show by «la Chinelita and group».
- About economics just to say it was very successful. Thanks a lot to our sponsors and donnors. And special kudos to the sponsoring team for such impresive job.
- The medium age was 32.7, from the 143 persons who provided their age. Minimum age was 15 and maxium 61.
- The Spanish attendants were 43, 20.8% of the total. Significative presence from the UK with 20%.
- The maximum of persons per day hosted at Civitas residence where 75. I would have expected a bigger number but some factors affected: GUADEC dates were in high season with a particular peak because some local events (at some point there were not a single room available in Almería city), other was a coincidence with a university summer course and finally many people tried to book at Civitas very late.
The attendees who filled they country of residence, by country:

| country | number | |----|---| | Argentina|1 | | Australia| 1 | | Austria| 2 | | Belgium| 1 | | Brazil| 2 | | Canada| 3 | | China| 3 | | Czech Republic| 10 | | Denmark| 2 | | Finland| 1 | | France| 9 | | Germany| 11 | | Greece| 1 | | India| 2 | | Israel| 1 | | Italy| 3 | | Japan| 1 | | Latvia| 1 | | Netherlands| 2 | | New Zealand| 1 | | Norway| 2 | | Romania| 3 | | Russian Federation| 2 | | Spain| 43 | | Sri Lanka| 1 | | Sweden| 2 | | Switzerland| 1 | | United Kingdom| 41 | | United States| 25 | | Unspecified| 18 |

The GUADEC occupancy at Civitas were:

| date | number | |----|---| | 02/07/2018 | 1 | | 03/07/2018 | 7 | | 04/07/2018 | 21 | | 05/07/2018 | 66 | | 06/07/2018 | 70 | | 07/07/2018 | 71 | | 08/07/2018 | 75 | | 09/07/2018 | 70 | | 10/07/2018 | 63 | | 11/07/2018 | 40 | | 12/07/2018 | 5 | | 13/07/2018 | 1 |

Thanks Benjamin Berg for helping to collect the data.

Thank you all for visiting us in Almería. Don't forget to come back :-)

PD: post edited at 2018/11/15 adding details of residence occupancy.
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2018 / 10 / 3
Wacom's graphic tablet sizes (2)

In a previous entry I put the data I've collected about Wacom digitizer tablets. Collecting the data took to me more time I really wished. But now I'm happy to publish an exhaustive list thanks to Carlos Garnacho:

| model | active area size mm | active area size in | |:--------- |:--------- |:--------- | | Wacom ISDv4 E2 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Intuos BT M | 254 ✕ 203 mm | 10 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom ISDv4 104 | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Intuos BT S | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos M | 254 ✕ 203 mm | 10 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Intuos S | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5110 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Bamboo Pen medium | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo Fun medium (2+FG) | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom DTU-2231 | 483 ✕ 279 mm | 19 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom Bamboo Pen small | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Cintiq 21UX2 | 432 ✕ 330 mm | 17 ✕ 13 in | | Wacom Graphire Wireless | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | ELAN 2537 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5002 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5000 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 485e | 254 ✕ 178 mm | 10 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Bamboo (2+FG) | 127 ✕ 76 mm | 5 ✕ 3 in | | Wacom DTH1152 | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Bamboo Fun small (2+FG) | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch (2+FG) | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Cintiq 22HD touch | 483 ✕ 279 mm | 19 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom DTI520UB/L | 356 ✕ 305 mm | 14 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Bamboo Fun medium (2FG) | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Bamboo Fun small (2FG) | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo (2FG) | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo Touch (2FG) | 127 ✕ 76 mm | 5 ✕ 3 in | | Huion H610 Pro | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Bamboo One | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo Pen | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Intuos BT M | 254 ✕ 203 mm | 10 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom ISDv4 12C | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos BT S | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos4 WL | 203 ✕ 127 mm | 8 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Intuos4 12x19 | 483 ✕ 305 mm | 19 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos4 8x13 | 330 ✕ 203 mm | 13 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5146 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Cintiq Pro 13 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom MobileStudio Pro 13 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 484c | 254 ✕ 178 mm | 10 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom DTU-1931 | 381 ✕ 305 mm | 15 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Cintiq 12WX | 254 ✕ 178 mm | 10 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Cintiq 20WSX | 432 ✕ 279 mm | 17 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom Cintiq 21UX | 432 ✕ 330 mm | 17 ✕ 13 in | | Wacom ISDv4 4004 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom DTF-720 | 330 ✕ 279 mm | 13 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro 2 L | 305 ✕ 203 mm | 12 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro 2 M | 229 ✕ 152 mm | 9 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom DTH2242 | 483 ✕ 279 mm | 19 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5099 | 254 ✕ 178 mm | 10 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom DTK2241 | 483 ✕ 279 mm | 19 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom Cintiq Pro 32 | 686 ✕ 381 mm | 27 ✕ 15 in | | Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 PT | 508 ✕ 305 mm | 20 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos3 12x19 | 483 ✕ 305 mm | 19 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos4 6x9 | 229 ✕ 152 mm | 9 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos4 4x6 | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro 2 L WL | 305 ✕ 203 mm | 12 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro 2 M WL | 229 ✕ 152 mm | 9 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos3 4x6 | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Intuos3 6x8 | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Intuos Pen & Touch Medium | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5013 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5014 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos4 WL | 203 ✕ 127 mm | 8 ✕ 5 in | | Intuos Pen Medium | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Intuos Pen & Touch Small | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Intuos Pen Small | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 50f8 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Huion H610 Pro | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 504a | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Intuos3 6x11 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos3 12x12 | 305 ✕ 305 mm | 12 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos3 9x12 | 305 ✕ 229 mm | 12 ✕ 9 in | | XP-Pen Star 03 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 50f1 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Intuos3 4x5 | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom DTK1651 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom ISDv4 10D | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 10F | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 10E | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos2 12x18 | 457 ✕ 305 mm | 18 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos2 12x12 | 305 ✕ 305 mm | 12 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos2 9x12 | 305 ✕ 229 mm | 12 ✕ 9 in | | Wacom Intuos2 6x8 | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos2 4x5 | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom DTU1031X | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Cintiq 27QHD | 610 ✕ 305 mm | 24 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom ISDv4 503E | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 117 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 116 | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 503F | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 50b8 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Cintiq 27QHD touch | 610 ✕ 305 mm | 24 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom ISDv4 50b6 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 50b4 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Intuos5 M | 229 ✕ 152 mm | 9 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom DTU1141 | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5048 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Cintiq 13HD touch | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5044 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 4831 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5040 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Huion H610 Pro | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Dell Canvas 27 | 584 ✕ 330 mm | 23 ✕ 13 in | | Wacom Cintiq Companion 2 | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Cintiq 22HD | 483 ✕ 279 mm | 19 ✕ 11 in | | Wacom ISDv4 101 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 100 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 481a | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 93 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom DTU1031 | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Intuos5 touch L | 330 ✕ 203 mm | 13 ✕ 8 in | | N-Trig Pen | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 509D | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Intuos5 S | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Intuos5 touch S | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Intuos5 touch M | 229 ✕ 152 mm | 9 ✕ 6 in | | Intuos Pen Medium | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom ISDv4 4824 | 102 ✕ 178 mm | 4 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Intuos 12x18 | 457 ✕ 305 mm | 18 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom ISDv4 4822 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos 12x12 | 305 ✕ 305 mm | 12 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Intuos 9x12 | 305 ✕ 229 mm | 12 ✕ 9 in | | Wacom Intuos 6x8 | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos 4x5 | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 90 | 305 ✕ 203 mm | 12 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Cintiq 24HD touch | 533 ✕ 330 mm | 21 ✕ 13 in | | Intuos Pen Small | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo Pad | 102 ✕ 76 mm | 4 ✕ 3 in | | Wacom ISDv4 124 | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Cintiq Companion | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Bamboo Pad Wireless | 102 ✕ 76 mm | 4 ✕ 3 in | | Wacom DTH2452 | 508 ✕ 305 mm | 20 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 P | 508 ✕ 305 mm | 20 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom ISDv4 93 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Graphire | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 90 | 305 ✕ 203 mm | 12 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro L | 330 ✕ 203 mm | 13 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro M | 229 ✕ 152 mm | 9 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Intuos Pro S | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Graphire2 4x5 | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 4814 | 254 ✕ 178 mm | 10 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom Graphire4 4x5 | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Graphire3 6x8 | 203 ✕ 152 mm | 8 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Graphire3 4x5 | 127 ✕ 102 mm | 5 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Graphire2 5x7 | 178 ✕ 127 mm | 7 ✕ 5 in | | One by Wacom (medium) | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | One by Wacom (small) | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Cintiq 24HD | 533 ✕ 330 mm | 21 ✕ 13 in | | Wacom DTU-1631 | 356 ✕ 203 mm | 14 ✕ 8 in | | Wacom Bamboo Special Edition Pen & Touch medium | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom Bamboo Create | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 114 | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Wacom DTK2451 | 508 ✕ 305 mm | 20 ✕ 12 in | | Wacom Bamboo Capture | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo Connect | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5090 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Bamboo Special Edition Pen & Touch small | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom Cintiq Companion Hybrid | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Wacom ISDv4 4809 | 102 ✕ 178 mm | 4 ✕ 7 in | | XP-Pen Star 03 | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Huion H610 Pro | 254 ✕ 152 mm | 10 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom Cintiq 13HD | 305 ✕ 178 mm | 12 ✕ 7 in | | Intuos Pen & Touch Medium | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | Intuos Pen & Touch Small | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | One by Wacom (medium) | 229 ✕ 127 mm | 9 ✕ 5 in | | One by Wacom (small) | 152 ✕ 102 mm | 6 ✕ 4 in | | Wacom ISDv4 5010 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 E6 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in | | Wacom ISDv4 E5 | 279 ✕ 152 mm | 11 ✕ 6 in |

As a reference these are the standards DIN sizes comparable with those models:

| DIN type | size | |------------------ | -------------------------- | | A4 | 210 x 297 mm | | A5 | 148 x 210 mm | | A6 | 105 x 148 mm |

The source of this data is directly from the Wacom driver and is extracted with this C program Carlos provided: ```c

/* Build with: * gcc -o wacomfoo pkg-config --libs --cflags libwacom wacomfoo.c */

define INTOMM 25.4

include

int main (int argc, char argv[]) { const WacomDeviceDatabase *db; WacomDevice *devices; int i;

db = libwacomdatabasenew (); devices = libwacomlistdevicesfromdatabase (db, NULL); printf ("| model | active area size mm | active area size in | \n"); printf ("|:--------- |:--------- |:--------- | \n");

for (i = 0; devices[i] != NULL; i++) { if (libwacomgetwidth (devices[i]) == 0) continue; printf ("| %s | %.f ✕ %.f mm | %.f ✕ %.f in | \n", libwacomgetname (devices[i]), (double) libwacomgetwidth (devices[i]) * INTOMM, (double) libwacomgetheight (devices[i]) * INTOMM, (double) libwacomgetwidth (devices[i]), (double) libwacomgetheight (devices[i])); } return 0; } ```

PD: Fixed the correct value for milimeters per inch.
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2018 / 09 / 24
Wacom's graphic tablet sizes

For some reasons I've been looking for second hand Wacom graphic tablets. To me has been annoying to find out which size is for each model. So I'm writing here the list of the models I gathered.

The reason for looking only for Wacoms is because these days seem to be very well supported in Linux, at least the old models you can get second hand.

| model | active area size | |:------------------ |:-------------------------- | | CTL460 | 147,2 x 92,0 mm | | CTL 420 | 127.6 x 92.8 mm | | CTE-430 Graphire 3 | 127 x 101 mm | | CTF-430 | 127.6 x 92.8 mm | | CTL 460 | 147,2 x 92,0 mm | | CTH-460 | 147,2 x 92,0 mm | | CTH-461 | 147,2 x 92,0 mm | | CTH-470 | 147,2 x 92,0 mm | | CTL-470 | 147,2 x 92,0 mm | | CTL-480 Intuos | 152 x 95 mm | | CTE-640 | 208.8 x 150.8 mm | | CTE-650 | 216.5 x 135.3 mm | | CTH-661 | 215.9 x 137.16 mm | | CTH-670 | 217 x 137 mm | | ET-0405A-U | 127 x 106 mm | | Graphire 2 | 127.6 x 92.8 mm | | Intuos 2 | 127.6 x 92.8 mm (probably) | | Volito 2 | 127.6 x 92.8 mm |

As a reference these are the standards DIN sizes comparable with those models:

| DIN type | size | |------------------ | -------------------------- | | A4 | 210 x 297 mm | | A5 | 148 x 210 mm | | A6 | 105 x 148 mm |

If you find any typo or want to add other models feel free to comment.

PD: This post has been obsoleted by a new entry.
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2018 / 07 / 27
Running EPF (Eclipse Process Framework) Composer in Linux, v2
From time to time I pretend to do practical work with EPF Composer and alwys my first handicap is to get it running natively in Linux but for one reason or another I always got stucked with the provided linux build.

This time I chose a different approach using the Windows build which it's known it's working using Wine as a compatibility layer. It worked. These are the installing instructions:

First we'll create a separate Wine folder and, important, set to Win32 architecture, used in the EPF Composer build_:
```
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-epf-1.5.2
export WINEARCH=win32
```
Now we install Internet Explorer 8 using the nice winetricks tool since EPF Composer uses it for the HTML forms:
```
winetricks winxp ie8 corefonts
```
Install a Java runtime. I've only tried with te Oracle one:
```
wine jre-8u181-windows-i586.exe
```
In the Wine filesystem unzip the EPF Composer build:
```
cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/
unzip ~/epf-composer-1.5.2-win32.zip 
chmod a+x cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/epf-composer/epf.exe
```
And now you should be able to run EPF Composer:
```
$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/epf-composer/epf.exe 
```
You can launch it from other terminal without declaring the Wine enviroment variables:
```
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-epf-1.5.2 WINEARCH=win32 ~/.wine-epf-1.5.2//drive_c/Program\ Files/epf-composer/epf.exe 
```
And that's it.

I didn't started to do real work yet but it seems 100% operative.

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As I'm using a 14" HD screen My only important concern are the font sizes. For some reasons changing resolution and font sizes with winecfg gaves some weird results.

Hope this helps.

PD: Added winxp and corefonts to the winetricks invocation
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2018 / 06 / 26
Abierto el registro para GUADEC 2018 en Almería
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Tenemos el inmenso placer de anunciar que ya está abierto el registro para GUADEC 2018 que tendrá lugar los días 6-11 de julio en nuestra ciudad de Almería. El encuentro incluye tres días de conferencias, 3 días de talleres y encuentros técnicos y varias actividades sociales para los miembros de la comunidad de desarrollo GNOME.

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GUADEC es el mayor encuentro anual internacional de la comunidad GNOME, pero también es un punto de encuentro de entusiastas y tecnólogos apasionados por el desarrollo de software en comunidades abiertas, del software para usuarios finales y los interesados en la creación y mantenimiento de infraestructuras de la sociedad de la información ampliando los procomunes digitales.

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No dejes de venir.

Más información en:
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