Some weeks ago I found in my room of my parents’ house a book about programming Java, mainly focused on applets. Applets are small pieces of software which can be included as a part of a web page. It’s funny, plus interesting, to read the introduction of this book (written 9 years ago, when web… Read More »
If you can read this, your browser cannot render “Scalable Vector Graphics”… get FIREFOX or OPERA I’m learning to use Inkscape, an open source application to draw graphics. It saves your drawings in SVG format. For some reason, I’ve discovered that this format is a really interesting standard for the future of the WWW. The… Read More »
This week I’ve read some texts about men and women on Internet. To start with, “most bloggers are women“. “According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women. More bad news for the boys: men are more likely than women to abandon their blog once it’s… Read More »
This week I have had a lot of dead time in the office (while waiting for the client’s answers), and I’ve been reading some web usability articles from Jakob Nielsen’s website. I have read almost every column he wrote, and I think I already knew most of the key issues (like colors for links, big… Read More »
KNOWING FISH One day Chuang Tzu and a friend were walking by a river. “Look at the fish swimming about,†said Chuang Tzu, “They are really enjoying themselves.†“You are not a fish,†replied the friend, “So you can’t truly know that they are enjoying themselves.†“You are not me,†said Chuang Tzu. “So how… Read More »
At the office I’m working on a big website, with a blog, a forum, other things, and a “shared” user system: so you only have to sign in once and you can surf from one module to another (blog, forum) without the need of signing in again. The client wanted standard and well known modules… Read More »
This weekend Last.fm has changed its look & feel. Now you can see more information about the music you are listening to. And there are new features! They create a “recommendation radio”, where you can hear new music, and they add a pretty nice fader to filter songs, from popular to obscure. Great! Even more,… Read More »
Today I have just broken the 10 thousand songs “barrier” in Last.fm! I don’t know anybody who has done it. Last.fm is a website (web 2.0 style) which records the name of every song you play in your computer (you should install a plugin to do this). With this information they made charts, and calculate… Read More »
Yesterday I was at the Chinese Restaurant where all Go players meet every weekend. I played some interesting games with Edu (1 kyu) and César (4 dan). But the most interesting thing happened when Joan arrived. He, who is one of the most active members of the Gofme Go Club, asked me about my Go… Read More »
Pensaba, mientras iba en autobús, tratando de abrir mis ojos sonámbulos… Hoy es imposible cambiar el mundo. Sin embargo, es muy fácil cambiar algo en Internet. Bueno, relativamente fácil. E internet está cambiando el mundo. ¿”Cambiar” será una operación con propiedad asociativa? “Dame un punto de apoyo, y moveré el mundo” – ArquÃmedes ¡Internet es… Read More »