Elastic shapes with SVG improved
I have been testing some formulas about elasticity and friction, and finally I updated my shape elasticity simulation with these stuff, creating a nice new version. Have fun!
Author Archives: Julio
Elasticity with SVG and Javascript
Planes. An interesting place to program computers. I find the idle hours, that you spend in the airport and the plane, the perfect time to research on new ideas. During my last flight (a trip to Germany) I decided to play with some SVG and Javascript, for simulating “elasticity” (inspired by the plane’s wings). SVG… Read More »
Literally programming my holidays
This year I asked my boss for having 3 weeks of holidays in August. I got it, and the idea was spending 1 week in Alicante (I can’t miss Elche’s festivals). For the other 2 weeks, a trip to somewhere in Europe could be nice. The first idea I had was an interesting option to… Read More »
What are you doing for Earth Day?
FlickrBlog has reminded me that today is Earth Day, with a post including a precious quote: “May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.” United Nations Secretary-General U… Read More »
Is our calendar the best calendar? (2 of 2)
If you have read the previous post (an introduction for what a calendar is), you might’ve thought our current calendar is good enough. Maybe. It’s quite good adjusting our year to the real Earth-Sun revolution. But it’s a bad tool, in usability terms. Let me show you a couple of examples… – On which day… Read More »
Is our calendar the best calendar? (1 of 2)
Of course, it’s not. One year ago, I was speaking with a funny google engineer (while I was visiting in Zurich) who commented about the idea of creating days with 28 hours. That reminded me of an old article I read some years ago in an astronomy magazine about our calendar, and the problems it… Read More »
The eye can be tricked: counting ball passes
This evening I was speaking with my cousin, and one of her comments reminded me of an interesting video about visual perception, that I saw sometime ago. It was hard to find again, but finally here it is… The TASK: Look at the video, there are some people playing with basket balls… you must COUNT… Read More »
The Pragmatic Programmer: The review
Due to the depressing previous post, I thought I had to do justice to the book, avoiding some comments about my career, and focusing on a good review of the book. The book starts with the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself), and the authors remind this among the pages. The idea is trying to avoid… Read More »
A pragmatic programmer
I’ve finished the reading of a brilliant book: “The Pragmatic Programmer“. It’s a collection of really wise tips to help you becoming a better professional. I already follow some of their recommendations, but most of them were new for me. All were really useful, and I could’ve figured out some of them. And this is… Read More »
Lemons for tea
In my parents’ garden there are two lemon trees. One of them produces an incredible quantity of lemons, big and soft. But the other one gives less lemons, and they have a really thick skin, therefore are not really useful… at least this is just what my grandfather says every time that he sees the… Read More »