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 »
…as nature does. Create something from random numbers. Here are a couple of examples, from a Sunday morning programming session (plus 1 extra hour from the daylight savings change): – Random bubbles – Random trees Each time you reload the page, a new drawing appears. To see them correctly, you need Firefox or Opera, because… Read More »
What do you understand from this picture? It’s the switch of my bathroom heater. It has 4 positions: 0, fan, 1 and 2. It’s easy, isn’t it? Even though, last week I had to open it to try to repair it, and I discovered that one of the two small radiators, it has inside, was… Read More »
Some people say the glass is half-full. Other people say the glass is half-empty. An engineer says the glass is double the needed size.
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 »
It’s just a point in the time line. A sigh, the past disappears and the future emerges. You are having a cup of tea and suddenly you realize that you’ve already decided to change your life. In fact you can not decide to change, but the change arrives to you. Can you really decide something,… Read More »
Some weeks ago it was quite rainy in Barcelona. We had some continuous rain, and it’s a bit strange. On my balcony something green started to grow in a small rectangular pot that we have there. I thought they were only some mint plants, but when I tried to smell their leaves, I discovered they… 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 »
It is a nice picture, isn’t it?
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 »