Some months ago, I posted a nice problem: I walked 10 Km to the South, then I turned left, walking straight 10 Km to the East, and then I turned again, going 10 Km to the North, directly arriving to my home. Then I opened a window, and I saw a bear in the outside.… Read More »
The extended or derived class has all variables and functions of the base class (this is called ‘inheritance’ despite the fact that nobody died) From the PHP official documentation
I’m among kyus (pupils) most of the time, but sometimes I’m among dans (masters). Playing with kyus is like chatting, you don’t need to be really concentrated. But if you play with a dan, you shouldn’t loose your concentration, never. Of course, this makes the situation far more interesting. You really fight! When you are… Read More »
The thing to speak about this week in Spain is the end of the football league. But I don’t follow it!! Let’s restart: the thing to speak about this week in Spain, regarding the “web world”, is the new website of the Spanish Congress, www.congreso.es. This new version was worth a bit less than 200… Read More »
Yesterday I was trying to program a Heapsort algorithm in C, just as a practice to remember how C was (as rough and pure as I remembered). It’s an interesting sorting algorithm, which doesn’t use extra memory, and has a good time complexity, O(n log n). In theory it is as good as the popular… Read More »
A good example of what a client can suggest to change… National flags with clients’ comments (Flash animation) Sadly true! Found via: Information aesthetics
I’m happy to announce that I’ve got the first potato of this season! This morning I was moving my 3 potato plants into a bigger box, and I discovered one potato ready to be eaten. I hope I’ll get more and bigger ones (I’m a greedy farmer!) in the new plant box, which is actually… Read More »
I can claim: Ubuntu is the OS with the quickest and painless installation that I’ve ever installed in a PC · I need only some hours to install Ubuntu (with some extra programs). · I used to need a weekend to install Windows (with the pain of looking for drivers). · I used to need… Read More »
Nowadays almost all the companies use standard methods for interviewing candidates. They still use some common techniques like tiers of technical tests to find the perfect person… who can have an incredible CV and outstanding skills. But later he could be a complete fool, or he doesn’t fit in the company atmosphere. During my University… Read More »
If you can read this, your browser cannot render “Scalable Vector Graphics”… get FIREFOX or OPERASome people love using Google Images for finding images to use in their blogs. And they use the absolute URL, which means: they show the image in their sites, but they use YOUR bandwidth. In the last few weeks I’ve… Read More »