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 »
Sometimes a melody starts to sing inside your head, and you have no idea where it is from. Maybe from a TV series, maybe from a stupid summer song… How can you find out the name of that tune? Ta-ra-ta-ti-taaa-taaa, ta-ra-ta-ti-taaaaa… This week at the office everybody’ve been whistling a melody without knowing where it… Read More »
Here comes the summer! And the best way to survive it is by drinking fresh anisette with lemon. The recipe: – The juice of 1 lemon (if it’s home cultivated, the better) – 2 spoons of sugar – 1 drop of anisette – 2 ice cubes – and water Mr. Summer, please come in!
Somebody at the office played a joke on me. This morning I found my keyboard with 2 exchanged keys: the “Y” and the “I”. It was interesting however. I tried to work without putting them back to their original positions, and the result was quite surprising: if I typed without looking at the keyboard, I… Read More »