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As you might know, Argentina has changed its timezone today from GMT-4 GMT-3 to GMT-2; as a result, Apple’s World Clock dashboard widget does not (currently) show the correct time for our preferred tango+asado+soccer city. This happens because the code of this widget calls the “TimeZoneInfo.currentTimeForTimeZone” method (line 582 of the World Clock.js file), which [...]

(enviado por alejandra pinto) Patricia Troncoso Robles: -Yo quiero señalar y ser bien enfática de que la huelga de hambre que yo he asumido, que sigue dándose y que hoy día el señor (Christian) Dulansky (secretario regional ministerial de Justicia) debe tener en su mesa. Nosotros en estos momentos, en mi caso llevo 20, 5 [...]

I usually have around 50 to 80 visits per day in this blog; I’m not that famous after all, mind you; it must be the polish family name, people must have a hard time typing it ;) Today I checked my report at Google Analytics… and this is what I saw: more than 600 visits [...]

I think I found the most violent and vivid, the most honest and Earth-shattering blog entry about software engineering I’ve seen in 15 years of programming: I’ll give you the capsule synopsis, the one-sentence summary of the learnings I had from the Bad Thing that happened to me while writing my game in Java: if [...]

As I said before, I like to learn a new programming language every year. I also like to read at least 6 computing-related books every year, but the article about those 6 will come later. The reason for these two rules is twofold: first, it gives me lots of material to blog about, and helps [...]

Those who read my blog know that I tend to write about software quality issues fairly often; particularly about open spaces and my aversion against them :) I thought it was time to group all those entries into a WordPress category of its own: “Quality”. Feel free to check the articles in there, and of [...]

Introduction Total Quality Management is one of the founding pillars of modern mass-production economy, of which the software industry is by far the youngest (and most rebel) child. This article will provide a short discussion on some TQM principles and about their applicability to software projects.

Introduction I strongly consider that the following three items are of high relevance for software project quality: Developer workplace conditions Tracking data of past projects Management commitment to quality In this article I will give an overview of them, providing some personal experience about each.

Una propaganda en el diario Clarin, como tantas otras: Pero mira con mas detalle: Que tal eh?