Monthly Archives: September 2007

Hacete cargo Nicole

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CONCIENCIA Nuestro pedido es sencillo –señala uno de los cuatro enmascarados del video que aparece en el sitio ‘hacetecargonicole’–: cumplí tu promesa. Tenés hasta el 15 de septiembre. Si no, nos quedamos con este chucho (perro), que creo que conocés.” Los enmascarados se refieren a la promesa incumplida de Nicole Neumann de desnudarse el pasado 29 de agosto en Florida y Corrientes, en protesta por la matanza de animales. Por las dudas, aclaran que dan buen trato al perro al que consideran “prisionero político”. “Nuestro propósito es lograr un cambio de conciencia. Y además pretendemos que cualquier promesa se cumpla”, asegura otro de los integrantes del autodenominado MPBN (Movimiento Ponete en Bolas Nicole).

Interesting web application tools

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This is a small list of some interesting web frameworks that I’ve evaluated for previous projects, and that have gotten a lot of attention from the developer community lately. They all share the following characteristics:

  • Open source code base;
  • Enterprise-class widgets, simulating native OS controls;
  • Platform-independency (either Java- or JavaScript-based);
  • Skinnable through CSS (or otherwise presentation-independent);
  • Well documented, community-enhanced source code base.

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Web 2.0 at its best

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I don’t know if you know these two sites, but please take a careful look at them, and then come back to this page. Please:

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I would like you to consider the following: aren’t these two apps like reading the mind of the world? Every moment, somewhere on Earth, someone is in front of his or her computer, writing, sharing, thinking, compiling, smiling, crying, viewing, working, playing, and some of them share this on the web. At every single moment, and what you see in these apps is just a fragment of it.

But even if it is a little bit of everything, it’s simply amazing.

Goodbye, cruel Word, by Steven Poole

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http://stevenpoole.net/blog/goodbye-cruel-word/

Am I not worried that WriteRoom and Scrivener, delightful though they are, are small products from tiny outfits, not “supported” by the corporate might of a large company such as Microsoft? No, I’m not. Because actually my writing is now more secure. Instead of a bloated proprietary file format like .doc, both programs use accessible formats – .txt, .xml, .rtf3 – that (as far as one can predict these things) will be readable forever. My new book is one big “project” in Scrivener, but under the hood each chapter is a universally accessible .rtf file, which can be opened and used in a multitude of other programs.

Why not ASP.Net? by Jeff Eaton

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http://www.lullabot.com/blog/why-not-asp-net

Microsoft has poured huge amounts of energy into building the .NET framework, and it’s fair to say that most Windows software written in the past half a decade or so uses it. Lots of .NET code is being written every day: it is the very opposite of a dead language. It’s got a very robust and feature-rich web framework called ASP.NET, designed to compete with Java as a platform for building web applications. It’s very powerful. As Sasha observes, though, you just don’t hear about new sites being launched on it. Outside of the corporate world, and a handful of select projects like DotNetNuke, it’s a pink unicorn: no one’s ever seen it f’real.