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Dice Clarin: Según la ley europea, los bancos son los responsables de las inversiones de sus clientes y contra ellos los inversores damnificados atacarán judicialmente. Se espera una cadena de juicios multimillonarios cuando ya se habla del absoluto fracaso de los organismos de control en las grandes capitales financieras en medio de la crisis. En [...]

This is happening right now, at a web agency near you. The dot-com boom of the 90′s spawned a brand new generation of coders and software developers, including me, by the way. While before that time the term of “software developer” might have been reserved to system programmers fluent in C, COBOL, C++ or other [...]

One of the most common questions I get when working with clients on iPhone apps is this one: Which fonts can I use in iPhone apps? I was surprised to see that the Xcode documentation does not bring a list of the fonts available in the iPhone OS (have I missed it? Is it somewhere [...]

This is the talk I gave last Friday during the first edition of the iPhone Conference 2008! I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed giving it :)

I’ve just uploaded some code derived from the Objective-C wrapper I’ve shown in this post. You can find it in the “Projects” section, as usual and it’s simply a wrapper around the URL loading system of Cocoa, both for Macs and iPhones, providing a custom delegate protocol, so that you can handle the events raised [...]

Gracias a elFede!

Merci Thierry pour la video!

Those of you who have been following this blog for the past years know that I have somewhat reduced my “writing rhythm” these days, and many factors have caused this. For the past 3 months I’ve been not only finishing my Master’s degree, but I started working as a full-time, independent iPhone developer, and soon [...]

I’ve sent the final version of my dissertation to the University of Liverpool. I’ve been doing this Master’s degree since 2005, and now it’s over. It feels good and weird at the same time. Rem 1.0, the final result and main objective of my Master’s thesis work, has been released today. A small, simple, yet [...]

Frederick P. Brooks Jr. has written about prototypes, saying that they are not only useful but strictly fundamental pieces of the overall software process, as in many other engineering activities. He gives the example of a pilot chemical plant, prepared to process 10’000 units per day instead of the 2 million units a day that [...]