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I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5 and so far I love it. The only glitch was an easy-to-fix UTF-8 problem but that’s it. Everything’s working. By the way, I love its new media browser! It makes it easy to find old items I’ve published ages ago, like the image below :) Update, 2008-03-31: There [...]

I’ve just bought my e-ticket for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2008! This one will be the first one featuring iPhone developer tracks, and that’s one of the main reasons for me to go. Another good one is that neither Claudia nor me know San Francisco, so it’ll be a great time to hang out and [...]

The worst thing is that this is a parody of a sad reality for millions of workers around the world, happening again every morning. Found via Dark Roasted Blend.

It’s fun to find out how to tackle the same task in different programming languages; in this case, it’s all about doing HTTP requests over a network: fortunately, there are networking libraries in virtually all major programming languages. In my current project, I’m generating wrappers easing the access to the core of the project itself, [...]

thanks .mick! :)

Through Gruber’s Twitter I learnt that some users (like Mark Santaniello) were complaining that SSH stopped working after installing Apple’s Security Update 2008-002; well, through Callum Jones I learnt that the problem is not Apple’s, but Rogue Amoeba’s. Check out the Apple Discussion on the subject, and Peter Gryphon’s fix on the same thread. Happy [...]

This is an evening project that turned out to be really cool. Let’s say that you’re a Macromedia Flash designer, and your clients ask you to bundle your nice Flash movie as a screen saver. What to do? For Windows there are free utilities to convert a SWF into a screen saver, but not for [...]

Did you knew this is possible in C++? I didn’t. void Fun() { class Local { //… member variables … //… member functions … }; // … code using Local … } This feature is called “local classes” and is part of the standard; the limitations are that these local classes cannot have static member [...]

Take a careful look at this: #include class Gadget { public: void sayHello() const { std::cout

(original en castellano) the word “symbol” is the result of the union of “syn” (I think this is how you write it) which means something like “together” (syn-chronic, which means at the same time, I suppose syn-thesis, etc) and “bol” which, as far as I understand, is related to the action of throwing (I do [...]