The beauty of Cocoa

Date Arrow  July 8, 2008

(Highly geeky post ahead. You’ve been warned!) I have found the very message that summarizes the beauty of Cocoa in a single word; see by yourselves, hereunder in line 47: #import // The interface of a person @interface Person : NSObject { NSString* firstName; NSString* lastName; int age; } @end // The implementation of the [...]

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Basic vs. Digest

Date Arrow  July 7, 2008

In the series of highly boring posts ;) here’s another one; in this case, a simple explanation of two different authentication protocols available in the HTTP standard. HTTP Basic Authentication Protocol This is the simplest HTTP Authentication protocol available: The browser sends a request to a protected resource: GET /index.html The server looks for the [...]

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Farewell, Mr. Gates

Date Arrow  June 29, 2008

Seen on UserFriendly:

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30 Años

Date Arrow  June 25, 2008

30 años del Mundial mas Tétrico. Cárcel a los genocidas.

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Visa

Date Arrow  June 25, 2008

Excellent!

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Videla y Kissinger en el vestuario

Date Arrow  June 20, 2008

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2008/06/20/sociedad/s-01697796.htm Jorge Rafael Videla y Henry Kissinger ingresan al vestuario de los peruanos, poco antes de que se inicie el partido con los argentinos. “Con el mero ingreso al vestuario, los militares y sus amigos habían logrado su cometido. Hubo llamadas por la vecindad de los pueblos, la comunión de razas, la fraternidad de los [...]

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Pastrami Sandwich

Date Arrow  June 10, 2008

I find many similarities between an event like WWDC and a similar one I’ve attended at Redmond long ago; both are big (huge!) events, with thousands of (men) engineers from around the world (and very few women), with a keynote by the founder, lots of events every morning and afternoon, and merchandasing stuff all over [...]

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I was there!

Date Arrow  June 9, 2008

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WWDC 2008 Keynote Main Points

Date Arrow  June 9, 2008

The keynote is over, and I’m on the 2nd floor of the Moscone Center sipping a coffee and thinking about all the stuff that Steve and his team just presented: The new iPhone 3G with GPS will go live on July 11th in several countries, including Switzerland! And best of all, the price of the [...]

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Waiting for the Keynote

Date Arrow  June 9, 2008

Twitter’s down, but not my blog! I’m in the main Moscone conference room waiting for the start fo the keynote; there are thousands of people here! “Roll over Beethoven” is sounding all over the place… The air is filled with electricity. This won’t last long. Just a few minutes more, and we’ll know what’s in [...]

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