Projekt Huemul: Energía Argentina por Litro

Date Arrow  March 30, 2009

Leído en Página/12:
Según Potash, autor de Las armas y las políticas en Argentina, cerca de 200 ingenieros alemanes arribaron al país tras el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, muchos de los cuales ocuparon puestos políticos durante el gobierno peronista. Uno de ellos fue el físico austríaco Ronald Richter, quien en 1948 llegó a la [...]

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600th Post & Mobile Version

Date Arrow  March 29, 2009

This is the 600th post in this blog! It all started with this post written in the airport of Buenos Aires, coming back to Switzerland. And the news of the day is that, thanks to Donncha O Caoimh, the new WordPress Super Cache plugin now works with MobilePress, which officially enables a mobile version of [...]

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iPhone SDK 3.0: A New Beginning

Date Arrow  March 22, 2009

Last year I blogged about the upcoming SDK 2.0 for the iPhone 3G, and boy did it change my life. For those who haven’t followed closely everything that happened in this blog lately, there’s been this (that’s me in the WWDC keynote main room at the Moscone center) and then that (yours truly talking at [...]

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NIBs or code? Why not both? Here’s nib2objc.

Date Arrow  March 17, 2009

(Somehow this project seems to me so simple, that I’m sure someone has done this before. Anyway). This is my feeble attempt to bring an answer to the eternal dichotomy between those arguing about the relative benefits of creating user interfaces via Interface Builder or via pure Objective-C code: let me introduce nib2objc.
Unbeknown to most [...]

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That iPhone Keypad

Date Arrow  March 13, 2009

Finishing my series of copied flattered UIs, like that Facebook thingy or that Twitterriffic gadget, here’s Apple’s own iPhone keyboard, in a really sloppy implementation that has been blatantly and horribly copied, with awful sounds that pop when you tap the numbers and such. The Fring iPhone application uses a similar keyboard, but with [...]

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Quotes

Date Arrow  March 12, 2009

A small compilation of quotes I’ve put below the header of this blog during the past few years:

No vemos las cosas como son. Las vemos como somos. (Hilario Ascasubi) – We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
Don’t be afraid to try something new. An amateur built the ark. Professionals [...]

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Asynchronous Loading of Images in a UITableView

Date Arrow  March 8, 2009

This is one of the most common scenarios for network- + UITableView-based applications; a UITableView instance whose contents come from the network; not only the text, but also the images! Somehow we all want to reproduce the behavior of the App Store (or of the iTunes) iPhone application, where the icons (or covers) of [...]

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Represión en Tigre

Date Arrow  March 5, 2009

Policía bonaerense reprime a artistas y niños durante una obra de títeres
Fue el sábado 28 por la tarde mientras se realizaba un festival por la despenalización del arte callejero y el derecho al trabajo frente a la estación fluvial de Tigre. La represión policial incluyó empujones y patadas a los chicos que veían la obra [...]

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Analyse de la vidéo “Je veux etre anarchiste mais ne pas avoir à porter ce titre et fréquenter des soirées cool avec mes amis progressistes”

Date Arrow  March 3, 2009

Un ami m’a recommandé de voir cette vidéo du speech de Lee Bryant, lors du dernier Lift. Mes commentaires sur ce post.

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