Open Kosmaczewski

Seen in Guy Kawasaki’s blog:

For those attending WWDC, and wanting to have the module complete schedule in iCal (as suggested by TUAW), I’ve created a small script (using Prototype) that will transform the JSON data of the official WWDC schedule into calendar files, which you can save and load into iCal.
This script was featured in another TUAW entry! Thanks [...]

A comment at the bottom of his own lengthy but otherwise interesting article:

One more important point: I’m surprised that some people seem to think I’m implying some programming studliness from my little 3-day excursion. Not so: any first-year college student or intern, or heck, self-taught dude in his basement, could have done exactly what I [...]

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 is a [...]

Maybe you don’t have the time or will to read those damn 6 books every year. And maybe that’s fine (for you). I will give you a list of 6 blogs that you can add to your RSS reader. If you care a little about software engineering, new technology trends, and enjoy reading well-written, usually [...]

Incredible. I just came accross this blog called “One Month App”. The guys from Clear Function have been working on Pulse, a web-based application, more or less at the same time as I was working on Parking Friend (from the end of September to mid-October)! Their design is nicer than mine, though :)
It [...]

Como diria Casero: “Que vas a hacer mulita! La vida es asi!”
Un dia te levantas, te lees un par de articulos en el Google Reader y hete aqui que tu nombre aparece en un post o mucho mas recientemente en otro de un amigo de Ginebra.
El articulo al que hace referencia Spindoctor (que en realidad [...]

Are you scared of Java language change? Why?
“Java 5 introduced generics amongst many other items. Unfortunately, generics are probably the most troublesome change that has been made to Java. With over 400 pages in the official generics FAQ attempting to explain weird corner cases, we know something went wrong.”

An excellent article about how to fool everyone to believe that your specification is a… standard:

This is a running criticism I have of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML). It has been narrowly crafted to accommodate a single vendor’s applications. Its extreme length (over 6,000 pages) stems from it having detailed every wart of MS Office [...]

It is amazing to see the quantity of plugins that are available for Wordpress; so far, I’ve found a plugin for every idea that I’ve had for this blog, so these are the links of each one of them:

Categorical links page
List subpages
firstRSS
WP Unformatted

Another worth mentioning is Gengo for localizing (translating) your pages and posts; I [...]