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Lame metaphor
Yes, this Blog is being migrated to http://blog.ivandemarino.me. Here is an heads-up.
Now days I’m changing Hosting, DNS Registar, blog technology… and much more. Stay tuned at http://blog.ivandemarino.me for more updates. I have some news for you guys
PS This also implies that some disruption could happen. Bare with us.
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about 3 months ago - 3 comments
This is a really amazing version of the Daniel H. Pink speech about Motivation. It all into it’s second book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us“.
And, best of all, it’s all explained on a white board
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about 4 months ago - No comments
I can’t put it any simpler: buy and read those 2 books ASAP.
Getting Real
Rework
This is proper stuff. This is stuff that translates into words what you, THE DEVELOPER, would like to have in your daily work life.
And probably the reason for which having a pet project, something where you set the rules, helps remaining sane,
about 4 months ago - 2 comments
This is a set of commets to some of the asserts made by Steve Jobs in his Thoughts on Flash.
Safari has just ~5.5% of web users share
[...] Apple even creates open standards for the web. For example, Apple began with a small open source project and created WebKit, a complete open-source HTML5 rendering engine that
about 4 months ago - No comments
This took some patience. Not to take the pictures themselves, but to bear with a group of trip-mates that were either freezing or bored to wait for me to take this 12 pictures -_-
Roald Dahl Plass
Do you like it? If so, I have a larger (way larger) version.
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about 5 months ago - No comments
Show this to as much peoples as possible. It probably something some informed/smart people already know, but I admit that having someone making a video of it, makes it more “rememberable”, so more effective on (my) future behaviour.
I’m cheese? I’m controllable through videos? Possibly, but in this case I’m OK with that.
More at: The Story
about 5 months ago - No comments
I was writing some code to react at a textarea.onKeyUp. I take the size of the current textarea.val().length, update an element and do some other stuff.
yawn
The first version of the code looked like:
$('#message').keyup(function(e){
$('#chars_num').html( new_len );
$('#sms_num').html( Math.floor($('#message').val().length / 161) +1) );
});
Working good, but was clearly slow: every keystroke was “giving
about 6 months ago - 5 comments
I’m going to make a simple point. And because people that know me think I’m a “unfair-Google-aficionado-that-doesn’t-see-how-evil-Google-is”, I’m going to use Android as victim here.
iPhone ruleZ
Other OS? I’m not even taking into consideration old stuff like Symbian: is just too easy to trash it now-days (Qt is a whole different story though).
Android is great… for
about 6 months ago - No comments
Imagine you have a Binary Tree, with those characteristics:
Nodes do not respect any order relation – In other words: it’s not a Binary Search Tree of any kind
Every node appears once and only once within the tree
A nice Binary Tree
Then, your little brother passes by your desk and, to upset you, deletes the tree from
about 7 months ago - 6 comments
This idea comes out for an old university-time idea: to write a serverless chat application. Of course, I’m aware of the complications and the problems that using Broadcasting could create, so this problems would be took in consideration by design.
But why now? I was thinking of a way to reduce the “office distances”: making easy