Author Archives: Jj

Ordered a new Laptop

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Jj

If you are reading this, it’s probably too late. But RIGHT NOW is the best time to get a Lenovo X220. There is a sale going on at lenovo.com where your regular X220 is down to $806 (Original price $1640 they claim). Continue reading →

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Toda regla tiene una excepción? – La paradoja de la excepción

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Jj

La paradoja de la excepción: Si toda regla tiene una excepción, entonces, la excepción a la regla “toda regla tiene una excepción” sería una regla sin excepciones. Por lo tanto, no toda regla tiene una excepción.

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UnicodeEncodeError on Django uploaded files

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jj

This has been an error that’s been bugging me for months. For some reason in production settings only in the production server only, whenever a user uploaded a files with a non ascii filename, I’d get this error UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ … Continue reading →

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Disqus coments UI

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jj

I really like Disqus comments service. But I wish they had a simple UI alternative, as I don’t want to show that much text/options in my screen. This is what it looks like by default: I would hide the “suscribe”, … Continue reading →

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CSS3 gradients in Webkit

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jj

I’m just writing this to record a shorthand answer to a doubt I had. Old format Webkit gradients only support percentage color stops Recently, Webkit added support for standards CSS3 gradients, so your syntax will be the same for different … Continue reading →

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Mogrify using too much memory

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Jj

I wanted to shrink pictures a folder with thousands of files. They were unnecessarily huge. So I made a script to resize them. Imagemagick’s mogrify takes all the RAM it can in the system to handle huge files, making the … Continue reading →

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Sobre mousepads

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Jj

Este es un tema que siempre me ha interesado y por el que me he preocupado bastante. El mercado ofrece mucha variedad y siempre me ha gustado poder compararlos. Hoy tuve la oportunidad de comprar dos de los modelos disponibles … Continue reading →

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Búsqueda en Google de “PPK”

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Jj

Si buscas por Pedro Pablo Kuczynski si encuentras resultados correctos

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Cosas nuevas en Firefox 4

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Jj

Hoy salió a la luz Firefox 4 y trae muchas cosas nuevas, entre las más importantes: * Soporte HTML5 * Motor Javascript más rápido * Firefox Sync * Tab panorama * Nuevo look * Complementos y temas que no necesitan … Continue reading →

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Magenta CSS

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Jj

When setting a background color always set a foreground color Continue reading →

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