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Learning jQuery 1.3

Right after finishing my review on the Django template development book I got contacted again by the Packt folks to do the same for the Learning jQuery 1.3 book. I was most pleased with the request.
Now, this book has 444 pages compared to the 272 pages from Django book. There is much more to teach [...]

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Django 1.0 Template Development

Last month I got an email from Packt telling me about their latest book on Django Template development. I was invited to give it a read and see how I liked it.
Now, I’m a lazy and slow reader. But this book was quite an easy read. I liked how fast I went through the pages [...]

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So it has a snake inside doing all the magic!

Great drawing used by the Nebula team at Nasa to show proudly that they use Django for their development.

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New Open selector version

This last week I fonally found some time to improve two important features I missed in Open-selector
The first thing I  hated was havign to make so many HTTP requests to fetch the provider icons, so now Open-selector makes use of CSS sprites to fetch all icons from a single sprite file.
The second feature was to [...]

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Peleando contra IE6

Siempre que comienzo a conversar sobre alguna nueva tecnología con alguien que que no anda metido en este tema termino desviándome a decir cuanto odio a Internet Explorer 6.Por mucho tiempo mi argumento para la gente uqe lo usaba era el uso de tabs, mejor soporte de estándares, plugins, webs mas bonitas, buscador integrado en [...]

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New Open-selector version

This shall be called Version 0.2 .
The cool feature of this is the inline mode, it will be useful to have an OpenID login box in topbars, inline menus or heading sections (they are all the same I think), and the update-as-you-type feature
Use it and let me know what you think

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Boodroids over Iboobs

Natural evolution of breasts has lead to this improved version of boob movement

Now, this app has not been approved by Apple, and I dont think it will never be… but hey, nothing stop us from having boobdroids over Iboobs .

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Fluxbox tabs comming to KDE?

Well comming is too personal, since I don’t use KDE, but anyway, there’s a $500 bounty sponsored by Lucas Murray to implement Fluxbox like tabs in KDE .

Tabbing is a nice feature that allows you to tab windows together. Tabs can either be embedded into the window’s titlebar or they can appear as little [...]

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Browser Layout engine internals video

Esta charla de David Baron explica cómo funciona el motor de CSS en los Rendering Engines, particularmente Gecko.

Me parecio genial como explica cómo funcionan los selectores CSS y que tipo de sintaxis está optimizada y recomendaciones de como utilizarlos para un mejor performance, el cómo se estructuran los árboles y diferencias de desempeño entre atributos [...]

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Open-selector first talk

This is the first time I ever mentioned Open-selector to the public (In spanish).
Open Selector - Barcamp Lima from UniversidadPeru on Vimeo.
Here is the presentation I used for presenting Open-selector.
This was part of BarcampLima in November 2008, here you can find all the other talks

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