Category Archives: tech

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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), … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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