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Objects as a hashmap in Javascript
3 Jun 2011I like JavaScript because of “the malleability” that it provides to the programer. Is not that strict, which may lead apps that are hard to debug if you don’t know what your doing. It feels a bit chaotic and for some reason I think chaos is good, as result I’m becoming fond of JavaScript every [...]
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is Today method in java (and python)
22 Feb 2011I needed to determine if a piece of data that I got was from today or not. that being that is was read after 00:00. So, I decided to create a quick java method to called isToday(). This method will received a the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, (better known as Unix Time) [...]
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- Tags: java, python
The bad side of Interfaces
31 Jan 2011While having a discussion about Interfaces, I remembered a episode of Human Target and thought ” hey why not use the example of a tracker to explain the downside with Interfaces”. In Human Target, Christopher Chance was trying to protect a woman that had swallowed a tracking device. So, the bad guys were following them [...]
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Had a jQuery ajax call that work great in all browsers but stp working in Internet Explorer after the first time I executed the call. After googling , I found out that that IE (especially IE8) caches aggressively ajax calls. My jQuery code look something like the following: $.ajax({ type: “POST”, url: “/process.jsp”, data: “data”, [...]
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- Tags: ajax, Internet Explorer, jQuery
Debugging by comments
15 Jul 2010You have written your code, ran it and looks ready to be committed. Once is committed it can be tested by another member of a the team. However,why no write some comments for your code before committing it, which will help you find some bugs. By writing comments, you will have to dissect your code [...]
The Fukunaga approach to UX Design
17 Jun 2010“Sin Nombre” is the title of the independent movie, written and directed to Cary Fukunaga. His approach to writing and directing was that caught my attention some months ago and thought it will be usefull to apply in User eXperience (UX) design. First lets see what the movie is about, here is the synopsis: After [...]
Java == vs equals
19 Apr 2010I was chatting with a professor (mentor and friend) from my University in Honduras. He was telling me that now the University became a “Javaschool”: a university were programming is taught using Java. This lead me to think of a couple of common mistakes that students might commit, since they don’t understand what is happening [...]
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- Tags: java, objects, primitives
Startup Project Management
22 Aug 2009Some time ago I found projectcartoon.com. It is a site where you build a cartoon (or joke) of project management. It actually can be used to illustrated various real life scenarios. I guess every company should have one of those project, that ended like the cartoon. I decided to do mine; from the point of [...]
(click to view bigger version) The image above shows how most software projects are executed or done. The swing is something we can related to and is simple to understand, however it is easy to get wrong, if we don’t communicate well. Doesn’t matter if a portal, software for a customer or in house solution, [...]
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- When to go native or HTML based App
- The pain of transfering domains
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- Last day at Yanzi
- Objects as a hashmap in Javascript
- Emergence of patterns in mobile app design
- Executive Insight on data from Google’s Think Quarterly
- is Today method in java (and python)
- My favorite Super Bowl XLV (2011) commercials
- The bad side of Interfaces